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We've been awash with rumours of cancelled Star Wars games in recent years, and here's another: EA reportedly cancelled a third Star Wars game last year, this one purportedly a spinoff of the Star Wars Battlefront series.

League of Legends developer Riot Games' long-running gender discrimination lawsuit has entered a new phase, as a fresh legal counsel has rejected the developer's preliminary offer of a $10m settlement.

If, for some reason, the simple, serene pleasures of oceanic angling aren't already enough to tempt you to whip our your rod in Sea of Thieves, Rare is offering additional incentive for the next two weeks in the form of a surprise fishing challenge, with prizes.

Thunder Lotus Games, the Montreal studio behind Jotun and Sundered, has released the first proper gameplay trailer for Spiritfarer, its upcoming "cosy management game about dying".

Last Friday, former Insomniac artist Xavier Coelho-Kostolny revealed in a now-viral tweet that he was the only man alive to have sculpted Spider-Man's nipples for a video game.

UPDATE 25/2/20: Another day, another company to pull out of this year's Game Developers Conference. This time, it's EA.

It all begins rather abruptly. Üri, the protagonist of Luna: The Shadow Dust (a game that's not to be confused with Luna, Funomena's 2017 puzzler), a small boy with a hood that makes him look as if he's got bunny ears, falls from a great height. After he's dusted himself off and gotten his bearings, he discovers a large tower, stretching all the way into the sky. The task is clear: let's climb that thing. And that's pretty much all the context you're given. Luna likes to keep it simple. All this point and click puzzler is asking you to do is, well, point and click. You ascend the tower one room per level, and in order to do proceed, you need to open the door leading out of the room, much like finding the solution to an escape room puzzle. As the boy enters from one end of the room, it's always a good idea to find out what's even clickable in order to start out. Some rooms are dominated by large machines, so that you can already tell there will be buttons to press and levers to push. Trial and error is encouraged, and figuring solutions out naturally feels rewarding.

Is this the first attempt to comprehensively answer the big question? Fundamentally, what is next-gen? In Xbox chief Phil Spencer's latest blog for Xbox Wire, we get a smattering of tech specs for the new Series X, reaffirmation of a frictionless future for gaming thanks to solid-state storage and a reminder that as powerful as raw power is, technological innovation is just as important.

Publisher Dotemu has offered up another trailer for beat-'em-up revival Streets of Rage 4, this time showing off four-player co-op and revealing new character Floyd Iraia.

Just minutes after the announcement of Microsoft's cross-buy scheme for Xbox Series X, Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt has become the first to say it will take part.

Xbox Series X will boast a 12 teraflops GPU, Microsoft has said, confirming recent leaks.

Here's something to brighten up a reigny Monday morning: RimWorld's free 1.1 update is rolling out to everyone today, and better still, a surprise DLC called Royalty has launched. Don't worry, it's not a battle royale.

The Double-A Team is a feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.

On paper, there's nothing I should like about World of Horror.

Baldur's Gate 3 will be available via early access on Steam later this year.

Focus Home Interactive has unveiled a new cinematic trailer for Othercide, developer Lightbulb Crew's wonderfully moody turn-based tactical horror RPG.

Apex Legends' most recent roster addition, Revenant, is too easy to kill, say some players.

Spawn is coming to Mortal Kombat 11 on 8th March, 2020.

CD Projekt has become the second-largest video game company in Europe, second only to Ubisoft, in terms of its market valuation.

The Room VR: A Dark Matter is the fifth game in the Room series and while it's the first one to make the jump to VR, its spooky escape room escapades seem like a perfect fit for the medium.

The mayor of Boston has reached out to Sony, asking it to reverse its decision to stay away from PAX East this year, stating that the decision should have been motivated by "facts, not fear".

It's the most wonderful time of year: February! It's also still Christmas, according to Anthem, because the game still has its decorations up - even now, a full two weeks after the initial tweet, which pointed out that open invitation for bad luck, went viral. Apparently that's intentional because BioWare extended its "Ictide" event a little longer, but it's not a great look, is it? Especially not as Anthem celebrates its first full year since launch.

Activision is fighting Call of Duty: Modern Warfare battle royale leaks with subpoenas and online takedowns.

A Red Dead Redemption 2 modder has insisted their Hot Coffee mod is here to stay despite receiving a legal threat from the game's publisher.

If you played BioWare's wonderful Mass Effect trilogy, you'll be familiar with its morality system.

The Play of the Game feature is meant to showcase a single player's skill in a single round of a competitive multiplayer match. Usually you see the player downing three or four foes without dying. And usually, each foe is a different player.

Microsoft Flight Simulator has all the airports in the world, its developers have said.

Devotion has secured its future at Harvard University a year after it was pulled from Steam.

It's official. 4A Games are fully committed to ray tracing technology for its next big game and the implications are exciting. The firm is in preparing for the next generation with initial work concentrated around RT - strongly suggesting that ray tracing support isn't an afterthought built into next-gen console silicon, but a key feature of the design.

It began with Doom 2016 - a Switch port so ambitious, it simply didn't seem possible. However, since then, a procession of technologically ambitious current-gen console titles have migrated onto the Nintendo console hybrid, culminating in the arrival of the wonderful Metro Redux from 4A Games - highly impressive conversions and perhaps the closest, most authentic first-person shooter ports we've seen. So what's the secret? How do developers manage to achieve such impressive results from five-year-old Nvidia mobile hardware?