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Developer NetherRealms has a history of pushing the envelope for cinematic visuals in fighting games - and Mortal Kombat 11 is no exception, delivering a spectacular experience on all consoles. The physically-based lighting and facial capture tech of Injustice 2 returns, this time put to work with some gruesome fatalities and bone-crunching close-ups. PS4 and Xbox One machines of all flavours deliver an accomplished presentation, but with this latest franchise entry, a new handheld contender enters the fray - and MK11 on Switch delivers a surprisingly strong conversion.

Sony may have begun talking openly about PlayStation 5, but it's still a long way from going on sale.

Eve Online is known for its outrageous space battles, propaganda and political maneuverings, but things got real earlier this month when an actual US politician was banned from the game for alleged corruption. The politician in question, Republican lobbyist Brian Schoeneman (in-game name Brisc Rubal), was accused by CCP of breaking a non-disclosure agreement to share confidential information which was then used by another player to conduct "illicit in-game transactions".

First of all, set your expectations accordingly. The new VR updates for two of Nintendo Switch's most popular games do not hold a candle to the best experiences you might have had on Vive, on Oculus, or even on PSVR. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild boasts VR support for the entire game, but the framerate doesn't rise above the 30fps of the original version, there's limited motion tracking and it all looks a bit of a smear. It's even a push to call it virtual reality, really - the overall impression is more like holding a 3DS screen super close to your face, albeit a 3DS running a game that's as breathtaking today as it was when it launched over two years ago.

Let me come clean first: I've never read World War Z the book, or watched World War Z the film. Mainly because I feel that in that genre everything you could possibly say has been said, from thinly veiled social criticism at government ineptitude or anti-vaccine movements to variations of the message included in each piece of disaster media - we won't be prepared for the apocalypse.

What is it about the Roman empire that makes it so enduringly fascinating, when other historical empires eclipse it in so many ways? There have been bigger empires (British), older empires (Persian), and more ferocious empires (Mongol). Yet few people ever talk about what the Mongols did for us.

Following a damning report earlier this week into the human cost of Epic Games' gruelling, "endless" Fortnite update and crunch schedule, Respawn Entertainment has reiterated that it's sticking to its original plans to deliver more measured seasonal updates for its own free-to-play battle royale game, Apex Legends - because, "We don't want to overwork the team".

Bloober Team's silver-screen-themed follow-up to 2016's wonderful haunted house horror, Layers of Fear 2, is coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Steam on May 28th.

Developer Gears for Breakfast is expanding its delightful old-school platformer A Hat in Time once more. There's a brand-new paid-DLC update - featuring a new world, 50-players online, and more - coming to PC on May 10th.

Atlus has formally unveiled Persona 5 Royal, an expanded version of its critically acclaimed school-life J-RPG, that's due to launch in the west some time next year on PS4.

A small group of veterans from Rare's N64 heyday have got together to release a new platform game starring a monkey. It's called Donk- no wait. It's called Tamarin.

The BlizzCon 2019 dates have been announced as 1st-2nd November, and the show will take place at the usual Anaheim Convention Centre spot just over the road from Disneyland.

From the moment I first heard about Days Gone, I wondered about its reason for existing. With so many open-world titles and games that use post-apocalyptic setting featuring zombies and/or other types of deformed creatures, why make another one? Maybe someone at Sony was looking at Horizon Zero Dawn, first announced around the time that work on Days Gone officially began, and said right girls, you've had your metaphorical glass of 'secco with this one, let's make a post-apocalyptic game for real men. Maybe someone looked at all these other existing titles and thought why not make another - people keep buying them, they'll buy this one, too. But there are only so many times that works. In Days Gone, you can see why.

The games people are making in Dreams already, a week in [Edit: a fair few of these games were made in the closed beta earlier this year - sorry for overlooking this], are amazing. Someone's recreating P.T., for crying out loud! Another person is remaking Dark Souls interiors and they're pretty convincing. Someone else has made a kind of Guitar Hero while another person has quite a lot of an RPG up and running, and Scrolls in the title! There's a 4x4 off-road buggy, erm, trip, in more than one sense of the word; a moody supernatural first-person shooter; Super Mario Bros; Super Mario 64, Kirby... Really anything you can think of to pay homage to, there's an homage to.

