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Sony's next State of Play broadcast (no, we won't call it a PlayStation Nintendo Direct again) begins tonight at 9pm UK time.

Not to be outdone by Sony's State of Play broadcast, Microsoft has detailed its own livestream for this evening.

Everyone may be busy playing the six free Batman games just released on the Epic Games Store, or possibly exploring Gotham City in Fortnite, but there's yet more Batman gaming news for you this week. Over the past few days, Warner Bros. Montreal - the studio behind Batman: Arkham Oranges - has been hinting at a brand new Batman game which looks like it's based on a mysterious organisation called the Court of Owls. Sounds like a hoot.

Welcome to another week of Five of the Best, a series celebrating the lovely incidental details in games we tend to overlook. So far we've celebrated hands, potions, dinosaurs, shops and health-pick-ups - an eclectic and specific bunch! The sprinkles of charm games are tastier for. Here's another five for your Friday lunchtime. Today...

Red Dead Redemption 2 has received a brand new rating from the Australian Classification Board, suggesting the inevitable announcement of RDR2 for PC isn't far away.

Five of the Best is going to be a series! Every Friday lunchtime, UK time, we're going to celebrate a different incidental detail from the world of games. The kind of thing we usually just WASD past, oblivious. But also the kind of thing which adds unforgettable flavour if done right.

Five of the Best is a weekly series served every Friday with your lunch (ie. noon UK time). While you're chewing your sandwich, we'll celebrate an overlooked part of video games. So far we've celebrated potions and hands. They're the kind of things you don't notice at the time but you never forget, either. Today...

Welcome to another week of Five of the Best, a series where we celebrate the overlooked parts of video games. They're the kind of things you don't pay much attention to at the time, but which spring readily to mind years later, proving just how memorable they were. So far we've had potions, hands, and dinosaurs - an eclectic bunch! - and we've enjoyed reading your suggestions as much as sharing ours. Today, then, another batch, another five. And the theme...

Five of the Best is a series. Every Friday lunchtime, UK time, when you've mentally clocked out for the week (but want to look like you're still working), we're going to celebrate a different incidental detail from the world of games. How lovely. Last week, we talked about potions. They're the kind of things you don't appreciate at the time but get all excited about when someone brings them up later - like, well, now.

Welcome to another week of Five of the Best, a series where we celebrate the overlooked parts of video games, like hands! And potions! And dinosaurs! And shops! They're the kinds of things etched unwittingly into memory, like an essential ingredient of a favourite dish you could never put a finger on. And I want to spark discussion, so please share memories as they flash into your mind. Today, another five. The topic...

Welcome to another week of Five of the Best, a series celebrating the lovely incidental details in games we tend to overlook. So far we've celebrated hands, potions, dinosaurs, shops, health-pick-ups and maps - a real smorgasbord! I really wanted to use that word.

Cheerful colony sim Autonauts launches for PC on 17th October, priced £18/€19/$19.

The tactical nuke is back in Call of Duty after a decade missing in action - and players are now getting a clear show of it via the Modern Warfare beta.

Untitled Goose Game isn't a particularly long game - a normal playthrough should take around three hours to complete - but a speedrunner has managed to cut that down to just over three minutes.

Two years and 10 seasons later, signs point to Fortnite's map changing for good at the end of the month.

Summer might be on the way out, but Agent 47 will be enjoying a bout of sun, sea, sand, and sneaky stealth slaughter next week, with the arrival of Hitman 2's latest - and final - DLC sandbox location, the Malidives resort of Haven Island.

The final operation for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is out now on PlayStation 4, with other platforms to follow.

Earlier this year, the first major investigation into corruption in Australian esports revealed allegations of professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players rigging matches.

The PlayStation 5 won't waste as much energy as the PlayStation 4, Sony has said.

I fell victim to senseless griefers less than five times during my nearly two-week-long stint playing through Red Dead Online's Frontier Pursuits update. If you caught my impressions back in May as Red Dead Online sauntered out of beta with all the grace of a reversing dump truck, you'll know how promising this fact is. I chalk it down to everyone being far too busy with their new jobs. Idle hands are the devil's playthings.

Publisher GungHo Entertainment has announced that its HD remasters of beloved J-RPGs Grandia 1 and 2 will be heading to PC on 15th October. Additionally, a patch for the Grandia HD Collection on Switch is promised for November.

Epic is poised to unleash a number of changes to Fortnite, all focussed on improving matchmaking within the game's Battle Royale mode.

Tired of your boring old UI entirely failing to coordinate precisely with the colour of your newly purchased Nintonsole? Well, then you now have another reason to rush out and purchase a copy of Game Atelier's wonderful platformer Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingom.

Following last Thursday's launch of Apple's games subscription service, Apple Arcade, Google has announced that its own similar offering is coming to Android devices in the US this week.

Borderlands 3 has managed to sell over five million copies in its first five days - doubling the amount Borderlands 2 sold in its first week of release and making it the fastest-selling game 2K has ever made.

For most of Minecraft's life you've been able to make your own custom skin on PC, or download others to make your character stand out when playing. Now, Minecraft is introducing an in-game creator to take that customisation a step further.

For those hoping there might be a hidden - or secret - way to output the Nintendo Switch Lite to a television or monitor, I have bad news. According to investigation work by YouTuber Jonathan Downey, "there's nothing there to interpret and put out any type of video".

Who would have believed it? The Switch that cannot actually switch is an absolute triumph - a pared back rendition of the hardware that demonstrates quite spectacularly that beyond the hybrid console functionality that defined the system, this was always a handheld at its core - and a brilliant one at that. Yes, the new model is cheaper, pared back, significantly simplified and missing some nice features, but there's the sense that having settled upon a dedicated handheld companion product, Nintendo aimed to make it the best it could possibly be. Is it perfect? No. Is it worth buying? Absolutely.

Microsoft has launched a free, 44-video "Python for Beginners" video series to encourage aspiring coders to get involved.

This week has been one of those really busy weeks where I desperately could have used an extra day or two in order to get all my chores done. One of those things I'd have liked to have found the time to finish wasn't actually a chore though, I'm talking about my play-through of Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son on PSVR.