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This weekend I've been playing Grindstone, the wonderfully bloodthirsty puzzle game from Capy that just got an update on Apple Arcade. And the update is a doozy. A daily mode! Daily Grind! Four levels each day, slice your way through them and then compete on the leaderboards. It's thrilling - a game that is perfect for the daily challenge now has one.

Microsoft has offered a look at its revamped and redesigned digital store for Xbox, which will be made available to at least some of those users signed up to its Insiders testing programme starting this Wednesday, 5th August.

Nintendo has yet to turn the Legend of Zelda series into novels, but Irish author John Boyne appears to have gotten an accidental head start.

Microsoft has heard your feedback on its hulking green "Optimised For Xbox Series X" stickers, which it has been slapping willy-nilly all over Xbox Series X game boxes.

In a cross between a tech breakdown and an autopsy video, someone has filmed the new Super Mario Lego unit being taken to pieces.

PlayStation's next Nintendo Direct-style State of Play broadcast takes place this Thursday, 6th June at 9pm UK time.

PlayStation has detailed which PS4 peripherals you'll be able to use with PS5 - and there's bad news for the DualShock 4.

Another senior Ubisoft staff member has left the company amid its ongoing investigations into sexual harassment and abuse.

Sudoku is the game where you have to be certain about things. Your job is to put the numbers from 1-9 into each and every row, column, and 3x3 "house" of a 9x9 grid, and you do this by using the scattering of numbers that are already there. You only write a number down when you are absolutely certain it's right, and you trust the game to parcel out this certainty so there is always progress to be made.

Please be warned that there are images of spiders in this article.

Microsoft appears to have rebranded its Xbox Game Pass to just Game Pass.

Konami has set Silent Hill fans' pulses racing with some cheeky tweets from the publisher's official Twitter account.

Obsidian's Honey I Shrunk The Kids-style survival game Grounded has clocked up over a million players in just two days.

Football Manager developer Sports Interactive has confirmed that "despite all the problems going on in the world", Football Manager 2021 will release later this year, albeit "a little later than originally planned".

This year's TennoCon presentation was a little different to normal, having fully migrated online due to COVID-19, but there were still plenty of changes announced for the Warframe universe, including a big new open-world area, a Warframe ability transfer feature... and mechs.

A world inhabited by infested creatures, an abundance of insects, and a daily power struggle between two opposing sides? No, it's not the British summertime in 2020, it's the new Warframe expansion Heart of Deimos, which has just been unveiled as part of this year's all-digital TennoCon presentation.

BioWare has outlined Anthem's upcoming new and improved loot system - and it sounds much better than what's currently in the game.

Atlantis is now in Fortnite.

343 has said crossplay, input-based matchmaking and custom game browser will all release for Halo: The Master Chief Collection in 2020.

Microsoft is having a good time on Steam right now, with a number of its game in the top-sellers list.

Arc System Works has shown off two new characters for upcoming hybrid 2D/3D cell-shaded fighting game Guilty Gear Strive: Leo Whitefang and Nagoriyuki.

Setsuka is coming to Soulcalibur 6 as a new DLC character, Bandai Namco has announced.

Tekken 7 is getting a fourth season.

Netflix has announced it's working on a Beyond Good & Evil film.

Few companies can claim to have had as great an influence on the last 50 years of childhood as Nintendo and Lego. These are not just two titanic brands, both famous for their fearsome quality control. They also represent two deeply thought-out and consistently developed philosophies of play. So any collaboration between them is consequential indeed, and here it is: the Lego Super Mario toy range, which arrives in shops today.

UPDATE 11pm UK: Microsoft has now confirmed today's leak that Halo Infinite's multiplayer will indeed be free-to-play and run at 120FPS on Xbox Series X.

UPDATE 8/4/20: We've now got a look at the fourth Super Mario Lego set - the Monty Mole & Super Mushroom Expansion Set. This one, as suggested yesterday, will come as a free gift.

UPDATE 31/7/20: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to stop the US' armed forces from using Twitch as a recruitment tool has been voted down by the House of Congress.

26 years later, the Battletoads are back.

After yesterday's introduction of an early achievements system, the Epic Game Store has gone live with its first example of mod support.