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It's been a while since we heard anything about Somerville, a side-scrolling (or is it?) sci-fi collaboration between now-departed Playdead co-founder Dino Patti and Hollywood animator Chris Olsen. In an interview with Eurogamer's Robert Purchese in 2017, Patti suggested the end was "in sight" for the project. Speaking to me at Gamelab today, he offered some updates - and a few concerns.

Mod support has launched for Total War: Three Kingdoms - and Creative Assembly has made it clear what is and isn't appropriate.

UPDATE 5th July 2019: Epic has revealed some shiny new Stranger Things skins for its crossover event with the show. Unlike previous crossovers, this event doesn't seem to have a limited-time game mode, however the new cosmetics mean you can break out your moves dressed as Chief Hopper or the Demogorgon.

The sun has now set on the first day of Europe's first ever Pokémon Go Fest, here in Dortmund, Germany - but not without a surprise for fans.

Trust Nintendo to release spin-off Zelda and Mario games this summer and both turn out to be just as good as their main entries.

For a double-A game, a Switch port of Red Faction Guerrilla is pretty ambitious stuff. This release was always a physics showcase - to the point where we used the Xbox One X remaster as a point of comparison against Microsoft's destruction-driven multiplayer Crackdown 3. The original last-gen release pushed the Xbox 360's 3.2GHz PowerPC cores hard and we suspect the key challenge here was in making that physics system work effectively on just three 1GHz ARM Cortex A57s. Surprisingly though, this aspect of the game works rather well.

We loved the original Bulletstorm in 2011, and we loved the Full Clip remaster in 2017. We'll probably also love the Switch version when it arrives end of August - a date mentioned by Sebastian Wojciechowski, CEO of developer People Can Fly, on the phone to me.

"There are only three sports," Hemingway once said, before handily providing a list. "Bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."

If you're playing Teamfight Tactics - Riot's League of Legends-infused take on the auto chess genre - then you'll have an opinion on RNG.

Well over two years after its release in 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is still throwing up surprises for players - and the latest one to be unearthed might be one of the best yet.

I'll be honest: when John Wick Hex was first unveiled back in May, I had my doubts. Although the trailer displayed a clear vision and original approach, I wondered how the John Wick films - notoriously fast and improvisational in style - could be translated into a slower-paced strategy game without losing... well, their John Wick-ness. How on earth would that fluid, choreographed, almost-balletic fighting style be represented in the game?

Call of Duty Modern Warfare has an Aim Down Sight reload, Infinity Ward has revealed.

Epic boss Tim Sweeney has announced Epic will fund all Kickstarter refunds for any future games that go exclusive on the platform.

Yesterday was an eventful day for Konami and PES, with a number of announcements for PES 2020 and the surprise removal of PES 2019 from the PS Plus lineup of titles for July.

Double-A man! With your shaven head, your determined jaw, your weird shoulders, your blandsome looks! How I have missed you! You may not have had Nolan North or a half-tuck (actually, he often did make an appearance somewhere in the cast list), you may not have travelled in Mass Effect's elevators or had a backstory unveiled on an E3 stage, but you generally had something better. You generally had a gimmick.

This was supposed to be AMD's moment - the time when Navi finally arrived to make Team Red competitive again towards the higher end of the graphics hardware market. Just days before the launch of the Radeon RX 5700 and RX 5700 XT though, Nvidia fired a new salvo: three 'tweener' cards designed to take the wind out of AMD's sails by offering superior performance at a dangerously similar price. In fact, the firm was confident in its new line-up that it even pulled its embargo forward - so products that many see as a reaction to AMD's Navi will actually be reviewed ahead of their prospective competition.

In an effort to prioritise the health of its employees, Studio MDHR has announced the Cuphead DLC: The Delicious Last Course will be delayed until 2020.

Artifact is a mess. 101 players are in game at the time of writing, with the 24 hour peak being only marginally better at 124. Valve hasn't said anything about the game since 29th March, when the company announced the team will "be heads-down focusing on addressing these larger issues instead of shipping updates". The most action Artifact has seen on Twitch in recent months was when people decided to stream full length movies and porn in the game's section. Artifact, at least for now, is a dead game, and arguably Valve's most spectacular failure to date.

UPDATE 3rd July 2019: Split-screen returns to Blackout 9th July, Treyarch has announced.

Consider it for a second: cadence. What a perfect Zelda-ish word. Cadence! This word is a song and a river and a waterfall. It is cascading and it is radiance. It says there is a hidden order in nature and this order is beautiful - elegant and taut and melancholic and not to be messed with. Zelda is filled with wonderful words of its own devising. It has Hyrule, it has the Triforce. Here is a word of our own that fits perfectly. It has the right... it has the right cadence.

What fine rump Henry Cavill has - a super bottom, you could say - so why not slap it on the poster for Netflix's new Witcher TV show?

Super Mario Maker 2 sold almost double the physical copies of its predecessor during its first week on sale.

Insomniac Games has officially announced the release of two suits in Marvel's Spider-Man inspired by Spider-Man: Far From Home, and they're available for download right now for free.

Guy Beahm, who streams on Twitch under the persona of Dr Disrespect, has posted an apology about his controversial E3 livestream, which resulted in him being banned from the streaming platform for two weeks.

PlayStation has made a last-minute change to its July PlayStation Plus squad line-up - and it has dropped PES 2019 in favour of Detroit: Become Human's Deluxe Edition.

Expect to see an officially-licensed Manchester United in PES 2020.

Cyberpunk 2077 maker CD Projekt Red has caused fan hearts to flutter with talk of its work on three games in the Cyberpunk universe.

Ys Net has provided Kickstarter backers of Shenmue 3 with an update regarding the fallout surrounding the game's exclusivity to the Epic Game Store - and will be providing refunds to unsatisfied customers, while more patient ones can wait a year for a Steam key so they can play on the platform of their choice.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 now has duplicated protected loot boxes.

We know about Poland's biggest games but the tide there is rising for everyone, and the indie scene has been gathering steam for a while. Devolver's Carrion is a case in point: I saw this last year at a conference in Poland and now loads of people are talking about it after seeing it at E3. It looks great. With that in mind, I returned to Polish conference Digital Dragons this year, determined to share with you the indie games I saw there.