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I love a good crossover, even if they're often limited to fighting games and online events. It's exciting to see developers being fans of each other and working together to interpret and merge each other's stuff, culminating in an enthusiastic collaboration across the industry. With this in mind, Tokyo Mirage Sessions, a crossover between the Fire Emblem and Shin Megami Tensei series, sounds like a pretty fantastic idea.

Monster Hunter World was already Capcom's best-selling game in history, and things seem to just keep getting better, as the game's Iceborne expansion has now shipped over 4m copies worldwide.

PUBG's season 6 is upon us (don't worry, I've lost track too), and with it PUBG Corp is introducing a significant amount of new content. This includes a new map and weapons - at the cost of saying goodbye to Vikendi for a while, as the map has been temporarily removed from public matchmaking.

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.

World Cup 98 signalled the FIFA franchise's passage from cash cow to respectable football monopoly. After a near miss with its qualifying edition, Road To The World Cup 98, the game fused accessible, addictive gameplay with - at the time - fantastic visuals. Like World Cup 98, 2002 FIFA World Cup is a deviation, but no less an integral part of the seasonal football franchise. Selling strongly on the back of tournament hype and available on every format under the rising sun, the game already looks to have capitalised on the mass hysteria surrounding the illustrious competition.

The best-selling UK video game during the first week of 2012 was FIFA 12. It was also last week's final top title of 2011.

If any two genres could be said to have defined gaming in 2019, the continued popularity of Battle Royale and the rise of Auto Chess might certainly fit the bill. So it's a bit of a surprise that it's taken a publisher this long to combine them, but here with are with Ubsoft's latest Might and Magic offering, Chess Royale, now confirmed to arrive this month on PC and mobile.

Developer 11 Bit Studios' superb, if rather bleak, post-apocalyptic city-builder Frostpunk is poised to receive another sizeable chunk of DLC on 21st January. Known as The Last Autumn, its pre-freeze setting shakes up Frostpunk's core mechanics in surprisingly significant ways, and 11 Bit has offered a closer look at these changes in its latest developer video.

id Software's 2016 Doom revival was a treat, serving up its gloriously visceral, laser-focussed FPS action with lashings of modern-day polish. Hopes are high that this year's follow-up, Doom Eternal, will continue the good work - and there's now a smidgen of new single-player campaign footage to scrutinise in id's latest gameplay trailer.

Should you be curious to know exactly what you got up to while tethered to your PlayStation last year, Sony is currently breaking down players' 2019s in gaming via a nifty little online tool. And if the promise of a couple of minutes amusement isn't enough incentive to get involved, there are a few free themes and avatars up for grabs too.

Ridge Racer, Halo, Super Mario 64. Some might say that the most impactful console launches were those where cutting edge hardware was matched with gaming experiences we'd never seen before - titles that set the stage and the expectation level for the generation to come. Even if a specific next-gen platform exclusive wasn't an all-time great, experiences that pushed the technological state of the art still held a special place in our hearts - games like Ryse: Son of Rome or Killzone Shadowfall, for example. However, Microsoft is charting a different course with its Xbox Series X strategy. Yes, there will be first-party exclusives but these titles will still run on existing Xbox One hardware. Nobody will be left behind in the inevitable cross-gen period - but does this mean that the pioneering next-gen spirit is gone?

Capcom has shown off its excellent looking Resident Evil 3 remake in a fresh trailer which gives our best glimpse yet at its big bad Nemesis.

Keita Takahashi remains singularly unconcerned with concepts such as target audiences and player retention. When asked what he's aiming at with his games, the answer is, simply, "fun". Subsequent questions are likely to be met with a shrug. In light of this, the story of Takahashi's hit Katamari Damacy feels like a happy accident, precisely because he embodies the spirit of an independent creator unbothered by commercial constraints. Takahashi designs small experiments, brightly coloured toys limited in function, but fun in the moment. Easy to pick up and put away. It's a mindset he shares with Funomena, who collaborated with him on Wattam and who make games such as Luna and Wooorld with the same colourful, inclusive appeal.

It's been slightly over a year since Epic released its own PC games store in December 2018 - yet even in that relatively short time, it seems the platform has managed to rack up some impressive stats.

UPDATE 14/1/20: E3 organiser the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has now responded to Sony's decision to skip the show during PlayStation 5's announcement year.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has talked up the importance of E3 in 2020, following rival PlayStation's decision not to show up.

We've been hearing various bits and pieces about upcoming theme park Super Nintendo World for some time - but something I really wasn't expecting was a Galantis and Charli XCX crossover music video, which is exactly what we got earlier this morning.

Super Smash Bros. fans should tune in this Thursday, 16th January at 2pm UK time for a 35-minute livestream.

Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics has delayed its big new Marvel's Avengers game from May until September.

Square Enix has announced that the Final Fantasy 7 Remake, originally due to be released on March 3rd, is being delayed by slightly over a month.

Once again, the Taiwanese ratings board appears to have given us all a heads-up on an upcoming release - as the website has listed several BioShock titles for Nintendo Switch.

League of Legends auto-battler Teamfight Tactics will make the leap to mobile in March.

Skies of Arcadia developer Kenji Hiruta has renewed calls for a sequel to Sega's seminal sky-pirate RPG.

I'm currently reading Lawrence Weschler's wonderful memoir And How are You, Dr Sacks? It's a book about his forty year friendship with the neurologist Oliver Sacks. Every page seems to contain something worth noting down. I was particularly struck by a section in which Sacks talks about his great hero, the Russian neuropsychologist A. R. Luria. Luria's someone whose work I've circled for a while without ever having the nerve to head in. Now I realise I must, because Sacks quotes just one line of Luria's, and I am besotted.

As you might have seen on the site, we recently published our Games of the Decade, where we discussed 30 games that defined the last 10 years.

It's been almost half a decade since From Software's masterful Bloodborne was released unto the world, but dedicated code sleuths are still unearthing tantalising glimpses of content cut from the final release of the game - this time in the form of yet another axed boss fight.

Late last week, sharp-eyed internet surveyors noticed that Grand Theft Auto 4 had suddenly, without warning, been delisted from Steam. With no official explanation, fans were left to speculate on the reason for the move, but now Rockstar has spoken, pointing the blame finger squarely in the direction of Microsoft's now-defunct Games for Windows Live.

Regardless of where you sit on the fitness scale between Irrepressibly Active Amy and Sedentary Sally, the very notion of 18-hours non-stop exercise is probably one that fills you and your muscle tissue with a nameless, quivering dread. But that's exactly the kind of marathon session that some speedrunners are putting themselves through in an attempt to set a record-breaking run of Ring Fit Adventure.

If you've yet to experience the wonderfully strange delights of the superb Rusty Lake series, now is the perfect time to get acquainted; the whole gleefully odd endeavour continues in The White Door, which is available now on mobile and PC.

How long has it been since the last great Harry Potter game? (It's been eight years since the last Lego Harry Potter, if you're actually counting.)