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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.

Nintendo has confirmed its highly-anticipated trilogy of classic Super Mario game remasters headed to Nintendo Switch later this month. Dubbed as Super Mario 3D All-Stars, the collection will contain Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy. It arrives on 18th September.

Surviving a world ravaged by the effects of an asteroid impact? That's probably lined up for the end of 2020, sure, but it's also the backstory for free-to-play "co-opetition" shooter Scavengers, which has released a new gameplay trailer to show what it's all about.

Nintendo has at last lifted the lid on its celebrations for Super Mario Bros.' 35th anniversary, via a Nintendo Direct broadcast stuffed full of Mario games old and new.

It's no secret that Digital Foundry has a perhaps unhealthy degree of love for Crysis, maybe even bordering on obsession. Crytek's masterpiece was a massively important game on its release in 2007 and a title that still holds up beautifully today in many ways - and it's a reminder of the days when PC exclusives pushed technology so hard, we upgraded just to play them and actually did so willingly. Its status as a game that melts any and all PC hardware remains in place to this very day, though perhaps for the wrong reasons. All that's set to change with the release of Crysis Remastered, which revamps and optimises the original for modern systems, while still pushing the boundaries of today's technology. We've played it on Switch and loved it and we think you're going to enjoy it on PC, Xbox One and PS4 too. We know this because Crytek invited us to its Frankfurt HQ to sample the game on all systems, but going hands-on... well, that's just the beginning of the story.

Nintendo has announced Super Mario Bros. 35, a battle royale-style take on the original side-scrolling classic.

Recently-released indie game Spiritfarer came under fire yesterday after some players said it contained ableist writing within one of its storylines - and now developer Thunder Lotus has issued an apology.

I would love to know how The Last Campfire was made. Not the coding or the art, which I'll happily admit I would not understand even if I had a lifetime of education ahead of me. But the thinking behind the design. This is a puzzle game in which puzzles are everywhere - puzzles of different types, of different approaches, puzzles operating at different levels of the construction. Somewhere I imagine a huge wall filled with paper and bits of string - one of those evidence walls from the kind of shows you get on the Alibi channel. Every idea, every gimmick, every buried connection between one part and another. Beautiful!

Promising open-world bird combat game The Falconeer will hold a brief PC beta next month which you can sign-up for right now.

We're taking Rezzed online over the next few days, presenting sessions and bringing you highlights of what's new and interesting in the world of independent games. You can find more details on exactly what's going on over here, and we'll be bringing you more write-ups over the coming days.

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 is getting a new endgame mode set in a 100-story skyscraper.

Plans are being made for a return to an in-person Gamescom show in Cologne for 2021.

There is so much energy in Teenage Blob that even the on-screen text seems to shake and shudder and tremble. Why wouldn't it? This is such a weird and brilliant project - half EP, half mini-game collection. The Superweaks (a band) recorded six new songs. Team Lazerbeam (a development team) made six new games. Then everything got flung together in a sketchy celebration of punk and the brilliant/terrible lost years between 16 and 19. Rotten jobs. Gigs. Set lists. The energy of it!

Ubisoft's celebrated online shooter The Division (the 2016 original, not its 2018 sequel, clarification fans) is currently free to download and keep on PC.

Back in the halcyon days of, uh, last week, CD Projekt revealed it would be bringing the Witcher-y world of Geralt and friends to iOS and Android in the form of a free-to-play, augmented-reality "location-based RPG". What it didn't do, however, was show much in the way of gameplay, but the studio has now remedied that with a brisk new trailer.

Sea of Thieves' treasure-hungry Gold Hoarders faction is getting some much needed love next Wednesday, 9th September, in the form of a new tomb-raiding puzzle quest type which arrives as part of the multiplayer pirate adventure's newly revealed Vaults of the Ancients update.

Crazy Taxi is no stranger to clones. I will freely admit enjoying the rather shameless The Simpsons: Road Rage back in the day, and to spending countless hours crashing around Springfield in a hovercar as Professor Frink. Fortnite's new Tilted Taxis mode feels similar, familiar fare.

Red Dead Online has been something of a roller coaster in recent months: after the community protested the lack of updates by wearing clown costumes, Rockstar pushed a major update to introduce legendary animals and the naturalist role, and players appeared to be relatively satisfied. The celebrations didn't last long, however, as a subsequent bug fix update brought a range of issues so severe that Rockstar had to roll back the entire patch.

After two years of development, intriguing indie Welcome to Elk has a release date.

The setup is this: you're playing through the history of the Night's Watch, set thousands of years before the events of George R.R. Martin's books and HBO's TV show, around the era of Bran the Builder, original Papa Stark. First, you choose a character to be Lord Commander for a while - this changes, with new Commanders and new stories for them generated indefinitely - then you make a few decisions, you send a few people on some errands, and then you wait. Just chill out for a bit. Watch little symbols slowly burrow their way into the wild forests of the north and gaze at the lovely artwork or just go for a walk, read an article, do something else entirely.

We've been playing the latest build of Welcome to Elk this week, and this strange game about an island filled with stories is so hard to describe we've decided to have two goes at it.

It's that time of the year when developers start explaining their plans for the move to next-gen devices, and the latest to do so is Dead by Daylight - the asymmetrical horror survival multiplayer by Behaviour Interactive. Yet it seems players won't be getting any nasty shocks when it comes to cost, as current players will be able to access the game on next-gen consoles for free.