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No Man's Sky fans, you may now exhale; Hello Games has revealed that the exploratory sci-fi sim's long-awaited Beyond update will be coming to PS4, Xbox One, and PC on 14th August.

Infinity Ward has come under fire this week for including a white phosphorus killstreak in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's open beta will feature crossplay between consoles and PC, Activision has confirmed.

Rockstar's cowboy simulator Red Dead Online is getting a class-like Roles system with its next update. Well, Rockstar has to spend all that Grand Theft Auto Online casino cash somehow.

Rockstar wouldn't reveal official player counts, but it seems its Diamond Casino and Resort update has brought players back to the game in droves - if indeed they ever left in the first place.

Ask anyone reviewing an RPG on a tight deadline how they're doing, chances are, you'll receive either stony silence or a murderous glare. These are typically vast things, where the main storylines alone can last upwards of 40 hours: and with such a huge variety of quests, narratives and locations, it's necessary to put the time in to get a feel for the title. There's also plenty of world-building going on, meaning some quests are lore-heavy, and some storylines will inevitably be less interesting than others. Which is fine, because you can simply move onto a better one with ease.

Bungie is delaying the release of Destiny 2: New Light and the game's standalone Shadowkeep expansion from their originally announced date of 17th September to 1st October.

This Halloween is shaping up to be full of new spooky games to get stuck into - while the month is ending with the release of Luigi's Mansion 3, it'll be kicking off with the launch of Ghostbusters: The Video Game Remastered on the 4th October.

NetherRealm has revealed gameplay of Nightwolf, the next DLC character for Mortal Kombat 11.

Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a card game spin-off to launch in 2020.

Tyler "Ninja" Blevins, one of the biggest and best-known Fortnite Twitch streamers in the world, has announced that he's leaving the streaming platform, having signed a deal with Microsoft to broadcast exclusively on its competing Mixer service.

Hitman 2 is a fantastic game. But a small, hilarious development quirk discovered after launch - which caused any briefcase tossed by Agent 47 to glide languidly, yet majestically, around corners as it homed in on poor, unsuspecting victims - briefly turned it into the best game. It was a sad day when IO Interactive fixed the issue (if only by upping the speed to make it look marginally less ridiculous), but now the original case is returning, and officially too.

UPDATE 6.10pm: Here's the official line from Epic on the return of Daily Challenges under a new name and changed mechanics - namely that they unlock each day and are then replaced en masse every seven days:

At a recent Activision-hosted event in Los Angeles, I got the chance to go hands-on with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare's competitive multiplayer portion and came away impressed - despite a few niggles and one lingering concern.

MinskWorks, the developer behind the thrillingly mundane Eastern Bloc road trip adventure Jalopy, has unveiled its next project - British boozing and building sim, Landlord's Super.

Way back in the mists of 2015, there was general quiver of nostalgic excitement as Universal Pictures prepared to resurrect Stephen Spielberg's beloved Jurassic Park series, in the form of Jurassic World. Four years, and two reasonably adequate movies later, Warner Bros is dusting off developer TT Games' ageing movie tie-in, Lego Jurassic World, and bringing it to Switch.

Today is an important anniversary. At 1700 hours (4pm UK time), Warsaw will fall silent. Sirens will sound and the Polish capital will grind to a halt, as it has on this day, at this hour, for the past 74 years. Today, people will remember the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children who died as a result of the Warsaw Uprising. But 75 years ago, it had just begun.

Darksiders: The Forbidden Land is a co-op dungeon crawler board game for up to five players, and for the first time in a Darksiders game, all Four Horsemen will be playable at the same time.

It was leaked a little early on Steam, but Capcom has now officially announced E. Honda, Lucia and Poison will be making their way to Street Fighter 5 on 4th August.

Ubisoft has revealed a Chinese-themed Rabbids game for the Switch, and it's set to be shown at the developer's booth at ChinaJoy this weekend.

It feels like the success of Fire Emblem: Three Houses has taken everyone a bit by surprise - we knew it'll be brilliant, but it's had the best-selling launch in the series as far as UK charts go back and, perhaps as a result, has resulted in a lot of questions as people get to grips in what appears to be a very demanding game.

Fortnite, you might have heard, is quite popular. And now, another reminder of just how notably popular it is: a peak of over 2.3 million concurrent viewers watched Fortnite's World Cup Solo Finals, which took place in New York this weekend.

Mobile game phenomenon Pokémon Go has now been downloaded more than a billion times. Which is even more times than there are Pokémon.

Titanfall and Apex Legends developer Respawn will be at the Oculus Connect event in September to show off the VR first-person combat game it's working on.

Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will be able to download and play Mario Tennis Aces for free from 7th to 13th August as part of a new "Game Trials" scheme.

Fortnite's latest season launches today, and with it comes the introduction of Titanfall-like mechs.

Clearly, someone at Klei Entertainment is a stickler for punishment. Invisible Inc., Don't Starve and Mark of the Ninja all have a touch of the cutesy-cruel to them, in their own special ways, their sweetness or wit spread devilishly thin over some brain-wracking difficulty, and Oxygen Not Included is the same. A case of twee, quippy tone layered over a sprawl of systems that's at once intricate and maddeningly vast, it's a game that's constantly teasing you; constantly luring and lulling just before throwing out another crisis; constantly reminding you that you are, in fact, a bit thick. Clearly I'm a stickler for punishment, too, because I think it's brilliant.

Sony has waggled its fingers and whipped back the velvet curtain obscuring August's PlayStation Plus offerings on PS4. But is that a gasp of delight or disdain from the audience when WipEout Omega Collection and Sniper Elite 4 are revealed?

UPDATE 31/7/19 3.15pm: You really didn't have long to wait - the full Fortnite season 10 trailer has now been revealed early and is doing the rounds online. It confirms a mix of old and recent locations will feature in the forthcoming season. Here it is in full:

Monster Hunter World fans hoping for the best but fearing the worst regarding the upcoming Iceborne expansion's PC release date finally have some concrete, if not exactly joyous, news. Capcom has revealed that Iceborne won't be arriving on Steam until January next year.