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Gwent: The Witcher Card Game, and related-but-standalone single-player Gwent adventure Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, will be released 23rd October on PC, and then on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One 4th December.

Nintendo Labo is pretty sturdy for something made entirely out of cardboard - but it's a platform designed to be played with and experimented on. So what better marriage of ideas than a mix of Labo with Lego - a construction toy created with the same sense of creativity in mind.

UPDATE 17/9/18: Grasshopper Manufacture's wonderfully weird, formerly PlayStation 4-exclusive, hack-and-slasher Let It Die is coming to Steam on September 26th.

Offbeat 2010 role-playing game Resonance of Fate will get a new lease of life with the wonderfully-named Resonance of Fate 4K / HD Edition.

Rare has announced that Forsaken Shores, the major new content update for multiplayer pirate adventure Sea of Thieves, has been delayed. It was originally due to launch this Wednesday, September 19th, but is now scheduled to arrive next week, on Thursday 27th September.

Fortnite's new update seems to be about taking portable items to a whole new level, as along with the Port-A-Fortress, players will now be able to throw down an entire stadium in Playground mode.

EA has opened up about pack probability in FIFA Ultimate Team.

Ubisoft has announced that South Park: The Stick of Truth is heading to Switch next week, on September 25th.

Tetris Effect, legendary designer Tetsuya Mizuguchi's musical reimagining of the classic falling block puzzler, is coming to PlayStation 4 on November 9th.

Even now, all these years later, there remains an air of luxury around the Neo Geo. These were once premium machines, with premium price-tags to boot - as a kid I'd look wistfully at the shelves that contained those gloriously oversized AES clamshell cases with their muscular artwork, wondering if there would ever be a time when I'd be able to sample the pleasures within. They played premium games, too, from the style and swagger of The King of Fighters series through to the impeccably detailed and winningly characterful pixel work of Metal Slug.

Red Dead Redemption was as much about its wilderness as it was John Marsten. The dusty main street of Armadillo, the dense pines of Tall Trees, the plains which separated your farmstead from the creeping modernisation in Blackwater.

It's the ideal mod. Fallout New Vegas, re-made using the Fallout 4 creation engine, is everything I could have asked for and more. And now, after just over a year of development, the team behind the Fallout 4 New Vegas project has shared a first glimpse of their work.

Blink and you'd have missed it in last week's Nintendo Direct, but we got a brief glimpse at a brand new Mario character. Her name's Peachette, and she has got Nintendo fans very confused indeed.

How long has it been since the last unabashed, bluntly straightforward and no frills arcade racer? So much time has passed it may as well have been 2002's V-Rally 3, the last instalment of a series that's getting an unlikely revival in this, the latest outing from Parisian racing specialists Kylotonn. V-Rally 4 is a nostalgia trip of a game - not least for some of its development team who worked on the original games - and one that harks back to a bygone, if not necessarily better, era.

If there's one thing that I struggle with in Fortnite, it's the building - which is un-fort-unate given this is a key aspect of the gameplay. But Epic is making things a little easier for players with its latest item. A souped-up version of the Port-A-Fort, I present to you: the Port-A-Fortress.

Spurred by last week's announcement of an Assassin's Creed 3 remaster, the game's director Alex Hutchinson has reflected on what he would change - and keep the same - if he made the game now. One of the biggest changes? That six-hour opening prologue.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider's launch week physical sales were down 70 per cent on those of the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot. Lara Croft's latest adventure failed to top the UK chart, too - held off by another amazing week of sales for PS4 exclusive Marvel's Spider-Man.

Downward Spiral: Horus Station. That's hardly a name that just rolls off the tongue, is it?

The Fortnite community is obsessed with trying to predict the next in-game event. Even a cursory glance at YouTube will show you hundreds of conspiracy-theory videos, written in all-caps, declaring things such as "TILTED TOWERS will be DESTROYED by a COMET". Few have been correct.

The photo is black and white, and slightly soft-focused. There are eight people dressed in black, lounging together in front of a paint-splattered roll of tarp. Their faces are young and rock star serious.

Spider-Man PS4 is a great game (check out Christian Donlan's Spider-Man review to find out why), but there's more to it than web-slinging and punching up bad guys. It's also a game packed with Easter eggs, many of which revolve around characters and events from the Marvel universe. And there are even hints at the future.

AMD processors combining x86 CPUs and Radeon GPU technology have defined the current era of console gaming, but what if these small form factor boxes were wide-open devices, capable of running Windows 10 and PC games? And what if the under-powered Jaguar CPU cores were replaced with Ryzen instead for improved processing power? Last month, Chinese manufacturer Zhongshan Subor unveiled its Z Plus machine, which ticks all of those boxes - and I've spent the last week experimenting with an early production unit.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Blackout mode has been out for a week now (check out impressions here), and Treyarch continues to update not just the game but the community. This time, it's announced plans to tackle teamkill looting.

Just under 19 hours after it went live, Destiny 2 Forsaken's raid has been defeated.

You don't need to pay to play Fortnite on Nintendo Switch - even after Nintendo's new online subscription service comes in next week.

EA's on a drive to demystify FIFA, which is a long time coming.

Digital Foundry will be hosting a panel on the future of gaming technology at EGX at the Birmingham NEC next week, offering an in-depth look at Nvidia's new GeForce RTX technology and discussing how the new hardware could shape the future of gaming graphics.

There is a special kind of halo around the things games do that they don't really have to. The radio stations in GTA, or the fact that the GPS disappears when you go through a tunnel. The tinkle of shell-casings hitting the floor in a shooter that you would assume is too brisk and frowny for such distractions. The plaque you sometimes find by monuments on the battle royale island of Fortnite. These things don't define a game, but they quietly help to make things feel richer. They are signs that someone cares, and maybe, even, that somebody was having fun thinking of the fun that you would one day have in the worlds they were making.

UPDATE 14/9/18: Looks like it's not just Switch that'll be drowning in Final Fantasy games by the end of 2019; Microsoft has revealed that a whole host of series instalments are also heading to Xbox One over the next 12 months.

If you've had your watchful eye on The Division at all, but still haven't yet managed to put it through its paces, now's your chance - Ubisoft's multiplayer shooter is currently free to play on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.