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Barotrauma comes out on Steam as an Early Access title on 5th June.

Sega has announced that it's acquiring Two Point Studios, the British developer behind Two Point Hospital - last year's enormously enjoyable, thoroughly charming spiritual successor to classic business sim Theme Hospital.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint has leaked ahead of an official reveal from publisher Ubisoft.

Season 9 will be great, I am sure. The new Tilted looks like it's taken inspiration from Sunset Overdrive, which is always money in the bank, and it's just nice to see shiny buildings rising out of the volcano-ravaged earth. But with two words, the patch notes for the new season have broken my heart and ended a glorious era of aviation - or rather a glorious era of aviation stupidity.

Ultra Ultra, the developer behind well-received stealth-action sci-fi game Echo, has announced its closure.

US Senator Josh Hawley has proposed legislation that would prohibit pay-to-win mechanics, loot boxes, and other "manipulative design" in games targeted toward children.

Conan Unconquered is a lot like They Are Billions. It's not just the 'build a base and defend it against increasingly daunting waves of enemies' survival idea: it's the bones of the game, the mechanics. It's in the way your resources work and how you harvest them. It's in the way you lay out your base and build your defences. It's in the way waves of enemies are announced and how they approach. To be blunt, it's a bit of a rip-off.

Thomas Was Alone and Volume developer Mike Bithell is making an officially-licensed John Wick game.

Microsoft has stuffed a couple more Xbox 360 games into its magical backward-compatibility funnel, turned the crank, and shot them out onto Xbox One at the other end. And as a result, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge and Trails Evolution are now playable on your modern-day Microsoft console.

Much has been written about Anthem's rocky path through development, shaky launch, and the recent reshuffling of post-launch plans as developer BioWare continues to try and save its struggling online game.

Thinking about it, wouldn't all games be better if they had non-aggressive names? God of Ceasefire, Peaceframe, Gears of Truce. No? Well unfortunately for those in China, the country's government seems to think so, as its refusal to allow PUBG Mobile monetisation has meant Tencent has pulled the game and replaced it with a more patriotic alternative. It's called Game for Peace.

EA's just reported its fourth quarter results - and amongst the dry business jargon are some interesting tidbits concerning Apex Legends. Namely, that the game's coming to mobile devices and China.

Eve Online's next expansion is named Invasion, CCP Games has announced. It'll launch on 28th May and, as usual, will be free to all players.

Eevee evolutions Leafeon and Glaceon are still to arrive in Pokémon Go, but a fresh leak seems to have revealed a brand new mechanic which will - at last - make them obtainable.

There's so much to love about Mortal Kombat 11, a kind of Mortal Kombat greatest hits package and certainly NetherRealm's best-playing fighting game ever. But then there's a gnawing issue that drags down all the good the game does, like skeletal hands clawing at your feet.

Cats? Pandas? Notch? Minecraft is a very different game now to the one which launched back in 2009. It's a more complex, customisable beast - and sometimes I yearn for the simplicity of its earlier days.

Three more NES games will join Nintendo's Switch Online catalogue next week, on Wednesday 15th May.

Following on from the release of Microsoft's celebrated Xbox Adaptive Controller, created for gamers with limited mobility, a new accessibility focussed patent submission has been discovered from the company - this one showcasing an Xbox controller with haptic Braille support, specifically designed to assist visually impaired and blind players.

Capcom is slinging another oldie-but-goodie from its enviable back catalogue onto Switch later this year, this time in the form of Hideki Kamiya's beloved Devil May Cry.

Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm Studios has said that it's "actively looking into" the recent wave of reports online alleging toxic working conditions and unhealthy, sustained crunch culture within the studio.

Trials of Fire is a video game that is also a card game, a card game that is also an RPG, and an RPG that is also a book. This last piece is surprisingly important when it comes down to how lovely the whole thing is to interact with. The book is a great fiction. The game's title screen is stamped on its cover, and the early pages - the front matter, as they say, wonderfully, in the trade - is where you find tutorials and party stuff and all of that other front matter jazz. Adventures see you turning pages as you make choices, overworld maps or battle arenas rising out of the paper itself. When you want to go back or forward or muddle around with your equipment you can use bookmarks to get you there. Books, it turns out, even when they're digital books like this, are pretty great technology.

Developer Motion Twin has announced that its critically acclaimed rogue-like action-platform romp, Dead Cells, is heading to iOS and Android devices, starting this summer.

UPDATE: Eurogamer has received comment from Gearbox on the physical assault allegation made by David Eddings against Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford.

EA's game subscription service EA Access will launch on PlayStation 4 in July, after years as an Xbox One console exclusive. On PC, EA runs a similar program, Origin Access.

Recently, the controversy over working conditions in game development has moved from the punishing workload involved in shipping big releases like Red Dead Redemption 2 to the stresses of keeping popular online games constantly updated, thanks to a Polygon report on the relentless crunch at Fortnite developer Epic.

You know how sometimes a new iPhone model will leak because an Apple employee leaves it in the back of a taxi?

QuakeCon is coming to Europe for the first time this year, in a kind of mirror event being held in London simultaneously with the traditional, age-old Dallas QuakeCon event on 26th-27th July.

Following Riot Games' attempts to block several gender discrimination lawsuits, employees have staged a walkout to protest the company's sexist culture and forced arbitration.

Brand synergy, I choose you! Pokémon Go's inevitable Detective Pikachu in-game event starts today, so you can celebrate the Pokémon franchise's first live-action movie via its ubiquitous mobile game.

If you missed it, last weekend saw the destruction of several major locations in Fortnite - not least Tilted Towers, perhaps the game's most talked about (and complained about) area of all time.