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At this year's GDC, there's one topic ruling the conversation; streaming services, and the arrival of Google as a player in what's now become a very tangible space. How long ago it now seems from the comically messy launch of OnLive, or from when Microsoft's 'power of the cloud' mantra was a stick used to beat it during the difficult early years of the Xbox One.

Activision's bringing Call of Duty: Mobile to the west, it's announced.

It might seem strange to frame it this way, but the act of modifying your favourite game is tantamount to admitting it could've been just a bit better: that maybe the developers should have taken a turkey baster to the gloopy Blood Soldiers of Un-Garth, that the instant-kill spike trap right before the save point was perhaps just a bit too punitive. It's ironic it takes an ardent superfan to recognise the true flaws in a work, no matter how great - it's only by fully internalising where the brilliant design shines through that you can recognise the dusty corners that could use a bit more illumination. Of course, mods can never truly complete even the most flawed games, at least if we hold the creator's original vision as the blueprint - the modder's own voice adds to the experience, editing and compensating and harmonising in a way that might be more pleasant than the original, but irrevocably changing the nature of the performance in the process.

If this is mud that's falling from the cavern above, having pooled in divots and then lapped and slopped over the edges, then why does it settle on top of the water in this beautiful subterranean lake? And why is that guy with flames for hands and feet and flames for a head walking towards me?

As predicted in leaks last week, the Apex Legends first season and battlepass is arriving this week. Tomorrow, in fact.

Nintendo is hosting another Nindies video showcase this Wednesday, March 20th, highlighting a new wave of indie games heading to Switch.

Bethesda will have a media briefing at E3 2019, it's announced.

If you've been on the Fallout 76 subreddit over the past few months, you've probably seen them. Huge, grandiose and utterly outrageous; these are player traps which seem to hoodwink dozens despite their sinister facades.

Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has co-founded new games studio Stray Bombay with Riot Games designer Kimberly Voll.

A Nintendo Switch version of Mahjong, the ancient Chinese tile game, has been pulled from the Japanese eShop for containing poorly-censored nudity.

NES classic Startropics famously included a secret code hidden within its paper manual - one you need to enter to complete the game.

There are a few things you can count on me to be embarrassed by on any given day - my beer gut, for example, or the time I called my teacher 'mum' when I was six. One of the things embarrassing me most at the moment is how much I like The Division 2, because it is a game that manages to be both great and repugnant.

The Division 2 sold far fewer physical copies during its launch week than the series' first entry, back in 2016.

I guess that, underneath it all, Baba is You is a Sokoban game, one of those precise spatial challengers which are all about pushing blocks around and trying to get them into the right places. Corners and the edges of a room are the great enemies in Sokoban games, because you can only push the pieces at your disposal - cover up all the useful pushing sides and you're toast.

Jump onto Google Earth and you can play a special free version of Where in the World in Carmen Sandiego?

A developer from Obsidian is remaking Star Wars Dark Forces in Unreal Engine 4.

EA has confirmed that it's made "some notable changes to the loot drop rate" in Anthem.

A dataminer believes they've uncovered what's coming up in The Division 2's first eight-man raid, Operation Dark Hours.

Takashi Iizuka has confirmed the next main Sonic game has "begun production".

The road to Killzone 2 was almost certainly a difficult one fraught with unrealistic expectations defined by its infamous E3 2005 pre-rendered trailer - but despite the odds, developer Guerrilla Games managed to produce one of the most visually striking games of the generation. Even today, Killzone 2 stands head and shoulders above most games released for PlayStation 3 in terms of both technical ambition and artistic vision. Revisit the game yourself and see what I mean - it still looks stunning.

Electronic Arts has announced it is ending support for The Sims 4 on "non-metal Mac OS machines and PC 32-bit operating systems" from June 2019, but anyone affected by the changes and cannot upgrade will have a copy of The Sims 4: Legacy Edition "made available" to them.

After an extensive beta test, The Division 2 has finally launched. All versions are available for testing and the overall impression is that, similar to its first title, Ubisoft Massive has handed in a successful multi-platform project - accomplished all on all consoles, with PC once again delivering a huge suite of options.

This article includes spoilers for the Tomb of Horrors D&D module.

If you're playing The Division 2 this weekend you might have noticed you can't pet the dogs. You can shoot them, of course - but you can't pet them.

The Epic Games store data privacy issue is rumbling on: Steam maker Valve has suggested it's miffed Epic's launcher copies Steam user data - and it's declared it's going to investigate.

There's another Goku coming to Dragon Ball FighterZ.

The Simpsons has noticed esports and now there's an esports episode of The Simpsons.

Apex Legends players have spotted launch pads in the game world as part of a clear tease for the addition of new character Octane.

A dedicated Anthem fan has used the power of maths to reveal something worrying about the game: loot doesn't really matter.

Sit near a yucca plant in Far Cry New Dawn's verdant, strangely pink and only slightly scorched forests and you'll see them: hummingbirds circling the flower spike, chirping away. Get too close and they vanish, the price you pay for crafting a medikit.