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Hyper Light Drifter is free on the Epic Store right now, and it's just the excuse I've been waiting for to return to this dark, enchanted world. I haven't really played Hyper Light Drifter since it came out, so the game that exists in my mind is probably subtly different to the game that sits somewhere on my hard-drive. No matter. In my memory, Hyper Light Drifter is the perfect piece of video game storytelling, and I think the reason for this is sort of perverse and interesting.

Classic tactical fantasy RPG King's Bounty is back next year in the form of King's Bounty 2, but it's shaking things up for the modern era by introducing third-person, open-world questing.

Ben Irving, lead producer on Anthem (as well as regular developer livestream face and frequent spokesperson for the team), has announced his departure from BioWare after eight years.

Superhot Team, the developer behind celebrated slo-mo shooter Superhot (just in case you hadn't already put two and two together), has announced a new funding initiative designed to help independent developers that "don't want or need a publisher".

I hadn't planned on spending my Thursday afternoon getting teary-eyed over a Skyrim mod, but when dogs are involved, it's pretty hard to hold back the tears. Particularly with a story as touching as this one.

It seems some Witcher fans just couldn't wait until the release of the Netflix series later this year, so one of them has gone ahead and created a mod that puts Henry Cavill into the PC game.

Microsoft will, as it confirmed last month, be attending Gamescom once more this year, ready to give its latest Xbox wares a bit of a public wafting. As part of its presence at the show, it'll be hosting another live episode of Inside Xbox, and we've now been given a clearer idea of what will be revealed during the celebratory livestream.

In a world of cross-platform development, one of the key differentiating factors between console and PC releases is the ability to tweak graphical settings - a necessity when a games PC can be built from a vast array of different components. Graphics menus in console games are a rarity for obvious reasons, making this discovery somewhat curious: adjusting graphics presets in Bridge Constructor Portal on the Windows Store works just as it should, but with an added bonus - your changes transfer across to the Xbox versions too and can radically alter performance.

Respawn is not having a good week. The Iron Crown event kicked off causing immediate backlash to the ridiculous pricing of the new loot, and now players are taking to reddit to complain about "teaming" - finding groups of players teaming up to take out the rest of the solos in a match.

The addition of overpowered mechs in Fortnite's latest season has riled up not only the pro players, but seemingly everyone else playing too.

If you had plans for digital adventures in dimly-lit caves this year, you'll have to wait a while longer, as the sequel to critically-acclaimed indie roguelike Spelunky will no longer be releasing in 2019.

It's been a difficult wait, but No Man's Sky's hugely anticipated Beyond update is finally here. And with it comes a heaving page of patch notes for those eager to learn what delights are in-store - aside from the much-touted VR and expanded online components, of course.

UPDATE 9pm: Epic has U-turned on its sale of the Gunner pet dog, a near-identical version of an item previously included in a Battle Pass. In the past hour, the pet has been removed from Fortnite's in-game store.

Since its rather divisive launch last year, Sea of Thieves has grown substantially. A total of five major updates have introduced the likes of a new explorable region, new ship types, roving skeleton fleets, perilous fog, giant sharks, fishing, cooking, a standalone competitive mode, and more. However, anyone that's played the game on a regular basis will know that Rare has consistently struggled to find a sustainable rhythm for the regular delivery of new content since launch, making its live service game often feel less than alive.

Borderlands 3's new Beastmaster has some intriguing origins you might not expect - inspired by the Hunter class in World of Warcraft and the adorable world of Pokémon.

Following in the footsteps of Bomberman and Tetris, 80s video game icon Bubble Bobble will be making its return on Nintendo Switch.

The games industry's insistence on profiting from gambling mechanics continues today, as Apex Legends' highly-anticipated Iron Crown Collection Event has arrived - absolutely riddled with loot boxes.

EA has firmed up details of this year's Need for Speed, with a Florida-bound, urban racer set for release on November 8th on PC, Xbox One and PS4.

I haven't seen sunsets like this since, oh, 1996. Explicitly modelled on the look and feel of 3D PS1 and N64 games, the island setting of Anodyne 2 is like a version of Hyrule Field engulfed by the coral reefs of Square Enix's Chrono Cross. It's an exquisite recreation of a lost period in videogame landscaping, from the aliasing on the waterfalls to the smudgy paintings of distant environments that serve as portals to other areas. For all its pristine historical specificity, however, this realm is host to a creeping decay - the Nano Dust, an enigmatic force that infests the minds and bodies of New Theland's residents, giving rise to (or at least, revealing) strange anxieties and desires.

THQ Nordic is laying out all the news this morning after its recent earnings call - not only is it snapping up various game developers and talking about TimeSplitters, but it has announced Volition is developing a brand new Saints Row game.

Content warning: This review and the game include mention of suicide.

The highly anticipated competitive role queue beta has finally made its way to Overwatch on PC, PS4 and Xbox One, along with hero 31, Sigma.

Former Rare and Free Radical Design veteran Steve Ellis has joined THQ Nordic to work on whatever's next for TimeSplitters.

Draw Distance has unveiled some tasty new information about its instalment of the Vampire: The Masquerade franchise, Coteries of New York.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One release of Frostpunk has been pushed to 11th October, with a PS4 retail release planned a week later - Friday, 18th October - courtesy of publisher Merge Games.

Politics in video games can be a contentious thing. That's no surprise, seeing as politics are contentious by nature. Many of us would much rather avoid them, and it's a sentiment that comes up when players feel their escape into a fantasy realm suddenly reminds them of a real-world issue. However, it's impossible to completely eradicate politics from our lives, even single aspects of it, and in the development of games as much as in talking about them, we've come to realise that.

Dead Cells, developer Motion Twin's smashy, stompy action-platform rogue-like, is great. What's also great is the continued support it's received since leaving early access last year. And here we are again, with Dead Cells' 14th free update, the snappily titled Who's the Boss, now available on PC, with console versions to follow.

After starting out as a tech demo, PC Building Simulator went on to sell over 750,000 copies on PC. Now, in a bold and somewhat ironic move, the game is making its way to consoles, allowing Xbox One, PS4 and Switch owners experience building their very own PCs too.

It wouldn't be Apex Legends without a leak, and although the game's Iron Crown Collection Event (with a limited time solos mode) is mere hours away, the teaser trailer has still managed to surface early. From an Nvidia Twitter account, of all things.

It was hardly a joint decision, but following the Australian Classification Board's ruling that DayZ would be banned from sale for its depiction of drugs, Bohemia Interactive has announced it will edit the game to bring it in line with Australian rules. For all versions worldwide.