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Ray tracing is the hot new thing in video game graphics - so hot in fact that Sony's already announced the PlayStation 5 will be capable of it. So we're starting to see existing games with the tech enabled - with impressive results.

I had fun watching Detective Pikachu, a fuzzy, endearingly slimy first crack at a live action-animation hybrid from the Pokémon Company. It was a strange kind of fun though - a bit like the fun you have in being a plus-one at a wedding: a perfectly jolly, mercifully brief time out, that does also come with a nagging sense that whether or not you actually enjoyed it is irrelevant, really, because this whole thing was put together for someone else.

It's always a pleasure to get reacquainted with an old classic, so what's better than the chance to get reacquainted with three of them all at once? It's a bit of a bumper week on the Nintendo Switch eShop right now, with Resident Evil Zero, the 2002 remake of the original and Resident Evil 4 all suddenly available.

A film based on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is in the works, according to a new report.

"Irish isn't very popular among the youth of today, but maybe..."

UPDATE 23/5/19: Mega Crit Games has announced that Slay the Spire, its superb rogue-like deck-building dungeon-crawler, will finally be heading to Switch on 6th June.

Developer Minskworks' Jalopy is a weird, drab, dull, wonderful experience, and if you're in the mood for a bit of an Eastern European adventure in a clapped-out old banger, you'd do well to snap it up right now, while it's free on the Humble Store.

Developer The Bearded Ladies has unveiled the first expansion for its stealthy XCOM-alike Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. It's called Seed of Evil, and is heading to PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch on 30th July.

It's been a long time coming but Dreamfall Chapters developer Red Thread Games' intriguing first-person "fjord noir mystery", Draugen, will finally arrive on Steam and GOG next week, on 29th May.

With Google Stadia and other assorted streaming services set to truly take off this year, many are wondering: is my broadband good enough?

UPDATE 4.30PM: 2K Games has confirmed to Eurogamer it is working to get Tales from the Borderlands back on sale as soon as possible. As we reported below, it was recently pulled from Steam and will be removed from GOG on Monday, alongside many other titles from the now defunct Telltale Games.

Valve has announced it will make its own version of the immensely popular Dota Auto Chess mod.

We. The Revolution, the courtroom drama set during the French Revolution, finally has a console release date. It will launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch 25th June.

Prehistoric ape evolution game Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey now has a firm release date for PC via the Epic Games Store, and a later launch window for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Total War: Three Kingdoms has set a concurrent player record for the series on Steam.

While Spyro is a peppy and cute little dragon, you've gotta admit: his flying skills could do with some work. Aside from when using power-ups or on speedway levels, Spyro's stumpy little wings can only take him so far, leaving players to jump and run their way across the game's platforms.

I spent the first few minutes with Paws on Fire in a sort of Bubsy Fugue. I would reach the end of a level, watch the score counter spin past the million mark and see the various collectable parts of a medallion slot into place, and realise I had no real memory of where I'd been or what I'd done. If you're not a Bubsy super fan, the bobcat can have a sort of enervating impact. He never seems to get the best gigs or the finest treatment. His platformers struggle to stick in the memory.

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A fifteen-year-old American girl has survived a brush with the almighty after her heart stopped during a presumably hectic bout of Dance Dance Revolution at the arcade. DDR, better known on this side of the planet as Dancing Stage, sees players tapping their feet on symbols on the floor that correspond to directions indicated on the screen - the idea, for those with no idea, is to 'dance' along as accurately and punctually as possible.

Konami is bringing DanceDanceRevolution to the PlayStation 3.

Konami has announced a new Classroom Edition of perennial party game favourite Dance Dance Revolution that will be compatible with a whopping 48 dance mats.

At long last, I now have an excuse to write about one of my absolute favourite games: the wonderful and ridiculous Dance Dance Revolution. Two days ago, the game turned 20 - marking two decades since its original release in Japan on the 26th September 1998. It's almost as old as me. Almost.

It's been a big couple of weeks for Dance Dance Revolution. Not only did the game recently celebrate its 20th birthday, but it seems the game is due to be further immortalised with a... film? I'm not sure how I feel about this.

GameSpot reports this morning that Dance Dance Revolution could be heading to Xbox. The report is based on a product entry on the EBGames website, often an oracle for details on unannounced titles. However, despite claims that it will support Xbox Live with downloadable music tracks, characters and dance steps, Konami in the UK had nothing to say on the matter other than the game doesn't appear on their release schedules (internally or otherwise), and that EBGames often claims they're doing things which never materialise. Looks like we'll have to wait and see.

Konami has announced its latest dance game during last Friday's Konami Gamer's Day (of which more later). Dance Dance Revolution Extreme for the PS2 is billed as much more of the same, with over 100 minutes of licensed and original dance music, music videos to keep spectators happy and various new game modes.

Nintendo and Konami are collaborating on a new Dance Dance Revolution game featuring Mario, which will be published by Nintendo in Japan this summer.

Konami has filed a complaint with a US district court over Roxor Games' new dance game for PS2, claiming that it infringes patent and trademark rights for the Dance Dance Revolution franchise.

Those of you who have zip-codes instead of post-codes will be happy bunnies this morning, especially if you like to wiggle the old back-bone, as Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party looks set to head to Wii across the US sometime this year.

Konami has announced that Wii party game Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 2 will be out on 26th June.

DanceDanceRevolution on PlayStation 3 will support Sony's motion controller, Move, Konami has confirmed.