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Do you like your open world driving games wet, neon-streaked, and positively drenched in the laid-back synthwave squelch of the 1980s? Then we should probably have a word about Transmission.

Samorost and Botanicula developer Amanita Design has offered a first look at its latest peculiar adventure, Creaks, coming to PC and consoles next year.

Strap on your backpacks and hike up those jorts, trainers - a big update has been announced for Pokémon Go.

If you have the physical version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, expect to download a mammoth day one update.

If there's one thing that's guaranteed to make me feel better about my Fortnite skills, it's watching other players kill half the players on the map and make it look easy. No?

MediEvil is 20 years old today.

Capcom's revealed the gubbins in the deluxe edition of the Resident Evil 2 remake - and it includes some cool fan service.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey on PC version is utterly gorgeous, with the ability to scale well beyond consoles in terms of visual quality, frame-rate and resolution - but to play this game at its best, some serious hardware is required. Yes, careful settings management helps - and we've got you covered here - but even getting to 60fps with a console-equivalent look requires some meaty kit. Mainstream GPUs like GTX 1060 and RX 580 have the horsepower to get the job done in terms of the graphics requirement but even the enthusiast's price vs performance champion - the Core i5 8400 - can't keep you locked to 60fps.

Freshly buried toy-chain Toys R Us is teasing a comeback.

2K has announced Borderlands 2 VR, due out on PlayStation VR on 14th December 2018.

Remember the saying "there's no such thing as bad publicity"? Following the events of the last few days, at least one indie developer may disagree.

It's no coincidence that less than one week after Google announced Project Stream, Microsoft has broken cover with more details on its own streaming platform, dubbed Project xCloud. The core idea behind both platforms is the same - and very familiar to longer term readers of this site. Rather than buy a console and play games on it, titles are hosted on the cloud instead. The user has a basic client device that beams input commands over the internet, with video and audio streamed back. The concept is simple - Netflix for games - but the application is somewhat more challenging. Prior attempts at getting this to work have fallen flat but Microsoft, Google - and other unannounced players - reckon that the time is right for the technology to work.

I'm sorry this review arrives late, but The Bard's Tale 4: Barrows Deep is stubborn. Trying to power through it is like trying to solve a great pile of crosswords in one sitting: your brain would turn to mush. You could cheat - The Bard's Tale 4 includes a walkthrough out of the box - but you would rob yourself of the point of the puzzle in the first place. The answer doesn't really matter; it's the process you undergo to get it and the satisfaction you feel when you do that counts. In this way The Bard's Tale 4, one giant collection of puzzles, can be enormously satisfying, but force the issue and you will bang heads with it. It cannot and should not be rushed.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's 14 multiplayer maps have been revealed.

Sony has finally gone on the record to say what we all know to be true: PlayStation 5 is coming.

CD Projekt Red has announced a "long-term partnership" with a new Canadian studio called Digital Scapes, which I'd never heard of before now. But it's made up of developers from well-known studios: BioWare, Relic and Radical.

Stories Untold developer No Code has unveiled its latest game, Observation - a narrative-heavy sci-fi thriller in which players take on the role of a shipboard AI.

At some point between nuking the Greenbrier and skinning molerats during last week's Fallout 76 hands-on I managed to steal 10 minutes with Peter Hines, Bethesda Softworks' long-serving vice-president of PR and marketing. The publisher has plenty of irons in the fire right now: VR spin-offs from Arkane and MachineGames, a co-op Wolfenstein starring BJ's daughters and the cataclysmic Doom Eternal, to say nothing of the probably-next-gen Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6. In other news, the publisher has decided to drop Steam for Fallout 76's launch in favour of its own proprietary launcher. Will other Bethesda titles follow suit, and what should we expect from the next round of console hardware? Here's Hines.

Techland's cowboy game Call of Juarez: Gunslinger could be about to make a comeback - of some kind.

It's been two weeks since we brought you the troubling tale of Bowsette: the internet craze which saw thousands of artists splice Bowser with Princess Peach. The meme was inspired by the work of cartoonist ayyk92, who imagined what would happen if the Super Crown from New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe was placed on Bowser's head instead of Toadette's. Chaos ensued, with the Bowsette hashtag used hundreds of thousands of times in the west, and becoming the number one trending topic on Japanese Twitter.

It's that time again! We've finally recovered from the hangover that accompanied July's EG Community Night, and we're ready to do it all over again, on November 2nd.

Marvellous Mexican Metroidvania games Guacamelee and Guacamelee 2 are both headed to Nintendo Switch.

Twitter has banned an Elite Dangerous player for writing a poem on the social media platform about killing thargoids.

Microsoft has announced Project xCloud, a major new game-streaming service designed to bring console-quality gaming to devices such as smartphones.

It's hard to believe, but RimWorld has been in early access for over five years - so long, in fact, I'd forgotten it was technically still a work in progress.

It's fast approaching the 10-year anniversary of Fallout 3's release, and for half that time, one dedicated fan has been plugging away at a DLC-sized mod for the game. If that doesn't make you feel inadequate, I don't know what will.

Ancient Greece-set Assassin's Creed Odyssey has received a warm reception from fans and critics, although its launch sales are slower out of the gate compared to last year's Origins.

Devil May Cry 5 looks like a game packed with outlandish weapons (including a motorbike Dante rips in half). Over the weekend Capcom revealed another weapon fans of the action game series did not expect.

"Come on. Lighten up. Have a whiff."

Guerrilla Games has been acquiring talent from Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege team.