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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.

EA Sports has released a significant 2.8GB update for FIFA 20 that tackles a couple of the game's burning issues: dribbling and shooting.

Hang on - how come that care package isn't dropping?

AMD continues its focus on the entry-level space with the release of the Radeon RX 5600 XT, a graphics card intended to sit between the RX 5500 XT and RX 5700 with strong 1080p performance at $279. Like so many recent graphics card launches though, the run-up to launch has been far from quiet, with both AMD and Nvidia repositioning their graphics cards to try and take a decisive advantage in the important sub-$300 price category.

New images of the Xbox Series X's casing have appeared online, giving us our strongest indication yet of what kind of input and output ports are found on the rear of the machine. The legacy HDMI input from the TVTVTVTV era is gone, replaced with a rather more mundane arrangement of USB ports, Toslink, Ethernet and a curious non-identified mystery port.

Last year, Pokémon Go introduced Research Days: limited-time in-game events similar to Community Days which rewarded you with Pokémon for completing tasks.

As you might have seen from the massive number of Steam player concurrents and the many song covers, a lot of people have had The Witcher on their mind since the release of the Netflix show, us included - so much so that we wanted to discuss it on the podcast.

Seven years after its original release, FTL: Faster Than Light is getting Steam achievements - and, all being well, they should arrive later this week.

Switch owners can, at long last, enjoy developer Telltale's critically acclaimed Walking Dead video game series in full; as of today, 21st January, seasons two and three are finally available to purchase via the eShop. Additionally, all four seasons will be returning to Steam tomorrow.

It's been well over a decade since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2, and with Half-Life: Alyx - the enormously long-awaited next instalment in Valve's seminal FPS series - mere months away, there are likely more than a few people in need of a story refresher. Luckily, Valve's on the case, and is making all previous series entries free on Steam for a limited time.

The angry avian star of developer House House's acclaimed Untitled Goose Game, in which nature fights back against humanity in the form of a perpetually disgruntled goose, has already inspired countless fan art delights - but now, thanks to one plucky creator, it's gone full Lego, and you can vote for a chance to get it made into a real set.

UPDATE 7.56pm: Following the internet's recent dissemination of leaked Godfall footage - the first officially revealed PlayStation 5 game, if the name doesn't ring a bell - developer Counterplay has piped up to confirm the authenticity of the video, but to also note that its contents, as the original leaker claimed, are very definitely old.

Wow, that's a lot of Gen Z words in a headline - but I suppose it's what you'd expect from Fortnite, which is now searching for its next great emote on TikTok. I guess that makes a change from merely lifting them from, well, almost anything.

Three hours of solid play with a preview build of Doom Eternal? I just couldn't couldn't pass up the opportunity. For me, Doom 2016 marked id Software's return to form and in my opinion, it's one of finest shooters of the last decade. So with that in mind, expectations were positively stratospheric for the sequel and after my session with the sequel, I've got to say that I'm feeling good about it. Much has changed since the reboot, both in terms of the game's structure and thanks to the transition across to the new id Tech 7 engine.

I walked into a HMV store over Christmas (one of the few remaining ones, anyway) - and on entering was greeted by rows upon rows of Funko Pop toys: their black, unthinking, lifeless eyes staring right back at me. Soon to join their ranks are the characters of Cyberpunk 2077, who have been converted into little plastic figures ready to sit on your desk. Staring.

What's the only thing in the world more dramatic than a Ronaldo dive? That's right, anime, so it seems only right football manga Captain Tsubasa will make its way onto consoles later this year.

Temtem, an eye-catching massively-multiplayer take on Pokémon, arrives today on PC via Humble and Steam Early Access.

Rockstar and games industry trade association UKIE have responded to a report that the Grand Theft Auto developer claimed £37.6m in video game tax relief for the 2018/19 financial year, accounting for 37 per cent of all UK games industry tax relief claims.

Alas, my recent attempts to change my Xbox gamertag to SweatySekiro420 have all failed. That's because the character cap limit was recently changed from 15 to 12 - ending my dreams of finally owning a truly cool gamer name.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just get along? In the main story of Fire Emblem: Three Houses, this unfortunately isn't the case. Not everyone sees eye to eye on some rather big topics, and while you can recruit most characters to your house, you can only play with one house leader at a time.

Super Crush KO, by Vertex Pop, is one of those games that looks and feels fantastic. It's a 2D brawler, in which a kidnapped kitty sends you into battle against a bunch of alien nasties, and it's delivered in dreamy cocktail pinks and purples, flat colours referencing the glory days of Flash gaming, perhaps, while the controls are wonderfully responsive and the battle arenas are nice and snug.

Playtonic's rather fab Yooka-Laylee sequel, the Impossible Lair, will soon be getting a demo on PC, PlayStation 4, and Switch - meaning those still on the fence can finally try before they buy.

Crytek's atmospheric multiplayer horror romp, Hunt: Showdown, will finally make its way to PS4 on 18th February - and console cross-play is confirmed for a future update too.

We tend to think of real and virtual spaces as being worlds apart, so why is it that I can't stop seeing an octopus arm in 2007's spectacular Dead Space 'Drag Tentacle,' the alien appendage of developmental hell? Beyond surface xeno-weirdness, it's what clever animation and the neural marvel have in common that has me interested. Since an octopus arm is infinitely flexible, it faces a unique challenge. How do you move an arm to set x,y,z coordinates and a certain orientation if it has infinite degrees of freedom in which to do it? How might the octopus arm tackle its virtual cousin's task of going to grab the player when they could be anywhere in the room - free even to move as the animation is first playing?

Yet another spring game has been delayed, as today developer Techland announced Dying Light 2 will not make its scheduled release window.

Arc System Works has released a new gameplay video for Guilty Gear - Strive - and it looks great.

Here's something to warm your heart on a chilly Monday morning: a Dad from Jersey has built a custom version of the Xbox Adaptive Controller to let his daughter play Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and there's a lovely video of her trying it out.

What does safety sound like in a game? We spend a lot of time as players thrilling over compositions and effects that get the adrenaline flowing - spectral piano, frantic violins, ambient mitherings that might, if you're very lucky, just be a broken aircon - but what about the compositions and effects that soothe and reassure? The Resident Evil series is full of them: bundle together every last Save Room melody and you've got a half-decent yoga playlist, though I'd probably chuck in some Okami or whatever to lift the mood. Gears of War has that satisfied guitar purr when you've winkled out every last Locust. The Sunless games have their port themes, wafted to you from off-screen like smoke on the breeze - music indeed to the captain coasting home on their last few lumps of coal.

Nintendo has issued box art variants for the recently released Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore.

Ubisoft has filed a lawsuit against a website that allegedly distributes denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its Rainbow Six: Siege servers.