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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.

LucasArts' beloved 3D action adventure Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine is now available in official digital download form for the very first time since it released nearly two decades ago, courtesy of GOG.

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has revealed that the game's multiplayer update for Switch is now "finished", and currently in testing.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for Nintendo's characters (and their disturbingly eroticised hybrids) on the internet. First there was Donald Trump's penile Toad, then Bowsette, and now the latest Mario universe star hovering on the brink of meme-dom: indie rock Rosalina.

Many PUBG players have bemoaned the fact the game is plagued by cheaters. From wall hackers to aimbots, PUBG has garnered something of a reputation for hosting naughty players.

Cultist Simulator's first expansion, The Dancer, arrives on Tuesday 16th October 2018 and it'll only set you back £2.50/€2.39/$2.99.

UPDATE 3.50pm: In a tweet following the publication of Eurogamer's story, BBC News reporter and renowned Potter fan Lizo Mzimba shared some of his knowledge of the project, including two possible names:

It's been around for a while, but the problem of swatting - the practice of deliberately calling police to someone's house - has only grown in recent years. It's a harassment tactic which people have used to target streamers in the hope they'll be arrested mid-stream.

An eagle-eyed Destiny fan on reddit has spotted Cayde-6's signature cloak hanging in the Tower.

Fortnite wouldn't be Fortnite unless it was doing something at least a little unpredictable at any given moment. And while the roving adventures of Kevin the Cube might seem to suggest that Epic had reached peak peculiar this week, word of Fortnite's newest limited-time mode says otherwise.

Google has unveiled Project Stream, a new streaming initiative designed to enable users to experience complex content - including demanding video games such as Assassin's Creed Odyssey - via their Chrome web browser.

I've had one beady eye on Lovecraftian park management game The Eldritch Zookeeper ever since its announcement last year. Things have seemingly been ticking along nicely since then, with its new trailer flaunting a lot more polish and, more importantly, the majestic HypnoLlama.

Devolver Digital has announced Weedcraft Inc., a new tycoon game about on growing, breeding, selling, and distributing marijuana in America.

Things are set to get spooky in Overwatch, as it's annual Halloween Terror event kicks off next Tuesday 9th October and runs through to the end of this month.

The Color of Madness, Lovecraftian strategy RPG Darkest Dungeon's third paid DLC expansion, is coming to Switch, Xbox One, and iPad on October 11th, developer Red Hook Studios has announced.

When you hit rank 40 in Forza Horizon 4, a series of events unlocks which is hosted by a vapid streamer character and framed as a countdown of the 10 greatest cars in video games. What it actually is is a tribute, by the developers at Playground Games, to their inspirations: the freewheeling worlds of Test Drive and Smuggler's Run and the sun-drenched zest of the Sega arcade classics OutRun, Daytona and Crazy Taxi. It's a gesture that could only have been more gracious if it had tipped its hat to the original car-culture collect-'em-up, Gran Turismo. The most sincere of the tributes, though, honours Project Gotham Racing by taking us back to the streets of Edinburgh for the first time since PGR2, and illustrating how that series' Kudos score, which rewarded stylish driving, inspired Forza Horizon's own skill point system.

If you've ever experienced the full horror of teaching a parent how to game, look away now. This video may bring back unpleasant memories.

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Rockstar Games has detailed more of the things you'll be doing in Red Dead Redemption 2, including the ability to kick back and go virtual fishing.

A video game company has snapped up the rights to 65 thought-abandoned Acclaim games for $1m.

After six years, an indie developer has admitted defeat and ended work on his ambitious, crowdfunded space sim - and he's received an outpouring of support from backers.

Rocket League developer Psyonix has always been a major proponent of console cross-play, and now the feature has been implemented in Fortnite, the studio has issued an update on the future of cross-play in its footballing car game.

Fallout 2 turned 20 years old yesterday.

FIFA 19 physical launch sales are down 25 per cent in the UK.

Bungie has submitted a trademark application for a hitherto unknown intellectual property called "Matter".

Pandas are coming to Minecraft.

The island that recently untethered itself from Fortnite's Loot Lake is now on the move.

A secret text adventure game has been discovered in the source code of Google Chrome.