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Due to an unfortunate bout of the flu, I wasn't able to record an episode of Ian's VR Corner this week. I'm not about to let some nasty virus stop me from spreading the VR love though, especially when I've been given exclusive permission to preview the first hour of next week's big PSVR release.

Beat Saber is an honest-to-goodness VR masterpiece that recently became one of the first VR games in the world to have sold over 1 million copies.

I got absolutely thrashed the first couple of times I played the Space Junkies open beta on PSVR. At first I thought it was just because I was a bit of a noob, but then I twigged the real reason - Space Junkies is cross-play between PS4 and PC.

Someone famous once said that golf is a good walk spoiled, so it's probably a good job then that Everybody's Golf VR is a completely stationary experience. By cutting out all those boring strolls it means the game and its player can concentrate on pure, unadulterated virtual golfing across three gorgeous, 18 hole courses.

Regular and intense jump-scares have always been the main ingredients of the Five Nights at Freddy's series. That's why Scott Cawthon's creepy horror games are an excellent source of hashtag content for YouTubers - people just love watching other people get scared!

For anyone who's played Moss, the opening moments of Ghost Giant will seem rather familiar. You, a ghostly presence, awaken in a quiet woodland area above a small body of water. In front of you is the game's tiny protagonist who, after a few moments of initial shock, soon comes to regard you as a friend and ally in their journey.

You know that bit in The Matrix when Keanu Reeves goes, "I know Kung Fu!"? Well I had a few moments of realisation just like that during my first hands-on session with the PSVR port of Sairento VR.

An all-new No Man's Sky trailer has been released ahead of next week's big Beyond update, and it harks back to our very first glimpses of Hello Games' ambitious galactic adventure and shows just how much the game has evolved.

I had an okay time with Volta, FIFA 20's new street football mode, during my solid afternoon with it at that same event in July where the FUT part of the day saw EA Sports take a bit of a grilling. It's snappy, easy to grasp but still with a little bit of nuance to it, if you play for a while, and it's plenty generous as a mode itself, too. There's a sort of Journey, crossed with Be a Pro, crossed with Ultimate Team feel to things. Absolutely my type on paper, as the kids say - only it's just missing that bit of magic to tie it all together.

Codemasters' wonderful Dirt Rally 2.0, which launched earlier this year to high praise (well, I liked it at least), is getting VR support on PC from today.

Death Stranding, the next game from Metal Gear Solid maker Hideo Kojima, is no longer listed as a PlayStation exclusive by Sony - and this has gotten fans in a flap.

Two weeks without content, two private investigators, and Take-Two. This is the story told by Matt "SupMatto" Somers, a prominent Borderlands YouTuber, who earlier this week published a video claiming Take-Two (the company that owns Borderlands publisher 2K) sent investigators to his house over leaks he'd covered on his channel. Since the video's publication, #BoycottBorderlands3 has been intermittently trending on Twitter, and Take-Two has now formally addressed the situation - although accounts of what happened seem to differ.

An Apex player has used a tracking program to to analyse data from over 120,000 matches to find out where the most popular drop locations are in the arena.

UPDATE 8/8/19: A handful of extra games will sneak onto the TurboGrafx-16 mini (AKA the PC Engine Core Grafx mini here in Europe), including slasher film-inspired beat-'em-up Splatterhouse.

Activision has yet to announce a battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, but comments by a developer at Infinity Ward certainly suggest such a thing is coming.

Steam's 'Upcoming Releases' section has always been a bit of a mess to look through for consumers - but for developers legitimately trying to promote their games, it's even more of a hassle to navigate.

NetherRealm has issued a big update to Mortal Kombat 11 that makes sweeping changes to all characters.

Bohemia Interactive's multiplayer zombie survival game, DayZ, a title that's been legally available in Australia for over five years, has been refused an age rating by the Australian Classification Board, effectively banning it from sale - but it's a restriction that, rather absurdly, only applies to the upcoming physical release.

UPDATE 8th August 2019: Nintendo has now issued a statement following the ESA's announcement about loot boxes on consoles.

When I think of a game I particularly love, I often find myself thinking of a specific moment. I doubt I'm alone in this. I did a very quick poll in the office and a colleague told me that when he thinks of System Shock 2, what he's really thinking of is the experience of crouching in a doorway worrying about the best means to tackle what lies beyond, and I remember the developer Dan Marshall once telling me that Half-Life 2 often exists in his mind purely as that breathless race across the rooftops when the scary vans arrive at the apartment building you're holed up in early on.

Developer Image & Form's excellent fantasy card-battler SteamWorld Quest will get a little bit quest-ier tomorrow, 8th August, thanks to its free 2.0 update, launching on Switch and PC.

Capcom has offered a warning to all potential purchasers of DuckTales: Remastered; the game is being delisted on digital storefronts, starting tomorrow, 8th August.

If you thought Pokémon Go's shadow Pokémon were already channeling naughties era emo, wait until you see the Galarian region forms for Pokémon Sword and Shield. In a new video posted today, the Pokémon Company showed off some of the forms for the upcoming mainline games, along with a new rival team and a hangry hamster. Yes, really.

EA has announced changes to career mode for FIFA 20, including the ability to create female managers.

Supergiant Games' early access roguelike Hades has had its next major update, which includes a final battle at the Gateway to the Underworld.

After a weekend of backlash to its timed exclusivity deal with Epic, the two-person studio behind Ooblets has publicly addressed the harassment it received in an official statement. While Glumberland acknowledged some of the backlash was prompted by misunderstanding the tone of the original blog post, the studio also highlighted problems with toxicity within game communities, and reaffirmed its decision to partner with Epic.

After yesterday's announcement that Apex Legends is finally getting its solos mode for a limited time, the community has made quick work to organise a fan event during it.

Psyonix will be jettisoning paid, randomised loot boxes - or Crates, as it calls them - from its hugely popular four-wheeled football game Rocket League later this year.

When Apex Legends burst onto the scene in February, it sought to make its mark by focussing its action exclusively on tightly integrated, tactical squad-based play. And while its phenomenal first few weeks suggested that players appreciated the refreshing deviation away from the battle royale norm, some remained hopeful that developer Respawn might one day grant Apex Legends a more traditional Solos mode - and that day, it transpires, will soon be here.

Google has scheduled another Stadia-themed livestream for later this month, and is promising to reveal further details regarding its rapidly approaching game streaming service.