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The original creators of Earthworm Jim are reuniting for a new game - but you'll need Amico, the new Intellivision console due October 2020, to play it.

If you're playing Mortal Kombat 11, you'll know about the grind.

It feels like Pokémon's competitive scene is in a pretty good place.

Cloud Imperium Games' controversial space sim Star Citizen is currently free to try for a week on PC - so now's a good time to hop in and sample its interstellar wares if you've been curious to see what progress has been made in recent times.

Developer Acid Wizard Studios' wonderfully nightmarish top-down survival horror Darkwood is unfurling its grasping tendrils on Xbox One, PS4, and PC later this month.

UPDATE: Epic has offered an update on the confusingly worded statement issued to press earlier today regarding Rocket League's future status on Steam, now insisting that it has "not announced plans to stop selling the game there".

Loot shooters have changed a lot since Borderlands first introduced us to the idea of running around a battlefield like a trigger-happy magpie. The likes of Destiny and The Division have taken the simple act of robbing a corpse blind and added new layers of complexity, gear and painstakingly micro-managed weapon mods.

Sony has revealed the game it'll be tossing into the laps of PlayStation Plus subscribers this month - and while they're arguably lower-key offerings compared to recent efforts, they're still good 'uns.

Two years. One thousand hours. One masochistic programmer. Those are the key ingredients mod author Scott "Grimrukh" Mooney claims to have put into Dark Souls mod Daughters of Ash: an overhaul mod for PC which provides users with a huge amount of new content. It originally released back in January for the Prepare to Die edition of the game - and impressed us so much we even interviewed the mod author.

After much teasing and leaking, Valve has formally unveiled Index, its brand-new high-end virtual reality PC hardware. Pre-orders open tomorrow, May 1st, and it's out in June.

Developer Lizardcube's sublime 2017 Wonder Boy 3 remake, Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, is heading to iOS and Android devices next month, on May 30th.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey players in want of more murderous pursuits now have a new target to track across Ancient Greece - this time in the form of the questionably monikered Testiklos the Nut.

It's another day of innovation in the games industry, as the latest CS:GO update introduces respawns and a ping system to the game's battle royale mode.

Observation is trying to do something very complex, and if I feel, at times, like it's failing, I'm also not quite sure what "success", in this case, might look like. If I did, I suspect my ideas about existence in general would be rather different. The work of Glasgow-based Stories Untold developer No Code, the game casts you as an AI, SAM, aboard a damaged orbiting space station around seven years from now. In casting you as that AI, it also marks the point at which SAM ceases to be SAM and becomes something... else, a hybrid of human and machine traits, the player's curiosity and clumsiness mixed in with the AI's hitherto automated systems and procedures.

Last week, I finally remembered the name of a game series I enjoyed when I was around nine years old. It was called the ClueFinders, about a group of young teens who explored different environments solving mysteries. It was educational in the most traditional way, which is why my parents would have been easily convinced to purchase it from our local Currys or Comet store.

Ubisoft has unveiled Ghost Recon Wildlands' latest free update, and it's a two-mission "narrative arc" called Operation Oracle, heading to PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 this week, on 2nd May.

Nintendo's Labo VR set is a lot of fun - not just the colourful, creative mini-games which come packed in, but the building of the whole cardboard Toy-Con, too.

Microsoft is readying a solid May schedule for Xbox Game Pass, with subscribers set to gain access to Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, Tacoma, Lego Batman 3, For the King, Surviving Mars and more.

In a surprise move, Pokémon Go has released three legendary creatures into the wild - a first for the game.

Let's say you're wandering in the desert. You're walking a trail, and fog has set in. Thick fog on both sides of you, obscuring all of the landscape that lies beyond the trail. But, occasionally, the fog clears for a second, and it reveals that the trail runs along the ridge of a mountain, which means that the ground drops away on either side, and you are teetering, forever teetering, on the brink of oblivion.

Microsoft has announced its May line-up of Games with Gold titles which come free if you are an Xbox Live subscriber.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be involving Minecraft creator Marcus "Notch" Persson in the game's official 10th anniversary celebrations, due to his controversial "comments and opinions".

Staff at League of Legends studio Riot Games are reportedly planning walkouts following last week's news that the company is attempting to quash ongoing gender discrimination lawsuits and impose private arbitration.

You've probably played a game like Aggelos before.

The thing that Katana Zero really shares with Hotline Miami, over and above the publisher, the super-violence, the story of drug-addled killers, the glitchy way reality seems to be a corrupted save file, and the enduring love of lurid, hangover pinks? The thing it really shares is the awareness that a certain kind of punishing and precise action game is always itching to turn into the robbery scene from Groundhog Day. There's Bill Murray stood on the street corner. A bullion van is unloading money. He walks across the road and starts counting. One, two, three. Dog barks. Five. Car passes. Seven. Guard spills quarters. Eight, nine, ten. He grabs the money and disappears. It seems effortless, but it's hard work. Years of practice. He's done it over and over to make it look that easy.

Borderlands 3 is set to get its big gameplay reveal this week, courtesy of a whole bunch of livestream events. And viewers will be able to snag in-game loot simply by watching with their eyes (and by installing a special extension).

Phenomenally popular farm-life sim Stardew Valley's next major update is on the horizon, and developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone is starting to open up about what's in store - including a new farm map and more.

Nintendo has pulled a Switch game from the eShop after its creator sneaked in an "Easter egg" that let people create basic apps.

A funny little game, is dear Virtua Racing. You're not likely to find anyone proclaiming it as the best of Sega's 90s racers - it doesn't have the style and attitude of a Daytona USA or Scud Race, nor the poise or finesse of a Sega Rally or F355 Challenge - though maybe its greatest claim to fame is being the most important. Virtua Racing was a significant strike in the arms race between Sega and Namco that defined arcade racing in the 90s, and the start of a run of iconic games that stand as a golden era for the genre. It's where AM2's 3D style was forged, in the blue skies and green hills of Virtua Racing's three tracks, or in the stabs of tight funk from composers Koichi Namiki and Takenobu Mitsuyoshi.

Who would win in a fight out of Zeus and a mammoth? Minotaurs against halflings? Snake archers against potion sellers? They're the showdowns society yearns for but history denies... no longer! Now we have Totally Accurate Battle Simulator.