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Dragon Ball FighterZ is getting a third season of DLC characters, and publisher Bandai Namco has announced two of the characters coming to the game.

At this rate very little will remain a surprise for the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's second season, as another leak has provided details of new maps - along with a hint that night maps could possibly be reintroduced.

UPDATE 10th Feb 2020: As expected, the leaked Microsoft Flight Simulator footage has been pulled.

Space Channel 5 VR comes out on PlayStation VR on 26th February in Europe.

Stop me if you've heard this one before - and I'm sure you have, as it's the only claim to fame I've got - but back in the early 90s I had a brief, unsuccessful and only mildly remarkable career as a young racing driver. It was remarkable mostly for who I raced alongside, because the kart tracks back then were the proving grounds of what would become a golden age of British talent. There were the likes of Dan Wheldon, Jenson Button, Justin Wilson, Anthony Davidson and Mike Conway to name a few, though to say I went wheel to wheel with them might be overstating it a bit. I'm not sure any of them ever noticed me while I toiled at the tail-end.

It looks like Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue might be coming to Xbox One later this month.

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Cloud Imperium Games' Star Citizen is a unique proposition: a game designed from the ground up to support the seemingly limitless scalability and scope of the PC platform - something of a rarity in the multi-platform age. Unfettered by the limitations of the current-gen consoles, CIG's efforts stand apart simply by virtue of the fact that it is not beholden to locked, ageing hardware designs - it's forward-looking in every regard and the way the technology scales and renders everything from a far-flung star system to the smallest piece of debris on a barren moon is an extraordinary technological achievement.

The Wonderful 101: Remastered's Kickstarter campaign has been so successful, it's smashed its $1.5 million (£1.16m) stretch goal, prompting Platinum Games to add even more goals.

According to its ESRB rating, Animal Crossing: New Horizons will contain in-game purchases.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just broke its all-time player peak on Steam.

The developer of Kickstarter MMO Camelot Unchained has responded to community uproar by letting backers play a live battle with 1000 NPCs.

Netflix published a plot description of its unannounced Resident Evil show - before quickly pulling the information.

Phantasy Star Online 2 launched in North America yesterday on Xbox One in beta form - and its servers were quickly crippled by the huge number of people trying to play.

Modern Warfare season two Battle Pass information was leaked overnight from an official source: the Call of Duty website.

There's a joke that does the rounds on Twitter every so often that somewhere around 2015 or 2016 we slipped into an alternative timeline. One of the bad ones where your cuddly best mate wears an eyepatch and jackboots and everyone's suddenly got sinister facial hair. This would, in a way, be a comforting notion, except that it can easily be disproved with one simple look to the sky. If this really were a parallel world, even one of the bad ones, the sky would be filled with the silent, graceful shapes of airships gliding serenely back and forth. Nothing says 'parallel universe' like an airship. From Fringe to Doctor Who, from Wolfenstein to Bioshock Infinite, if you want people to know they're on the path not taken, bung a Zeppelin in the sky and, to be honest, you may not even need the evil goatees.

Developer The Bearded Ladies' 2018 effort Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden was a bit of a tactical treat, combining X-COM-like strategy with a wonderfully engaging cast of post-apocalyptic misfits. And it looks like the studio is preparing to do it all again in its latest endeavour, Corruption 2029 - only this time without the anthropomorphic beasts.

If you're looking for a weekend nostalgia hit that doesn't hang its hat on the pixel art aesthetic of the 8- and 16-bit era, then new indie collaboration The Haunted PS1 Demo Disc might be just what you're after. It harkens back to the wobbly polygons and lo-res textures of the early 90s, presenting 17 horror games for PC inspired by the PlayStation 1 era.

Bungie is changing the way swords work in Destiny 2 - and it sounds like it's going to have a big impact on speedrunners.

Warcraft 3: Reforged has received its first major post-launch patch - an update that weighs in at just over 2GB - while the boss of Blizzard has admitted "it's been a bit of a hard week" after the game received a mauling online.

The Intel Optane 905P is the Titan of SSDs: incredibly fast, enormously expensive and basically the best SSD on the market, and a piece of PC hardware we just had to test out. It's our contention that a good SSD is essential at this point for your gaming PC - just in terms of the extra user-friendliness you get from Windows, plus the reduced loading times in games - but just how much do you need to invest to get a decent experience? How do mid-range and more value-orientated SSDs compare to the absolute state of the art? And where does this leave the traditional mechanical hard drive? Technology has continued to evolve there so in assessing solid-state performance for gaming, we decided to include a fast modern drive too.

I have good news, and I have bad news. It looks like there's a new Crash Bandicoot game in the works: however, it's an endless runner for mobile. How do ya'like them apples?

It's a bit strange playing a game about the charms of going camping. On the one hand you're being shown how lovely it is out in nature, and how, without all those distractions, you can have better chats with people. On the other hand, Wide Ocean Big Jacket is a distraction, a video game, and they're normally played on your own inside.

It was all going so well. After a shaky launch amid the genuine fever of last summer, Pokémon Go was riding high with a successful string of updates; a new generation of creatures, an effective rework of gyms that encouraged players back out into the open, and a regular stream of activities to make more unusual creatures easier to find. With a generally smoother connection experience compared to launch, Pokémon Go has begun living up to its vast potential and fans, generally, had never been happier with developer Niantic.

By early January, I'd noticed something strange was happening to me. Grimes, La Roux and synthwave groups like Magic Sword had entered my music playlists. I'd finally watched Blade Runner for the first time, and was scrolling through galleries of the late Syd Mead's brilliant cityscapes. I'd even bought Neuromancer and added it to my pile of books I will definitely get around to reading.

Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook, those poor old things. I'm talking about crowds, potions, mountains, hands - things we barely notice at the time but can recall years later because they're so important to the overall memory of the game.

Moving Out is a game about removals: you turn up in a level with a few friends, grab all the stuff that's lying around, and try to get it onto the van. Nothing ever goes quite right, of course, which is why it's a party game and an argument starter as much as it's a game of tactics and positioning.

Take-Two has delayed The Outer Worlds on Nintendo Switch due to the coronavirus.

Autonauts, the adorable automation-focussed colony management sim from developer Denki, has just received its first major free update of 2020 on Steam, titled Industrial Revolution.

When we move around cities we are navigating several varieties of space simultaneously: on the one hand, the tangible contours of buildings and roads, and on the other, the abstract routes, dynamics and barriers imposed by the city's maps and signs. The tension between these kinds of space can be sinister: maps and signs, after all, exist in part to deny you full access to the city's geography, to enforce laws and property rights. They keep secrets from you. But they can also be a source of delight, an invitation to read your surroundings as several realities jostling against one another, never quite rubbing along harmoniously. After 10 years of living in London, I still get a quiet thrill from walking between Underground stations, re-ravelling connections I understand only as coloured lines on a map.