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UPDATE 12/9/19: Fresh from Tokyo Games Show, we've now got a new version of the Yakuza 7 reveal trailer with around a minute of extra footage. Granted, it's mostly of new protagonist Ichiban Kasuga finishing up some ramen, but the whole rest of the trailer now has English subtitles too.

Imagine a glitzy cinematic sequence where you, as a secret agent, fight your way through an aeroplane soaring through the sky. You're pressing button prompts appearing on the screen while your hero whacks, chops, spins and kicks at the baddie in your way. "You fight all the way down until eventually you beat the guy and rip off his parachute and, I don't know, break his neck, and he floats off and you use his parachute to land." Sounds great, like a James Bond or Jack Bauer or Jason Bourne scene, or something from Uncharted 3, which hadn't been made yet.

If you've been left intrigued by thoughts of Infinity Ward's upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare but aren't yet quite ready to commit, then you might appreciate a reminder that Activision's various beta sessions - some of them open - kick off very soon.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee has recommended the Government regulates loot boxes under the Gambling Act.

We often publish uplifting articles on here about the positive impact of games. Whether that be a Skyrim-playing grandma immortalised in the next Elder Scrolls game, or a memorial to a modder's dog - games have an incredible power to heal and soothe.

Hi-Rez Studios is finally bringing Paladins, Smite, and Realm Royale players on PlayStation 4 into the cross-play fold, and those on Sony's machine will be able to team up with - or battle against - those on Switch, Xbox One, and PC starting today.

A brand new Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer has landed ahead of Tokyo Games Show, and it's full of surprises.

Developer Simogo's wonderful-looking "euphoric music video dream" Sayonara Wild Hearts finally has a release date and it's coming very soon; it'll be heading to Switch, Apple devices via Apple Arcade, and PlayStation 4 next Thursday, 19th September.

Just when you thought things were starting to settle down with Fallout 76, another incident has riled up the playerbase, and this time it's all about a fridge and a scrap-collecting robot.

Control developer Remedy has detailed its plans for the game's post-launch content. Two paid expansions will arrive in 2020, with an end-game level challenges mode due first in December.

A new pre-alpha gameplay trailer for System Shock 3 has been released and it looks, well, not bad, which is nice.

Right from the off, through something as simple as fulfilling some last-minute preparations for your big sea voyage to The New World, Greedfall shows you the lengths to which you have to go to fulfil a quest. Everyone wants to set off, but the governor still hasn't shown. You start asking around for hints on the missing nobleman and visit the places where he was last seen. In a tavern, you first have to either settle his tab or repair the furniture he broke in a drunken stupor before you get the next hint.

Sometimes things just don't work out and it's better for both parties if they call it day, which is why EA and FIFA have extended their outrageously successful football licence until the end of time, or 2022, whichever comes sooner.

Fortnite update 10.30 is now available and it's a biggie - with two POIs from the past brought back into the game.

Wilmot's Warehouse is a puzzle game that's made me really think about puzzle games. This shouldn't be surprising, since the people who made it were also some of the people responsible for the glorious game Hohokum, which made me think about all kinds of unexpected things. Hohokum was expansive and constantly surprising, Wilmot's Warehouse is tightly focused - and constantly surprising. It's surprising, I would argue, in a way that puzzle games usually are not.

Konami is giving free myClub coins to PES 2020 players because the game launched without the correct team lineups.

20 years on from the Dreamcast's launch, one of the platform's most iconic games - no not Skies of Arcadia - is getting a sequel. It's ChuChu Rocket!

Gears 5 has a great campaign I'm happy to root for. On the competitive multiplayer front, though, it's a mixed bag. Gears 5 stalwarts Horde and Versus return like battleworn COGs from yet another fight against the relentless Locust menace, but annoyances mar the party. Escape mode offers something new, but it falls flat. And through it all runs a progression system that would feel bad in a free-to-play game, let alone a full-price game.

Proving once again that nothing is impervious to the lure of Battle Royale, developer Firaxis' 4X strategy game Civilization 6 just launched its own take on the omnipresent mode on PC.

Not content with offering release date and price details for its new gaming subscription service, Apple took some time during its special presentation event today to reveal what consumers might be playing those games on over the coming year. Namely, several new iPhone models - the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 Pro, and the iPhone 11 Pro Max - plus a new 7th generation iPad.

Ubisoft's acclaimed Industrial-Revolution-era city-builder Anno 1800 is rolling up its greensleeves and getting ready to turn over a new leaf, thanks to its horticulturally themed second paid DLC, Botanica, which arrives today on PC.

Apple's previously announced gaming subscription service, Apple Arcade, will arrive on 19th September, costing $4.99 USD (around £4) a month.

No, this is neither a joke nor a peek into my personal anime collection: KFC is cooking up an official dating sim in which you can romance Colonel Sanders. It is only Tuesday.

The FIFA 20 demo is live now.

This is a project I've been wanting to work on for a long time - since it became clear that AMD's brand new Navi architecture would feature in the next-gen consoles, in fact. From PS4 and Xbox One, through the enhanced consoles and up to the reveal of Google Stadia, graphics power has been measured by a somewhat arbitrary unit: the teraflop. And let's be clear: how many teraflops the new consoles have remains a preoccupation for many observers, eager to get some idea of what PlayStation 5 or Project Scarlett may deliver up against the hardware of today. But perhaps the focus needs to shift and maybe we need to take a closer look at the new AMD Navi architecture itself. Put simply, a teraflop of Navi compute should produce much faster game performance than an old-school GCN equivalent - but can we quantify that?

EA Sports released the FIFA 20 player ratings yesterday and, unsurprisingly, those top 100 players walked out to all the usual, mega-budget PR fanfare and endless, endless cries of agony from the FIFA subreddit - namely about which player was rated too high (Mustafi?) and which too low (Kaka).

September's big patch for Control will improve stability on all platforms, developer Remedy has promised.

Gear 5's PC port is a remarkable piece of work. In fact, in my opinion, it's very, very close to being one of the best PC conversions of all-time. It builds on The Coalition's phenomenal work on Gears 4, but goes several steps further, with graphics options and assets that even outstrip the Xbox One X version. And I can't help but wonder: were elements of this version designed with one eye trained on the consoles to come? The scalability on show here goes significantly beyond additional precision in graphical effects - though obviously, you get that too.

While Computex 2019 coverage has been dominated by new Ice Lake mobile processors from Intel and Ryzen 3000 processors from AMD, Nvidia took the chance to announce a new batch of G-Sync Compatible certified displays - and explain why so many of the best gaming monitors flunked out of its certification process.

UK internet providers must block access to websites which enable Switch game piracy, Nintendo has successfully argued in court.