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A few weeks ago, Epic Games hinted in an AMA that Fortnite would be getting a brand new single-player vehicle. The latest news feed update has revealed exactly what this is: a rolling hamster ball with a cushy-looking seat.

It was the laundry that got me. A neat little line strung between gantries, and pegged upon it a cap, a nice pair of space-trousers, and underpants with, of course, a heart pattern. Cargo Commander is a game that gives quite a bit of real estate over to camera control. You can use a bumper to pull way, way back - so far out your character becomes a dot and the procedural 2D mazes he runs through become unreadable. But you can also use the other bumper to zoom in, far closer than is practical. And when you zoom in you see a world of careful details: the clothes line with its laundry, paper spooling endlessly from a printer, a glitchy animated hammer working away on a laptop that's sat on the game's upgrade bench.

One of the best things about From Software's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is it's at once familiar and yet also unique. Indeed only four years ago, the same developer achieved a similar feat with Bloodborne, taking the skeleton of the Dark Souls series and combining a bleak gothic setting with a revised combat system. Sekiro takes just as ambitious a leap of its own - and from what I've seen, it deserves to be celebrated on its own terms. The developer taps into a rich vein of mythology much closer to home here. A gorgeous Japanese-inspired world is sculpted from scratch, of shinobi, burning temples, and feuding clans - with a huge level of care and attention. In terms of the sheer quality of art direction, the results are unlike anything we've seen from the studio.

Bethesda has detailed what's new in its first seasonal event with a Patch 7 preview.

Blade Symphony has gone free-to-play and now its being review-bombed.

A newly discovered patent has intimated the design specification for an unannounced Google game controller.

In a blow to the artists suing Epic Games for using their dance routines in Fortnite, the US Supreme Court has ruled that plaintiffs suing for copyright infringement cannot pursue legal recourse if their work has not been registered with the US Copyright Office.

What links Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure with the beginnings of Hollywood CG movies, a whole host of animated features and the original artists that helped to define the Disney method? That would Bill Kroyer, an animation veteran who learnt from the original masters at Disney, pioneered CG rendering in Tron - and collaborated with Activision during the mid-90s on the fascinating Pitfall sequel.

It's 10th March - happy MAR10 day!

Data miners pouring through the back end of Apex Legend's recent update have discovered what appears to be clues about yet-to-be-announced weapons, a night mode, and NPCs.

This piece contains spoilers for Return of the Obra Dinn.

BioWare's dropping a big patch for embattled shared-world looter Anthem tonight - and it makes some welcome changes.

Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: the Gathering and designer of struggling digital collectible card game Artifact has left Valve.

Anyone who's watched a FIFA tournament will know that most of the teams used are packed with the best players to be had from the Ultimate Team mode. These teams are filled with Icons - amazing players from yesteryear with, invariably, incredible stats - as well as special versions of current players that come with better stats than their base cards have. Without restrictions in place on which cards can be used for teams in tournaments, not only is there a disparity between the haves and have nots (or, as some say, those who've paid to win and those who haven't), but you see most teams use pretty much the same players across the board: Messi, Ronaldo (old and new), Gullit, Modric - that sort of thing.

Devil May Cry 5 came out yesterday and most agree Capcom's action game is pretty brilliant. But players have noticed an odd difference between the PlayStation 4 version and the PC and Xbox One versions: and it has to do with a butt cover-up.

Respawn has declared war on Apex Legends cheaters - although don't expect the developer to reveal its plan of attack.

UPDATE 9TH MARCH 2019: Activision has clarified the recent Call of Duty API changes, saying they're about player data privacy.

Ubisoft's online shooter sequel The Division 2 is mere days away from its March 15th launch now, but PS4 owners might want to prepare themselves for a bit of an extended wait before play can commence; the game's day one update on PS4 will weigh in at a mammoth 90GB.

Crackdown 2 is now Xbox One backwards compatible, and it's free to download.

This piece contains spoilers for Ico.

Subnautica: Below Zero, developer Unknown World's standalone expansion to its brilliant underwater survival adventure, just got its first big Early Access development update - and, with it, the mighty Seatruck!

For a few short hours after the PC release of Devil May Cry 5, a code fork available on Steam was available that stripped the game of its Denuvo copy protection, with only Steam's own DRM systems left intact, according to reports on the Steam community forums. Not surprisingly, the leaked .exe - apparently intended for use by Capcom's QA team - has been tested by a number of users, with some noting a 20fps improvement to performance, while others could see no improvement whatsoever. So, what's really going on and does Denuvo really hit CPU resources as has often been claimed? Since the .exe in question is not a crack of any sort, we decided to put it to the test.

There's a new global Splatfest event coming to Splatoon 2 next week, and the critical question being asked this time around is: knights or wizards?

Developer Frogwares has announced that its promising Lovecraft-inspired, open-world detective adventure, The Sinking City, has been delayed. It will now launch on June 27th this year, rather than March 21st as originally planned.

It's 6th November 1996. Robson & Jerome are top of the UK's pop charts, Die Hard Trilogy is about to be released on the PlayStation and The English Patient premieres in Los Angeles to widespread critical acclaim.

Octopath Traveler fans are having quite a day: along with celebrating 1.5m units shipped globally, Square Enix has announced a brand new game for the series, while there's talk of another Octopath Traveler console game.

There are free treats coming to Divinity: Original Sin 2 in the shape of 'gift bags'.

Tired of battle royales yet? Well tough, because Battlefield 5's own offering is on the not-so-distant horizon, and thanks to an apparent leak we now have an idea of what this will look like.

For the second year in a row, Sony has released an eye-catching new PlayStation 4 theme to celebrate International Women's Day.

Every week since Destiny 1 launched in 2014, players have been able to visit the mysterious tentacle-faced merchant Xûr, agent of the Nine. So popular was he, that whenever his stock refreshed players would drop everything to rush and see what he had brought (and games websites, blogs and YouTubers rushed to be the first to tell you about it).