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Steam's long-awaited library revamp is out of beta and now available to everyone, Valve has announced.

Hideo Kojima is coming to EGX Berlin on Sunday for a conversation about his much-anticipated Death Stranding, which releases on PS4 next week. He's going to be meeting fans while he's there, too.

Patrice Désilets has given a strong indication that 1666: Amsterdam will be Panache Digital's next game, following the release of Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey earlier this year.

When Battlefield is good, it's really, really good. There's a magic to be found when zipping to a distant capture point in an armoured vehicle, your friends in tow as you man the rear guns and take potshots at the fighter plane above that then comes screaming down in a streak of fire and crashes into a building, sending it tumbling to the ground and taking out the squad that was camping there. It's breathless stuff - and when Battlefield's sandbox delivers, there's nothing quite like it.

Square Enix has unveiled a brand-new trailer for its upcoming Marvel's Avengers game and, well, there'd have probably been a whole lot less fuss if they'd started with this in the first place.

Dr. Mario has brought on some brand new doctors and assistants to his mobile match-three puzzler - now you can play as Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong to eliminate those pesky little viruses.

If you've ever wondered what stands out most in games to people who don't normally play them, I can offer a single data point. It's the curtains! Back when Luigi's Mansion came out, I was the person who didn't normally play games anymore. I had dropped out at the end of the 16-Bit era, although I had dallied somewhat with a university friend's consoles. Anyway, Luigi's Mansion was the game that drew me back in.

Nintendo's latest round of sales figures are in - and Switch Lite is off to a good start. In its first 11 days, Nintendo's newest Switch shifted 1.95m units worldwide.

Codemasters has just announced that it's extended its rights on the F1 licence to 2025 - with a further option for 2026 and 2027.

"And now, as I still continued to step cautiously onward, there came thronging upon my recollection a thousand vague rumors of the horrors of Toledo. Of the dungeons there had been strange things narrated - fables I had always deemed them - but yet strange, and too ghastly to repeat, save in a whisper. Was I left to perish of starvation in this subterranean world of darkness; or what fate, perhaps even more fearful, awaited me?"

With October almost done, it's time to gaze yonder into November, where another batch of PlayStation Plus games await eager subscribers, this time in the form of Team Ninja's acclaimed action game Nioh and Red Barrels' gruesome first-person horror sequel Outlast 2.

Hello Games' exploratory space sim No Man's Sky continues to evolve, and its latest update - available now on all platforms - adds a number of new elements designed to bring its community together: weekend missions and featured bases.

Apex Legends is mixing up its usual three-person squad formula again next week with the advent of a new limited-time Duos mode.

Team Ninja's long-awaited samurai hack-and-slash sequel Nioh 2 will be heading to PlayStation 4 on 13th March next year. What's more, there's a little more news on the game's open beta, which comes to the console next month.

Remember remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and... a whole lotta Xbox?

More than three years after its world-dominating launch, Pokémon Go is on track for its most profitable calendar year yet.

Everyone was already expecting some fireworks surrounding Blizzard's Hong Kong debacle sometime this week. After Blizzard suspended Hearthstone player Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai for voicing Hong Kong support in a post-match interview, the company has been taking flak from all sides (even managing to unite US politicians), and protests are expected to take place at Blizzcon when it starts this Friday.

According to Sony's most recent financial report, the PlayStation 4 has shipped 102.8m units, placing it second on the list of best-selling home consoles.

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a game known for its powerful exploration of mental health - and even post-release, studio Ninja Theory has continued that good work with initiatives such as a mental health tutor scholarship. Yesterday, Ninja Theory unveiled The Insight Project - a research and development project seeking to help alleviate mental suffering through combining technology, game design and clinical neuroscience.

Death Stranding arrives on 8th November - that's a week on Friday - but you can get a sneak peek right now in the game's nearly-eight minute launch trailer.

According to EA's most recent earnings call, it sounds like BioWare's next installment of Dragon Age won't be released for at least another two years.

Harry Potter: Magic Awakening is a new mobile game from Warner Bros. and Chinese tech company, Netease - but for the moment it's only launching in China.

Whether you're a lifelong fan of Pokémon or looking to start your first Pokéjourney with Sword & Shield, you probably wouldn't mind a shiny new Nintendo Switch to play on.

Are we very big or very small? In Lifelike, I can never quite work it out. Are we moving suns through distant stretches of space, sweeping up dust clouds and planets and chunks of wandering rock as we go? Or are we tiny electrons orbiting nuclei, fertilised eggs seeking purchase?

Five years in development, the new Infinity Ward engine is finally in the hands of Call of Duty players in the rebooted Modern Warfare. It's a brilliant example of the late-gen multi-platform game - where long years of experience working with a fixed platform architecture pay dividends with some exceptionally impressive audio-visuals. Realism is on a new level compared to prior COD offerings, lighting and animation are radically improved, the interaction between illumination and materials is spot-on and the sheer level of detail delivered by the new technology is hugely impressive. This is an engine designed to scale - not just across today's consoles and up to the fastest ray tracing-capable PC graphics cards - but also to the next generation of Sony and Microsoft machines.

I wonder if Manifold Garden was born in that bright, strange moment in which a game world first wrapped around. You know, in the moment when Pac-Man first disappeared off one side of the screen, say, and reappeared - after a pause that grows more mysterious with every passing year, frankly - from the other side. The spaces in Manifold Garden are initially daunting. They're huge, bottomless, and the horizons race away forever. Then you start to think: Hey, isn't this corridor I'm walking down just suspiciously long? Then you realise that the real estate repeats, like distant trees in a Hanna Barbera cartoon, but freakier, because the loop has nothing to do with tiny budgets and everything to do with messing with the head. The world becomes a loop, but the loop looks nothing like a loop at all. The Slinky has been straightened. You can still see the trees that repeat up ahead, and behind you, and all around you. To proceed you must understand where you are already as much as where you want to go.

UPDATE 29/10/19: Fortnite's Halloween-themed event, better known as Fortnitemares, is now underway on all platforms, introducing a range of appropriately spooky new limited-time modes, challenges, and rewards, as outlined in developer Epic's announcement post.

EA has confirmed that there will be no new Battlefield game launching next year, with the franchise instead due to make its return in fiscal year 2022.

Minecraft's Bedrock Edition - which is to say, the version available on Windows 10, Switch, Xbox One, and mobile - has just received a beefy new update, adding the likes of adorable, poultry munching foxes and the previously detailed character creator.

Sony has announced that it will shutting down PlayStation Vue, its US-only TV streaming subscription service, early next year.