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People have been arguing about whether Pillars of Eternity should be turn-based, or real-time with pause, ever since it was called Project Eternity and on Kickstarter in 2012. But Obsidian ultimately chose real-time with pause.

Activision's ill-advised microtransactions streak for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 continues - the latest is a smiley face reticle that costs £1.79.

Kid's TV shows, you've no doubt discussed with friends while waiting for someone to come back from the all-night garage with a packet of french fancies and a fresh packet of skins, can be kind of sinister. Not just your straight-up, in your face Chocky sinister either; beneath the primary colours and blunt language of many a show there's the feeling that something's not quite right.

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UPDATE 22/1/19: Sega has now confirmed its teased 19th February release date for Yakuza Kiwami on Steam. You can put down a pre-order now - it usually costs £15 but there's currently a 10 per cent discount.

Nintendo will broadcast an indie game-focused Switch presentation tomorrow at 2pm UK time.

Fortnite has added a Sneaky Snowman disguise in today's patch to fit in with the battle royale game's ongoing winter event.

Square Enix has trademarked the name of Octopath Traveler's "HD2D" visual style.

In the midst of all the hullabaloo over at Westminster right now, you'd think video games were at the bottom of the Parliamentary priority list. Thankfully, the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee's work continues unabated, as the Commons Select Committee has now opened its inquiry into "addictive technologies" to the public.

EA Sports has put out a significant patch for FIFA 19 that makes some key changes to shooting.

Developer Mega Crit Games' superb dungeon-crawling deck-builder (with a twist of rogue-like, natch) will be leaving Steam Early Access and launching in its Version 1.0 guise later this week, on January 23rd.

Grapeshot Games, an offshoot of Ark developer Studio Wildcard, has been forced to takes its pirate MMO Atlas offline for a second time in less than a week, following yet more shenanigans from cheaters - who this time spawned in drakes and hijacked official in-game server messages.

Grapeshot Games, an offshoot of Ark developer Studio Wildcard, has been forced to takes its pirate MMO Atlas offline and rollback servers after cheaters began spawning giant whales, tanks, and even aeroplanes into the game.

What do you get when you mix Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Donkey Kong's voice actor and a very tired YouTuber? A highly successful Twitch stream for a trans charity, of course!

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown took off in the UK last Friday with the strongest launch sales of any game in the series so far.

It's been some time coming, but it's finally happened: a sim racer has beaten a pro racing driver, with Enzo Bonito getting the better of Lucas Di Grassi, the Brazilian formerly of F1 team Virgin Racing and Audi's WEC outfit, and currently a Formula E driver.

Pokémon Go's latest in-game event - the first of a new type - took place around the world this weekend to a generally mixed response.

Avian archer Decidueye almost made the cut for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, series boss Masahiro Sakurai has revealed.

If Romero's undead shoppers endure as a sneer at the narcotic lullaby of consumerism, then what more succinct symbol of a city helplessly disarmed is there than a police station commandeered by the dead?

Brand new footage of horror sequel Layers of Fear 2 was aired during a panel this weekend at PAX South.

The YouTube page for multiplatform online entertainment network, Machinima, has removed all its videos from public viewing.

While this fan-made Dragon Age: Origins patch purports to fix an impressive 790 bugs in the PC version of the RPG, that's not even the best bit; incredibly, it also restores a heap of hitherto hidden content that had been cut from BioWare's original release.

Microsoft is reaching out to Windows 10 users in a bid to find out what it can do to improve gaming on the PC platform.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Update #4 will roll out on Xbox One on 22nd January, 2019, releasing the new snow-themed map, Vikendi, onto the public server, and brings a new vehicle, new weapons, plus "many quality of life" enhancements and bug fixes. The update also ushers in map selection - finally! - so you can select from Vikendi, Erangel, Miramar, or Sanhok, or just hit Quick Join, which'll pop you in the first available game, regardless of map.

This piece contains spoilers for several Earth Defense Force games.

Most video game fans know AI teammates often bend the rules when it comes to helping the player character out. But in Ubisoft's Ghost Recon Wildlands, the friendly AI gets away with some pretty outrageous cheating in order to make the player have as good a time as possible.

Halo: The Master Chief Collection now has "modern aiming".

Ace Combat 7 is a superb sequel to a classic franchise that succeeds because it embraces new technology, but respects its past - and doesn't try to evolve the series into something it was never meant to be. There are all-new visuals, missions and game modes, but its connection to the past remains fundamental to its success. It's a proper sequel to the brilliant Ace Combat 5 (a decent port of which is bundled with PS4 pre-orders - and it runs at 4K60 on Pro), with gameplay evolved from AC4 and AC5. However, the fundamental technology has changed: similar to the Tekken and Soulcalibur titles, a proprietary game engine has been ditched for Unreal Engine 4, but thankfully the move pays off handsomely for the most part, with larger environments, lots of destruction and more on-screen entities.

EA has added a unique FIFA Ultimate Team promotion that's certainly got a lot of players buying card packs - but it's also sparked a debate about realism.

This week, developer NetherRealm revealed Mortal Kombat 11 with a decent chunk of gameplay and a raft of new details.