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You've heard of the Way of the Dragon, but have you come across the Way of the Magic Right Arm? As you've probably guessed, it's a martial art where every move has to involve the right arm - effective at rattling jaws, less so at sweeping ankles. It's not, you've probably also guessed, an actual combat discipline but one of thousands dreamt up by players of Sloclap's Absolver, the unbearably stylish fighting game which lets you pick from over 120 beautifully animated kicks and punches to create a bespoke martial art, or "deck", of up to 16 moves.

Five of the Best is a weekly series about the small details we rush past when we're playing but which shape a game in our memory for years to come. Details like the way a character jumps or the title screen you load into, or the potions you use and maps you refer back to. We've talked about so many in our Five of the Best series so far. But there are always more.

There's a lot of love out there for grim Britain, but not a lot of actual love letters to it. Thankfully we now have Landlord's Super, a true homage to the true bleakness of northern 1980s England that's also a weirdly addictive renovation-and-miserable-life simulator from Minskworks, the developer behind cult car-fixing sim Jalopy.

Doom Eternal's Update 1 will bring empowered demons to the game, as well as new content, bug fixes, and a "host of optimisations".

It likely comes as no surprise, but Tokyo Game Show is the latest event to cancel its physical show amid the coronavirus pandemic.

It's Year of the Klingon in Star Trek Online and to celebrate, developer Arc Games has revealed details of a "major, multipart, 2411-focused Klingon storyline".

If you backed Platinum Games' remaster of The Wonderful 101 and received a blank or invalid code for your Nintendo Switch, don't panic - Platinum is aware of the issue.

With its Ryzen 3000 desktop line, AMD delivered more cores, more performance and more value - closing the gap with Intel in benchmarks and gaming and essentially delivering a great product at a great price point. Ryzen 4000 does much the same thing, but with a twist. This isn't a new Zen architecture or a bump to the existing desktop chips. Instead, AMD has refactored the existing Zen 2 core into a new all-in-one processor APU with Vega graphics. The processor is codenamed Renoir and to cut straight to the chase, it's a gamechanger.

The PlayStation Store has been suspended in mainland China.

To get us properly excited for the launch of Apex Legends' fifth season, Respawn has shared more details about what's coming up, including news of a season-long treasure hunt.

There are plenty of things wrong with Assassin's Creed Odyssey, but I do find it ever so hard to care. I've spent the weekend falling in love, jumping off hundred-foot statues and galloping around the island of Mykonos dressed as Wonder Woman. I could've spent that time thinking about all the cluttered menus and superfluous UI elements, and wondering why, for some reason, so many people love this game when it so proudly displays just so many obvious flaws.

Last week, Rockstar gave all GTA Online players half a million virtual dollars. This week, it's giving away free alien suits.

Work on the hotly-anticipated enhanced version of Dwarf Fortress continues. Now we have our first look at its updated map.

Blink and you'll miss it, but Kirby is in Fortnite's latest trailer.

Total War: Warhammer 2's latest trailer is perhaps my favourite yet.

One of the most celebrated games of this console generation, Bloodborne saw From Software team up with Sony to produce an epic gothic adventure - rich in lore, deep in gameplay, brutally hard in execution. From a Digital Foundry perspective, its only negative points are technical in nature. Bloodborne's 30fps frame-rate is poorly implemented, while the potential for 60fps gaming via a PlayStation 4 Pro patch never happened. With that in mind, it was with much interest that we followed the work of Lance McDonald, who chronicled his attempts to hack the Bloodborne code on debug hardware in order to run it at full frame-rate. Footage released shows McDonald getting extremely close to the target - but what is the full story?

Last night, Infinity Ward issued an update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare that brought back an April Fool's playlist - and I love it.

Microsoft has responded to criticism of this week's Xbox Series X "gameplay" reveal, admitting it had set wrong expectations for fans.

As expected, Nintendo is taking action to try to scrub the eye-catching unofficial Super Mario 64 PC port from the internet. But it faces an uphill struggle.

Filament is one of those games I could play forever - gentle, dreamy, quietly cerebral. And because of that last part it's one of those games that I think I probably will be playing forever. I'm not stuck as such, but I am making progress very slowly. It feels like the right pace, though. Filament is emphatically not a game to be rushed.

Following its big third-party Xbox Series X blow-out earlier today, Microsoft has revealed the first batch of games that will support its previously announced Smart Delivery scheme - enabling owners of specific Xbox One titles to upgrade to the shiny Xbox Series X versions for free.

Bullet-time was a defining gimmick that marked the end of one millennium and the beginning of the next. 1999's summer blockbuster The Matrix blew our minds with bullet dodging before games popularised it starting with Max Payne in 2001, which coined its feature with that exact term. But in between these two pop culture titans, spare a thought for Bangai-O, the little big Japanese title that took its own unique approach.

Just as it promised, Microsoft has shown off the first batch of Xbox Series X gameplay footage (although in some cases, you might prefer the term "gameplay" footage) from a broad array of third-party titles coming to the console for its "holiday 2020" launch and beyond.

Jason Ronald's job title is partner director of program management for the Xbox platform team, but what that somewhat robotic label boils down to is he's leading development of the Xbox Series X, Microsoft's next-generation console due out in time for Christmas 2020. He's played a key role in the making of the Xbox Series X, from the beginning to the present, its hardware to its software. Nobody knows Xbox Series X like Jason Ronald.

Sega's next entry in the Yakuza series will be available alongside Xbox Series X when the console launches.

One of the more unusual games during Microsoft's Xbox Series X stream was Call of the Sea, a non-violent mystery adventure set on a tropical island in the South Pacific in the 1930s.

Microsoft has just announced a raft of third-party Xbox Series X games, and among them is Chorus, a new fast-paced space shooter aerial combat game from German studio FishLabs. FishLabs has been working on Chorus since 2017, and it's now getting the game ready to launch across the current and next-generation of consoles as well as PC and Stadia at some point early 2021. According to Microsoft, Chorus is "fully engineered to take advantage of Xbox Series X's powerful hardware". But what does that mean, exactly?

Since the release of Layers of Fear in 2016, Polish developer Bloober has carved out a niche for itself creating a run of psychedelic first-person horror titles defined by woozy spatial uncertainty and dazzling visual invention. So far that formula has given the world the luscious haunted house thrills of Layers of Fear and its avant-garde silver screen sequel, the squalid cyberpunk chills of The Observer, and the disorientating backwoods horror of Blair Witch. Now though, the studio is trying something a little different with its next title, The Medium - a third-person survival horror affair heavily inspired by genre classics like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

It's been a week since Ubisoft revealed Assassin's Creed Valhalla, its upcoming Viking-set entry into its historical stabathon series.

Codemasters has just announced Dirt 5, which will launch for Xbox Series X (and, obviously, other consoles too).