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Mortal Kombat 11's street date was shattered this week - and now publisher Warner Bros. is desperately trying to plug leaks.

Hello! Welcome to the third instalment of our new semi-regular series in which we'll be looking at world-building, the art of creating interesting settings, and, where possible, talking to the people who do this stuff for a living.

Giles Goddard, alumni of 90s Nintendo, one of the first western employees within the company's Japanese dev team and a key figure behind the original 1080° Snowboarding, has begun work on a spiritual successor. And it sounds pretty amazing.

Magician, writer, historian and actor: Ricky Jay, lately gone and much missed, once wrote a book titled Cards as Weapons. The book was as good as its word. Jay was famous for, amongst other things, being able to throw playing cards with such force and accuracy that they could pierce the pachydermous hide of "her majesty the watermelon". I have seen the book but never read it. It is a glossy paperback affair that goes, as many Jay books go, for silly money on Amazon. The reason I mention it is because cards are weapons. They can be weapons. Lots of things can be weapons.

Over 11 years after Burnout Paradise first launched on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, EA has announced that it will be shutting down the game's servers on Thursday, August 1st.

Sega, you might have heard, is releasing its own tiny retro console later this year, in the form of the Mega Drive Mini. Aheda of its launch on September 19th, the company has now revealed another ten games to be stuffed in its innards.

Cult cel-shaded first-person shooter XIII is getting the remake treatment, and will launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, and Mac this November.

Konami has unveiled the full roster of games to be included in its previously announced Castlevania Anniversary Collection, due to launch on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, and Switch on May 16th.

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Previously a console exclusive for Xbox One, Studio MDHR's Cuphead is now available on Switch and speaking as a big fan of the game, I highly recommend it! In fact, the port to Nintendo's hybrid is nigh-on flawless - indistinguishable from Xbox on a living room display and with the added bonus of portable play that holds up beautifully for gaming on the go. Put simply, it's a lovingly crafted, zero compromise port that exceeds expectations.

Sony has revealed the first specs for what system architect Mark Cerny refers to as its 'next-gen console' in a fascinating interview piece for Wired. It confirms the key technologies in place for the new hardware, the exciting news that solid-state storage will take centre-stage in the new machine and - perhaps best of all - the fact that the next Sony platform will feature backwards compatibility with current market leader, PS4. Will it be called PlayStation 5? Sony isn't saying, but it does seem like the obvious choice.

If you're a fan of the Mortal Kombat series, you'll probably know about Shao Khan's taunts.

Joker from Persona 5 comes out today for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Islanders is a city-building game that feels like its developers haven't played any other city-building games. I mean that in the very best way. And the truth is probably even better: they've probably played them and loved them and then gone in their own direction as a result of that.

Netflix has confirmed that its Witcher television adaptation will air toward the end of this year, putting it a little ahead of its originally anticipated 2020 release date.

Ubisoft has announced that, following Monday's devastating fire which caused extensive damage to Notre-Dame cathedral, it will be donating €500,000 to Paris' reconstruction efforts. And as an additional gesture, Assassin's Creed Unity is currently free on PC.

UPDATE 17/4/19: Klei Entertainment has confirmed that its excellent space colony management sim, Oxygen Not Included, will be leaving early access and launching in its Version 1.0 guise on May 28th.

Microsoft's long-in-development Halo TV series - which found a home on cable network Showtime last year - has finally cast its Master Chief, with American Gods actor Pablo Schrieber set to don the majestic green helmet.

UPDATE 17/4/19: If you've been waiting impatiently, fingers twitching, for the arrival of Warframe's Plains of Eidolon "remaster" on consoles, then you may finally exhale. Warframe's latest update is now available to download on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch.

Proclaiming something as the 'greatest of all time' can be contentious, so first I'll play it safe by simply naming One Finger Death Punch as the greatest two-button kung-fu game ever made. And it really is a wonder; magnificently simple to learn, electrifyingly compulsive to play, intimidatingly difficult to master.

Ubisoft has created a useful shortcut for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey players who want to access the new The Fate of Atlantis DLC without having to complete all the pre-requisites.

Sega has unveiled Yakuza spin-off Judgment's newly revised character model for crime boss Kyohei Hamura, which was overhauled following the arrest of actor Pierre Taki on charges of cocaine use and possession last month.

Developer Two Point Studios' enormously entertaining medical management sim Two Point Hospital is getting a new co-operative challenge feature, and it's coming to Steam on April 30th.

UPDATE 16/4/19: As part of its latest Inside Xbox showcase, Microsoft officially unveiled its combination Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass service - known as Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - confirming several reports that were swirling around earlier this month.

Hello! Welcome to the second installment of our new semi-regular series in which we'll be looking at world-building, the art of creating interesting settings, and, where possible, talking to the people who do this stuff for a living.

It's been a torrid time for Guild Wars 2 maker ArenaNet. At the end of February, the studio cut a third of its workforce and people who had worked there for more than a decade walked away.

Microsoft's long-rumoured disc-less Xbox One has finally been made official. It's called the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition and launches on 7th May.

A newly published patent has sparked rumours about future Sony consoles and backwards compatibility.

First details on the PlayStation 5 have been unveiled by Sony, via an exclusive Wired interview with the console's chief architect Mark Cerny.

A principal programmer at Sony associated with the firm's Advanced Technology Group is working with AMD's Ryzen technology, improving the Zen core's micro-architecture support within the LLVM compiler stack - a key component of a tool used in the PlayStation 4 development environment. Of course, there is no PS4 product using the Ryzen processor, leading to speculation that this is related to a prospective next-gen PlayStation 5 console currently in development.