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Many games sell themselves with their gameplay, especially if they're not part of established franchises. For video games, more like any other media, including board games, neat categorisation is intensely important - likely to allow for easier marketing. But I discover more and more games that are either very different from whatever genre corset they've been wrangled into, or on the other hand of the spectrum, games with a pitch so good I'm immediately interested even though I've got no idea what the actual experience will turn out to be. Games in both of these categories have one thing in common - they treat play as something experimental, giving us a set of actions we as players may still be unfamiliar with.

Following its not exactly unexpected reveal on Sunday, From Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki has shared more details on Elden Ring, the studio's highly anticipated collaboration with A Song of Ice and Fire author George A. A. Martin - a project described as From's "biggest title yet".

ZA/UM just announced Disco Elysium: The Final Cut at The Game Awards.

Two years after its unveiling at BlizzCon 2018 met a hostile reaction from fans, Diablo Immortal - the Diablo game that commits the terrible sins of not being Diablo 4, and being a mobile game - has broken a long, cowed silence. After that reception, Blizzard was unlikely to do anything with the game until it had something substantial to show, and so it has proved. At a Zoom briefing with the developers earlier this week, press were told that the game was entering a "very limited" public technical alpha test that has just gone live as you read this. We were also given early access to the alpha, so I've had a chance to try it out, albeit briefly.

Back in August, Arkane announced its upcoming PlayStation 5 and PC game Deathloop had been delayed into 2021. Now, it looks like we have a new launch date.

There are few finer pleasures than getting to see someone who's really bloody good at something doing what they're really bloody good at, which probably explains the massive smile on my face after ploughing through the first act of Turtle Rock's co-op shooter Back 4 Blood. This, quite simply, is the team behind Left 4 Dead back doing what it does best, and doing it that little bit better too. It's a return to the same concept - you and three friends against seemingly endless hordes of undead - with that same exquisite balance, and that same chunky gunplay. From the blunt borrowings of the title and beyond, it's clear that Back 4 Blood isn't shy of inviting comparisons.

Anapurna Interactive has announced a starry cast for its upcoming time-loop thriller Twelve Minutes.

Since England entered into a national lockdown this week I've been contacted by many CEX staff members concerned about the chain's plans to stay operational when all non-essential businesses are supposed to close, and all employees are required to work from home where possible.

What if Microsoft bought Nintendo in the run up to the original Xbox? The last 20 years of video games would look pretty different, I imagine. Well, it turns out Microsoft actually tried to make it happen.

Outriders, the next game from Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly, has been delayed until 1st April 2021 (no joke).

UPDATE: Raven Software has detailed the Warzone weapon nerf update, and said it's rolling out now.

The official The Elder Scrolls Twitter account has tweeted something.

Nintendo's often gone its own way when it comes to doing its business, but as Microsoft and Sony rolled out their latest hardware at the tail-end of 2020 it felt at times as if the company had vanished entirely, a paper-thin release schedule in the all-important months leading up to Christmas making the Switch feel at times like the forgotten console.

Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan will finally get its grand opening on 4th February, many months later than planned, and it's safe to say I won't be there.

Imagine going to bed one night only to have a bulletin board fall on you while you slept. Rotten luck, isn't it? Makes you wonder why someone put it there in the first place. But now imagine you had some seriously heavy stuff pinned to that bulletin board, like bricks, and when it landed on you, it flattened you. And I mean literally.

Netflix will discontinue its service for both 3DS and Wii U on 30th June.

Minecraft Earth, the block-building franchise's Pokémon Go-like spin-off, shuts down on 30th June 2021.

If you're taking down your Christmas decorations this week, you're not alone. Assassin's Creed Valhalla will do the same this Thursday, 7th January when its festive Yuletide event comes to an end.

Dry your eyes Switch fans sad about the lack of Monster Hunter World on Nintendo's platform; Capcom has announced Monster Hunter Rise, a brand-new entry in the long-running series that's heading to Switch next March.

Capcom has released six minutes of new Monster Hunter Rise gameplay.

Even though Tokyo Game Show was a purely online affair this year, some traditions remain - namely that Monster Hunter stole the show, this year with the announcement of Monster Hunter Rise, the new Switch-exclusive installment that's getting a global release on March 26th next year.

Sony has revealed the next set of freebies coming to PlayStation Plus subscribers in January 2021: Maneater, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and GreedFall.

Hitman developer IO Interactive has revealed it is making the next James Bond game.

Hitman 3 is the latest upcoming game to detail how it will handle its next-gen upgrade.

IO Interactive has just announced Hitman 3, for release in January 2021.

Hitman 3's third location has been shown off today for the first time - and it's the Chinese city of Chongqing.

Hitman 3 requires the PlayStation 4 version to play on PSVR - even on PlayStation 5, it has been revealed.

CD Projekt has clarified Cyberpunk 2077's Judy romance after players found unused male voice lines in the game.

Microsoft has announced some new games coming to Xbox Game Pass in January 2021.

Shut the front door, Slay the Spire is being turned into a board game.