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What The Witcher 3 achieved four years ago remains an incredible feat. It's the best example of world building I've seen this generation - from the idyllic White Orchard, to the bustle of Novigrad, it's crammed with detail. And yet, somehow developers Saber Interactive and CD Projekt RED are genuinely delivering something I thought impossible. A Switch conversion now exists - a Complete Edition that crams every DLC and upgrade into a 32GB install. It's honestly the most technically ambitious game I've tested on the system since it launched. However, it also highlights - sometimes brutally - the limitations of porting a triple-A experience to a chipset designed primarily for mobile gaming.

The day before the island died I dropped into Fortnite to search for a trace of Wailing Woods. This was the area where I first landed, in my first ever game of Fortnite - a game that took place the week the team announced and then released their Battle Royale mode.

Pokémon Go's annual Halloween event begins this Thursday, 17th October at 9pm UK time (1pm Pacific).

Imagine for a moment you don't know anything about Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment. (And maybe you really don't, they are 20 years old.) But you know they're games and you know they're old, and you probably know they're RPGs. Beyond that, it's scraps you've overhead in conversations. People saying "nothing comes close!" or "philosophical depth!" or "best RPG ever!". They don't talk mechanics, they talk themes. They talk about these games as if they were legends. Does it ever really occur to you what they're like to nuts-and-bolts play?

There's a secret message hidden in Fortnite's black hole screen - the only thing visible in the game after last night's climactic live event - and players have spent the night trying to puzzle it out.

Amid growing speculation within the Call of Duty community about Modern Warfare's monetisation plan, one of the game's chief developers has stepped in to insist Infinity Ward is not working on loot boxes.

Every time I log into Minecraft, you know what I'm thinking? This game would really benefit from some parkour. Not really, but the game has it now anyway thanks to the new honey block - which players have discovered possesses some pretty cool wall-riding properties.

Joseph Heller once said that the difficult thing with students on literature courses is that they never read anything that isn't a classic. It's an odd kind of problem, but I think I know what Heller was on about. I don't know if you've seen or read anything by John Webster, a Jacobean playwright who overlapped with Shakespeare a bit. I read Webster's The Duchess of Malfi at school, and it made me appreciate Shakespeare all the more. Stuff Shakespeare seems to do without any effort Webster really struggles with. And then Webster is so gloriously weird, too, so sadistic and over-the-top. Is The Duchess of Malfi a classic? It's survived long enough to suggest it is, but encountering the text still felt like going off-road a little, and leaving the major part of the canon behind. I think Heller would have just about approved.

UPDATE 9.15pm: Epic's store issues are now solved, the company has stated. Everything should be back to normal - except Fortnite, which remains sucked into a black hole.

Tonight, Fortnite waved farewell to its first 10 seasons, the initial chapter of its story, and its entire map - all in one enormous live event watched by millions.

Have you ever looked at Dead Space's Isaac Clarke and thought to yourself, "Wow, that dude looks like Tiger Woods!" Nope, me neither, but apparently, the two characters have more in common than perhaps you might first think.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed its upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 will "probably not" be coming to Nintendo Switch.

"By popular request", Apex Legends developer Respawn is introducing a new training ground called firing range.

It's 13th October. Beyond the terrifying realisation that we're just 10 weeks off from Christmas now (you're welcome), today also marks the third anniversary of PlayStation VR.

Metro Exodus: The Two Colonels is the first piece of DLC released by 4A Games and for PC users at least, an already state-of-the-art, forward-looking rendering implementation is pushed on to the next level - one of the best ray tracing implementations seen so far has a remarkable new feature. 4A's recently released expansion trades the wide sandbox levels of the original campaign for a more traditional Metro adventure, full of cramped corridors, tense scripted sequences and that bittersweet tone the game is known for. This return to a more familiar Metro experience sets the scene for 4A's latest transformative graphics update - the addition of emissive lighting ray-traced lighting.

Crackdown 3 PvP developer Ruffian Games is working alongside Rockstar on some as yet unspecified "upcoming titles".

By Odin's beard! I've just stepped out playing the first 90 minutes or so of Asgard's Wrath on Oculus Rift S and if this isn't shaping up to be one of the best VR games ever made, I don't know what is!

It's 6am on a cold morning in November 1987. 17-year-old programmer Martin Webb is sitting in front of a computer at a house somewhere in Shropshire. Martin's father Dennis Webb is also present, as is Geoff Brown, the boss of game publisher US Gold. They've been here all night.

Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't come out until April 2020, but it's already fine art.

Embattled Swedish video game company Starbreeze has said it will release Payday 3 in 2022-2023.

As the fallout from Blizzard's punishment of a Hearthstone pro who expressed support for Hong Kong demonstrators during a live interview continues, video game companies and esports organisations have issued warnings to players and staff not to publish political statements on recent events.

Yes, it's another Switch port, but Sniper Elite 3 Ultimate Edition is a rather interesting example that's certainly worth a closer look. The original game hails from the early beginnings of the current-gen console era, where developers were still getting to grips with the new wave of hardware - highly enjoyable and technically competent, but very much a game of its time. The nature of the game's origins, combined with some strategic but sympathetic technical nips and tucks, produces an experience that adapts well to Nintendo's console hybrid.

UPDATE: Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai has responded to Blizzard's overnight statement, saying: "In the future I will be more careful."

NetherRealm has had some fun with Mortal Kombat 11 community, trolling dataminers who leaked the identity of DLC characters.

The 13th Doll, developer Attic Door Productions officially licensed follow-up to cult classic spooky CD-ROM adventure The 7th Guest, is, after a rather long delay, finally ready for release, and will be making its way to PC this Halloween.

Mega Man, the bluest gent in all of gaming, is getting his own six-disc soundtrack compilation this December, taking the form of a very nicely presented vinyl collection from Laced Records.

An indie game developer working on upcoming life simulation game Paralives has made an unofficial character creator for Untitled Goose Game, leaving fans of the latter wondering why this isn't a feature in the game already.

Fortnite's next season will rebrand the game as Fortnite: Chapter 2, a new leak suggests. And, as expected, the game will be set across a shiny new map.

UPDATE 11/10/19: Nintendo has worked out when Dr Kawashima's Brain Training for Nintendo Switch will launch outside Japan.

Where the original Yooka-Laylee exploited Playtonic's Rare pedigree with a modern take on Banjo-Kazooie, the sequel is a very different animal. Think of Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair as as a modern day take on Donkey Kong Country. This new game is a bit of treat, standing strong next to both the original DKC games and Retro Studios' Tropical Freeze - but what makes this project especially interesting from the DF perspective is its performance target across all console platforms. Unlike the original Yooka-Laylee, Playtonic opts to target 60 frames per second - a tall order, especially on Switch. The team has succeeded admirably and the process employed in delivering a fluid, fun experience across all systems is fascinating, and very much a departure from the norm.