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Treyarch has made a big change to the way damage flinch works for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

There are winners and losers each year when EA Sports announces the player ratings for FIFA. As player form ebbs and flows (and superstars edge their way onto the cover of the game), ratings adjust accordingly. You can't please everyone. And, it seems, you can't please Romelu Lukaku.

Star Wars: Squadrons has hands-on throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) support on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, EA has confirmed.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits has been delayed to Q1 2021.

An Xbox virtual press briefing has leaked online.

A UK retailer has cancelled all Super Mario 3D All-Stars pre-orders, blaming Nintendo for a "woefully short" allocation.

Sony has confirmed a PlayStation 5 showcase event for Wednesday, 16th September.

We thought the Xbox Series S leaked earlier this week - it turns out Microsoft had shown it off to the world back in June and no-one noticed.

A short while into What Remains of Edith Finch, you come to a beach. It's night, but you can still make out the silhouette of something, half sunk, against the horizon. You'll probably want to check that out, you think, but not now - no boat, no way to get there, too far out - so along the little beach you go. Waves wash and lap, lights from some other town star the stretch of distant coast, the moon lacquers the ocean, and a memory lingers of the last story you saw, grim and only just finished, in a black tunnel from which you've just emerged. Your diary wonders something aloud: maybe it would be better if this all died with you.

Microsoft has offered clarification on backward-compatibility features for its upcoming Xbox Series S console, confirming the machine will apply its own enhancements, rather than support Xbox One X enhancements, to backward compatible games.

Bandai Namco is getting in on the location-based mobile game action, reaching into its pit of nostalgia to grace the world with the free-to-play Pac-Man Geo.

Eight years after its PS3 launch, What Remains of Edith Finch developer Giant Sparrows's gorgeous first-person narrative puzzler The Unfinished Swan has arrived on iOS and PC.

I fell down an odd rabbit hole this week - one that involved two words I never thought I'd end up writing in the same sentence: Xbox and Karen.

Spending all your time alone, thinking about your next meal? Soon you'll be able to do that at home and in-game, as desert island sandbox The Survivalists is releasing on 9th October.

Rocket Arena, EA's colourful competitive multiplayer shooter, launched in July with barely a fizzle. And what looked like a game that should have been free-to-play at launch is now pretty much there - it's free to claim with Amazon Prime Gaming.

Never mind £50 for Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Nintendo's new augmented reality Mario Kart for Nintendo Switch will cost you £100.

I'm going to get this out of the way right at the top here: World of Warcraft spoilers are below.

Red Dead Online's Naturalist role has taken a turn for the trippy, as a new update has introduced a way for players to transform into deer. For a game largely dedicated to realism, this certainly bucks the trend.

The controversy over Control's new, next-gen upgradable Ultimate Edition had just about died down - until an apparent mistake unlocked this version for some PS4 owners last night.

Microsoft's Flight Simulator is, arguably, our first look an actual next generation gaming experience. The visual bar is undoubtedly raised and the inevitable comparisons to Crysis as a system-melter are not without foundation. Let's put it this way: being able to sustain 60 frames per second while maintaining the game's next-gen sheen requires extreme hardware. In fact, I've been running a Ryzen 9 3900X with RTX 2080 Ti for a couple of years now and it has served me well on virtually every game I've tested in that period but even with optimised settings in effect, I found that a hardware revamp for my high-level system could still deliver an appreciably improved experience.

According to Harry Potter lore, Hogwarts isn't normally viewable to muggles: due to a powerful enchantment, non-magic onlookers believe it's merely a dilapidated ruin with danger signs warning them away. So it's just as well someone's made it in the PC version of Microsoft Flight Simulator for us all to look at.

Destiny 2 has released a new in-game lore book detailing the unhappy fates of several main characters, as the series' dreaded Pyramid Ships descend across the solar system.

It seemed to take Microsoft forever to finally decide to unveil its long-rumoured second next-gen console - the compact, cut-price Xbox Series S. And yet when the reveal did come this week, it was earlier than planned, as Microsoft scrambled to respond to a leak of its form factor and price.

If you've played FIFA for a bit, you've probably amassed millions of EA Sports Football Catalogue credits.

London-set Watch Dogs Legion will include a mission starring Stormzy, Ubisoft has been revealed.

A little over a year after its initial launch, Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service for PC will leave its "beta" phase next week, receiving a significant price hike in the process.

Ubisoft has unveiled Riders Republic, a "mass multiplayer outdoor extreme sports game" and something of a spiritual successor to its under-appreciated winter sports affair Steep.

If you're in the market for a bit of space face, Ubisoft has you covered; it's just announced Agos: A Game of Space, a "realistic physics-based" VR adventure that's out in October.

Ubisoft has announced Scott Pilgrim vs The World: The Game - Complete Edition, due out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Stadia "holiday 2020".

After various leaks, Ubisoft has now officially announced Prince of Persia will return to PC and consoles for the first time in a decade, in what it is calling its first "fully-fledged" remake.