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Remedy will be delving deeper into the Oldest House, and unearthing more of its superb paranormal shooter Control's meticulously archived mysteries, when the first of the game's two previously announced expansions, The Foundation, arrives on 26th March.

Rezzed, GDC and E3 may be canned, but Gamescom 2020 - due to take place later this summer - is still on the cards.

In Japan, schools have been closed for over a fortnight thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, and will continue to remain shut for the foreseeable future - meaning many students are missing their graduation ceremonies and a chance to celebrate their hard work alongside their classmates. Yet some students didn't take no for an answer, and instead organised their own graduation ceremony inside the world of Minecraft.

Capcom has announced a Resident Evil 3 remake demo for Thursday, 19th March.

Nintendo will hold a 20-minute livestream tomorrow, Tuesday 17th March, revealing new details on upcoming indie games for Nintendo Switch.

A Red Dead Redemption 2 update and the release of Call of Duty: Warzone sparked record internet traffic in the UK, BT has said.

This is it. After months of teaser trailers, blog posts and even the occasional leak, we can finally reveal firm, hard facts on Xbox Series X. We visited Microsoft's Redmond WA mothership in the first week of March, we saw the unit, handled it, played on it and even constructed it from its component parts. We've seen the NVMe expandable storage, we've had our first taste of hardware accelerated ray tracing on next-gen console and we've seen how one of Microsoft's most talented developers is looking to enhance one of the most technically impressive games available today for the new Xbox. We've had a taster of some brilliant backwards compatibility features - and yes, today we can reveal the full, official specification for the Xbox Series X console.

With the majority of real-life sport cancelled in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, virtual sports are admirably stepping up to the plate. We've already noted how football teams are looking to fill the void - and the motorsport world did an impressive job of putting on a show for fans left without any real racing to watch.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey had a full year of post-launch support, with extra story chapters, bosses and its historical Discovery Tour mode all coming free. There was also its mostly-great two expansions, offering at least another 40 hours of adventuring all in all.

Everything here glows. The luminescence smothers the thicket like a warm, snug blanket, dusting the world with a soft, preternatural radiance, piping the edges of the leaves and twigs that dance as you glide and tumble past them, leaving them trembling in your wake.

It's not a PC-style mini-tower - really, it isn't. We've spent some time with Xbox Series X at Microsoft's Redmond campus and even put the actual system side-by-side with an Xbox One X - and while it's clear that Microsoft has radically revamped the console form factor, it is still a living room friendly design. It's just somewhat different and definitely somewhat portlier than the kind of gaming box you may be used to. Crucially, it's still very much a console.

Netflix has paused the production of The Witcher's second season because of the coronavirus outbreak.

With the coronavirus situation worsening and increasing numbers of people opting to stay at home, online gaming is likely to experience a huge surge in popularity - and judging by Xbox Live's problems yesterday, it's already happening.

The coronavirus outbreak has put a halt to real-world football across the globe - and in the UK teams are taking to video games to give their fans something to cheer on instead.

UPDATE 16/3/20: Pokémon Go maker Niantic has made further changes to the game to enable more people to play while self-isolating.

Platinum Games is building a new in-house engine.

Monster Hunter World Iceborne has sold over five million units worldwide.

Rockstar is the latest video games company to mandate home working as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

Testing for The Master Chief Collection's Halo 2, Halo 2 Anniversary - a remaster of Halo 2 - Halo: Reach's Forge and Theater for PC is scheduled to kick off later this month.

Although we've yet to have an official announcement, an Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) rating has revealed Void Bastards is coming to Nintendo Switch.

Back in the day it was all about FRAPS. These days, Riva Tuner Statistics Server and OCAT are the tools of choice. For decades now, PC users have relied on real-time on-screen displays with frame-rate counters and system monitoring tools to give them some idea of how their PCs are being utilised during gaming. But what if similar tools were available to console users? Remarkably, a recent breakthrough in Switch modding has made this a reality. Frame-rates, CPU/GPU utilisation, temperature monitors, fan speeds: all are exposed, giving us a fascinating insight into how Switch titles pushe the hardware during gaming.

The map of a DLC racing track has sparked rumours that the next Grand Theft Auto will not only take players back to Vice City, but also Mexico and Michigan/Chicago, too.

Maybe it's about being in the right place at the right time. How else to explain how Masayuki Uemura, an engineer born in wartime Japan to a humble background, came to change the course of video game history? Uemura is the man who designed the Famicom, a pivotal piece of plastic whose legacy can be seen throughout the modern industry; in many ways, it's the machine that defined modern Nintendo. "You know, it's only when someone like you comes along and asks a lot of questions that makes me think maybe I was a part of some big thing," he says with no small amount of modesty as we chat in a small, quiet space on the ground floor of Sheffield's Castle House.

Crunch is once again in the spotlight after a damning report on the culture at Naughty Dog revealed worrying working practices.

If you've dipped into Call of Duty Warzone you'll be familiar with its unique take on respawning.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has hit one million concurrent players for the first time in its history.

Konami has announced a release date for the PES 2020 Euro 2020 DLC amid an increasing likelihood the real-life event will be postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Baldur's Gate 3 taps into Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 story wise, developer Larian has confirmed.

The Witcher 3 is approaching its fifth birthday - but modders are still doing impressive things with CD Projekt's phenomenal fantasy adventure.