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Throughout the year, Overwatch has hosted some mini-challenges in between and alongside the big seasonal events to let players get some extra limited-time skins for their favourite characters.

Activision has announced that its free-to-play Call of Duty mobile game will, following its limited beta launch earlier this summer, be getting an official iOS and Android release on 1st October.

If the unbridled tinkerings of Fortnite's datamining community are to be believed, the game's next faintly preposterous crossover event - following on from the likes of John Wick, Stranger Things, and that guy what is also a marshmallow - will see everybody's favourite gloomy superhero Batman joining the battle royale parade.

It's been a little over a month since the release of No Man's Sky's superb Beyond update, and developer Hello Games is now poised to expand the exploratory space sim's feature list further, with the launch of the game's latest community event. That's accompanied by a range of extremely welcome fixes and enhancements, including a reduction in PSVR blurriness.

It's no secret that E3, once the indisputable highlight of the games industry's announcement calendar, has found itself slowly floundering into irrelevancy in recent years, with an increasing number of publishers reducing show presence in favour of more intimate events and livestreams of their own. In response, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) - the US trade body that runs E3 - is reportedly proposing a radical rebranding of the show for next year, which would turn it into a "fan, media, and influencer festival".

The dropping price of video games and downloads has been listed as one of the main reasons for the UK's inflation decreasing to the lowest percentage it's been in three years, according to the Office for National Statistics.

After a brief tease last week, the new evolution for leek-wielding duck Pokémon Farfetch'd has finally been unveiled.

Joining the likes of Blizzard and Ubisoft, Rockstar has created its own games launcher allowing players to access its PC games from one place, regardless of what digital store you bought them from.

Konami has announced gameplay changes set for PES 2020's first big patch.

Developer Picroma has announced that its very-long-in-the-works voxel-based action-RPG, Cube World, will be holding a closed beta next week, ahead of its official launch later this year.

Disco Elysium comes out on 15th October on Steam and GOG.com.

While Borderlands as a franchise is an acknowledged best seller on consoles, the series plays best on PC thanks in no small part to the keyboard/mouse interface and higher framer-rates. Historically, it's also been relatively easy to run on PC too - but there is the sense that Borderlands 3 isn't quite so optimal. Regardless, Gearbox has shipped the game with a raft of graphical settings to play with, along with support for both DX11 and DX12 APIs. Can you run at 1080p at 60 frames per second on a mid-range PC? With some judicious settings tweaks it is possible - and you won't be losing much in the way of visual fidelity either.

League of Legends hits eight million concurrent players every day, Riot has said.

EA has said FIFA 20 improves the accessibility and availability of Icons in Ultimate Team.

If you're playing Apex over the next few days, keep your eyes peeled in the Labs area of King's Canyon for your first proper glimpse of Crypto - the hacker Legend that's likely to become a playable character next month.

As Call of Duty: Modern Warfare prepares to go crossplay, Activision has said "most" post-launch gameplay content will release simultaneously across all platforms.

Pokémon Gold and Silver's mysterious Ilex Shrine location famously left Game Boy owners puzzled. Visit the forest location and it is obvious something is supposed to happen there. But nothing ever does.

Steam's library view has existed, unwavering, since the birth of time itself (more or less), and few would argue that it wasn't in need of a long-overdue revamp. We've known one was coming for a while now, of course, with various work-in-progress teases, both official and otherwise, having emerged at intervals over the last year or so. Finally, however, Valve's efforts are ready for their public debut, and are available now in beta.

Following the much-delayed release of Anthem's Cataclysm update last month, BioWare says it will be ditching its originally announced post-launch content plans, and will now be delivering "seasonal updates" in place of its planned regular "Acts" in order to focus on "core issues".

Sea of Thieves, a game about pirates, is giving a little something away in celebration of Talk Like a Pirate Day - which, should it not already be in your diary for some inexplicable reason, takes place this Thursday, 19th September.

We should have tested the base consoles first. Instead, we kicked off our Borderlands 3 coverage with a look at how the game ran on Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro, where the results were something of a mixed bag, to say the least. Happily, the story is significantly more positive when checking out Borderlands 3 on the standard consoles - it's by no means perfect, there are some frustrating issues, but the fundamentals are sound and the game is fine.

Microsoft has announced ticket details for this year's XO19 fan festival, due to be held at London's Copper Box Arena in November.

A gruesome crime scene, a woman mounted on a merry-go-round, her left eye gouged out. A broken down theme park, slicked with rain. It's a perfectly noirish opening, introducing us to a future version of Tokyo and our hero, detective Kaname Date. Soon Date is interrupted by his partner, a - and there's really no way to ease you into this - fully sentient AI who lives in his left eye socket and sometimes takes the form of a one-eyed transparent hamster or a young woman. Her name is Aiba, short for eyeball.

Brilliant mobile phone game Mini Metro is getting a sequel of sorts. It's called Mini Motorways, and sees you laying down roads instead of metro lines.

It's true. Running modern games on a vintage CRT monitor produces absolutely outstanding results - subjectively superior to anything from the LCD era, up to and including the latest OLED displays. Best suited for PC players, getting an optimal CRT set-up isn't easy, and prices vary dramatically, but the results can be simply phenomenal.

Heartfelt adventure Knights and Bikes is being turned into a telly series.

Gears 5 is off to a good start, Microsoft has said, with more than three million people logging on to shoot things with chainsaw guns over its opening weekend.

Addictive Nintendo Switch puzzler Tetris 99 has another special event this week, and this one is all about Kirby.

Here's a fresh, meaty slice of The Outer Worlds gameplay.

Apple's much-trumpeted gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade, officially arrives this Thursday, 19th September. However, some users running the iOS 13 public beta have been granted early access, meaning that we now know exactly which games will be available as part of the £4.99/$4.99 USD monthly subscription at launch.