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Another gaming event has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak, as this time Paris Games Week has announced it will not take place this year.

Booming Switch sales - buffed by big launches for Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Pokémon Sword and Shield - have provided a stonking set of new financial figures for Nintendo.

We've known the name for a while, we've seen the box, thanks to Digital Foundry we even know what's inside it and we've some idea of what games to expect - so how about we see some games running on Xbox Series X? From 4pm that's exactly what Microsoft is going to show us. Come join us!

There are many things I love about Ghost of a Tale, which makes its PS4 debut this week - the ivy bursting through its bulging masonry, the witty and affecting script (with beautifully concise, optional footnotes for those who fancy diving into the lore), or the fact that one of the quests actually has you distinguishing trees by their bark and leaf shape in order to identify the mushrooms growing beneath them. But the biggest compliment I can pay it, perhaps, is that nobody in it feels expendable. The setting may be a prison, an edifice designed to crush the soul and rob the individual of identity, but the story is broadly about reclaiming that identity and finding community in a world of brutal divides. Even the rat guards who chase you around the battlements of Dwindling Heights are people, warts and all, though it's easy to forget this when you're spotted for the umpteenth time exiting a bolthole.

Like many people around the world, I'm currently obsessed with the peaceful and cosy world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons - but even I have to admit there are plenty of things that bug me. Namely, the way Animal Crossing's UI and menus work, which often make simple chores feel like a complete drag. Not to mention the several lines of dialogue required to get anything done. I'm looking at you, Orville.

Last night, Pokémon Go maker Niantic announced it would introduce new ways to earn Pokécoins, its in-game currency used to buy items such as raid passes, as well as a slight bump to the overall total number of coins which can be earned each day.

Video games are famously awash with death yet disinclined to think it through, to explore what death means beyond failure and a restart or victory and the spoils. What Remains of Edith Finch is among the most powerful exceptions to the rule. Equal parts speculative fiction anthology and dynastic tragedy, it is the tale of a family destined to die prematurely, as retold by the last surviving member. In what could almost be a parody of Gone Home, it gives you the run of a vast house apparently constructed by Dr Seuss, each room containing an object that plunges you into the final moments of its owner.

Disintegration's story is about a future where overpopulation, famine and disease have all but wiped out humanity - forcing humans to swap their organic bodies for robot alternatives. Hard to imagine, I know: but soon we'll be able to hear more about this potential future for ourselves, as Disintegration launches in full on 16th June. Oh, and there's also a new story trailer for you to check out.

Frontier still has a few wrinkles to iron out before the anticipated June launch of Elite Dangerous' long-promised Fleet Carriers, and to assist in the process, the developer's second beta test - this time open to players on console as well as PC - will begin next Monday, 11th May.

Imagine Mirror's Edge but you're Genji from Overwatch and you're escaping - or perhaps breaking into - a prison in a cyberpunk world, and voila! You've got Ghostrunner.

Deadmau5, Steve Aoiki and Dillon Francis will headline the live premiere for Fortnite's no-combat Party Royale mode.

Last month, several Valorant devs came forward to report experiencing sexist harassment within their own game - and after some promises were made on Twitter, Riot has now formalised its commitment to tackling the problem.

I've often wondered what various games would look like as RPGs - Space Invaders, OutRun, Granny's Garden - but I've never once wondered about Pong. Have you? I mean it's Pong, a game about slowly moving a paddle up and down the screen trying to bat a ball towards your opponent and hoping they'll miss it. How would Pong work as an RPG?

The Sims 4 is going bigger and greener on 5th June when its environmentally focussed Eco Lifestyle Expansion Pack arrives on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

10 years ago, Ubisoft Montreal was working on an unannounced Prince of Persia game subtitled Redemption.

There's plenty to keep Xbox Game Pass subscribers busy this month, as survival title DayZ is joining the console version of the pass along with several other big titles. Good thing we've all got a lot of time on our hands.

There's now plenty of The Last of Us 2 gameplay floating around the internet, but here's some developer Naughty Dog actually wants you to see.

Sega has released gameplay of Total War: Elysium, its free-to-download collectible card game spin-off.

In its latest round of financial results, EA has confirmed it will launch 14 games over the coming financial year - including "multiple" games for Nintendo Switch.

Crysis is legendary, seared into the mind of a PC generation - but one chapter of the saga is at best neglected, at worst all but forgotten. Crysis Warhead is a PC exclusive standalone, released just under a year after the original, unclouded by the change of ambition and setting brought about by the multi-platform orientated Crysis 2. With Crysis Remastered looming on the horizon, we wanted to look back at the game, to get a handle on its successes and failures and to answer the question: why is Crysis Warhead so often overlooked?

Big news in the world of Mortal Kombat 11: the gory fighting game is getting a story expansion - a first for a NetherRealm title - and three new playable characters, one of which is RoboCop.

A now-cancelled The Legend of Zelda project was once in pre-production at Retro Studios, the Nintendo-owned developer behind Metroid Prime.

Having long been a favourite hot drop for Apex Legends players, it seems beloved landmark Skull Town has changed forever - as the trailer for season five shows the massive pile of bones sinking into a watery grave. Looks like I'll have to find somewhere else to die.

Early on in the zombie film 28 Days Later, Cillian Murphy wanders out of hospital after waking from a month-long coma and crosses a deserted Westminster Bridge. The roads and pavements are empty and strewn with litter, all the while the gothic Palace of Westminster looms over the bewildered Murphy, now a sightseeing tourist in post-apocalyptic London. Understandably, there has always been a lot of interest in how this iconic scene was filmed. How was such a busy landmark in the capital entirely emptied of people? The answer was fairly simple: they filmed it at 5am on a Sunday in the middle of summer.

Be warned: the following article contains major spoilers for the first and second acts of We Happy Few.

Sometimes, there's great delight to be found in the tedious. Arthur Ganson's remarkable kinetic sculpture Machine with Concrete demonstrates that with playful aplomb.

Halo 2: Anniversary, the shiny remaster of Bungie's seminal Xbox shooter sequel, is, at long last, coming to Steam, the Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass for PC next Tuesday, 12th May, as part of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

Forza Street, Microsoft's free-to-play mobile racer, is out now on iOS and Android devices.

Sony continues to expand the offerings available on PlayStation Now, with Rainbow Six Siege, The Evil Within 2, and Get Even all available on the game subscription service from today.

It's hardly a surprise, but it seems this year's EA Play event will be taking place digitally this year, following the cancellation of most physical events due to the coronavirus outbreak.