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The creative team behind the latest instalment of Bethesda's Doom series are thinking of new ways to treat speedrunners after watching the current world record holder get through Doom Eternal in less than half an hour.

The shortage of Nintendo Switch consoles plaguing North America right now is thought to be driven, in part, by an automated bot that snaps up consoles the moment they come back in stock.

Few games can claim to possess the legendary status of Crysis - a title so far ahead of its time when it launched in 2007 that enjoying the fully maxed experience on even the most high-end hardware of the period was a pipedream. Built in an era before the many-core CPU paradigm was firmly established, it's still impossible to play the game through completely at a locked 60fps - even on the fastest PC hardware available today. The franchise has been dormant since 2013's under-performing Crysis 3, but last week's reveal of Crysis Remastered has got us genuinely excited. We've been hearing the occasional rumour for a while, but now it's real, it's actually happening and we can't wait.

There has been no shortage of mini-consoles since Nintendo kickstarted the trend with its NES Classic, and being a sucker for nostalgia I've collected most of them. They're fine things, all, though they often end up on the shelf after a couple of weeks once I've revisited everything. The PC Engine Mini, though, has been plugged into my TV constantly for a month now, and has been played far more than any of its other tiny hardware brethren. Why's that, exactly? It's simple, I think - the PC Engine Mini offers the thrill of discoverability.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare console players are turning off crossplay to try to escape PC cheaters.

Resident Evil Resistance, the multiplayer portion bundled with the Resident Evil 3 remake, added Jill Valentine to the game - and players are enjoying her new dialogue.

EA is having to re-jig much of its planned FIFA Ultimate Team promotions with real-world football paused due to the coronavirus. Now, it's had to change one of its most popular annual events.

Square Enix has released a snippet of gameplay of the Nier mobile phone game.

Riot has offered hackers up to $100,000 to find vulnerabilities in Valorant's controversial anti-cheat.

Microsoft has unveiled the Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X Limited Edition console after a brief "are we hacked?" tease that was spoiled by a retailer earlier this week.

Sony is working on - or, at the very least, has given sufficient thought to the matter to warrant a patent submission - a "feeling deduction" robot designed to serve as a companion for gamers.

Paul Haddad, who portrayed Leon S. Kennedy in the original Resident Evil 2, has died aged 56.

Right now I should be in Liverpool, walking around a massive park with thousands of other Pokémon Go-ers, but instead I'm in my kitchen.

You can't visit the Getty Museum in California right now thanks to the coronavirus lockdown, but fear not art fans, as you now have an alternative way to visit. Albeit virtual and rather pixelated.

It's a game you've probably never heard of before, but Clothes Forever - Styling Game has landed itself in legal trouble with Selena Gomez, with the actress and singer claiming the game used her likeness without permission. Talk about stealing her look.

When I reviewed Fallout 76 at launch, I said it was in desperate need of a hub - a town or a city filled with NPCs. Now, with the release of free update Wastelanders, it's not just got one city, it's got two - and a bucketload of NPCs to boot.

Creative Assembly's wonderful fantasy strategy game Total War: Warhammer 2 is free to play on Steam all weekend.

Streets of Rage 4 comes out on 30th April on PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. It'll also head into Xbox Game Pass on that date.

It's about the time when we'd expect to see some teasers for Apex Legends season five, and after the explosive start to season four which saw one legend get killed before he'd even entered the arena, there are certainly high expectations for the new season's reveal. Well, the first hints are here - and they're certainly intriguing.

Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook. I'm talking about potions, hubs, bags, mountains, anything really - but things we ignore at the time. Then, years later, we find they're cemented in our memory, inseparable from our experience of the game. Turns out they were important after all. So now we're celebrating them.

Despite their enormous size and terrifying presence, it's fair to say most players don't spend a great deal of time thinking about Red Dead Redemption 2's storms. I'd always assumed the storms were simply random weather events that spawned and vanished as soon they passed overhead. Something to create ambience while you travel the world (or a surprisingly calming ASMR soundtrack to listen to while writing). Peel back the cloud cover, however, and you'll discover there's a good deal more to them.

Following Crysis Remastered's sudden appearance on Crytek's official website earlier today, the developer has now shared more in the way of specifics, alongside a "summer" launch window on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch.

After a month's hiatus, Pokémon Go will resume its regular Community Days with a lockdown-friendly Play At Home format.

No-one likes being cooped up: that's why incarceration is such a time-honoured punishment, from medieval oubliettes to the 18th-century panopticon. But when you first meet The Suffering's convict anti-hero Torque - a badass but slyly ironic name considering his taciturn nature - he barely seems to spend any time confined in an actual slammer, despite being jailed for murdering his wife and two kids.

League of Legends developer Riot Games has acquired Hypixel Studios, the team behind promising Minecraft-like sandbox adventure Hytale.

Layers of Fear developer Bloober Team has been sporadically teasing a return to its excellent sci-fi horror adventure Observer of the last few months, recently revealing the project to be called Observer: System Redux. And now it's official; as the name implied, it's a next-gen remaster of the 2017 original, and there's a new trailer showing off its spruced-up new looks.

UPDATE 5pm: Following its brisk tweet earlier today, Gamescom's organisational team has now formally confirmed the cancellation of this year's live show.

Hello! It's that time of year again, when we ask if you would be kind enough to fill out a quick survey telling us about yourself.

Get ready, set, gungan for a remastered version of Star Wars Episode I: Racer, the actually very good retro racing game which has gained a new lick of paint.

Whether you're buying snacks for that big house party tonight, packing to go on a lovely hike through the wilderness, or just hanging out with friends in a picturesque remote cabin, you know you've got at least half an hour before the killing begins. It's a horror movie trope that characters have to be established, tension slowly built, so the audience can identify their heroes as well as the doomed couple who will later sneak off and die horribly. It's something which Man of Medan, Supermassive Games' first entry in its Dark Pictures Anthology series, played into with its opening, which starred fratty teens drinking beers on a boat.