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Amazon's game development arm, Amazon Game Studios, has revealed that it's co-developing a new free-to-play MMO based on JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Following earlier reports that two new Switch models were on the way, Nintendo has finally confirmed one of those: the new portable-only Nintendo Switch Lite.

Non-profit mental health organisation Take This has released a State of the Industry white paper outlining mental health concerns within game development.

The creatively named Stranger Things 3: The Game is an action-adventure beat-'em-up where you play through the events of the third season of Stranger Things. This game really is one giant spoiler for the show. When I write "play through the events of" I mean quite literally that there are lines and scenes that unfold exactly as they do in season three. As a result, I wouldn't recommend playing this if you haven't finished the third season, or if you plan on watching it anytime soon so as not to spoil it for yourself. However, if you don't really care for watching the show but still want to know what happens, then perhaps you're the person the game is aimed at, because, to be quite honest, you'd have a lot more fun if you just watched Stranger Things.

Bandai Namco and Neowiz have teamed up to Korean massively multiplayer role-playing game Bless Unleashed to Xbox One, and we've got 10,000 keys for this weekend's closed beta test to give away!

Fortnite, which you may have heard of, is at it again, this time adding a sort of air-strike-in-a-can as part of its latest content update.

Years ago, when I worked in retail in a long gone Blockbuster store, Easter was an awkward time of year. Not because seemingly everyone on the face of the Earth wanted a copy of Slumdog Millionaire or Taken and didn't understand the concept of limited stock, but because of Creme Eggs. I'm no fan of Creme Eggs, admittedly. They're cloyingly sweet. But it was the packaging that was the real problem. Their small yet vital barcode was wrapped around the egg-shaped chocolate and that made it impossible to scan easily. In time, I ended up memorising the barcode number (known as an EAN) while still cursing quietly about the Creme Egg design.

Nintendo has announced that Tetris 99, its hugely entertaining block-busting battle royale puzzler for Switch, will be getting a European physical release on 20th September.

Furi developer The Game Bakers has shared the first gameplay trailer, and offered new details, for its gorgeous, romantically inclined space adventure, Haven.

Dr. Mario World, Nintendo's latest foray into mobile gaming, has launched a day earlier than expected, and is available now on iPhone and Android devices.

Warframe has a seriously impressive update schedule. In the past year alone, Digital Extremes has put out an enormous open world expansion (and updated it), several remasters, a new limited-time event and, of course, new Warframes: all while simultaneously working on at least two upcoming expansions and a multitude of other projects.

Cuphead, the video game designed to look like a cartoon, is now getting a cartoon series based on it.

I don't believe the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Every time I read it I'm like, "Nope, wouldn't happen - the hare would smash it." It's a tortoise! I had a tortoise growing up and it was really slow. I had rabbits too - not hares, admittedly, who has hares? - and they can shift if they want to. Actually we had this really brilliant rescue rabbit called Kevin - good name isn't it? - who used to pick fights with the neighbourhood cats. It's how he met his end, Kevin - he had a running feud with the street's hardest cat. The tortoise never did anything like that, just dragged himself around eating cucumber. Really slowly.

Fireballs through pipes. That was my first idea. It was inspired by a level in Super Mario Maker 2's story mode in which I spawned a fire flower and then blitzed a room of Koopas by bouncing hot death through the pipes they had been using to travel around in and mess me up. When it was all over, I suddenly thought: what if you had a level, right, where Mario couldn't really move very much, but he had all these pipes which he could launch fireballs down? What if there was a way to have him sort of play this pipe organ of glorious Mario murder, cleaning out the level and perhaps bringing the exit straight to him at the end of it?

There's a new feature for Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft's games subscription service with now over 200 games included.

Gritty dinosaur slaughter series Turok is getting a new entry - a cute 2D shooter called Turok: Escape from the Lost Valley.

Kingdom Under Fire 2 is alive and apparently it's actually really genuinely coming out. Publisher Gameforge is now in control and will release the game on PC in Europe and North America later this year, it has told me.

AMD's long-awaited Navi graphics cards are finally here, combining the firm's new RDNA architecture with the advanced 7nm process that spawned the Radeon 7. The resultant $349 Radeon 5700 and $399 Radeon 5700 XT are capable of superior frame-rates than last year's RTX competitors at a similar price point, while also consuming less power and generating less heat than their Vega predecessors.

It's been a whole year since Digital Extremes first announced its space combat project Railjack at TennoCon 2018. While the expansion's release date remains elusive (and the name has changed to Empyrean), thanks to today's TennoCon presentation, we now know a few more details about the expansion's gameplay. This includes a mission which feels like it's straight out of Star Wars, albeit with fewer Ewoks.

At the moment I live on the border of two councils, which means I have two sets of library systems and two library cards. Both library systems are a delight. The Jubilee Library in Brighton is a vast airy place with three light wells in the roof and an upper floor that seems to almost float, unattached to the nearby walls. Then there's the library on the Lewes side - not Lewes itself because it's a bit of a slog, but just ten minutes away on the bus. Small and clean with a lovely sort of reading tube for my daughter to sit in. This tube's padded surfaces and close curves remind me of the future of space travel as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick. All that's missing is a Monolith at the check-out desk.

Developer HopFrog's adorable open-world scavenge-'em up oddity, Forager, is coming to PS4 and Switch on 30th July, and it's getting a physical release this September too.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is about to go full zombie, with its new Operation Apocalypse Z update launching tomorrow, 9th July.

Tetris 99, Switch's excellent battle royale twist on the classic block dropping puzzler, is getting a second helping of DLC later this year, this time with a focus on offline multiplayer.

A fresh trailer for Pokémon Sword and Shield has revealed several new Pokémon, including the eye-catching Alcremie.

For Pokémon Go fans, Dortmund last week felt like a digital Disneyland. Or a really polite, sober music festival. No, I'll stick with Disney - because I think there's something similar in the way its magic kingdom, all plasterboard facades and cast members in costumes, becomes something more special when you're there in person, and experiencing it all alongside others.

Is F1 2019 the most photo-realistic racing sim of its kind? Developer Codemasters has developed some gorgeous games this generation after all: Dirt Rally 2.0 is among the best in its field and later this year we'll see Grid rebooted on PS4 and Xbox One. But between those games, the F1 series is where we really see the team's EGO engine get an upgrade each year, iterated upon with every release. There's a sense of evolution rather than revolution then, but this latest F1 offering is definitely impressive.

UPDATE 8/7/19: Batman Arkham developer Rocksteady has now confirmed the Batman Arkham Collection Steelbook Edition, which leaked via Amazon over the weekend.

Dr Mario World, which releases later this week, perfectly sums up Nintendo's compromised adventure in smartphone gaming. It's a supremely polished, easy-to-enjoy game that meets the Kyoto company's famously high quality bar. It takes one of Nintendo's classic games - a block-matching puzzler that dates back to a 1990 Nintendo Entertainment System original - and reworks it for touchscreens with imagination and care. And for its business model, it resignedly copies what everyone else does, at a cost to the design and balance of the game that has been minimised, but is still there.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players have started to notice zombie-themed changes to the Blackout map ahead of a big update due tomorrow.

Bandai Namco has revealed further information about its new action-RPG, Blue Protocol.