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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.

Funselektor's exquisite looking art of rally has a final release date, with the top-down off-roader coming to Steam and GOG on September 23rd.

Undead shooter Zombie Army 4: Dead War has laid out a rough plan for two new seasons of content, which will shuffle into the game over the next year or so.

I don't know how they do it. Dontnod have real form making these intense, socio-political narrative games, where you simply walk around interacting with other characters and objects. Tell Me Why is another success.

Wizards of the Coast has revealed a Magic: The Gathering roadmap detailing releases through to the end of 2021.

Marvel's Avengers will add Hawkeye herself, Kate Bishop, to its growing roster of heroes in October.

Indie studio Vlambeer hit an important milestone yesterday, marking 10 years since it was established in 2010 by founders Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman. Yet the studio decided to mark the occasion in a somewhat unusual way, as the developer revealed it's shutting up shop.

Ubisoft's next announcement show now has a date and time, as well as a teaser trailer for what to expect. Ubisoft Forward will be held next Thursday, 10th September at midday Pacific time (that's 8pm UK).

The greatest horror series on television is Secret Lives of the Super Rich. It's a truly eldritch documentary show about the things that people with a lot of money inflict on themselves. Rich people, it suggests again and again, are odd. They don't just want a garage full of Lambos - it's always Lambos - they want a house in which the garage doubles as the dining room, where you can eat breakfast next to the parking turntable. They don't just want endless access to Patron, they want a specially modified motorbike that runs on Patron. They want to eat gold leaf on absolutely everything - even grilled cheese sandwiches. And when night comes they want to retire to a house lined with mink fur.

The end is nigh for Monster Hunter World Iceborne; as the expansion's first anniversary approaches, Capcom has confirmed that only one free content update, titled The Final Stand, is still to come. Happily, though, Iceborne is ending on a high, ushering in the series' infamous black dragon Fatalis as its final opponent.

Today's a big day for games tech, with Nvidia having finally announced - via the medium of a talking man stood in front of a load of spatulas - its new line of RTX 3000 graphics hardware. And in between all the technical chatter, it's confirmed that Fortnite and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will both be getting the RTX treatment.

It's a time of change, of transition. With the arrival of the next generation consoles, the scale, scope and ambition of game developers will move onto the next level - and today, Nvidia revealed its new RTX 3000 line of graphics hardware, promising the biggest generational leap it's ever delivered, along with twice the ray tracing performance. This year, I've been privileged to have had exclusive access to next-gen architects and even hardware and I'm happy to say that I've also had early access to the new GeForce RTX 3080 - in fact, the card has been with me since late last week. So the question is, just how fast is it?

September is upon us, meaning that - among many other things - it's time for Sony to fling a fresh batch of games onto its PlayStation Now subscription service, with this month's newly announced additions including Resident Evil 7 and Final Fantasy 15.

Pendragon, the Arthurian-legend-inspired narrative strategy game from 80 Days and Heaven's Vault developer Inkle Studios, is coming to PC on 22nd September.

Tonight Nvidia finally lifts the veil on its hotly-anticipated Ampere technology ushering in the next generation of PC hardware. Digital Foundry will be here to take you through it all from 5pm BST.

Developer Texel Raptor's superb theme park management sim Parkitect is upgrading its guest experience for the autumn season; from tomorrow, 2nd September, its newly announced Booms & Blooms expansion will bring fireworks sequencing, new rides, fancier flora, and more.

To those who are regular viewers, the Democratic National Convention looked a little different this year. With large gatherings made impossible due to coronavirus, organisers looked for virtual ways to host the event over Zoom and livestreams. And it seems the Democratic party is continuing to use more modern methods to reach voters, as the Biden campaign has created a series of official yard signs for fans to download in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

A week into its new Marvel season, Fortnite has added a large Black Panther statue to a corner of its map.

It hasn't been all that long since the train appeared in Verdansk, but it looks like another mode of transportation could be entering Warzone soon, as Call of Duty fans have spotted several references to subway stations.

It is now September of 2020 and Microsoft is still to announce Xbox Series S. But here we are, again, with the Xbox Series S name popping up on official Microsoft products out in the wild.

I have doctored someone's school grades to make sure they fail and I have exposed a cheating politician. I have taken down a company like Nestle, ended a cult and landed aeroplanes. I have destroyed chemical weapons, I have stopped a nuke. I've done all this and more in Greyhat because I'm the hacker everyone turns to when they need something done.