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And so a meandering journey comes to an end. Kentucky Route Zero, "a magical realist adventure game", was funded, modestly, on Kickstarter back in 2012. The first of its five episodes released in early 2013, the second a few months later, the third a year after that, the fourth two years later still. Now, following the almost exponential trend, after a further three-and-a-half years, we get the game's conclusion - alongside a new console edition of the entire series.

Legendary video game developer Hideo Kojima has confirmed a new project is in development, but has said nothing about it.

Asmodee Digital's video game adaptation of the hugely popular Lovecraft-inspired Mansions of Madness board game series has had something of a rejig, and will now launch on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC under the banner of a different hugely popular Lovecraft-inspired board game series; say hello to Arkham Horror: Mother's Embrace.

Ubisoft has announced it's combining its long-running Uplay and the Ubisoft Club services into one free uber-service, called Ubisoft Connect, which will support cross-play and cross-progression for a raft of upcoming games.

It's been well over 18 months since Red Hook Studios unveiled Darkest Dungeon 2, the sequel to its brilliant but brutal Lovecraft-inspired RPG, and now, after a tortuous wait, the game has resurfaced, along with the news that it's entering early access via the Epic Store next year.

If you've been eagerly awaiting news of Evil Genius 2, the follow-up to the cult classic strategy management hybrid, then today's your lucky day; Rebellion has just released a new six-minute look at some of the new features to be found when it launches in the first half of next year.

Ubisoft has detailed the Assassin's Creed Valhalla season pass, which includes two large expansions set within Ireland and France.

Sega has announced a new April 2021 release window for Humankind, the Civilization-esque strategy in the works at Amplitude Studios.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be one of the few politicians to actually understand video games and Twitch - having previously attempted to stop the US Army from using Twitch as a recruitment tool. But yesterday AOC decided to use Twitch as a platform herself, organising a session of Among Us to encourage American citizens to vote in the upcoming presidential election. And it's safe to say the stream went down pretty well.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake owners, take note! More than six months after the game's launch, a patch is slowly being rolled out worldwide (for what it's worth, it is available now on our PlayStation 4).

Following its announcement back in June, we've got a proper look at live action specialists Wales Interactive's latest joint - a romantic comedy starring Doctor Who's Mandip Gill among others that's now set to release on PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One next month.

Super Mario Bros. 35, Nintendo's new platforming battle royale, hides a certain green-shirted secret.

Spooky season is upon us, and when it comes to dishing out the scares Modern Warfare really isn't playing around. Last night the game's Halloween event The Haunting of Verdansk went live, and it's safe to say players are feeling suitably haunted and scared. Or I am, at least.

Every game service needs a Geometry Wars, a truth that has held since the days of Xbox Live Arcade, whose Geometry Wars was the actual Geometry Wars. Anyway, a Geometry Wars is a game to play in between other games, a game to glue everything together, a game which, after it's all over, turned out to be the game you most enjoyed anyway. Real talk: scattered throughout your brain are these things called neuroglia, little bits and pieces that keep everything ticking over. The word translates as "nerve glue", which never ceases to delight me. Geometry Wars was the nerve glue of XBLA. Testify!

Codemasters has now confirmed Dirt 5 will launch for PlayStation 5 alongside the console itself - so from 12th November in some regions, and on 19th November here in the UK.

Be warned: this is a piece about fatbergs, which are really, really disgusting.

How's this for counter-programming? As Sony and Microsoft prepare for a war fought over teraflops and with superfast SSDs, Nintendo's weapon of choice this Christmas is nothing more complex than a remote control car, neatly folded cardboard and a camera that's probably been ripped straight from the Nokia that got you through your university years. It is peak Nintendo.

UPDATE 21st October 2020: 2K has issued a statement on the unskippable adverts in NBA 2K21, suggesting their placement was a mistake.

Fortnite has revived one of its most popular characters for this year's Halloween event - and booked a big name for a concert.

Schubert's Unfinished is a lovely bit of music. So strange, so contradictory. It's multi-faceted, all theatrical baddie, and then fun-on-a-swing for a bit as it swoops politely back and forth, and then it gets properly dramatic, brooding, insistent, filled with genuine menace. Spielberg dropped it into Minority Report to capture the shifting thoughts of an agent investigating a crime that has yet to happen, possibilities dreamt up and discarded. I think Beck uses it, that long arcing note near the start, in one of his cut-ups. I know almost nothing about music, but Schubert's Unfinished is one of those pieces I keep an ear out for. It's always a thrill - always a sign, I tell myself, of sympathetic tastes. (Bonus Schubert fact I only just discovered: his friends called him "Little Mushroom".)

As if one retro-inspired 64-player battle royale adaptation wasn't enough for Stadia users to be getting on with, a second will soon be making its way to the streaming service in the form of Pac-Man Mega Tunnel Battle - and there's a demo available now.

After almost 14 months of early access development on consoles, Hopoo Games' acclaimed co-operative rogue-like shooter sequel Risk of Rain 2 is getting its full version 1.0 release today on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch.

We've barely said goodbye to Batuu, yet EA is back with another expansion for The Sims 4, this time bringing a (rather chilly) touch of Japan to its digital life sim in the form of Snowy Escape, which comes to Xbox One, PS4, and PC on 13th November.

UPDATE: It seems the Halloween Pass isn't the only thing Rockstar has in store for players in today's update, as the official newswire post has been published - and it details a brand new mode called Dead of Night.

You'll have a shiny new Halo to play on Xbox Series S/X this year after all - sort of.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is shaping up to be a love letter to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with return appearances from various fan favourite characters.

Nintendo has announced a Fortnite-branded special edition Nintendo Switch console.

PlayStation has released a free PlayStation 4 theme to celebrate the Black Lives Matter movement.

Cloud Gardens seeks to start a dialogue between game and player about nature and the built environment. It's a conversation I don't really want to butt in on here, because I've played the game and had the privilege of thinking my own way through it, and I shouldn't rob anyone of that. But there's something else here that I love, so I will gush briefly and incoherently instead.

I'm pretty good at 'hard' games. I'm not world-class, not by any means. I won't be signed to an esports team any time soon. But I can grapplehook through Sekiro, summit the peaks of Celeste and dodge bullets in Cuphead like the best of them. The internet told me to 'git gud' and I got fairly decent! There is one game, however, that gives me trouble. Papers, Please.