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Archero is a lovely smartphone game with a pleasant, slightly anonymous art style and a brilliant control system. And the control system, knowingly or unknowingly, harkens back to one of the great oddities of video games.

Nintendo Switch exclusive Fire Emblem: Three Houses has topped the UK charts during its first week of release, beating Wolfenstein: Youngblood into second place.

With Death Stranding fast approaching, we have a better idea of what Hideo Kojima's next is actually about. And a new trailer certainly helps untangle some of the threads.

A fifteen-year-old from Essex has secured almost £1 million by coming second in the first Fortnite World Cup, beating off competition from almost forty million players who'd attempted to qualify alongside him.

Rather suitably for a game that features a hefty amount of flamethrowers, I recorded this week's episode of Ian's VR Corner on the hottest day of the year so far.

Here's some good news for those of you intrigued by Toyko RPG Factory's upcoming endeavour, Oninaki - Square Enix has released a new free demo to let you try it before you buy it.

Capcom has shared new gameplay from Monster Hunter World's upcoming expansion, Iceborne.

Raids are coming to Fallout 76 from 20th August, 2019.

UPDATE: Bethesda has said the login requirement for the Doom classic releases should be optional and is working on a fix.

Ah, Doom 64. In the absence of a PC, my console-fuelled video game childhood was left with Doom 64. But, improbably, Doom 64 was great.

There are a lot of Metroidvanias around. Some are wonderful. Some not so much. But nowadays it's a space that's tough to stand out in. I can't see Savior having that problem though.

In Western countries, the era of the console was effectively dead by the mid-1980s, with a flourishing home computer scene replacing it - but the situation was very different in Japan. Nintendo's Famicom system was starting to flourish and while primarily cartridge-based, ideas from the home computer would crossover into the console world, resulting in the Famicom Disk System - or FDS - which did exactly what it said on the tin, offering disk-based software to run on the console we would eventually come to know as the Nintendo Entertainment System.

I've always been a fan of first-person shooter multiplayer matches that feature cool intros. I love the way you leap out of a carrier to start the fight in Respawn's Titanfall 2. Call of Duty: WW2's intro for the wonderful War mode, which sees soldiers sat next to each other as they're driven into the battlefield, gets the blood pumping. And Destiny 2's Gambit mode has a deliciously troll-fuelled intro, which sees each team face each other, free to spam emotes before and after each round.

As part of its Doom Eternal QuakeCon keynote this weekend, id Software has revealed more of the game's intriguing new asymmetrical multiplayer experience, Battlemode.

The actual fighting in auto chess is automatic. Round after round, you sit and watch your units smash lumps out of your opponent's units until there is a victor. The gameplay revolves around planning and strategy - and making decisions quickly between rounds. So while it seems on the face of it like there's plenty of downtime in an average game of auto chess, you have to focus and concentrate quite a bit if you want to win.

Nintendo has said it will release a patch for Fire Emblem: Three Houses that replaces the voiceover for the game's male protagonist after he was accused of sexual assault.

UPDATE 7.58pm: As the shadow of hatmageddon continues to loom over Team Fortress 2's trading economy, Valve has taken early steps to prevent players from securing more rare head adornments using the game's current loot box glitch.

Developer Whoop Group's thoroughly delightful wooden train set builder Tracks will be leaving Steam early access on 20th September, and it's coming to Xbox One on the same day.

I was wondering if you could help me with something. You see, there's this problem I've been having. This thing that's been bothering me, and I feel like if I just write it down it might help me figure it out. Do you have a pen? Oh great, that's wonderful, thank you very much.

Obsidian Entertainment's celebrated isometric RPG, Pillars of Eternity, will be making its way to Switch on 8th August, in the form the DLC-inclusive Complete Edition.

UPDATE 5.25pm: Following a bit of a false start earlier this afternoon, id Software's original Doom trilogy is now officially live on Switch - and furthermore, they've popped up on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, via their respective digital storefronts, too.

This week, the UK's Gambling Commission confirmed to a parliamentary enquiry that loot boxes, FIFA player packs and the like do not constitute gambling under UK law, since there is no official way to cash out your winnings from these blind reward packs. The player, skin or card you might win from a blind pack doesn't have monetary value - officially - so rolling the dice on 'packing' it isn't gambling, even if you paid real money for the privilege.

Colony building seems a lot of hard work if you have to do it yourself - which is the idea behind Autonauts.

Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is the follow-up to Playtonic's platforming debut, and it's looking very lovely indeed.

Two Point Hospital, last year's enormously enjoyable spiritual successor to classic management sim Theme Hospital, is heading to consoles later in 2019, with a release prescribed for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch.

UPDATE 25th July: Team Rocket are back in Pokémon Go - and this time it appears to be for good.

Rage 2 had a lacklustre start to life but the efforts to improve it continue. Today's update introduces three new ways to play the game - New Game Plus, Ironman mode, and an ultra nightmare difficulty - as well as fixes and quality of life improvements.

Developer 11 Bit Studios has, at long last, unveiled the third and final 'Stories' DLC episode for its critically acclaimed survival game This War of Mine. It's called Fading Embers, and is coming to PC and Mac on 6th August.

I still remember how surprised I was when I found out it was him, Rutger ruddy Hauer. A legend. The guy from Blade Runner. 'He's in your video game?'

What could be scarier than having to protect yourself from supernatural forces of evil in a dark and foreboding forest? Having to also protect your beloved pet dog, of course. Please let the dog survive.