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We'll have our review of Marvel's Avengers up over the next few days, but before that we wanted to get some perspective on the representation the campaign brings from someone who really knows the Marvel universe.

As part of Mario's 35th anniversary celebrations Nintendo has unveiled a new Mario Kart - and while it's not the next mainline entry in the series, it looks like a fascinating spin on the formula.

Square Enix has taken data collected "after Early Access" to push out a new Steam patch in an attempt to address the stability issues plaguing Marvel's Avengers on PC.

The "limited release" of Super Mario 3D All-Stars has already seen scalpers chancing their luck on auction sites, with copies of the £50/$60 game selling for as much as £200/$265.

Microsoft has announced Xbox Academy, a new, free games development tutorial "designed to inspire the next generation of games creators, and to give them an insight into game design and development".

A new update has been released for Doom and Doom II.

UPDATE 06/09/20: EA has now removed in-game ads from UFC 4 after fans flooded the company's social channels with complaints.

Gloomwood is a promising survival horror / immersive sim I've been tracking in the back of my mind for a while now - and now I've seen its inventory I'm even more excited.

3D Realms has announced Graven, the spiritual successor to Hexen 2.

Epic has called on a court to stop what it described as Apple's "retaliation" against the Fortnite maker.

The seed for Minecraft's fabled pack.png image - dubbed "the most iconic image in Minecraft history" - has finally been found, letting all players explore the world it was taken from.

Wasteland 3 has launched to a positive reception, but the game has some serious technical problems that in some cases make it unplayable.

Twitch Sings shuts down on 1st January 2021, Twitch has announced.

Shenmue is getting an anime.

Nintendo has offered clarification on the various degrees of controller support found in its newly announced Super Mario 3D All-Stars trilogy, noting, among other things, that it'll be possible to replicate Super Mario Galaxy's pointer functionality via the Switch's touchscreen.

Please note: Full spoilers for Yakuza 0 and Yakuza Kiwami ahead.

THQ Nordic has announced it will be offering Steam users 50% off its Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning remaster when it launches next Tuesday, 8th September, provided they have the original version of the action-RPG in their library on Valve's platform.

Spelunky 2, the feverishly (around these parts, at least) anticipated sequel to developer Derek Yu's critically acclaimed 2008 subterranean platform rogue-like, is coming to PC on 29th September, a few short weeks after the PS4 version arrives.

Despite the efforts of Valve to curb the bot invasion, it seems bots still haunt the servers of Team Fortress 2 - and players have taken matters into their own hands.

At the beginning of Season 6, Apex Legends made a pretty radical change to its meta: no longer would players simply cross their fingers and hope for good armour, they would be able to earn their layers by causing damage. All armour was swapped with Evo Armour, meaning players could pick up white or blue pre-levelled armour from the ground, and would then have to attack other players to evolve it to higher-tier levels.

Nintendo's about to release an all-new handheld - sort of - as it returns to the line of hardware that helped make its name, with Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros coming out on November 13th.

More of Nintendo's internal secrets appear to have hit the internet - including early plans for a Switch-like portable GameCube with a dock.

The official multiplayer reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is supposed to be next week on 9th September, yet it looks like we're all getting an early preview thanks to a leak from a Twitch streamer. Well, at least until Activision manages to scrub the footage from the internet.

The Witcher 3 is getting a new version designed for next generation consoles and PC - and it will be free to all current owners of the game on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has rebalanced the game's new Mega Evolution mechanic following widespread fan complaints. First launched last week, the major addition was met with immediate criticism for requiring numerous raids to grind a new resource, Mega Energy, for little perceived reward.

Immortals Fenyx Rising - Ubisoft's new name for Gods & Monsters - will apparently arrive on 3rd December 2020.

You know how this whole pandemic has been a terrifying voyage of discovery in terms of what's important to you? It might be that you discovered the local cafe round the corner was actually a massive highlight of your day in normal circumstances, or that despite moaning frequently, you actually did love going to the gym. It might simply be that you vastly underestimated how nice it was to pop into your local Tesco without having to queue up for an hour first. One thing I've learned is that I miss Bomberman. It's an absurd realisation. Right up there with my failed efforts to make good arancini, because I really miss good arancini.

World's End Club, the new collaborative effort from Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi and Danganronpa's Kazutaka Kodaka (who serve as scenario writer and creative director on the project respectively), launches tomorrow, 4th September, on Apple Arcade.

Minecraft Live, developer Mojang's digital celebration of all things Minecraft (complete with tantalisingly glimpses of things to come), will take place on 3rd October.

Developer Ion Lands' gorgeous delivery driving neo-noir thriller Cloudpunk is currently revving its engine (or whatever it is that futuristic flying cars use to get about the place) and readying to swerve onto Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch on 15th October.