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Sony Pictures' film adaptation of Uncharted is looking for yet another director, after Dan Trachtenberg (the fifth director to take up the role) exited the film.

It's been a big year for Destiny - but an even bigger one, perhaps, for the team who build it. Broken up from its long-term relationship with publisher Activision, Bungie now boldly guides the future of its franchise solo.

Treyarch has once again nerfed the Reaver C86 - considered by most to be one of if not the most overpowered weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.

At last, Fortnite's horrible mechs have been cut down in size. A sweeping set of changes pushed live overnight has taken aim at the robot's weaponry and movement. Better yet, the tin cans now have a far greater chance at simply not spawning at all.

Supergiant Games' roguelike dungeon crawler Hades will soon be available on Steam (as well as the Epic Games Store) when it hits early access on Valve's platform on 10th December.

The latest Minecraft Java edition update is chock full of bugs - bees!

Evo moment #37 has gone down as perhaps the greatest moment in competitive video game history. In it a young Daigo Umehara achieves the remarkable: a flawless Critical Art parry into Critical Art counter for a dramatic win when all seemed lost. And he did it in the semi-final of the Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Evo tournament against perhaps the greatest western fighting game player of all time: Justin Wong.

It would be fair to say that No Man's Sky didn't receive the warmest of receptions when it launched back in 2016. Some players, of course, and I count myself among them, were mesmerised by its serenely nomadic spirit and infinite toy box of procedural wonders - while others were expecting something more.

Minecraft Earth, Microsoft's Pokémon-Go-like free-to-play augmented-reality mobile game, has been available on iOS in closed beta form since earlier this summer. And now, Android users that've been patiently waiting their turn can sign up to get involved too.

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.

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. Last week, Christian Donlan went out on a limb with Bionic Commando. This week, we're taking Dark Sector for a spin.

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.

If you're looking for more ways to expand that list of games that you really, really honestly will get round to playing eventually but probably not right now because you've still got a load of other ones to get through, then I'm pleased to inform you that Fez is currently free on the Epic Store. Oh, and that Inside and Celeste will be free next week too.

Microsoft contractors listened to audio recordings captured by Xbox One Kinect and Cortana in people's homes, a report by Motherboard has revealed.

How many uses can one d6 die have? According to Dicey Dungeons, the new game by prolific designer Terry Cavanagh - famed for VVVVVV and Super Hexagon - the answer is quite a few.

Perhaps the most famous Mortal Kombat Easter egg is "Toasty!". It first appeared in Mortal Kombat 2, and would see programmer Dan "Toasty!" Forden's head appear on the bottom-right corner of the screen accompanied by a falsetto voice bellowing "Toasty!"

We've been following the evolution of hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing for some time now here at Digital Foundry - and one of the most spectacular demos we've seen actually took the form of Sonic Ether's RT shader mod for Minecraft, which brute-forced full path-tracing into the Java version of the classic Mojang title. It's brilliant stuff, and although slow, it will work on any modern GPU.

It's been a long time since we've been able to play a new Monkey Ball game on console, and dipping into Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz HD at Gamescom has reminded me why I fell in love with the series during its GameCube heyday, when those first couple of brilliant games founded a franchise which became renowned for its tight courses, increasing difficulty and smattering of stone cold classic mini-games (Monkey Target, you absolute beauty).

During the latest Sea of Thieves weekly stream, a Rare developer accidentally mentioned fire will make its way to the game.

There's a writing technique called cut-up, in which a text is broken down into small component parts and then rearranged, somewhat at random, into a new text. Cut-up has its roots in Dadaism and was used by boundary-pushing artists like William Burroughs and David Bowie. It's sometimes called aleatoric writing, which means there's an element of chance involved in the creative process; alea is Latin for dice game.

The Sims 4 is going a little bit Harry Potter in its latest, and distinctly wizardy, expansion Realm of Magic, which is coming to PC and Mac on 10th September, with a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release scheduled for 15th October.

Medical management sim Two Point Hospital is looking to the stars for its next DLC, with the newly announced alien-themed Close Encounters expansion coming to PC on 29th August.

Sega has unveiled the Yakuza Remastered Collection, bringing enhanced versions of Yakuza 3, 4, and 5 to PlayStation 4 over the coming months, with part 3 available now.

Monster Hunter isn't a franchise shy of a good crossover, and that evidently won't be changing when Monster Hunter World's Iceborne expansion arrives this September; Capcom has revealed that Horizon Zero Dawn protagonist Aloy will, following her dalliances with the game last year, be making her return for Iceborne, exclusively on PS4.

When Tokyo RPG Factory released its first game, I am Setsuna, the mission statement was making games reminiscent of Square's golden age of RPGs. It was a lofty goal from the get-go, but the more of their titles I play, the clearer it becomes that you need more than Active Time Battles to inspire nostalgia - if anything I'm now more convinced than ever that they really don't make 'em like they used to.

So far this Gamescom we've seen urination mechanics, ghost babies and Geoff Keighley in Death Stranding: a truly bizarre mash-up that sounds like it's straight from a fever dream. Perhaps sensing everyone is still confused, earlier today Hideo Kojima tweeted the following:

Shovel Knight: Dungeon Duels has smashed its Kickstarter fundraising target, reaching its $70,000 (£59,000) goal in just over a week.

First unearthed in Switch's firmware 5.0 way back in March 2018, Nintendo's console hybrid is evolving thanks to a new, smaller, cooler Tegra X1. Its efficiency advantages form the basis for the upcoming handheld Switch Lite, but the Nvidia SoC upgrade also takes centre stage in a revised version of the existing model, which recently arrived on shop shelves in Hong Kong. Eager to see how the new silicon performs, we imported a unit and got to work.

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has released the trailer for the Mortal Kombat 11 Kombat Pack and, as expected, it confirmed today's leak about which characters will hit the game.

Valve, alongside its business partner in China, Perfect World, has given us an update on the progress of Steam China today, after both companies had been silent on the topic for over a year.