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One of the most exciting things I've seen in strategy and simulation games for an age is a screen that loads in when you boot up Industries of Titan. Industries of Titan is a game about making a foothold on the toxic and generally hideous surface of Saturn's moon. This screen shows that the developers of Industries of Titan are busy making a foothold on the surface of the Epic Games Store, toxicity and hideousness unknown but I certainly like the font they use. Anyway, Industries of Titan is in early access, and this is the roadmap. When I first looked at it I wasn't just excited by the thought of all these features that will be coming to the game. I was emboldened in a strange, cowardly way, if cowards can even be emboldened: here was a game that was by necessity stripped back. If there was a moment for someone like me, someone hesitant and a bit stupid, to make a success of Titan, this was surely it.

UPDATE 11th June 2020: The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 4 download has gone live - and it's huge.

Developer The Outsiders - the studio co-founded by former Battlefield 3 lead designer and Payday 2 director David Goldfarb - has unveiled Metal: Hellsinger, a rhythm FPS that's coming to PC, Xbox One, PS4, and next-gen consoles next year.

Curious Expedition 2, the follow-up to developer Maschinen-Mensch's rather splendid 19th-century-inspired rogue-like exploration adventure, will - having just completed six months of closed alpha testing - launch into Steam Early Access next Wednesday, 17th June.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Koji Igarashi's acclaimed spiritual successor to the Castlevania series, has now surpassed one million sales, and developer ArtPlay has shared its 2020 development roadmap to accompany the news.

June is here, and Microsoft is once again upending its big bag of video games over its buckets marked Xbox Game Pass on console and PC, with this month's freshly tumbled treats including Kingdom Hearts HD on Xbox One and BattleTech on PC.

CEX staff concerned for the safety of both customers and employees have told Eurogamer they are worried about the high street trade-in giant's plans to re-open shops in England next week.

Back in May, Hello Games announced its ever-expanding space sim No Man's Sky would be making its way to Xbox One and PC Game Pass this month, and that window has now narrowed even further, with launch now scheduled for Thursday, 11th June. But that's not all!

I'll be honest: despite enthusiastically rampaging my way through several Call of Duty campaigns, I normally have absolutely no idea what's going on. Aside from a vague sense of the main plot points and characters, the intricacies of specific missions and military terms are often lost on me. And that's perfectly fine, as the levels themselves are such a romp that I don't really mind.

The Evercade retro console just announced its next cartridge: The Oliver Twins Collection.

Those eagerly anticipating the release of Beyond a Steel Sky, the long-awaited sequel to beloved 90s point-and-click adventure Beneath a Steel Sky, have been thrown a tiny bone by developer Revolution Software in the form of a brand-new story focussed trailer.

Bungie has outlined the future of Destiny - and it does not involve a Destiny 3.

Bungie has revealed the next big expansion for Destiny 2 - and it marks the return of a character players haven't seen since the Destiny 1 campaign.

UPDATE 4.30PM: Nintendo has sent through this new statement:

Bungie has given few hints on its new, non-Destiny franchise currently early in development - though a series of new job postings have offered up a couple of snippets.

Bungie will this evening lift the lid on Destiny 2's future - so, of course, some of it has popped up on the internet a little early.

EA has added a Black Lives matter in-game message to FIFA 20.

UK high street giant GAME will begin re-opening in England and Northern Ireland from 15th June, but with some changes.

The Bronze Age, it turns out, is not an easy period to turn into a historically accurate, highly detailed video game like Total War. But it does sound fascinating. There are huge gaps in important places, unusual changes to how armies are proportioned, and the small matter of Homer's Iliad sprinkling myth and magic over everything.

It's dark out, and it's raining quite a bit. I'm standing in the middle of the street, facing a shop with a large, bright sign saying 'Dépanneur'. There's no one else about but me, and just by being a bright spot in an otherwise empty and wet street, the shop already feels incredibly inviting.

Acclaimed Taiwanese horror game Devotion, which was pulled from Steam shortly after its release last February following the discovery of a controversial art asset, has finally resurfaced and will be getting a physical release - albeit only in Taiwan for the time being.

UPDATE 19.13pm: Those patiently awaiting confirmation from Sony before making frenzied red rings around Thursday on their calendar now have the permission they were looking to circle away. Its PlayStation 5 games reveal livestream, as confirmed by the PlayStation Twitter feed, is officially set for this Thursday, 11th June, at 9pm in the UK.

Need for Speed Heat is getting crossplay.

The grandfather of the real-time strategy genre is back, improved and modernised while retaining everything that made it great - and in the process, delivering a game that still manages to hold up against the best in the business. In fact, Command and Conquer Remastered is such an exceptional piece of work, I'm almost in awe of the effort. Consisting of the original game and the Red Alert sequel along with all expansions, everything has been expertly remastered to work flawlessly on modern PCs while looking great on today's displays, but this is a remastering effort that goes beyond the superficial: subtle but well-judged tweaks are made to the user interface and gameplay too and the pay-off is massive.

The UK government could classify loot boxes as gambling following an upcoming call for evidence, The Guardian reports.

Riftbreaker is a base-building survival game, but whereas in other games you build an army to defend you, here, you are the army. You're a pilot inside a mech capable of level-shaking destruction and you can torch entire hordes with flamethrowers, mow them down with thundering cannons, carve through them with giant swords and pound them with barrages of missiles. Here, the tech upgrades you normally spend on your army are spent on you. It feels awesome.

An open beta for Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break will go live on 9th June, 2020.

It's only been out on PC for a few days, but already Riot Games is exploring the possibilities of bringing its new shooter, Valorant, to consoles.

Blizzard has announced it has postponed the World of Warcraft: Shadowlands livestream that had been planned for 9th June.

A Smash Bros. Ultimate Fighter fan has recreated the entire roster in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.