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A new Half-Life mod replaces Gordon Freeman with Spyro the Dragon.

Bethesda has confirmed that while it tries to make its game available on "every platform possible", Fallout 76 simply "wasn't doable" on Nintendo Switch.

Happy Halloween, fellow VR enthusiasts! To celebrate the creepiest weekend of the year, I decided to stick my face inside a nightmarish survival horror game for your entertainment - 'tis the season to be spooky, after all!

Editor's note: Enjoying Red Dead Redemption 2 this weekend? We thought, upon the release of Rockstar's sequel, it'd be a good time to return to Nathan Ditum's wonderful retrospective of the original, first published in July 2016. Enjoy!

2B from Nier: Automata is coming to Soulcalibur 6 as a guest character.

With modern video game publishing the way it is, release schedules are often a mess of special edition early access, premium limited-time demos and carry-it-forward progress opportunities.

The World of Warcraft classic demo doesn't go live officially until 2nd November, but people are already playing it.

Bethesda has announced the Fallout 76 beta sessions and they're a little rough on UK players.

Studio Wildcard has announced the Switch version of its popular dinosaur-themed survival escapade, Ark: Survival Evolved, will launch on November 30th.

Remedy Entertainment's cult supernatural horror Alan Wake has finally returned to digital storefronts on PC, a year after it was removed from sale due to licensing concerns.

Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch developer Level-5 has revealed it is resurrecting Ushiro, a supernatural horror RPG that was originally announced a decade ago then quietly cancelled, and that it will be making its way to Switch.

UPDATE 27th October 2018: Treyarch has threatened to ban those who continue to use the super speed exploit in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer.

Twitch has announced Twitch Sings, a new karaoke game designed for streamers and built by Rock Band developer Harmonix.

Spoiler Alert: This piece discusses the ending of Marvel's Spider-Man.

Resident Evil 4, one of the greatest games of all time, is headed to Nintendo Switch next year.

Oddball A&E simulator Two Point Hospital is getting injected with some new features, mostly notably a sandbox scenario mode.

The emergent non-scripted moments in Rockstar games are amazing, but where the developer really excels are in the painstakingly-crafted setpieces. It's no secret that Rockstar have a deep and abiding love for the cinematic, and try to close the gap between games and movies wherever possible.

As Sea of Thieves' current Foresaken Shores campaign begins to wind down, Rare has shared first details on Shrouded Spoils - the next major content expansion for its multiplayer piratical adventure, due to arrive in November.

Fortnite's cartoony world sometimes feels out of step with the guns you actually shoot within it - there's something a little off about the mix of pistols, shotguns and scoped assault rifles alongside the more playful llamas, purple zombies and Kevin the Cube.

Pokémon Go is always on my phone screen when I'm out and about - and my phone's battery suffers because of it. So I'm very interested in Adventure Sync, an upcoming feature that rewards you even when you're not playing and your phone is tucked in your pocket.

Bloober Team has finally raised the curtain on its mysterious Project Méliès, revealing it to be Layers of Fear 2.

Team Sonic Racing will no longer release this year, as originally planned, Sega has announced. Instead, those that like their hedgehogs blue and their woodland animals fast will now need to wait until May 21st next year.

Fireproof Games has revealed that the third entry in its superb puzzle-box saga, The Room Three, is finally coming to PC next month, on November 13th.

Red Dead Redemption 2 comes on two discs, it has emerged.

We're just days away from the launch of Red Dead Redemption 2, and images of the game's full map have leaked online.

UPDATE 2 - 24th Oct 2018: Rockstar is working to take down Red Dead Redemption 2 video leaks on YouTube.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is getting a companion app - remember those? - for your smartphone or tablet, Rockstar has detailed.

Red Dead Redemption 2 excitement is peaking ahead of the review embargo at (high) noon UK time today and, of course, the game's release tomorrow - and video footage continues to leak.

Red Dead Redemption 2 is a landmark technical achievement - and the end result of a unique development situation. With Grand Theft Auto 5, Rockstar has already developed the top-grossing title in the history of the games industry - and with that comes the confidence to invest all of the time, money and resources required to realise its vision for the ultimate game. The final product is technological masterpiece, matching and arguably exceeding the very best first-party efforts of this generation.

There's still not a lot to do in Star Citizen but thankfully there is now ridiculous technology to do it with. Face Over IP, for example - it's like voice chat (voice over IP) but it motion-captures your facial movements using a webcam and recreates them on a character in-game, in real-time. How fancy is that?!