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Discord has done what certain consoles have not - it's only gone and added folders!

Epic is finally beginning to introduce a feature we've been expecting for a while - cloud saves.

Epic continues its efforts to coax PC players onto its store this week with another batch of freebies in the form of This War of Mine and Moonlighter. And while you're here, I might as well let you know that Alan Wake and For Honor are up next.

Developer The Coalition's Gears 5 multiplayer tech test returns this weekend on Xbox One and PC - and, this time, it's open to all Xbox Live Gold subscribers.

Is Dragon Quest Builders 2 the worst performing game on Switch? And if so, why? Let's take a step back from those questions for a second. Here we have a truly beautiful game that combines the block-building mechanics of Minecraft with the colourful aesthetics and lore of Dragon Quest. It's a game that oozes quality in so many ways, offering a full-bodied RPG campaign to follow through and extensive tools to build and even share worlds online. This is a wonderful game; full of the charm that defines director Yuji Hori's other works, complete with a story that distances distance from its block-based inspiration.

Deck-building rogue-like RPG Dicey Dungeons, the latest game from VVVVVV and Super Hexagon developer Terry Cavanagh, will be making its way to Steam on 13th August.

Excuse the well-worn cliché, but Fire Emblem: Three Houses really is a game of two halves. On the one hand, it's almost a dating sim - indeed, it might be one of the most lavish examples yet, fully voiced in either Japanese or English depending on your tastes, rich with romance options and side-stories to explore as you sprint around the halls of the Garegg Mach Monastery keeping tabs on the students under your tuition (yes, there's also the slightly icky premise of being a teacher romancing your students, but Three Houses makes a point early on of how young a professor you are, and how mature your students, on the cusp of graduation, are - so it's all totally fine).

Look up at night, at the right moment, and you may see it: a jetliner burning silently across the sky, contrails clean and straight, tiny lights rippling across the fuselage and wingtips. The silence is the thing: the sense of human isolation, of urban, modern isolation. The plane burns on and is gone. Another will replace it.

As of the 26th September, Wii U owners will no longer be able to access Amazon Prime Video from their devices. It had to happen sometime!

Disney Tsum Tsum Festival releases on 10th October in Japan, and Nintendo has announced a special Switch bundle to go along with it.

UPDATE 25TH JULY: Tetris Effect developer Enhance has been in touch to say the game doesn't require SteamVR when playing the optional VR mode using Oculus Rift - it works with the Oculus SDK as well. Therefore, the story below is codswallop. We talked to Epic and Enhance yesterday but clarification didn't come until now. I'm sorry for the confusion. I will be in the stocks all day so bring along your rotten fruit.

Microsoft is tinkering with Xbox One's dashboard again, and has announced a number of upcoming tweaks designed to deliver a more streamlined user interface and "a faster Home experience". As part of these changes, voice assistant Cortana will soon be getting the chop.

Late last year, developer Plausible Concept released its fiendish Viking-themed real-time strategy oddity Bad North, a game that impressed Eurogamer enough to earn it a big old Recommended badge. And now, the studio is back with a "giant" free expansion, titled, appropriately enough, the Jotunn Edition, and it's available now on PC and Mac.

After a bit of a last minute delay, developer Klei Entertainment has announced that its enormously enjoyable space colony management sim, Oxygen Not Included, will be leaving early access and getting its full PC launch next week, on Tuesday, 30th July.

We've already seen incredible examples of what people can make in Dreams, the new PlayStation 4 game by LittleBigPlanet studio Media Molecule. Someone remade Final Fantasy 7 for goodness sake! Dreams' editor is a very powerful tool. Just imagine what a whole, experienced team could do with it...

In a heartfelt post, Defiant Development founder Morgan Jafitt announced the studio is closing and production on all future titles will cease.

UPDATE 3pm BST: It's unknown yet if the instructions to Nintendo's customer service to stop charging customers for their Joy-con repairs have been rolled out globally, as Nintendo UK's customer service doesn't seem to know anything about it.

It's good news for all you Mario Maker course designers out there, as the game will now let you upload 64 courses rather than just 32.

At the beginning of the year, The Pokémon Company announced not one, not two, but four new Pokémon games, and the first is finally nearing its "summer" release in the wild. Pre-registration for the game will begin today on both the Apple App Store and Google Play.

UPDATE 24TH JULY: There's no official gameplay footage of Sigma but renowned Overwatch pro Seagull has taken him for a spin, demonstrating - with considerable skill of course - what the new character is capable of.

A leap from the plinth lands on that familiar bed of sloping sand. The floor has a bit of texture to it, of sliding grit and twinkling silicate. The world is a big channel around us, tubing down, down, down through the clouds. In the distance is the familiar shadow of the mountain, but before that paths to choose at speed, glowing lenses of light to pass through, and at the end, as the rushing of wind becomes overwhelming, two giant doors slowly open, just because we have arrived.

Developer Digital Sun's charming shop management action-RPG Moonlighter has had a bit of a busy year, proving popular enough - the game recently surpassed half a million sales - to spawn a wealth of free content updates. And it's now received its very first paid DLC on PC, in the form of the sizeable Between Dimensions expansion.

Ubisoft's online melee battler For Honor is poised to enter the third season of its third year of content on 1st August, and the publisher has shared early details of what players can expect to see when Season 3, subtitled Hulda, gets underway.

With Sea of Thieves' latest limited-time event, Black Powder Stashes, now out in the wild, Rare has turned its chatter back to the future of its piratical adventure - and has now revealed more on its plans for the game's long-promised pets and micro-transaction store.

Where do bodies begin in video games, and where do they end? You might point to the body of a game's protagonist, but if a player's body isn't so much a body as an expression of your agency, it seems reductive to stop at the perceptible limits of a single character model. In the medieval horror game A Plague Tale: Innocence, the player's range of action and awareness is distributed across the bodies of several characters (together with the phantom onlooker that is the third-person camera) - big sister Amicia, a gang of teenage runaways and the sickly young Hugo, who must be guarded like an Achilles heel. Where exactly are you, the intelligence directing the simulation, in this shifting equation, and what does that bode for concepts of minds and bodies at large? To play such games may not feel like reading a treatise, but it's to participate in a thought experiment about the lines we draw between the categories of consciousness, flesh and world.

For Grand Theft Auto Online diehards, there is nothing more infamous than the Vinewood Casino. A rumoured playable location since players first got their hands on the game in 2013, I remember parking my busted Sultan on Mirror Park Boulevard and seeing the 'Opening Soon' banner for the first time - a beacon of hope back then for an ambitious multiplayer game that hadn't quite found its feet.

Star Citizen's next milestone update has arrived, bringing the controversial space sim up to its alpha 3.6 release. Headline additions this time around include a complete law and order overhaul designed to make life a little tougher for those ne'er-do-wells among the stars.

A new book published to celebrate the life of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's late president who passed away in 2015, includes a series of touching personal insights from Shigeru Miyamoto.

I popped into London's Barbican Centre last week to see the new exhibition about artificial intelligence - AI: More than Human, it's called. I considered myself peak target audience, not because I've read a couple of Isaac Asimov stories and not because I've seen Deus Ex: Machina, although that was a good film - Poe was great wasn't he? It's not because I'm a particular AI geek at all. It's because of video games.

UPDATE 23/7/19: Nintendo has issued a statement on the recent crop of reports surrounding defective Joy-Con, a day after reports filled the internet that it was now the subject of a class action lawsuit in the US.