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UPDATE 21/5/19: Free-to-play Monster Hunter-like Dauntless has launched today with cross-play for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One - making it the first game ever to do so.

Apex Legends' next patch will focus on improving the game's audio, as well as address on-going issues about hit registration. It also - sadly, some might say - fixes the bug that lets us stick crap to Gibraltar's shield.

Activision has removed Raven and Sledgehammer from leading the development of 2020's Call of Duty instalment and instead assigned Treyarch to lead the project.

Mortal Kombat 11 on PC will get a 60fps option for certain parts of the game.

Nostalgia can be a beautiful thing. It can also be hazy and not entirely accurate.

UPDATE: Publisher 2K has said Borderlands 3 will return to the Epic Games store soon, and games sold at the sale price will be honoured.

Members of the World Health Organisation will decide next week if video game addiction will become an officially recognised disorder.

It took three days for players to defeat The Division 2's raid on console - after it took PC players just five hours. But despite this achievement, Ubisoft has indicated tweaks to the raid's difficulty may be made.

EA's Team of the Season promo for FIFA Ultimate Team used to be considered one of the best times to play the game. But with FIFA 19's incarnation, players are kicking off.

Developer No Code has tirelessly described Observation as "2001 but from the perspective of HAL", a proposition that is as intriguing as it is unique, especially coming from a studio that features several people who used to work on Creative Assembly's Alien: Isolation.

Here's hyperbole for you. Just as Sonic Mania saw a group of talented fans going wild with Sega's icon to create something as good as, if not better than the very best 2D Sonic games, then the enthusiasts at Sumo Digital have worked similar magic here. Not that it's saying particularly much, but this might well be the best 3D Sonic in a generation or two.

Codemasters has just announced that an all-new Grid will be coming to consoles and PC later this year, with the fourth instalment in the series - called, simply, Grid - out on September 13th.

Sony has shown an early PlayStation 5 tech demo at an investor conference, captured for posterity by Wall Street Journal Tokyo journalist Takashi Mochizuki and embedded further on down this page. The demo - or a variant of it - was previously shown to Wired magazine, highlighting the enormous streaming and loading time advantages offered by the proprietary SSD technology that finds its way into Sony's next generation PlayStation.

Double Fine's 80s-hued, post-apocalyptic rogue-like, RAD, will be heading to Xbox One, PS4, PC and Switch (in a squeal of synthesisers, no doubt) on 20th August.

Nintendo mobile games Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and Fire Emblem Heroes will be shut down in Belgium at the end of August.

Developer Askiisoft has revealed that its wonderful, neon-drenched action extravaganza Katana Zero will be getting a whole bunch of new additions in a "significant update" due on Switch and PC at the end of the month.

It's the small things that make all the difference. I'm near the end of the tutorial section of Blood & Truth, the new standalone PlayStation VR title from Sony's own London Studio, and between all the action and theatrics of a short run through the basics of this on-rails shooter it's been a struggle to catch my breath. Now I'm sitting in the passenger of a 4X4 alongside my newly liberated comrade, peering out the window to take potshots at bad lads on motorbikes - a standard video game set-piece, given new life by the wonder of VR - but that's not what makes it special. For that, strain your ears to hear beyond the gunshots and explosions to hear what's blasting out the radio: Tim Deluxe's 2002 banger It Just Won't Do.

Long-running sci-fi show Doctor Who is once again getting the video game treatment, this time in a new "cinematic, feature-length" VR game coming to PlayStation VR, Oculus, and Vive this September.

Tricky stuff, fear. It's a precision target. Miss by a couple of feet, and you get moody intrigue. Miss by an inch and you get all-out comedy.

Microsoft and Sony bosses stunned the video game industry last week by agreeing to a historic - if vague - deal to collaborate on cloud-based tech for future gaming platforms.

The last week has seen many of us frothing over PlayStation Vita's wonderful little top-down arcade racing game MotorStorm RC, created by a team of thoughtful developers at a traditional games studio and laden with cool features like cross-console leaderboard competition. It's the vision of a desirable future: less than a fiver for a classically designed game that works on your handheld and your console and uses the internet to coordinate progress across both.

There's a particularly perverse pastime that makes up one of the cornerstones of Slingshot Racing. Drivers are pitted against the Chomper, a merciless racetrack-bound compacter on wheels that eats any vehicle unlucky enough to cross its path. The rules in Chomper races are simple: be the last car standing and you won't be pulverized to a heap of twisted metal. Screw up on a turn or fail to hit a speed boost and you probably won't be so lucky.

It's a marvel of modern video game economics that 'spiritual successors' have gone from game-forum daydreams to a viable cottage industry. Fuelled by crowdfunding and early access schemes and by an ageing gaming population with strong nostalgic yearnings, this industry is ready to honour any dormant title that still stirs fond memories, no matter how obscure. Rather sweetly, it also sometimes brings the games' original creators back into game development after decades away.

Crash Team Racing is an absolute banger, but better yet it's not just a banger but a sort of weird, off-brand, alternate universe banger: the best kind, and the rarest kind.

M2's port of Virtua Racing, which has just hit the Switch's Japanese eShop, presents what I believe is a first on the console - at least I can't think of anyone who's been nuts enough to attempt the same thing - as it enables eight-player splitscreen on a single Switch console, docked or undocked. Perhaps the most nuts thing about it is it works.

Now this is hardcore. After the 2017 detour of Dirt 4, an accessible and noble experiment in procedural track generation that nevertheless felt like it had gone too far in blunting the edges of the sport it simulated, this is a return to deep, satisfying driving with serious bite. To call Dirt Rally 2.0 a return to form would be underselling it a little; Dirt Rally was arguably Codemasters' first true sim, and in my mind the absolute pinnacle of the racing studio's achievements. This refines and improves that formula in smart, notable ways, for a markedly better game.

Rage 2 has topped the UK charts, but with significantly fewer sales than the 2011 original.

Undead, with a dark soul and a penchant for sucking the blood from the young - but hey, that's enough about Konami, because we're here to talk about one of the series that made this once-great company's name.

Lords of the Fallen 2 appears to be back on the ropes again.

Overwatch released on 24th May, 2016, for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, and Blizzard wants your help to celebrate the shooter's three-year anniversary.