It was no secret both PlayStation and Microsoft were working on new consoles, but it was Sony who was the first to release concrete details of its next system - for what we assume will be called the PlayStation 5.

What if Bastion could roll around while in turret form? What if Mei could slide along the ground she freezes like Silver Surfer? What if Widowmaker teleported into the positions of people she headshot? What if Reinhardt could teleport his group to him when he called for them to group up? What if Overwatch was third-person and there was a battle royale mode? All of these questions have been answered - and more! - in Overwatch's brand new Workshop modding mode.

Nintendo's latest financial figures paint a pretty positive picture, with excellent sales of exclusive games such as Smash Bros. and Pokémon Let's Go, as well as continued strong sales of older titles such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Nintendo's long-awaited smartphone Mario Kart will be playable for the first time next month via an Android-only beta.

If you were at Rezzed this month, you may have spotted - and even tried out - ShockRods, the upcoming vehicular battler from legendary Carmageddon developers, Stainless Games.

Fortnite has at last revealed its big Avengers crossover: a limited-time team mode where Thanos and his Chitauri (booo) fight against Fortnite heroes wielding Avengers weaponry.

Nintendo would love you to buy Super Mario Maker 2, the expanded version of its make-your-own-Mario game. So much so, it has a couple of incentives to coax your wallet open.

Two things that Trump and Obama have in common: they have both been President of the United States, and they both have five letters in their last names. This second fact means that they have both cropped up in the New York Times' Mini Crossword - a gem-like 5x5 treat that pops up online every morning and can be played for free.

Ubisoft's entertaining open-world space shooter Starlink will be getting notably bigger next week, with the arrival of its free new Crimson Moon expansion - coming to Switch, PS4, and Xbox One on April 30th. Additionally, there's new paid DLC and a PC version due on the same day.

Subnautica: Below Zero, developer Unknown World's standalone expansion to last year's brilliant underwater survival adventure, has just received a new early access update, introducing (among other things) the series' very first land vehicle: the majestic Snowfox.

Ahead of long-in-the-works PS4 zombie adventure Days Gone release this Friday, April 26th, developer Bend Studio has offered up a roadmap detailing the game's first batch of post-launch content, due to arrive in June.

I am hopelessly in love with Orik. SteamWorld Quest has heroes instead of classes - a handful of lovable clanking misfits, each of whom bring their own decks and their own focus to the turn-based card battling that makes up the campaign. They're all brilliant. One of them hammers with massive fists and heals with boundless love. Another inflicts shrapnel wounds by literally pelting foes with money. Then there's Orik. Orik the elegant mystery man with the masks. He stands tall and straight, always, seemingly, attentive and yet easy - if that combination is possible. When he strikes, his rapier shifts from stance to stance, slicing baddies to courtly ribbons. The masks change as the moves change, each with its own bonus which lasts to the end of a turn. His deck takes a while to understand, but it is wonderfully brisk and wounding when you get your head around it. The word for Orik is decisive. His sense of poise gives me poise. He is never out of my line-up.

BioWare has delayed a raft of additions to Anthem - including its much-hyped Cataclysm, the game's first four-person raid-like activity.

A new Bloomberg report has pegged the launch of Nintendo's upcoming, unannounced cheaper Switch model for release "by the end of June".

It's a huge claim, but one that could actually be true. Frontier's working on another entry for the Planet franchise, and this time it's ditching coasters for critters. The developer seems determined to make this an authentic zoo management game with an unprecedented level of detail. So much, in fact, Frontier believes it's creating "the most authentic, most realistic animals in any game".

Modern marketing techniques require hype for big budget games well before their official reveal - and so here's a group of American footballers who say they've played the still-unannounced Call of Duty 2019 at a private event (thanks, AGB).