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Bandai Namco has announced a new Dragon Ball game, this one an action RPG codenamed Project Z.

Bandai Namco has announced a second season of DLC characters for Arc System Works' superb fighting game Dragon Ball FighterZ.

Minecraft's "19w04a" Java snapshot update, which rolled out on Thursday, enabled wall running... but not intentionally.

BioWare's head of live service has issued an update about the "rocky" launch of Anthem's VIP demo, disputing speculation that the developer "under-planned" for server capacity.

Facebook has been accused of deliberately targeting children in order to tempt them into making in-game purchases, pursuing revenues at the expense of children and their parents.

Peter "Durante" Thoman has announced he's opening a new studio dedicated to PC ports, PH3 Games.

Ubisoft has confirmed it is "actively working" on a fix to address the "crouch and lean spamming" currently affecting competitive play in Rainbow Six Siege.

Last year, I read two really wonderful books about mazes: Follow this Thread by Henry Eliot, and Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths, by Charlotte Higgins. I can't stop thinking about them. Eliot is the creative editor at Penguin Classics (if that makes it sound like the best job in the world is already taken, I regret to inform you that I think it might be), while Higgins is the chief culture writer for the Guardian (oh dear, the other best job in the world has been filled too). As you might expect from the titles, both books use the tale of Theseus and Ariadne as a means of launching beautifully constructed tours through the overlapping worlds of art and literature and mythology and human chaos.

Among the best remakes in recent memory, Resident Evil 2 is a true survival horror classic, rebuilt on Capcom's cutting edge RE Engine. Compared to the PlayStation and N64 originals there's a satisfying technical upheaval to show for that 20 year gap. You get real-time cutscenes, volumetric lighting and the freeing of its camera to allow third person shooter controls. Better still? The team targets 60 frames per second, but sadly it only comes to full fruition on certain platforms. Indeed, comparing PlayStation 4 and Xbox One today, it's clear 60fps is better held on Pro and X models - while the base machines, especially Xbox One S, show signs of being left behind.

Developer Mundfish has shared ten minutes of its upcoming, wonderfully atmospheric Soviet-era shooter Atomic Heart, which is due to release on Xbox One, PS4, and PC at some currently unspecified future point.

Here's a pleasant surprise: Wargroove has crossplay.

Treyarch is making much-needed nerfs to armour (again) and concussion grenades in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Blackout.

PUBG Lite, a stripped-down, free-to-download version of the battle royale meant for low-spec PCs, has started beta testing - but it's for Thailand only right now.

Terry Crews as Jax? The Rock as Shao Khan? Gal Gadot as Kitana? It's fun to imagine Hollywood stars as Mortal Kombat characters. Well, one artist has put pencil to paper and gone one step further.

Epic is making a significant change to the way loot boxes work in Fortnite: Save the World - the player versus environment portion of the game.

Those Frost Giants really messed us up! 10 feet tall with noses the size of bratwurst and hands like shovels, they towered over us. We would have been OK if we'd left them asleep. "If you talk above a whisper you'll wake them up," our guide told us. I'm fine whispering! We were all fine whispering. But the caged prisoner ruined everything.

Developer Unknown Worlds has announced that Below Zero, the ice-themed standalone expansion for superb underwater exploration adventure Subnautica, is entering early access on PC next week, January 30th.

Planning ahead for Valentine's day? What could be more romantic than a co-op session with your significant other in RimWorld - something that is now possible thanks to an enterprising modder.

Players are struggling to get online in the likes of FIFA, Battlefield 5, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2, as EA continues to experience issues across its entire server network following the launch of Anthem's VIP demo earlier today.

Epic has announced that Axiom Verge, developer Thomas Happ's wonderful, retro-styled Metroid-a-like, will be the next Epic Games Store freebie, starting on February 7th.

At E3 2018, the people behind Dead or Alive 6 declared the game had toned down the female sexualisation the series is infamous for.

Last week's Dragon Age II demo from BioWare is well overdue for some Digital Foundry analysis, but we do so with some caution - while demos are usually highly representative samples of the final game, the company's Mass Effect 2 PS3 effort turned out to be significantly different from the quality of the retail release. Also, while a PC version of the demo is available, it's been cut down and misses so many high-end features that we thought it best until final code arrived before we looked at that one in any depth.

NetherRealm has unveiled the first gore-drenched gameplay footage of its upcoming fighter Mortal Kombat 11, which launches on Xbox One, PS4, Switch, and PC later this year.

A confused iOS developer has been forced to make changes to his family friendly tower defense game Childhood's End after Apple became concerned that it might in fact be a clandestine recruiting tool for paedophiles.

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Nintendo's highly anticipated Metroid Prime 4 has been rebooted.

Netflix is adapting another video game series for the small screen - this time, a fresh take on Resident Evil.

When I was a kid, I was lucky enough to enjoy a handful of seasons racing karts. For a short while, I thought it might even lead somewhere: my first race, around a featureless corner of a disused air station in Cambridgeshire, saw a class victory (in a class of two, mind, my sole competitor an 8-year-old who, his dad told me, still thought he was Batman in his Batmobile chasing down the Joker when he was behind the wheel).

Ubisoft will alter its recent Assassin's Creed Odyssey DLC, in which the publisher previously admitted having bungled a pivotal narrative choice.

Bethesda has unveiled Fallout 76's upcoming PvP mode - and it sounds like a griefer's paradise.