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Call of Duty: Warzone gets four new weapons as part of a big update set for tonight.

Pokémon Go has made additional changes, effective until further notice, as more of the world enters lockdown to combat coronavirus.

It actually happened. A new Half-Life game is out in the wilds, and it's a pretty fine one too. Alyx took some 13 years to arrive, though of course it wasn't the only time Valve meddled with a follow-up to its much-loved series in that time - and it certainly seems like it won't be the last. Just ahead of Half-Life: Alyx's release we spoke to game designer Robin Walker and level designer Corey Peters about the long and winding road Half-Life has taken to its return, and what possibly lies in wait for the series.

Blizzard has sent staff in its California and Texas offices to work from home amid the Coronavirus outbreak - and opened drive-through care packages that include essential supplies.

Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and National Geographic streaming service Disney+ finally arrives in the UK today, months after it debuted in the US.

The Strider is the greatest of all Half-Life's creations, if you ask me. Sure, you could argue that it's just another spin on HG Wells' tripods, but seriously, look at the thing! Those legs, so horribly long and horribly jointed, that hideous hint of poultry flesh and machinery spliced together, all pain and wrongness. In Half-Life 2, I watched one of this awful lot stoop to duck under a bridge, and the thing about the Strider is that it never reminds you of just one thing, always a horrible bodging-together - almost a flamingo as its joints worked, yet almost grandparent nipping up into the attic for something heavy too. An internal life: that sense of self-preservation and cruel intelligence they have, of seeing only their own priorities. That sense of being autonomous in the moment, but also deeply mission-driven. They give me goose-bumps because it's so entirely clear that they can probably get goose-bumps themselves.

This piece contains massive SPOILERS for the end of Half-Life: Alyx.

Football Manager 2020's free-to-play session on Steam has been extended one final week.

I am far, far too stupid to contextualise Ynglet in any meaningful way, so instead, having played it for a half hour, I'm just going to tell you what I did.

The British government has announced all shops selling "non-essential" goods - a term that applies to all video game and electronics stores, including Game - are to close effective immediately as part of sweeping measures intended to limit the impact of coronavirus in the UK.

It's been almost two years since developer GSC Game World announced it had a sequel to cult classic STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl in the works, but now, finally, the smallest glimpse of progress has been teased, courtesy of a single, solitary STALKER 2 screenshot.

As Monster Hunter World: Iceborne players on Xbox One and PS4 ready to take on the fearsome twosome of the Raging Brachydios and Furious Rajang today, Capcom has revealed the next batch of post-launch content currently being primed for the coming months, including a new limited-time event for April and a doozy of a returning monster for May.

With spring in the air, and the apocalypse in full force, Epic has unveiled another batch of games to be biffed with the Epic Game Store exclusivity stick on PC, including SNK's Samurai Shodown and Devolver Digital's comedic open-world vandalism caper Sludge Life.

Remember the Mortal Engines film that came out a few years ago? Me neither, but something that could scratch that itch for massive roving machines is on its way, as Last Oasis is heading into early access this week - and I've had an early look via an online press demo.

As regular games sales surge, spare a thought for Pokémon Go. Its real-world gamplay faces a unique and sustained existential challenge - one whose effects are already being felt by its community, even in places not yet on lockdown.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out yesterday for the Nintendo Switch and if you're partial to a spot of social media you'll know it's the talk of the town.

GAME has closed all of its Belong arenas over the Coronavirus - but its stores remain open for business despite stricter guidance from the government.

Nintendo Switch exclusive Animal Crossing: New Horizons is an enormous sales success.

Games and Hitchcock belong together, I reckon. This should probably not be that surprising. Hitchcock is the epitome of the commercial director - his movies are all solid box office. And yet he's also so inventive. Each film often seems like an attempt to explore a distinct structural or formal problem of some kind. Single-shot movies? Rope! Kill off the main character early on? Psycho! (Sorry if that counts as a spoiler.)

Bandai Namco has given us our first peek at the additional content heading to Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot.

The Game Workers Unite International organisation has issued a statement damning some video game development studios for a lack of consistency and support for developers and staff impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.

Another weekend, another unprecedented number of players concurrently online on Steam. This time, a reported 22 million of us were online yesterday, breaking the latest record only set Friday.

Intrepid modder Lance McDonald is back with perhaps the most unsettling P.T. hack yet.

Warner Bros. has quietly removed Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition from Steam.

Would you believe me if I told you that this week's episode of Ian's VR Corner featured a stealth game based around a canoe? Oar would you think I'm due a paddlin' for being a big old liar?

Animal Crossing New Horizons might be the third biggest launch in the Nintendo Switch's history.

There's a sense Half-Life Alyx will be VR's moment in the sun, the "killer-app" that Halo was to Xbox or that Shenmue should have been for the Dreamcast. Assuming Valve don't fluff it (which, let's face it, is unlikely) Alyx will be the point the industry looks back on as when VR became more than an expensive curiosity.

A couple of years back, when Kylotonn had its first crack at the Isle of Man's frankly absurd annual road race, the ambition of the whole enterprise made it easy to forgive any rough edges. Here was the 37.73 mile Snaefell Mountain Course, surely motorsport's most audacious challenge and an anomaly in the modern era, served up in high fidelity and with the scale - and the scariness - intact. It was worth a punt just to experience that achievement, despite the ramshackle nature of the rest of the package. Now the sequel's come along and smoothed all that out and more, it's so much easier to recommend. Indeed, it's probably the best racing game on two wheels I've played in an age.

Sony has pulled a popular Super Mario character model from PlayStation 4 game Dreams after a complaint from Nintendo.

Doom Eternal has launched strong on Steam.