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First it was a million, then 10m, and now 25m. Apex Legends has experienced some seriously rapid growth, and its latest player milestone indicates there's currently no sign of it slowing down.

EA has removed Emiliano Sala from FC Nantes in FIFA.

Halfway through playing WarGroove, which is secretly a pretty odd game, a thought occurred to me which turned out, the more I considered it, to be a pretty odd thought. What if this game isn't made by Chucklefish as the title screen suggests, the thought began. What if it isn't a forensic attempt at reconstructing an Intelligent Systems turn-based tactics game? What if it actually is an Intelligent Systems game, a new one, and this whole Chucklefish smokescreen is some grand social experiment, like that psych study that pretended to be measuring the efficacy of electric shocks on memory or ESP ability or whatever, but was really exploring people's willingness to administer electric shocks to strangers in the first place?

Former PlayStation Europe chief Jim Ryan will become boss of the entire PlayStation business.

You can't play Crackdown 3's competitive multiplayer with friends at launch, Microsoft has confirmed.

There is a saying in architecture that no building is unbuildable, only unbuilt. Structures may be impossible in the here and now, but have the potential to exist given enough time or technological development: a futuristic cityscape, a spacefaring megastructure, the ruins of an alien civilisation. However, there are also buildings that defy the physical laws of space. It is not an issue that they could not exist, but that they should not. Their forms bend and warp in unthinkable ways; dream-like structures that push spatial logic to its breaking point.

With Rainbow Six Siege's latest year of content updates looming on Xbox One, PS4, and PC, Ubisoft has offered a first look at Outback, the new Australia-themed map to be added as part of Year 4, Season 1.

Valve has updated its SteamVR software after Beat Saber players managed to reach rhythmic flailing speeds not thought "humanly possible".

At the time of writing, over 800 Pokémon exist, their influences ranging from shrubs to supernatural entities stretching back eons into Japanese lore. Many are based specifically on Yōkai, strange and grimly comic creatures native to Japan that, like Pokémon, have been recorded in illustrated encyclopedias and playing cards.

After announcing the Radeon 7 a few days ago, AMD has stealth-released a more comprehensive set of benchmark results that show how the upcoming card performs in 25 recent games compared to the current top Team Red GPU, the RX Vega 64, benched at 4K resolution on maximum settings. The benchmarks were contained in footnotes to AMD's press materials, and first came to light courtesy of HardOCP.

Sega and Creative Assembly have announced a two-and-a-half month delay to Total War: Three Kingdoms.

Free-to-play PlayStation 4 battle royale game H1Z1 gains a 50-player free-for-all Deathmatch mode this month.

Another day, another Fallout 76 secret area breach: but this time the player involved didn't even intend to break in.

To see a landscape from above is to transform it, to understand it differently, to form new concepts of action within it. A plane's window brings a world into view and renders it alien, a swollen floor of cloud-tufted strangeness. It feels like game developers are still discovering the power of such perspective shifts, though they've treated us to some wonderful examples. The Total War games reel from the clatter of individual spears on helmets to the Tetris-esque spectacle of formations locking together. Fortnite opens with a skydive, the camera briefly enclosing the whole of an island that will soon shrink to a few, bullet-torn acres. And then there's this week's Vane - a glorious, if clunky, third-person odyssey which casts you as a bird who is also a child, journeying across a desert world.

The best game I ever played, I played over one single weekend. And I've spent years tracking it down since.

Ubisoft has confirmed Assassin's Creed Odyssey's New Game Plus mode will release later this month.

Codemasters has confirmed Oculus Rift support is coming to Dirt Rally 2.0 later this year.

Hardsuit Labs has ceased supporting Blacklight: Retribution will shut down its PC servers on 11th March, 2019.

Activision has opened a refund program for players of Guitar Hero Live after the publisher ended support for Guitar Hero TV in December, emptying its 500-strong song library of all but 42 tracks.

Just over 11 years ago, Infinity Ward revolutionised online multiplayer gaming with the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. This past week, Respawn Entertainment, featuring many of the core team responsible for 2007's game-changing title released its take on the battle royale shooter: Apex Legends. Set in the same world as Titanfall 2, it lacks the technological edge that Modern Warfare had in its day, but the quality of the action shines through in ways that its competitors struggle to match.

Four former Telltale developers have banded together to form AdHoc Studio, a new venture dedicated to "interactive narrative" games.

Activision Blizzard is reportedly laying off "hundreds" of staff on Tuesday amid restructuring rumours that plan to "centralise functions and boost profits".

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has topped Valve's 2018 Steam Awards as its overall Game of the Year.

I know it's a week late, but Happy Birthday Celeste! It's been lovely having you around this past year.

As you may or may not already be aware, Monster Hunter World has nuzzled up with the Northern Kingdoms today, as part of its Witcher crossover. Previously, Capcom was a little cagey regarding the specifics of the update, but now, with things underway, all has been revealed.

Urdnot Wrex, Clementine, Elizabeth, Claptrap, HK-47: these video game companions all conjure up distinct memories for the people who met them and played alongside them. Those close-shaves, those funny moments, those last minute saves. These complex pieces of code have transcended their unreality by tapping into our emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex.

If you've pre-ordered The Division 2, you'll already have access to a private beta for Ubisoft Massive's online action game that's running over this weekend. But if you haven't, we can help you out. The Gamer Network collective has 3000 keys for the beta to give away.

UPDATE 08/02/2019: It's time to fully stretch out and relax, as all the cloud space you could possibly need has arrived. If you're a PS Plus member, that is.

Hey remember that time when Eurogamer decided Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Tetris Effect was the best game of 2018? Well, Enhance has announced that it'll be letting PS4 owners play it for free this weekend, no purchase required. So, assuming you haven't managed to give Tetris Effect a go already, now's your chance to check it out and immediately rush back to the comments section to tell us how wrong we were. That's fine, I have no stake in this. I voted for Sea of Thieves.

On Tuesday morning, it was looking distinctly like Respawn Entertainment's battle royale gamble had paid off, with Apex Legends having amassed 1 million players in just a few hours after its surprise launch. Now, however, 72 hours in, that's climbed to a whopping 10 million players.