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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?!

Paradox has unveiled MegaCorp, the latest expansion for its galactic grand strategy extravaganza, Stellaris.

IronOak Games has announced that For the King, its brilliant tabletop-inspired rogue-like RPG, is getting a brand-new multiplayer challenge tomorrow, 26th October, in the form of the "uncooperative" Gold Rush mode.

J.J.'s broken her neck again.

The Counter-Strike pro who was caught cheating during a tournament has been banned from all esports for five years.

It looks like you can be so good at Call of Duty, the game thinks you're cheating.

It's early days for Call of Duty's battle royale mode, but it didn't take long for players to figure out 9-Bangs were pretty powerful in the late game stages of Blackout. Incredibly quick to throw and devastating for those affected, the concussion devices had become something of a meta for proficient players. Or so I've heard.

Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service is heading to PC, according to CEO Satya Nadella, speaking during the company's latest quarterly earnings call.

Every week, Forza Horizon 4 features a new Forzathon weekly challenge. These charge you with owning a particular car and using it to complete a series of challenges. This past week's challenge has been called Horizon Anniversary and marks the release, six years ago this week, of the first Forza Horizon. To complete it, you need to own a 1995 Volkswagen Corrado VR6, rack up two million skill score with it, win a race in it, and carry on racing to earn a few clean racing skills.

Monster Hunter World has done the business for Capcom, selling over 10m copies to date. Now's as good a time as any to capitalise on the series then - and what better way to reach the masses than with an authentic Monster Hunter movie experience that really sells the world of Capcom's long-running franchise? Alternatively, how about a movie where some soldiers fall into a portal and shoot some stuff? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE PROBABLY GETTING.

Pokémon Go has been copied in the past - but never quite like this.

Steam's active user base has risen from 67 million to 90 million over the last year, with a majority of those coming from China - where the Chinese government is still refusing to approve new games for sale.

For a certain group of space ninja enthusiasts, few things will be as exciting as the upcoming Warframe update. Fortuna - the game's next open world expansion - is due to land on PC pretty shortly. This November, in fact.

Meet Melmetal, the evolution of recently-revealed mythical Pokémon Meltan (AKA Nutboy).

Developer Frozenbyte has officially unveiled Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince - the latest entry in its co-operative puzzle platformer series - which is due to launch on PC, Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 next year.

Battlefield 5 gets its battle royale mode March 2019, DICE has announced.

Treyarch has issued an update to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's tiered progression system to make it faster.

Hellgate: London is back on Steam.

Assassin's Creed Origins hero Bayek is now unlockable in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

The maker of popular comedy fantasy web series JourneyQuest has torn up its contract with GOG.com over a series of controversial tweets made by the online retailer.

Pokémon Go is yet to officially announce this year's big Halloween event, but we've already got a sneaky peek under the Mimikyu cloth at what's in store.

Fortnite is adding zombies to battle royale for Halloween - the first non-human enemies you'll need to fight in the mode.

When I first walked through the double doors of Great Ormond Street Hospital, it was a little before midnight. The cavernous reception stood before me, with people bustling back and forth. There was a bizarre ambiance: sombre yet fuelled with adrenaline. Parents and guardians shuffled from foot to foot outside, chain-smoking or making calls. My daughter had been rushed in after a car accident and standing within the famous hospital for kids was daunting for me at the age of 24. Even during the day, the hospital can look imposing: a blue-and-white NHS awning sandwiched between monumental architecture, ambulances coming and going, dropping off precious cargo.

Hello Games has unveiled The Abyss - an 'eerie' new update for its exploratory sci-fi sim No Man's Sky, which is due to launch some time next week.

Data East's beloved Neo Geo sports classic Windjammers is finally available on Switch - and brings all the fancy bells and whistles, including online multiplayer, seen in the recent PlayStation 4 and Vita versions.

Cellar Door Games has announced Rogue Legacy, its superb genealogical rogue-lite platformer, launches on Switch on 6th November.

Digital retailer GOG, which lives under the CD Projekt roof, has found itself in more Twitter hot water after insensitively appropriating the political hashtag #WontBeErased.