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UPDATE 28/5/19: Sci-fi strategy game Stellaris' latest Story Pack DLC, the archaeology themed Ancient Relics, will launch next week, on 4th June.

With Konami's Arcade Classics and Castlevania Anniversary Collections now out in the wild, the publisher has shifted focus to its third (and, as so far revealed, final) 50th birthday offering, the Contra Anniversary Collection. And we now know the full games line-up ahead of release this "summer".

Developer Jo-Mei Games' intriguing, visually arresting exploration adventure, Sea of Solitude, will be heading to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on July 5th.

Been busy duking it out in the muddy Nordic trenches of Firestorm mode? Fancy a holiday? DICE has you covered, as Battlefield 5's new Mediterranean map Mercury has finally been unveiled. Unfortunately warfare is still included in this holiday package.

If you've been eagerly anticipating the release of Sable since our first glimpse of it at last year's E3, sadly, you're going to have to wait a little while longer, as the game's release date has been moved back from 2019 to 2020.

The atmosphere sticks like a sweet, damp odour. As the door swings shut behind you - instantly snuffing out the meagre light - something shifts in the darkness. You're just hearing things, you admonish yourself - it's only the drip of a pipe or the creak of a floorboard; you're on edge and have been for ages - but then it happens again and this time, there's no mistake. The silence is a knowing silence, now; a watchful one. Something knows you're there, and it's waiting for you to move first.

In George Orwell's 1984, you're swept along in a revolution you don't really know anything about. It's so secretive because the stakes are so high. One wrong move and, kachunk, you're disappeared, and it's frightening.

It looks like Roller Champions is set to be revealed by Ubisoft at E3.

Team Sonic Racing is off to a quick start in the UK - it's the first Sonic game to top the UK sales chart since Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games came out in 2008.

We've got a Pokémon news dump incoming, as The Pokémon Company has revealed we'll be seeing not one, but two Pokémon-focused announcements over the next few weeks. It's not even E3 yet!

New Darksiders and Destroy All Humans games look set for E3.

Intel formally unveiled its next-generation 10th-generation Ice Lake processors in Taiwan today, but its second announcement at the Computex trade show is arguably more important. Project Athena is a new take on the Ultrabook initiative of 2011, designed to push high-end laptop computers into new levels of performance, battery life and usability - as measured in real world conditions. Project Athena was first announced at CES earlier this year, but now we're getting the first real details about about how these laptops are graded, how standards will evolve over time and when the first models will be released.

I tried to hide my disappointment, but I couldn't. It was Christmas, 1983 and I wanted a ZX Spectrum. All my friends either had one, or were also desperately hoping one would be sitting under the tree. Instead, for reasons which my parents have never satisfactorily explained (it was probably on special offer), I got a Mattel Intellivision console. In the four years since between its release in 1979 and that fateful yuletide morning, the Intellivision had already played out its own rise and fall.

Dauntless is a generous new free-to-play riff on Monster Hunter which has already eaten the best part of a week for me. For a while, though, it looked like the most charismatic monster I would be hunting was the little silhouette guy who turns up whenever the game is loading. I fell in love a bit: the feet are big and plodding, the head is bowed in something that looks like defeat or too much self-knowledge. The tail almost drags on the ground. I didn't want to hunt this monster. I wanted to make sure it had its favourite scarf to hand and a good book to read. It was certainly a bit more likable than the game's early level beasts, which appeared to be seemingly interchangeable lizards and dragons.

Assassin's Creed 3 Remastered arrives on Switch after a month's delay, but the question it poses is simple: is this truly a remaster? Based on close comparisons, its visual feature set is more in line with the original last-gen releases - lacking the new rendering features of the PS4, PC and Xbox One versions. Equally problematic is the fact that this release is delivered via a 13.6GB install, down from the 45GB on PS4. Clearly, cuts have been made on Switch - but where? And to what extent does it impact the overall experience?

Square Enix has announced a PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch remake of the PSP remake of the original Star Ocean game.

An ambitious Morrowind mod has issued a beefy new update.

A Battle.net update has removed the Activision credit for Destiny 2, while Bungie has indicated it will soon be ready to discuss a "new era" for both the game and the developer.

Microsoft will soon release a purple Fortnite Xbox One S, a new leak has revealed.

Ever play Bloodborne and think, you know what? I wish I could play as the enemies! Well, now there's a mod for that.

Mortal Kombat 11 has a Mercy mechanic - brought back after making its debut in Mortal Kombat 3 - and the pros are unafraid to bust it out during the game's first big tournament.

Long before Rare set sail on the Sea of Thieves, while it was still in Nintendo's embrace, it bought us Conker - a foul-mouthed, drunken squirrel caught in a gaudy world of sex, violence, poop, and swears, and far from the studio's usual family friendly fare. Conker's Bad Fur Day was a watershed moment in gaming for many, but the squirrel's reign was all-too-short, and he never got the fully fledged sequel he deserved. One was planned though, as has been public knowledge for years, and, now, Bad Fur Day designer Chris Seavor has taken to Twitter to reveal more.

Koji Igarashi's Castlevania spiritual successor, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, is almost upon us, arriving next month on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC. And in the run-up to release, publisher 505 Games has outlined its extensive post-launch DLC plans.

I've been playing and replaying a handful of games recently and I've started to realise that they're all the same game, or rather they all have the same preoccupations, even if they take things in different directions.

Paramount's much-maligned Sonic the Hedgehog movie project has been delayed by a little over three months, and will now release on 14th February, 2020.

Norwich Games Festival, which runs next week from Monday 27th May to Saturday 1st June, will host legendary Rare designer and Free Radical Design co-founder David Doak.

There's been some degree of controversy surrounding the Switch ports of Resident Evil Remake, Resident Evil Zero and Resident Evil 4 - principally in terms of their price-points compared to other platforms and the lack of extra features designed to make the most of the Switch hardware. There's no denying that these are all valid criticisms, but personally, I have few problems recommending two of the three releases, with the third just a patch away from greatness. The fact is that these are still classic survival horror games that are still great to play today and on top of that, being able to revisit these titles in a portable form factor is an advantage that can't be overlooked.

It finally feels like Square Enix's long-awaited Final Fantasy remake is grinding into gear, but we still don't have a release date to salivate over. While we wait, there's a mod for that.

As a surprise to almost no-one, it seems Apex Legends has been unable to maintain its explosive start, as the game's digital revenue has significantly dropped for the second month in a row.

A $10,000 competition prize for designing a Pokémon T-shirt has been cancelled due to repeated breaches of its rules.