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The next major free update to World of Warcraft will introduce two new playable races to the game: Vulpera (cute fox people) and Mechagnomes (kind of steampunk gnome cyborgs).

UPDATE 5.25pm: Facebook has clarified its position regarding the removal of its integration from PlayStation, and the suggestion Xbox could also be affected.

As protests in Hong Kong continue to escalate, concern about Chinese censorship has now spilled over into the world of Hearthstone, as Blizzard has suspended a competitive player for voicing Hong Kong support in a competition.

It all clicked when I got really stuck. I wasn't sure about John Wick Hex at first. I was put off by the lankiness of the art style, where shoulders are quarterback broad and the arms and legs seem to travel for miles. I was put off by the end-of-level replays that squish your brainteaser battles down to a few staccato seconds, with little in the way of cinematic zip. There's John Wick, right in the middle of the screen, blandly double-tapping away as an endless collection of what look like fancy waiters and up-market estate agents pile in on him. Business as usual, but the whole thing didn't truly feel very Wickian.

id Software has said Doom Eternal - the follow-up to the 2016 Doom reboot - will miss its November 22nd release date.

Back in August, images of a mysterious PlayStation-branded device popped up on Dutch website LetsGoDigital, purporting to be designs for a PS5 developer kit.

The original Yooka-Laylee quite rightly had its eyes set on the past. Pitched as a tribute to retro 3D platformers, Playtonic's debut was made by veterans who helped define the genre for diehard fans who helped fund the game's massive Kickstarter campaign. The result was suitably bright and nostalgic, if a little scrappy, with solid enough foundations Playtonic has built on brilliantly for this follow-up. Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair finds the buddy duo in a modern 2D platformer that feels, in comparison, like it was made specifically for today.

Sony has confirmed a few details about the PlayStation 5 - including the fact it's called PlayStation 5.

The name does it no favours at all. Back when the first Grid launched, it had the Race Driver appendage, marking it out as a successor of sorts to Codemasters' long-running, much-loved series, itself with foundations in the even more beloved brace of TOCA games for the original PlayStation. This, though, was a more fantastical take on motorsport, with a few extra bulges under the bonnet and an American twang that only became even more pronounced with 2013's disappointing sequel - a sort of Michael Bay does motorsport affair that never really seemed sure of what exactly it wanted to be.

Developer 34BigThings' dogfighter-themed Redout spin-off, Redout: Space Assault, is available now on Apple Arcade, just four months after its initial release was indefinitely delayed.

Your actions - or lack thereof - can affect the outcomes of some of Death Stranding's NPCs, said creator Hideo Kojima.

As usual, the Apex Legends leaks turned out to be accurate and Respawn has now officially announced the game's Halloween event - complete with spooky new skins and a dark new look for Kings Canyon.

Amanita Design, the studio behind the wonderful likes of Machinarium, Samorost, Botanicula, and Chuchel, has surprise-released Pilgrims, a brand-new offbeat adventure that's out now on Apple Arcade and PC.

Paradox Interactive and developer Haemimont Games' planetary colonisation sim Surviving Mars (which is pretty good, you might recall) is getting a post-apocalyptic follow-up. It's called Surviving the Aftermath and will be heading to PC and consoles "late" next year.

Ever since its announcement at 2017's Paris Games Week, PlayStation exclusive Concrete Genie has been nothing short of intriguing. The setting, the stunning art style, the artistic game play - this an ambitious game for Pixel Opus, a studio of university graduates whose only other title is Entwined, but that ambition has served them well. Concrete Genie is everything I hoped it would be.

Life in modern Ubisoft games ticks by regardless of how much - or how little - you interact with it.

RuneScape 3 announced its 28th skill, Archaeology, will be released in January 2020.

For the past few years, the Bloodborne community has come together annually to bring life back into From Software's gothic action-RPG.

AMD announced the RX 5500 today, expanding the Navi family to a new line of mainstream graphics cards. The new series includes both desktop and mobile form factors and should offer similar performance to the RX 590, but there's still a lot we don't know about these new graphics cards on the eve of their launch.

Crossroads Inn, the game in which you build and run your own fantasy pub, now has a release date, 23rd October, which is rather soon!

Almost two decades of playing a game, off and on, should leave you with a pretty good idea of what you love about it. But Jet Set Radio Future is different. I love it, almost beyond all other games. But the thing I love about it is so hard to grasp hold of. I do not have the words. But I want the words!

PlayStation 4's next big firmware update, v7.00, arrives this week. Its headline feature? Party chat will now support up to 16 people.

There was thunderous applause at Oculus Connect 6 when Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage for his keynote speech and announced the Oculus Link. This exciting update for the Oculus Quest launches in November and is set to be a game-changer for Facebook's portable VR headset as it'll allow Quest owners to play PC VR games on their headset.

Fortnite's end of season (and possibly end of map) live event now at last has a firm time.

It was Movies Week on Strictly Come Dancing over the weekend, and one couple danced to the Pokémon theme.

Trine 4 is a game I didn't know I wanted until it was on the screen before me. Three Trine games was more Trine than I ever thought I'd need, and given the title it seemed fitting to end the series as a trilogy, even if the last one was a bit duff. Trine 4 sounds like a Douglas Adams joke, only humour has never been Frozenbyte's strong point.

Overwatch's deep, storied lore and thriving merchandising business have united for a new venture in fiction with The Hero of Numbani, a new young adult novel releasing next year.

A Canadian legal firm is preparing a class-action lawsuit against Epic Games, accusing the developer of "knowingly" creating the "very, very addictive game", Fortnite.

A playable build of Bully 2 "existed", according to Rockstar sources.

The Writers Guild of America has confirmed it will not be including a video game writing category in its 2020 awards.