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Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch.

The first announcement of the Nintendo Indie World Presentation is a great one: Risk of Rain 2 is headed to Nintendo Switch this summer.

Halo Infinite's creative director, Tim Longo, has parted ways with 343 Industries, approximately a year ahead of the game's anticipated launch.

Journey to the Savage Planet comes out 28th January 2020, publisher 505 has announced.

UPDATE: As expected, Superhot is indeed coming to Nintendo Switch - and it's out today.

The free No Man's Sky Beyond update launched this week and with it came VR support for PC and PS4 versions of Hello Games' infinite survival sim. This is an update that I, and countless other VR enthusiasts, have been looking forward to for a long time, but now it's finally here, how good actually is it? In this week's episode of Ian's VR Corner, which you can find just below these words, I bring you my first impressions of my launch day experiences of No Man's Sky Beyond on PSVR.

Fascists, communists, eco-warriors and the remnants of the old world's liberal order violently squabble for humanity's future on a planet trying to kill them. The gulf widens between the haves and have-nots as long-lived Talents lord over toiling Drones kept in line by mass entertainment and police brutality. Artificial intelligences see everything, even into dreams, as humans become more like machines and machines become ever more like gods.

Blizzard has issued a warning to World of Warcraft Classic fans that one realm could see login queues in excess of 10,000 players.

Oh Warner Bros. What have you done to my darling Sub-Zero?

With the rise of miniaturised retro consoles, there's still a special corner of gaming's past that's gone sorely overlooked. It's a corner that could once be found in a mid-90s London Trocadero - a space, among many spaces, that Capcom called home with its sublime arcade produce, built on the CPS1 and CPS2 boards. Between the co-op thrills of Progear and Aliens vs Predator, some of the best 2D sprite-based titles of the era sparked from this hardware, and often, their technical quality didn't translate exactly to PlayStation or Saturn, if ports were produced at all.

PvP has long been considered the black sheep of the Destiny 2 family - but changes set to hit the game later this year could change that.

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver turned 20 years old on the 16th August 2019.

Casting for the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie has gathered pace.

Respawn has responded to the furore around Apex Legends' controversial Iron Crown Collection event, admitting it broke its promise about how loot boxes would work in the game, and announced plans to sell coveted cosmetics directly.

Fallout 76's upcoming vault raid is the game's first instanced dungeon, Bethesda has revealed.

I realised the other day that I had probably played through Gato Roboto about five times by now. This wonderfully compact Metroidvania has grabbed me and held me close. It's the story of a cat lost on a strange planet, a cat who finds heroism deep within itself in a manner that feels very true to who and what cats are. It helps that the cat has a mech suit.

Her Story developer Sam Barlow's latest non-linear FMV spectacular, Telling Lies, finally has a release day: it'll be available on PC and iOS devices next Friday, 23rd August.

Kalypso Media has delved into its shimmering bag of nostalgia and plucked out the first proper gameplay trailers for its upcoming HD remasters of much-loved stealth-tactics classic Commandos 2 and Roman Empire strategy affair Praetorians.

Travis Strikes Again, Grasshopper's previously Switch-exclusive No More Heroes spin-off, will be unsheathing its Beam Katana and swaggering onto PS4 and Steam on 17th October.

Nintendo has announced that it'll be hosting another of its indie-focussed livestream presentations next week, just in time for Gamescom.

Having initially tested the feature on a couple of indie titles, the Epic Games Store has now rolled out cloud saves support to a considerable number of games, and has added a few other features in its latest update.

Less than a week after Belgium began a criminal investigation into FIFA's loot boxes, 15 gambling regulators from Europe and one from the US have together announced they will "address the risks created by the blurring of lines between gaming and gambling".

Since the start of Fortnite's 10th season, conversation around the game has been dominated by one thing: its horrible hulking death robots.

UPDATE 16/8/19: After rolling out a PC fix for many of the issues faced by No Man's Sky Beyond players at launch, developer Hello Games has now released the patch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Earlier this month, the Borderlands 3 community was in uproar after YouTuber Matt "SupMatto" Somers, a prominent Borderlands content creator, published a video claiming Take-Two had sent private investigators to his house over Borderlands 3 leaks covered on his channel. Take-Two confirmed it was investigating Somers for profiting from breaking their policies and "illegal" activities, leading to arguments on social media over Somers' innocence, and the #BoycottBorderlands3 hashtag.

Bethesda's releases have been having a... well, controversial time as of late, and this was certainly the case for the Doom ports for Switch, Xbox One and PlayStayion 4 released last month. Shortly after their surprise announcement at QuakeCon, players noticed that Doom and Doom 2 required a Bethesda.net login before they could be played offline, which seemed bizarre given the series' single-player focus.

Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts launches for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 22nd November.

The volunteer-based group TESRenewel has released a new teaser trailer showing the incredible progress it's made on the mod to remake Oblivion in the Skyrim engine.

Around this time last year, indie developer Gears for Breakfast announced its delightful platformer A Hat in Time would be coming to the Nintendo Switch, and now we finally have a release date.

The next Tetris 99 event will be a crossover with Fire Emblem: Three Houses.