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Google has responded to community complaints regarding a continued lack of solid information around promised features and new releases for its Stadia streaming platform, arguing that game announcements are the responsibility of individual publishers.

Dota Underlords, Valve's free-to-play auto-battling Dota 2 spin-off, will leave early access and begin its first proper season on Steam, iOS, and Android next month, on 25th February.

Lair of the Clockwork God, the next game from BAFTA-winning indie developer Dan Marshall, will arrive for PC on 21st February and is available to wishlist on Steam right now.

I've already spent all my pocket money on a limited-edition Pokémon Switch, but if I could, I would almost certainly splash out on the new Animal Crossing console.

2020 will see PlayStation launch PS5 and Microsoft launch Xbox Series X - but it won't see Nintendo release a new Switch model.

After years of canning single-player Star Wars games, it looks like EA finally has a hit on its hands, as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has sold 8m copies so far - exceeding the publisher's own expectations. Who knew there was demand for single-player Star Wars games?

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.

I only really noticed this recently, but I am big into Neptune. I'm into a lot of planets, to be honest, because I just think planets are pretty interesting, but there's something about Neptune - above the big, beige, sickly '70s kitchen swirls of Venus, Jupiter and Saturn, or the slightly threatening blankness of Uranus, or Mercury (boring), or Mars (old news, too many dead robots) - that makes Neptune stand out.

Our latest look at Square Enix's Final Fantasy 7 Remake offers a peek inside the Honey Bee Inn, an adult club and brothel where dancers dress in skimpy honey bee outfits.

Wizards of the Coast, the publisher behind Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons, has unveiled its new video game development studio, Archetype Entertainment. It's being helmed by two ex-BioWare veterans, and its first title will be a new story-driven sci-fi RPG.

With Reforged I've enjoyed dipping back into the world of Warcraft 3, its real-time strategy gameplay eternally rewarding. But I can't help but feel Blizzard has completely fluffed its release - and, worse of all, taken away what people already owned in a bid to funnel players towards this disappointing remake.

Ubisoft's fourth year of content updates for multiplayer melee fighter For Honor - which it's calling The Year of Reckoning - is coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC on 6th February.

Starting with the launch of Total War: Rome II - Enemy at the Gates Edition on 6th February, all Sega Europe's future physical PC releases will feature fully recyclable packaging.

It's been a bit of a wild ride for Apex Legends fans over the last few weeks, given developer Respawn Entertainment's rather cheeky bait-and-switch regarding the identity of its next new hero. The games are over, however, and robot hitman Revenant has now been formally unveiled as Apex Legends' latest playable character.

Dreamfall Chapters developer Red Thread Games' first-person "fjord noir mystery", Draugen, will be making its way to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on 21st February.

It's time to rev up your tractors, as Farming Simulator 19 can now trundle its way onto your PC for free via the Epic Games Store.

Were you having a good day? If so, apologies in advance for this - a trailer which will feel like any remaining happy memories of RollerCoaster Tycoon have been plastered over once again by vomit, like a paving slab at the exit of a particularly inhuman loop-the-loop.

Today we finally have some information on what the recently-announced animated Witcher film is all about: and it's Geralt's father figure Vesemir.

We've finally got a date for when The Outer Worlds will touch down on Nintendo Switch. It'll arrive on Friday, 6th March.

As far as games are concerned, it's been a good few years for fans of looking at the ground. That's if you consider three games to be a good outcome. I love looking at the ground, so I'll take what I can get. Spintires, Death Stranding, and now Overpass: I'm happy.

Despite making a game about a horrible goose, Australian developer House House yesterday announced it's doing something rather nice - as it's pledged to donate some of its future profits to indigenous groups.

Nintendo's hugely-successful Switch console has now sold 52.48m units worldwide since release in March 2017.

Pokémon Sword and Shield are off to a phenomenal start, with a combined 16.18m copies sold in the games' first six weeks.

Earlier today, news broke that the coronavirus has now reached every region in mainland China - and worries about the outbreak have now led to the cancellation of multiple esports events.

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.

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.

Back in 2018, Nintendo won a lawsuit against a Japanese company hosting real-life Mario Kart races around Tokyo, having sued for intellectual property infringement. And now, following an appeal by the defendant, Nintendo has won again.

Developer Motion Twin's superb action-platform rogue-like Dead Cells is, as announced at the tail-end of last year, poised to usher in its first paid DLC. It's called The Bad Seed and is now confirmed to be heading to PC, Switch, PS4, and Xbox One, on 11th February.

Player spending in mobile games can be a rather lucrative business - and true to form, it's been seriously profitable for Nintendo, as the company's made over $1bn (£769m) in lifetime revenue from player spending.

BioShock: The Collection, The Sims 4 and Firewall Zero Hour are your PlayStation Plus games for February 2020.