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Animal Crossing: New Horizons will sneak in its autumn update next week, on 30th September. Download it and you'll be able to get ready for Halloween (and also get a free Ring Fit Adventure item).

Capcom has graced us with a brand-new trailer for Resident Evil Village, the eighth numbered instalment in its long-running survival horror series, and it's an odd little thing.

What do you think of Resident Evil: Village as the official title of the eighth main Resident Evil game? Capcom wants to know.

Capcom's unannounced but inevitable Resident Evil 8 will retain the first-person gameplay of predecessor Resident Evil 7, according to a new report on the project from fan site Biohazardcast, via YouTube channel Residence of Evil.

Another day, another Resident Evil leak, and this one concerns not another remake but the next instalment of the celebrated horror franchise, colloquially referred to as "Resident Evil 8".

Capcom has announced Resident Evil: Village for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2021.

Sega has used a Tokyo Game Show-related stream to make the most welcome of announcements, with the unveiling of a new Virtua Fighter project. The only problem is, we're not entirely sure what it is just yet.

A trio of Metal Gear classics have been re-released for PC via GOG.com, alongside a handful of Castlevania and Contra games.

Spellbreak has a pretty appealing pitch: it's Battle Royale but everyone's a wizard. This means that in traversal you can loft yourself into the air for a short period, which meshes well with your surprisingly brisk running speed. It means that you have a huge fantasy isle of Hyrulian hills and honeyed stone to gad about. And it means that when you reach the last two minutes of every Battle Royale game where people emerge into the same tiny patch of ground everyone's a wizard.

The new version of NieR will launch for PC via Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 23rd April 2021, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Microsoft has announced the first Bethesda game to hit Xbox Game Pass following the announcement of its astonishing $7.5bn deal to acquire Zenimax and all its studios.

Denis Villeneuve's Dune is looking just fine, but will it ever come close to what would have been Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune? You might have seen Frank Pavich's documentary on one of the great unmade movies, and one of cinema's greatest 'what ifs' - it was set to be a 14-hour epic with an all-star cast of Salvador Dali, Orson Welles and Mick Jagger, with H.R Giger and Chris Foss on art duties, and the story of how it all came apart is probably as engrossing as the final movie may well have ended up.

PES 2021 is a funny old game. Not a proper, brand new PES, but a season update, essentially the same game as last year's effort but with up to date lineups and a cheaper launch price of £25. Developer Konami had signalled as much, wisely managing fans' expectations in the same breath it promised to hit the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X hard with a new game engine in 2021. I certainly respect Konami's decision, and hope FIFA publisher EA takes note. But goodwill notwithstanding, PES 2021 the product is a bit like Spurs: lacking major signings and with no real hope of challenging for the title.

Midway. Midway? Midway. That could be the name for this whole series, a tribute to a world of games that companies such as Midway moulded by pushing the medium forward in so many odd ways. Because I can assure you, nobody is really going to obtain this much artistic value from something like Red Dead 2 in ten years' time.

Fans of Yakuza could soon have another avenue in which to sate their desire for crime-hued soap opera and sudden-onset absurdity, thanks to a new effort to adapt Sega's long-running video game series for the movie screen.

Amazon's long-rumoured cloud gaming service has finally been unveiled; it's called Luna and will be heading to Fire TV, PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android soon.

Barely a month has passed since Flight Simulator swooped onto PC in a cloud of acclaim, but already developer Asobo is poised to release its first major update; it's coming next Tuesday, 29th September, and will deliver a much-improved (and typically gorgeous) rendition of Japan.

Long-running fantasy MMO RuneScape will, almost 20 years after its initial launch, be making its way to Steam on 14th October.

UPDATE 4pm UK: Microsoft has now confirmed UK pricing for its official Series X/S 1TB expandable storage - and it's £220. Pre-orders are now live via the Microsoft Store.

The new Titan is here. The RTX 3090 may not come with the traditional name, but the $1500 price tag and 24GB of GDDR6X memory show that this is a firmly 'prosumer' GPU, designed for scientists and content creators who'll consider the card a cheaper alternative to Nvidia's professional Quadros - and as you'll see in the final verdict, that puts us firmly in the frame as target customers. The RTX 3090 is also pitched as a gaming monster, capable of driving an 8K display at a time when even 4K has yet to be broadly adopted. That makes it a fascinating candidate for review, as there's so much to cover - that unique triple-slot cooler, the fully-enabled GA102 GPU inside and Ampere's efficient architecture, all combined into what Nvidia promises to be the world's fastest graphics card. We'll put that claim to the test in our newly redesigned gauntlet of gaming benchmarks, along with our impressions of the card's hardware design and power efficiency.

The irrepressible Left 4 Dead 2 gets its first major DLC in eight years today.

I love a good bit of video game lore, but I absolutely hate everything about this.

Fans of old-school turn-based strategy rejoice - the slightly fussy but frequently gorgeous Brigandine: The Legend of Runersia is heading to PlayStation 4 later this year.

Despite first releasing back in 2018, social deduction game Among Us has recently seen a huge surge in popularity, with Steam concurrents increasing from a peak of 271 players in January to 388k in the last 30 days. According to developer Innersloth, the party game recently hit a concurrent player count of 1.5m across all platforms - so perhaps it's little surprise that the devs no longer want to divide the player base with a sequel.

UPDATE 24/9/20: Following yesterday's listing, Nintendo has now released Kirby Fighters 2 on the Switch eShop, priced £17.99.

I've been eager to get back to The Falconeer since I first played it in the early days of lockdown. All through the last 180-odd days, while I've been risking a walk to Tescos, Skyping family and staring out the window, I've found myself thinking of The Falconeer's one-man whirlwind Tomas Sala, who has presumably been spending his days bringing an uncommonly rich fantasy game to life.

Following last week's news that the Ultimate Edition of Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PS5 would include a remaster of the original PS4 Spider-Man, Sony has moved to offer clarification on the many questions still surrounding its release, confirming, among other things, that there's no free upgrade path for existing Spider-Man owners on PS4.

When Leeds United were promoted to the Premier League last season, ending a run of 16 years outside the top flight of English football, fans thought that the team's famous ground, Elland Road would surely be recreated in FIFA 21 - it would have been the first time Elland Road appeared in an EA Sports FIFA game.

Rocket League goes free-to-play today, and, to celebrate, developer Psyonix is teaming up with Epic Games (which acquired the company back in 2019) for a big Fortnite crossover event, which has now been detailed in full.

Baldur's Gate 3's early access release has been delayed again, but this time it's just by a week.