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Developer Fireproof Games has announced that its superb, award-winning mystery box puzzler The Room will be heading to Switch on October 18th.

EA has said it is "closely monitoring" the situation that currently embroils FIFA 19 cover star Cristiano Ronaldo following rape allegations.

Paradox Interactive has announced Space Race, the first big expansion for its space colony construction and management sim Surviving Mars. It's set to release "soon" on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

How's about a free game to brighten up your Thursday? Well, Shadow Warrior 2 is currently free to download from GOG.

Earlier than usual, Sony has confirmed the PlayStation 4 games to be given away next month via PlayStation Plus.

Do you want to be the ghost ship materialising out of the fog with a load of gruesome, rotting zombies on board? What a stupid question. Yes, obviously.

Fortnite's Chiller Trap has only recently landed in-game and players are already creating intricate skate tracks and discovering new ways of quickly sliding away from the storm.

Unlike some other games based on enduring animes from the 90s, Fist of the North Star might not be immediately familiar. Initially conceived as a collaboration between writer Sho "Buronson" Fumimura and illustrator Tetsuo Hara, Fist of the North Star was definitely the kind of thing that made my parents associate anime with violence and over-sexualisation long before Ghibli's "My Neighbour Totoro" could smooth things over.

Nintendo will launch an updated version of the Switch in 2019, according to a Wall St Journal report.

UPDATE #2 11am BST: It's there - Civ 6 on iPhone has arrived. It's a 3.4GB free download (the first 60 turns are gratis) and then it's £23, which is presumably the 60-per-cent-off price outlined below.

Tributes are being paid to Ben Daglish, the influential composer of many video games from the 1980s, who has died aged 52.

Mike Morhaime, the boss of Blizzard Entertainment, has stepped down.

Wonderful viking-themed real-time strategy game Northgard has just received a major free update, adding a new apocalyptic map, a new neutral faction, and more.

Developer Darkstar has announced that its vaguely Souls-esque boss rush action-RPG, Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption, will launch on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch on October 18th.

When Twin Peaks' third, magisterial season ended with that scene last year, it seemed like something of a definite (albeit confounding) full stop for the seminal series. I certainly wasn't expecting to ever report that Twin Peaks' legacy would continue as an official VR project - but here we are!

Done with Shadow of the Tomb Raider already, but still hankering for a bit more Lara in your life? Well, then you might be interested to hear about her latest, somewhat more lo-fi adventure, which arrives in the form of a new Tomb Raider board game in February next year.

Firaxis has announced that it's celebrating XCOM's sixth birthday on October 9th with the release of the Tactical Legacy Pack - a brand-new (and temporarily free) DLC update for XCOM 2's War of the Chosen expansion on PC.

Pack your utensils, Overcooked 2's tropical themed DLC, Surf 'n' Turf, is available right now on all platforms.

This October, Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK will once again hold their annual Stand Up To Cancer fundraising campaign. And, this year, you're invited to take part.

Want to feel old? Maybe cast a glance over what Mega Man looks like today - or feel how all that muscle memory that held together those older games has atrophied to nothing as you struggle through the almighty challenge posed by this, Capcom's internally-developed revival of its legendary series that arrives a fashionable 12 months late to Mega Man's 30th anniversary. There might be an all-new look to Mega Man, the harsh pixel edges of old buffed out and a dash of cartoon colour injected into its world, but that doesn't mean the challenge has been smoothed off. This is a game that will make your fingers bleed, if you let it, and it takes great pride in doing so.

Astro Bot Rescue Mission is a pretty wonderful platformer, but VR does something that lifts it to the heady realms of actual magic: it allows you to climb inside its world.

Oddball live action video game hybrid The Quiet Man has a release date, and it's sooner than we expected.

Forza Horizon 4 is here! And what a game it is - I've spent the last few days blitzing through Playground Games' exquisitely crafted composite of the United Kingdom, and marvelling at the beauty of it all. It's not just one of the best racing games in years - it's one of the very best open world games, too.

Too Kyo Games, the new studio that brings together Danganronpa writer Kazukata Kodaka with Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi, has unveiled its new game - a slight move away from visual novels towards 2D action called Death March Club.

UPDATE 3/10/18 11:30AM: Fortnite's latest V.6.1 patch confirms a name change for the previously leaked Freeze Trap, calling them Chiller Traps instead. There are also some new options to toy around with in the Playground mode.

Hearthstone's Hallow's End event returns on Wednesday 17th October and runs through to the end of the month.

Three more NES games will join the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service next week, on 10th October.

If you played the beta for Blackout, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's battle royale mode, you'll have run up against its fiddly item pickup system.

EA Sports has issued FIFA 19's first title update - and it patches out Petr Cech's meme-worthy negotiations helmet.

Seeing a black person in a game is still a strange experience more often than not. For the longest time, black characters seemed to fall precisely into two categories, scary and...funky. Both of these stereotypes are still very much alive, and yet I can also finally see some breakthroughs - games in which black people don't fill a role, and instead get to be just people.