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This week, Square Enix revealed new footage of Final Fantasy 7 Remake for the first time in three-and-a-half years - and quite a lot about the game has changed.

If you're at all familiar with the Tom Clancy brand of military shooters and espionage games, a portion of the fandom around Rainbow Six Siege might surprise you. A contingent of the usual series enthusiasts is there, lovers of phrases like breach and clear, who know the difference between a clip and a magazine. Beside that familiar lot though are a community who like to do cosplay, who have Tumblrs full of cute fan art - a community who have embellished the game with a personality richer than anything in the game itself.

Developer Digital Extremes has offered a brisk, but illuminating, look at Warframe's thoroughly remastered Gas City area, which is set to release in a new update soon.

Nintendo is hosting another online Grand Prix event for its ludicrously compelling block-dropping Battle Royale game Tetris 99 next week, and there's a nifty Game Boy theme as a prize for all that do well enough.

UPDATE 6.30pm: Life is Strange developer Dontnod has provided a statement on the save issue and ways to solve the problem. Pleasingly, the studio has confirmed there are multiple save file options to pick from to reflect different choices through the second season so far. Here's the update in full:

Indie publisher Devolver Digital has confirmed that its E3 press conference will return - along with, presumably, its bionically rejuvenated and formerly deceased CEO Nina Struthers - on Sunday, 9th June, 2019. Check a look!

Where to start with a game like Final Fantasy 12? If it's not exactly universally recognised as the greatest game in this most storied of series - for shame - then perhaps it can at least lay claim to being the quintessential Final Fantasy; divisive amongst the fans, subject to a tortured development and ambitious to the extreme. Forget airships, moogles and summons - that's everything a Final Fantasy should be.

Square Enix has reiterated its plan to release Final Fantasy 7 Remake as an episodic title.

Last year, Game Freak took one of its semi-regular breaks from its beloved little pocket monsters in order to bless us with a futuristic, sci-fi adventure, side-scrolling 2D platformer in the form of Giga Wrecker Alt. And now it's just released on console.

Spearheaded by Devil May Cry director Hideaki Itsuno, Dragon's Dogma is often overlooked in the list of last-gen's best RPGs. Inspired by western goliaths like Skyrim, Capcom challenged itself to create its own fantasy epic, powered by its own proprietary technology. PC and current-gen console ports followed, culminating in the arrival of this fascinating Switch conversion.

Although I can scarcely believe it, over a year has passed since God of War first thundered its way onto PlayStation 4 - and now seems as good a time as any to take a look back at the game's many successes. Loki-ly for us, Santa Monica Studio has created a feature-length documentary detailing the exact story of how God of War was made - and you can now watch the whole thing on YouTube.

Nintendo Switch exclusive Tetris 99 is one of the best things available on the console. It's a mash-up of battle royale and classic puzzle mechanics, and is also a perfect excuse to own a Nintendo Online subscription, which nets you the game for free.

Sony has begun laying the groundwork for its 2020 release schedule with Predator: Hunting Grounds, a PlayStation 4 shooter based on the much-loved action movie franchise.

Heaven's Vault is a fine game, and not yet a month old, but you might not have heard of it - as an independent production it doesn't have a massive megaphone. Thankfully now, there's now a free demo you can try.

Sony's revamped MediEvil will burst through the soil and onto your PlayStation 4 this Halloween - specifically, on Friday 25th October.

From the feral beasts of Bloodborne to Dark Souls' assorted grotesques, FromSoftware has a habit of infusing its work with horror. Its latest game, Sekiro may have swapped out gothic spires and dungeons for silvergrass and sakura, but there's still darkness festering beneath the surface. Game director Hidetaka Miyazaki once explained "it's important to have that sense of fear and terror" in order for players to go onto overcome it.

Developer Colossal Order's perennially popular city builder Cities: Skylines is going back to school in its latest expansion, Campus, which comes to PC on 21st May.

Following on from the gameplay trailer reveal of Monster Hunter World expansion Iceborne, Capcom has shared a few more details on what players can expect to see when the paid update hits PS4 and Xbox One on 6th September.

Hades is the latest game from Supergiant, a studio that sometimes seems to rival Klei Games in terms of classiness and poise and sheer polish. Hades is all about ancient gods smashing things up in the underworld. It's a Roguelite in which you fight your way through a shifting maze of classical horrors again and again and again. There is so much that's good about it I'm aiming to write something more comprehensive next week. For now, though, I wanted to talk about something I probably don't think about enough in games: the texture of the in-game world.

Following the leak earlier today, Ubisoft has officially revealed Ghost Recon Breakpoint, the forthcoming follow-up to 2017's massively popular, somewhat generic open world shooter Wildlands.

Ahead of tonight's planned Monster Hunter World Spring Update livestream, Capcom has offered a sizeable new gameplay trailer showcasing the game's previously announced Iceborne expansion, which now has a release date of 6th September.

Square Enix has unveiled a brand-new trailer for its hugely anticipated, and long-in-the-works, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, with more news promised to arrive this June.

Paradox Interactive's celebrated sci-fi 4X strategy game Stellaris will be free to try this weekend on Steam, in honour of the game's third birthday.

Following an unintentionally revealing update mishap, fans have discovered that the next killer to join asymmetrical multiplayer slasher horror Dead by Daylight will be the iconic masked maniac Ghostface from Scream.

Whoops - seems Bethesda's marketing plan for The Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming expansion Elsweyr has gone awry, as a tabletop RPG adventure named after the update has been accused of plagiarism.

The final episode of the fourth story-season of Guild Wars 2 will arrive 14th May (this Tuesday). Included will be the game's second flying mount, a dragon one, the Skyscale.

Nintendo has announced its E3 2019 plans - and dated its Nintendo Direct.

Let's get straight to the point - Switch is indeed evolving and in select scenarios, Nintendo's hardware is becoming more powerful than it was at launch. Recent stories talking about a 'boost mode' of sorts for the console hybrid are perhaps a touch inaccurate, but after investigating a trio of recent releases, it's now confirmed that Nintendo is selectively overclocking its hardware - or more precisely, opening up new options for developers to beef up portable performance while at the same time playing with thermal management and CPU clocks to speed up loading times.

It's been a whole year since Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire came out - played it yet? It's very good. Wonderful sense of place, full of politicking and skulduggery.

After Tilted Towers suffered a dramatic death-by-volcano last week, many were wondering whether the famous hotbed of sweats would ever be resurrected - but season 9 is upon us, and so is the new version of Tilted Towers. You can't keep this place down.