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Mario Kart Tour is headed to Paris, France.

Bandai Namco has confirmed the next DLC character heading to Soulcalibur 6 is Hilde.

Nintendo is rumoured to be considering bringing a range of cancelled 3DS games to Nintendo Switch, including a previously-cancelled Fire Emblem game.

Hideo Kojima is on stage today at EGX Berlin, discussing the intersection of games and film and how he's striving to do it in Death Stranding. You can watch it live on the EGX Berlin Twitch channel, which we have helpfully embedded below.

There's a lot going on with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. A lot that's good, a lot that's bad and plenty in between. Overall, the developers at Infinity Ward have done a fine job reestablishing the once titanic Modern Warfare sub-brand with this "soft reboot". But, at launch, this is a game of potential. It is not the finished article.

New World of Warcraft expansion Shadowlands will, finally, allow players to choose characters with ethnic diversity and darker than tanned skin. It's only taken 15 years.

The apology Blizzard issued today, regarding the Hearthstone pro banned for supporting the Hong Kong protests, has not silenced protestors at BlizzCon 2019.

My former best friend is standing right next to me. We haven't spoken in more than eight months. Well over a decade of friendship was destroyed by one careless letter. He's here now because he wants something. He always wants something. This time he's demanding a single coconut.

After all the speculation over the last couple of weeks, Blizzard has officially announced Overwatch 2 - and it's going to be an entirely new game for both PvE and PvP.

Nintendo's blockbusting battle royale effort Tetris 99 is preparing to launch another limited-time event in the spirit of cross-promotional marketing camaraderie, this time with a nod to Switch's upcoming Pokémon Sword and Shield.

Hearthstone is getting an eight-player autobattler mode named Hearthstone Battlegrounds, announced by Blizzard during this year's Blizzcon Opening Ceremony.

World of Warcraft's eighth expansion has been announced by Blizzard during the company's BlizzCon 2019 Opening Ceremony. It's called Shadowlands and it'll launch in 2020.

BlizzCon's opening presentation just kicked off, but before diving into any of the details on new game announcements, Blizzard CEO J. Allen Brack took a moment to address the company's recent controversy over the suspension of a Hearthstone player for expressing pro-Hong Kong views.

WWE 2K20 arrived last week in a state that could charitably be described as shambolic - and the only real positive for fans that paid good money to experience the whole shoddy enterprise was that it managed to be utterly broken in ways that were frequently hilarious. But with the mirth now subsiding, publisher 2K is finally, as it previously promised, getting on with the business of sorting out its whole sorry mess with the game's first big patch.

Blizzard has announced Diablo 4 during this year's BlizzCon Opening Ceremony with a lengthy cinematic.

Following a huge departure for Call of Duty with Black Ops 4 last year - swapping out a traditional single-player story for a more in vogue battle royale mode (which we talked about on the podcast at the time) - this year's game, Modern Warfare, is back-to-basics; a soft reboot which not only sees familiar faces returning, but also attempts to court controversy with its campaign.

Tombstoning - for those who didn't spend their late teens drinking cider by a lake - is the act of jumping from a great height into a body of water, while simultaneously maintaining a stiff vertical posture. It's a pretty dangerous activity in real-life, and apparently in-game too, as one Fortnite player found out at the start of Chapter 2. And Epic has taken the tombstoning quite literally, as a grave to commemorate the incident has appeared in the latest patch.

BlizzCon 2019 kicks off tonight with Blizzard's annual Opening Ceremony extravaganza. You can watch it online via Twitch and YouTube from 6pm UK time (11am Pacific).

The new series of the Pokémon anime arrives in Japan this month, and the very first episode appears to show Ash's Pikachu as a Pichu for the very first time.

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.

It's coming up on a year since Fallout 76 was first released, and for some disgruntled Australian players, the time for a refund has finally arrived. If you requested one during the right time period, anyway.

Developer ZA/UM is currently in the throes of porting its acclaimed detective RPG, Disco Elysium, to Xbox One and PS4, and says that it's due to launch on consoles next year.

'Tis Halloween, when ghosts and ghouls come out to play, and when Epic Games shoves a new batch of freebies onto its store because it's also Thursday. But what's this! Today's releases - SOMA and Costume Quest - are a spooky lot, as befitting of the season.

Undertale creator Toby Fox has revealed he composed a track for Pokémon Sword and Shield.

You'll need Mario Kart Tour's £4.99 monthly subscription to be the first to try its upcoming multiplayer mode.

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.

When Death Stranding was first unveiled in 2016, its unusual design left us all with questions that would persist and multiply with the arrival of each new trailer. As Kojima Productions' first independent release, it's clear from its marketing cycle that the team was focused on upending traditional AAA expectations. With most games, you know what you're in for before you even pick up the controller. By contrast, Death Stranding is an enigma - but some of the mystery lifts today, and certainly from a technological perspective, it's a stunning achievement.

Denis Dyack - creator of Too Human, Legacy of Kain and Eternal Darkness - is planning to release a demo for his new action-RPG Deadhaus Sonata in December.

Alien: Isolation is a Very Good Game, and, I'd say, up there with the medium's all-time horror greats. So the fact that it'll be heading to Switch this year is something worth celebrating - and you can now do that while watching approximately 17 seconds of gameplay footage on the console (plus some cut-scenes), thanks to its latest trailer.

Save the date, Netflix's The Witcher arrives on 20th December.