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Infinity Ward has finally addressed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone's cheating problem after increased pressure from fans in recent weeks.

I grew up in the 1980s in Kent, and I swear that there was still a bit of the Victorian era lurking in the streets at that time. The local library was filled with massive oil paintings of cattle, along with stuffed owls resting under bell jars. There was a corner shop that sold truly bizarre boiled sweets by the quarter. There was a second-hand bookstore that was also somebody's home, wonderfully gloomy and silent but for ticking clocks, and every room had stacks of decaying books whose pages had grown thick with the passing of time. Those books! Cloth covers, spines peeling away, and inside them all endpapers of swirled blues and reds and golds: marbled paper.

Wild West tactical stealth sequel Desperados 3 will, at long last, be donning poncho, cocking hat, and trotting nonchalantly onto Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC on 16th June.

AMD announced two new budget 3rd-gen Ryzen processors today, the $100 Ryzen 3 3100 and the $120 Ryzen 3 3300X. These are the first mainstream Zen 2 CPUs we've seen from the red team, and come considerably cheaper than the current value champion, the $200 Ryzen 5 3600.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons recorded a bigger US launch in terms of both copies sold and money made than any Mario or Zelda game in history since records began.

Following delays to games such as The Last of Us Part 2 and Iron Man VR, the latest title to be affected by the coronavirus lockdown is Death Stranding, with the game's PC version pushed back to July.

Nintendo has detailed this week's big new Animal Crossing: New Horizons update, which will add an array of new characters and events to the game.

Stadia is now free! Or rather, any Google user can now sign up to the service and access the games library without having to subscribe to the Pro tier or purchase the firm's bespoke controller and Chromecast Ultra 4K HDR receiver. It's a good jumping on point for users interested in the service and as we shall discover, accessing Stadia via Chrome browsers, smartphones or tablets can actually offer a key advantage over the Pro-level 4K Chromecast Ultra experience. In returning to Google's cloud service, we also wanted to take the opportunity to go back to Doom Eternal and revisit our latency metrics - a key point of criticism in prior coverage. Was Stadia just having a bad day when we tested it? Was there something wrong with our network? Could we bring latency back down to the impressive level we saw in our Stadia review?

Doom is practically synonymous with pounding metal soundtracks, and the latest title is no exception. Composed by Mick Gordon, who previously wrote the music for Doom (2016), the official soundtrack for Doom Eternal released yesterday: but instead of providing the ultra-high quality listeners wanted, it's come under fire for sounding a bit off - and Gordon has distanced himself from the final mix. Talk about a bad rip followed by tears.

Nintendo has told Eurogamer it is now actively investigating a wave of reports from Switch owners stating their Nintendo Accounts have been accessed.

As the Premier League struggles to work out how to finish the 2019-20 season amid the coronavirus outbreak, footballers are set to star in a FIFA 20 tournament that kicks off today to raise money for the NHS.

GeForce Now has announced a raft of changes to its library of games as some publishers pull support while others commit further.

Rear Window is absolutely perfect video games fodder. Hitchcock's classic, self-contained thriller about a man solving a neighbourhood murder while confined to the four walls of his apartment has been spoofed and refernced so many times in popular culture, in fact, that I'm sort of amazed it hasn't been made into a game already.

Super Mario Maker 2's next update will add a World Maker mode so you can craft your own level maps.

Nintendo is preparing to boost production of Switch in an effort to meet the huge increase in demand for the console seen in recent months, which has lead to a scarcity of stock and, in some cases, hugely inflated prices.

Beyond Blue, which has just washed up on Apple Arcade, drops you right into the cool of the ocean with a diving suit and a couple of voices on the intercom. For the first few minutes I swam around and explored, scanning different creatures so that an AI could build up a better idea of them and travelling to buoys that allowed me to tag distant sounds and investigate.

Fortnite's massive live events are typically well-choreographed affairs - if the game's servers let you get on and watch.

Summer Games Done Quick 2020, like many gaming events this year, had to be postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak - yet that wasn't enough to stop GDQ from raising money for charity. Instead, an online-only speedrunning event called Corona Relief Done Quick was organised, and the marathon has now raised over $400k (£353k).

With well over 100m consoles sold since 2013, backwards compatibility is an essential feature for the upcoming PlayStation 5, allowing PS4 and PS4 Pro users the chance to bring their existing library of games over to the next generation console. But in common with the precedent set by the Xbox compatibility team, Sony aims to do more - to allow the extra power of the new console to improve the experience. But realistically, what should we expect? Sony mentions more stable frame-rates and improved resolutions but to what extent can titles actually be improved?

If Animal Crossing: New Horizons' terraforming tool isn't already enough to keep you busy (it certainly absorbed my weekend), then there's promising news for you, as an extensive datamine of the game's code has found several references to exciting new features.

Your parents' favourite social network wants to get into game streaming.

Numerous reports around the release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons leapt on references to the game's chameleon and otter characters being more than just friends.

UPDATE 20/4/20 2:00pm: What better way to learn more about Minecraft RTX than meeting up with key developers behind the game itself and discussing the work they did in transforming the game with the power of hardware accelerated ray tracing?

Production on Pokémon's anime TV series has been shut down during the coronavirus crisis.

Tales From Off-Peak City Vol. 1, the surreal jazz-infused follow-up to developer Cosmo D's acclaimed, wonderfully off-kilter first-person jazz-hotel adventure The Norwood Suite, will be heading to PC, Mac, and Linux on 15th May.

Nintendo Switch owners are reporting a wave of unauthorised account access attempts, in what looks a significant spate of attacks.

I'm not sure what's worse, that I can't figure out why my Citizens keep dying, or that I don't especially care. My smokestacks are at least partially responsible, belching out toxic fumes as they burn the waste littering the surface of Titan like crisp packets across the Pacific. Building my habitation pods next to factory equipment probably isn't helping either. Sleep and industrial machinery are not natural bedfellows.

A couple of indie developers want your help to bring a new point-and-click adventure based in the Seinfield universe to fruition.

Death Stranding developer Kojima Productions has partnered with a German techwear company to develop J1A-GTKP, a new outerwear jacket inspired by its latest release.

A representative of System Shock 3 developer Otherside Entertainment has broken the company's lengthy silence, telling concerned fans on the official forums "we're still here".