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UPDATE 10.33pm: Following the cheeky seepage from yesterday's GameStop conference, Aladdin and Lion King remasters have now been officially confirmed by publisher Nighthawk Interactive, and there's even a trailer to accompany the news.

PlanetSide Arena hits Steam Early Access on PC on 19th September, Daybreak Games has announced. A multiplatform launch is set for the second quarter of 2020.

Epic has announced eight new Epic Games store exclusives.

The Double-A Team is a new feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.

Man of Medan isn't even out yet and we already know the name of the next instalment of The Dark Pictures Anthology - Little Hope.

Developer Yacht Club Games has unearthed a whole load of Shovel Knight news, revealing that its long-awaited King of Cards campaign and fighting spin-off Shovel Knight Showdown will finally be releasing on all supported platforms this December. Additionally, a new game for the spade-wielding hero, Shovel Knight Dig, has been revealed.

Telltale Games, the defunct developer behind the likes of The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, and The Wolf Among Us, is set to make a return - albeit in a substantially different form - following the announcement that holding company LCG Entertainment has secured Telltale's name and some of its licenses.

Following a year of Epic Games Store and Xbox One exclusivity, developer Aurora44's brooding co-op action-RPG, Ashen, will be shaking off its shackles and heading to PlayStation 4 and Switch on 9th December - and it'll be arriving on Steam and GOG the same day.

As we waggle hankies and wish a teary farewell to August, we can at least console ourselves with the promise of a fresh batch of PS4 games arriving as part PlayStation Plus in September, this time looking an awful lot like Batman: Arkham Knight and Darksiders 3.

How well does Remedy's latest blockbuster, Control, stack up on consoles? Let's make no bones about it - the game is brilliant and a stunning technological showcase. It works on the Sony and Microsoft boxes, but the game reaches another level on PC, with Control featuring one of the most impressive DXR ray tracing implementations we've seen. In marketing the game, Remedy and publisher 505 have pushed PC to the forefront, to the extent where not much was seen of the console versions prior to launch. Our verdict so far? The game is worth checking out but there are performance issues and some of them can be show-stopping, depending on the hardware you're gaming on.

The thing I liked best about Until Dawn - Peter Stormare's pop-eyed turn as your personal psychiatrist aside - was that it kept you guessing about the kind of horror game it was. Teen slasher flick or Paranormal Activity wannabe? Creature feature or Machiavellian revenge fable? Cabin in the woods, or mountain of madness? The game's red herrings are as plentiful as the branching plot's butterfly effects, and it's a delight to sift direction from misdirection as you slowly divide the offensively photogenic cast into victims or survivors over 12 hours of play.

I was on the bus the other day when I realised that Ancestors was probably starting to get to me. I found myself thinking about haircuts. About hairstyles. Looking at all the different ways of dealing with hair that were evident around me. Why do we do this? I wondered. The fringe, the pony, the pompadour. Why do we do this with our fur?

If you're filled with a pang of nostalgia for classic BioWare games like Mass Effect and the Dragon Age series, and can't fathom waiting for Dragon Age 4 to be announced, we are definitely in the same boat, friend. But there is hope on the horizon: GreedFall is the underdog that might just satisfy your thirst for role-playing, monsters, and magic.

We've had a few teases about the next character already, but leaked images from the GameStop conference could be our first proper look at Apex's next Legend - Crypto.

Nvidia has arrived in Cologne in force this year, with a raft of RTX announcements to coincide with Gamescom's action-packed first day. Minecraft RTX is the biggest news so far, with a new path-traced version of the game launching on Windows 10 in the new year, but there are also new details for Call of Duty Modern Warfare, Vampire The Masquerade, Dying Light 2 and more. We've gathered up all of the trailers and some fancy RTX comparison shots for you right here, along with whatever details we could find about the type of ray tracing to be included in each game and its current release date.

Thanks to Nvidia, Minecraft will finally receive official real-time ray tracing support.

Capcom has unveiled its latest retro platforming bundle, the Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection, coming to PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC on 21st January next year.

Gears Pop combines characters from the Gears of War games with the vinyl stylings of Funko Pop models. Really, though, its main influence lies elsewhere, with Supercell's magnificent Clash Royale.

Are you looking to make your Assassin's Creed Odyssey play-through somehow even longer? Then you might be interested to know that the first episode of the game's Fate of Atlantis story expansion is currently free on Xbox One, PS4, and PC.

Developer 11 Bit Studios has launched The Rifts, the first of three planned paid DLC updates for its superb post-apocalyptic city builder Frostpunk.

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne might not be out for another week or so, but Xbox One and PlayStation 4 will be able to get an early taste of the frost-tipped expansion - or at least, a very small part of it - in just a few days, courtesy of Capcom's imminent Iceborne beta.

Football Manager 2020 launches on Google Stadia in November - and Sports Interactive has said the streaming service is "the fastest way to experience" the game.

After a long delay, Nintendo's Mario Kart Tour finally releases for iOS and Android on 25th September.

The developer of old-school first-person shooter Ion Fury has U-turned on its promise to pull a homophobic slur from the game amid a Steam review bomb.

In its very first teaser trailer, it was hard to tell exactly what Disintegration was about. Showcasing a shiny levitating vehicle, my mind immediately jumped to pod-racing, and I assumed the game would be a fairly light-hearted shooter with some cool technology.

Fortnite is gracing us with yet another crossover, this time featuring some iconic characters and a location from Borderlands.

Wreckfest is, quite simply, the best Flatout game to date. We thought as much last year when it released on PC, and having spent a while with the console versions that opinion hasn't changed a bit - if anything, it's lovely to have Bugbear's brilliance back on console where it belongs. This review is from the PC version last year, and very much still applies to this week's console release - though be warned that load times are excruciatingly long on Xbox One and PS4, and even playing on an Xbox One X you're going to be falling well short of 60fps. They're small, noticeable problems that are a shame, but don't detract from the greatness on offer here.

Players can now learn their favourite jazz songs from Cuphead, as Studio MDHR has released official sheet music for the game's score.

It spoils nothing, I hope, to reduce a game as luxurious and uncanny as Control to just four words. Here goes, then: Hell is an office. Remedy's latest takes place inside the Oldest House, the austere, echoing and inhumanly vast headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Control. The FBC is an agency that deals with unusual horrors and is, as of your arrival, in the process of being overwhelmed by them.

Sometimes you find out who's behind a newly-announced game and you know you'll be in good hands. Knights and Bikes developer Foam Sword consists of Moo Yu and Rex Crowle, both ex-Media Molecule staff with experience on titles such as LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway. Who better to make a game about two girls who explore the nooks and crannies of a small Cornish island in search of a mythical treasure?