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There is a familiar pattern to media coverage whenever Rockstar publishes a game. There is talk about how the developer has used its newest game to iterate upon and redefine the open world genre. There are almost always articles on how various Hollywood films influenced Rockstar's development process. And there are at least one or two polemics that attack the developer for transgressing established norms about what can and cannot be done in video games. This last type of essay inevitably concludes that video games are bad, and lead to an increase in interpersonal violence as well as the downfall of civilisation.

Rainbow Six Siege is poised to receive the fourth and final season update for its current Year 3 schedule and, in anticipation, Ubisoft has revealed first details on its new Morocco-themed map and two new Operators.

Things can get tricky if you're unfortunate enough to share the same name as a controversial figure - especially if using the same name as that person on Twitter. Cases of mistaken identity are nothing new - take, for instance, the poor soul named John Lewis who regularly receives customer complaints about queues in a certain popular retail shop.

Bulkhead Interactive, the Derby-based studio behind Battalion 1944 and The Turing Test, is now making a brand new game for Square Enix.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds comes out on PlayStation 4 in December - one year after it hit Xbox One as a timed console exclusive.

When World of Warcraft: Classic launches next summer, the only raids available will be Onyxia and Molten Core. It will be, in other words, as World of Warcraft was circa March 2005.

It's the latest in a long line of complaints about Fallout 76's jankiness, but following a Reddit post claiming the beta can be hacked on PC, Bethesda has now admitted some of the accusations are valid and require fixes to prevent cheating.

Log on to Hearthstone tomorrow and you'll be gifted half a dozen free packs from the game's most recent expansion, The Boomsday Project.

A top FIFA pro has been banned from competitive play after he was caught using a homophobic slur in a video.

Ingress, Niantic's Matrix-y sci-fi predecessor to Pokémon Go, has gained a set of fresh upgrades as part of its big Prime relaunch - and some of these new features may make their way to Pokémon Go.

Halloween may be over, but apparently the zombies didn't get the memo, as Fortnite's Cube Monsters will continue to amble around the island for some time to come.

Amid the fallout from Blizzard's Diablo mobile BlizzCon reveal, the people behind rival action RPG Path of Exile have drummed up a well-timed announcement: the game's coming to PlayStation 4 in December.

UPDATE 6/11/18: Blizzard has dismissed the claim it intended to announce Diablo 4 at BlizzCon 2018 last weekend - an event which ended up being overshadowed by Diablo's sole appearance as a much-maligned mobile spin-off.

If you're a youth in China who just wants to have a bit of extra gaming time, the past few months haven't brought much in the way of good news. After Tencent had its licence for Monster Hunter World revoked, President Xi Jinping announced the government would regulate the amount of games approved and the amount of hours children can play - apparently to protect children's eyes. Shortly afterwards, Tencent announced it would use government data to enforce limited play times for children for its game Honour of Kings (also known as Arena of Valor in the west).

Having seen through the 60 hours or so of Red Dead Redemption 2's story, I'm now a dozen more into the meat of it all; the idling around a lush open world, picking up threads of stories here and there, tracking the trails of legendary animals in the wilds or following the rumours of supernatural goings on and seeing whatever dark forest they might lead to. It's the part of any Rockstar game I love the most, made all the more enjoyable when everyone's wading through those uncharted areas together, where whispers of strange NPCs or derelict households are shared online like tales around a campfire. It's where the freedom, brilliance and detail of these open world marvels really comes into focus.

Nintendo has announced that Splatoon 2's latest content update, also known as the 4.2.0 update, will launch this Wednesday, November 7th, bringing with it a new stage, a selection of new weapons, and more.

While Red Dead Redemption 2 features some familiar places for you to explore, you can't revisit Red Dead Redemption 1's Mexico section. At least, you're not supposed to.

An upcoming Welsh horror game has drawn fire for featuring a private home in its advertising - and its owner is now considering legal action.

A new, very exciting survival horror game has been announced for PC, Xbox One, PS4 and Switch, with The Maid of Sker coming from Wales Interactive towards the end of next year.

Following a parent's complaint their son was repeatedly asked to subscribe to Just Dance 2019's streaming service when playing in Kids Mode, Ubisoft has apologised and vowed to fix the issue.

Fortnite just wrapped up its Halloween event and its months-long purple cube storyline with a brilliant and baffling live event.

There's no real shortage of games that draw upon the works of HP Lovecraft. This week's Call of Cthulhu might the latest, but it draws upon another little known but much loved game that shares the same name. Five years in the making, the development of Headfirst Production's Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is every bit as chaotic, and sometimes as shocking, as the fiction it draws upon.

So many books in the old Hawkins place! Oh man, whole walls of the things. Books on shelves, books opened on tables and stacked in chairs. And in the playroom - such a sad playroom! - there's a fortress made of books laid out on the floor, with little wooden soldiers standing guard.

Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption 2 has earned itself the strongest second week UK physical sales of any game this year - even FIFA 19.

A Spyro the Dragon drone is flying from New York City to Los Angeles to "personally" deliver a copy of Spyro Reignited Trilogy to Snoop Dogg.

Sega has released a demo for the latest instalment of its football management sim, Football Manager 2019.

Valve has revealed it will be running a 128-player "preview tournament" for its upcoming Dota 2 card game, Artifact.

It's been a while since I've played a VR game that I really, really hated (hello, Ace Banana), but Paper Dolls is up there with one of the worst VR experiences I've ever had the displeasure of inserting my face into.

UPDATE 1AM GMT 4TH NOVEMBER: Wyatt Cheng, the lead designer of Diablo Immortal, just stepped on stage at BlizzCon 2018 and issued a personal message about the brouhaha surrounding the mobile game's announcement and Diablo 4 no-show. It was he who fended off some harsh questions on stage shortly after Immortal's reveal.

Blizzard is facing an unprecedented backlash after it ended its BlizzCon opening ceremony with the announcement of a Diablo mobile game.