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Stark Industries has warped onto Fortnite's map, covering one corner of the battle royale's island.

If your hard drive is groaning under the weight of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, then at least Digital Extremes is helping lighten the load - as Warframe is getting some updates to reduce its file size.

Activision's partnership with Sony for Call of Duty continues: the Black Ops Cold War open beta is a timed PlayStation 4 exclusive.

With Covid-19's devastating effects on travel, public movement, and basic physicality, video games have become a much-needed outlet for people to maintain a sense of connection and creativity. But while digital games and their platforms are surviving (and even thriving), other game subcultures are finding new challenges, particularly the world of alternate controllers, which often work with physical or hybrid games.

Pirate game Skull & Bones has a new vision, Ubisoft has said - but don't expect a re-reveal until 2021.

No More Heroes 3 is the latest game to see a delay due to Covid-19, as its release has now been pushed back to 2021.

As a Chinese kid growing up in Singapore, visiting Haw Par Villa - a cultural theme park and national treasure - is a rite of passage, both anticipated and feared, because of its infamously graphic dioramas depicting Diyu, or the Chinese underworld. Built in 1937 by the founder of Tiger Balm, Aw Boon Haw, the park celebrates Chinese mythology in all its gory glory. Its crown attraction - The Ten Courts of Hell - lay out a dramatic timeline of judgment, penance, and redemption through its aging statuary.

Paradise Killer's breezily cheerful trailer is only telling half the truth. It most certainly is a colourful, sometimes goofy investigatory adventure in the vein of Phoenix Wright, but it's also weird, a dizzyingly high-concept descent into the menace of the unknown, where balmy afternoons and beach-side cocktails co-exist with genuinely disquieting cosmic nightmares from beyond the stars.

It's been only a day since The Sims 4 Star Wars expansion pack Journey to Batuu was released in full, but it sure didn't take long for players to find their way around the DLC's restrictions - and now we have Reylo in the Sims. It's the happy ending we never got in The Rise of Skywalker.

It all began with a single Reddit post. "You've probably been cucked," said user MadHopper in an ominous warning to fellow Crusader Kings 3 players last week. "Don't turn on debug mode unless you want to see some terrible truths."

Activision has revealed Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's multiplayer, confirming a number of key changes compared to Black Ops 4 and indeed last year's Modern Warfare.

Are you excited about developer Bluepoint's rejuvenatary PS5 makeover for From Software's seminal Demon's Souls? Of course you are; and now two additional screenshots have surfaced to rouse your unquenchable excitement still more.

The release date for Assassin's Creed Valhalla has been brought forward by one week to 10th November 2020, aligning its launch with the now-confirmed arrival of Microsoft's next-generation Xbox Series S and X machines.

A franchise icon that fell on hard times, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater had a huge impact on gaming across the generations until somehow, it lost its edge - and its relevance, with the abysmal THPS5 in particular hammering the final nails into the coffin. However, while the original game is over 20 years old now, there's still magic there and I'm astonished by what developer Vicarious Visions has delivered with its remake of the first two series entries. I'll put it quite plainly: for my money, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 is one of the best games of the year and it's my personal favourite release from Activision across the entire console generation. It really is that good.

UPDATE 9/9/20: Dirt 5 now has a new release date of 10th November, making it an Xbox Series S/X launch title.

Gears Tactics is an Xbox Series X and S launch title, Microsoft has announced.

Starting later this year, an EA Play membership comes with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Game Pass for PC at no extra cost, Microsoft has announced.

The legal wrangling between Apple and Fortnite maker Epic Games has taken yet another turn, with a fresh lawsuit layer added to the already messy mix.

Update: Good news - the Dicebreaker website is now live. We hope you enjoy, and thank you for all your support and feedback so far!

UPDATE 8/9/20: Following a day of vehicle-free battle royale action, instigated after the discovery of a serious, game-breaking glitch, Infinity Ward has restored transportation to Call of Duty: Warzone. As announced in a developer tweet, vehicles have been reactivated as part of today's playlist update. No additional insight on the incident has been shared.

UPDATE 10/9/20 10.20AM UK: Microsoft has now officially revealed yesterday's full launch trailer, confirming the previously-leaked 10th November launch date for Xbox Series S. As was reported yesterday, this is also believed to be the launch date for Xbox Series X, though Microsoft has yet to confirm this.

Matt Fraction's run on the Hawkeye comics famously started with a brief text preamble: "Clint Barton, a.k.a Hawkeye, became the greatest sharpshooter known to man. He then joined the Avengers. "This is what he does when he's not being an Avenger."

If you pre-order Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time you can play the demo next week, Activision has announced.

Nintendo has announced Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, a prequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

We're now several console reveals into the year, and although the Xbox Series S leaked a little ahead of schedule, the internet has once again produced some colourful and strange reactions to the new piece of tech. You know how this goes.

The release of Crysis Remastered draws closer and today we can reveal a technical feature of the console versions that we simply didn't believe possible just a few short months ago - the implementation of real-time ray-traced reflections. In a console game? Really? You can cut to the chase by checking out the embedded video below to see this technology in action on Xbox One X, but the fact is that via clever optimisations, the software-driven RT found in Crytek's Neon Noir demo has been optimised for Microsoft and Sony's enhanced consoles - and it looks very, very impressive.

The classic Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 will be getting a new Complete Edition release for PC and Nintendo Switch on 24th September.

A new studio has been founded to make Lords of the Fallen 2 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

For every one thing to love about Marvel's Avengers, there's something to cancel it out, as though it's a shiny machine that's been meticulously crafted by clever people in white coats and clipboards to neutralise every last drop of enjoyment.

What's the best drift in the world of racing games? Maybe it's the blue-blooded pair of Out Run, with its stick-induced shift that broke a thousand arcade cabinets, and OutRun 2, with its majestic arcs. Or perhaps it's something more modern - Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit with its big-bottomed supercars, or Burnout which helped birth Criterion's particularly weighty take on the artform. Whatever your own pick might be, I'd like to introduce a new contender to the debate: allow me to introduce Inertial Drift, a novel and exquisite thing.