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Kylian Mbappé is the FIFA 21 cover star, EA has announced.

We've all taken on some strange and wacky pet projects during lockdown, but YouTuber Fundy appears to have taken this to new extremes, as he's created a video showing himself playing Minecraft inside Minecraft. You can practically hear the Inception music blaring.

2K has released the first gameplay footage of its lavish Mafia: Definitive Edition remake in action.

Are we really getting a modern take on the 90s' outstanding X-Wing games, complete with that same nerdish detail and with the power and spectacle possible on modern hardware? All of it. It's all true. EA is indeed making a successor of sorts to Totally Games' beloved series, building an entire experience around the evergreen fantasy of battling in the skies of the Star Wars universe. And while Star Wars Squadrons is its own thing - developed by EA Motive, it's a stripped back and very modern game, complete with a whole heap of unlockable cosmetics and ties to the new Disney-sanctioned lore - the links to classics like TIE Fighter and X-Wing Alliance are deliberate and for old-timers like me mighty satisfying too.

It's been almost seven years since the release of Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn, a game whose story has been recounted countless times, after putting Naoki Yoshida in the director's chair, who since pulled the game from the brink of disaster with the release of A Realm Reborn. Fast forward seven years, with a few critically-acclaimed expansions under their belts, the Final Fantasy 14 team looks back at older content, and introducing the game to new players with patch 5.3.

Can it run Crysis? It's been 13 years since Crytek's epoch-making release hit the market - and in some respects it's still capable of monstering modern day PC hardware. But now, the game is playable on a handheld console using a mobile processor with power consumption that barely troubles a watt meter. So just how good is the port? How does it compare to the sub-optimal last-gen versions and can it possibly match up to the original experience?

UPDATE: Microsoft has released a new Halo: Infinite teaser and it appears to confirm Master Chief now has a grappling hook.

When thinking about games popular with a younger audience, most of you might immediately jump to Fortnite - but another behemoth exists in the form of Roblox, an online game creation platform that only seems to be getting bigger. It's grown so much, in fact, that most kids in America are seemingly playing it.

A quick video of the Assassin's Creed Valhalla menu has revealed how you can swap between male and female versions of lead character Eivor.

A detailed report into the current wave of sexual misconduct allegations at Ubisoft has surfaced new details on the developer's continued reluctance to let a woman be the sole star of a big budget Assassin's Creed game.

This year, when the pandemic kept me away from Japan and by extension my beloved Japanese vending machines. I decided to torture myself instead by buying a coffee table book called "Vend - Notes On The Silent World Of Tokyo's Vending Machines" by designer and photographer Tim Easley.

Deadly Premonition 2 has just received its first (and very much-needed) post-launch patch on Switch, taking an initial pass at improving the game's abysmal frame rate, while also making a range of tweaks designed to remedy its heavily criticised handling of a transgender character.

If you were curious to know what developer Sucker Punch was up to between the release of Infamous: Second Son and the recent Ghost of Tsushima, then a newly discovered video - reportedly featuring footage from a cancelled stealth-action effort known as Prophecy - might just have the answer you were looking for.

After close to 18 months in early access development, Hopoo Games' co-operative rogue-like shooter sequel Risk of Rain 2 will be getting its full version 1.0 Steam release on 11th August.

Developer Crema's Pokémon-like MMO Temtem, which is currently in Steam early access, has just received a major new update, this one adding a new island to explore, new creatures, and a range of new core functionality, including chat and clan-like clubs.

Developer Psyonix's four-wheeled footie phenomenon Rocket League will be transitioning from paid title to free-to-play game on all platforms "later this summer", and, at the same time, it will become exclusive to the Epic Games Store for all new PC players.

Fresh from The Farm, Destiny's official recipe book will launch next month, on 4th August.

Fantasy Strike is now free-to-play. That's across PC via Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and Linux.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is now on Steam.

Way back in 2014, Corsair's Dominator Platinum memory was some of the finest the industry had to offer - brand new DDR4, rated at speeds of up to 3300MHz and available in four-stick kits totalling a whopping 16GB... for only $900. Since then, capacities have gone up substantially, with 8GB and 16GB sticks now becoming commonplace, while prices have gone way down. Frequencies have also slowly ramped up over time, and in 2020, 3200MHz RAM is considered the baseline speed for even budget builds, with 3600MHz being a high performance option that doesn't cost the earth. Today, we're testing the next logical step - 4000MHz RAM - to see what further performance advantages we can find.

AMD completed their line-up of Zen 2 processors today with the announcement of the Ryzen 4000 G series. These are desktop chips with integrated graphics, using the same single-chip designs as the Ryzen 4000 'Renoir' mobile processors but scaled up to take advantage of the greater power budgets on desktop motherboards. Like the mobile chips, that means there's no PCIe 4.0 support here. The new lineup will debut in pre-built OEM systems first, with DIY availability coming later, and replaces the venerable Ryzen 3200G and 3400G.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has poured cold water on the suggestion the Xbox Game Pass subscription service could still launch on rival platforms.

Ghost of Tsushima may not be the most groundbreaking of open worlds, but it sure is gorgeous, and with some stylish close-quarters combat Sucker Punch has still brought the traditionally breezy fun.

Monument Valley developer Ustwo Games has unveiled its next project, Alba: A Wildlife Adventure.

Top-notch culinary party game Overcooked is getting a new version for next-gen consoles.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PlayStation 5 has an optional 4K resolution / 60 frames per second performance mode, developer Insomniac Games has revealed.

The long-awaited Shin Megami Tensei 5 launches for Nintendo Switch worldwide in 2021.

Sea of Thieves has welcomed a further five million people aboard since this January, making for an all-time player count of 15 million.

It's no longer enough for battle royales to simply be battle royales. Now, they need lore. Following in the footsteps of others in the genre, PUBG is diving deep into its fictional origins, with a look at its fictional masters - the ones organising its desert island deathmatches.

It turns out the MediEvil PlayStation 4 remake has a PSone emulator hidden inside - although it doesn't do much.