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Currys PC World has cancelled its plans to sell PlayStation 5 today after a number of early customers were able to place orders well before the chain's official 9am release time.

And now the next generation is fully here! Microsoft started off the party last week, and Sony's arriving fashionably late with the launch of its PlayStation 5 in the UK today (Nintendo meanwhile is sulking upstairs saying the real next-gen started with the Switch back in 2017, actually). Join us throughout the day as we chart the events of PlayStation 5's first day in the wild.

If you've been playing Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's competitive multiplayer since the game came out on Friday, you've probably noticed one gun in particular pop up more than any other: the MP5.

For many, this is the most crucial of the next generation cross-platform comparisons. The new Assassin's Creed is a big game, cross-gen in nature for sure, but apparently built with the new wave of machines at least partly in mind. Valhalla also represents a generational shift for the franchise as this is the first time a new series entry arrives on consoles with a 60fps target - on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X at least, delivered with varying levels of success. Ubisoft Montreal aims for complete platform parity between Sony and Microsoft's premium consoles, but the results when they do diverge are perhaps unexpected.

Of all the musou spin-offs - Persona! Gundam! Fire Emblem! Was there a Birdo one or was that just another of my mundane dreams? - the most warmly received was surely 2014's Hyrule Warriors, a fulsome blend of Omega Force's overblown hack and slash adorned with all the baubles and trinkets of the Zelda universe. Its big trick was leaning into the authenticity, cramming as much fan service as possible into the Dynasty Warriors formula - so it makes sense that the follow-up doubles down on all that, to the point that Age of Calamity often feels nore like a legit new Zelda game than just another musou.

Ubisoft has reportedly removed another member of its senior management team - this time Hugues Ricour, the managing director of the publisher's Singapore studio, which is currently working on Skull & Bones - following the result of a "leadership audit".

Star War: Squadrons will be getting a pleasant helping of post-launch content after all, despite EA assertions to the contrary prior to release, and the publisher has now revealed it's prepping two juicy content updates for November and December, introducing, among other things, B-Wings and TIE Defenders to the multiplayer game.

It really shouldn't be hard not to screw up a Monster Hunter movie. After all, there aren't any fan-favourite characters to ruin, and there certainly isn't much of a story; all it really needs are big monsters, big weapons, lavish scenery, and, yes, big cats. So it's gratifying to see Paul W.S. Anderson's Monster Hunter movie finally being presented, in a new trailer for its Chinese release, as the kind of Monster Hunter movie fans of the series might actually want to watch.

The very public spat between Apple and Epic Games over App Store fees has taken a particularly interesting turn today, as Apple has announced it's reducing its fees for some developers: but only for those earning less than $1m (£754k) in revenue per year.

It's been a bit of a bumper year for racing games, with the likes of Hotshot Racing and Inertial Drift bringing back some arcade thrills - and up there with them was art of rally, the brilliantly stylish ode to Group B and beyond. You might well have seen that coming if you'd played developer Funselektor's Absolute Drift, which came out back in 2015 on PC before coming to other platforms - and it's finally coming to Switch early next month.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla shifted more copies in its launch week than any other game in the long-running series to date.

Pokémon Go maker Niantic has detailed how it will raise the game's level cap for the first time since launch back in the summer of 2016.

A week after the PlayStation 5's release in the US and other regions, we're on the verge of finally seeing Sony's new console launch in the UK. As we enter the crossover period for console generations, questions are being asked about exactly which titles will be exclusive to the PlayStation 5 - and in the case of God of War: Ragnarok, Sony doesn't seem ready to give an answer.

Today's Fortnite update adds in-game video chat, streamed from you and your squad's mobile phones.

BioWare's next Mass Effect project has been glimpsed again in three new pieces of artwork which have been posted online.

Free-to-play Witcher-themed card battler Gwent is about to get a little Witchier, courtesy of CD Projekt's new Way of the Witcher expansion, which launches on 8th December.

Despite being a little under a month away from release, we've yet to see CD Projekt's enormously anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 running on anything other than PC, but that's finally now changed courtesy of new gameplay powered by Xbox Series X and Xbox One X.

Xbox Series X/S' arrival last week marked Microsoft's biggest console launch ever, according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, and stock for both machines is, as you might imagine, currently in short supply - a situation that Xbox's chief financial officer Tim Stuart has now suggested will likely continue into April next year at the earliest.

From Software's seminal lore-'em-up has always been something of an enigma, but now it's got a whole new mystery to sling on the pile, courtesy of developer Bluepoint's razzle-dazzle PS5 remake, which introduces an imposing hidden door that definitely wasn't there before.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales is, I'm sure, great for all the right, normal reasons, but it's currently also great for some wrong ones too, thanks to a mysterious glitch that's transforming players into sentient crime-fighting wheelie bins, lamps, and more.

With mere weeks to go until the 3rd December launch of striking Greek-mythology-inspired open-world romp Immortals Fenyx Rising, Ubisoft has detailed its post-launch content plans for the game, including news of its three-part Season Pass.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons will finally let you transfer your save file to another Nintendo Switch console later this week, as part of the game's next update.

What a difference 11 years can make. When it launched way back in 2009, FromSoftware's Demon's Souls was something of a whispered secret. Passed over by Sony for western release and subsequently picked up by a handful of adventurous importers, it was followed by word of mouth that soon escalated, and the chorus has been ringing out loudly ever since. It was nothing less than a phenomenon, and it's hard to argue there has been any series as impactful, influential or downright exquisite this past decade.

Lego will release a further 16 Super Mario sets in 2021.

Lego has today revealed a further seven new sets in its interactive Super Mario range, which has now ballooned to costing more than £500 at launch.

Lego's upcoming Super Mario range will include four Power-Up Packs to customise your electronic Super Mario toy.

Back in May - which feels oh so long ago - one of the games revealed in Microsoft's Xbox Series X stream was Call of the Sea, a mystery island adventure set in the 1930s that looked rather stunning. And it looks like the game's maiden voyage is just around the corner, as a Microsoft Store listing has revealed a release date of 8th December.

Alright, we've already had one story about a blocky in-game Yoda this week, and I'm pleased to announce we can keep the ball rolling with another - as Microsoft has announced a new Star Wars DLC for Minecraft.

Microsoft will not show more of Halo Infinite, its delayed flagship Xbox Series X launch title, at December's Game Awards.

Following Microsoft's $7.5bn acquisition of ZeniMax Media - the parent company of Bethesda, id Software, Arkane Studios, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks and more - back in September, many were eager to learn how competing platforms would be impacted. Now Xbox chief financial officer Tim Stuart has offered additional clues on Microsoft's future strategy, suggesting Bethesda's games will be "either first or better or best" on its platforms.