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UPDATE 14/9/18: Following on from Katamari Damacy Reroll's debut during last night's Nintendo Direct, publisher Bandai Namco has revealed that the HD remaster will be coming to Switch on December 7th.

Attendees at this year's EGX, the gaming show taking place next week at the Birmingham NEC, will have the opportunity to get to grips with Agent 47 and a roster of villains from the DC universe ahead of their official releases. Both games are playable in the UK for the very first time at the show.

You'll need to connect your Nintendo Switch to the internet every seven days to keep playing your NES games.

Sometimes, it feels like it's hard to keep up with the Wolfenstein series. It's had so many reboots, sequels and spin-offs I can barely wrap my head around them all. There's even a VR title called Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot coming out in 2019.

Are you sold yet on Life is Strange season two? Original developer Dontnod's return to the series it created has a new setting and fresh set of main characters - it's a definite departure from what's come before.

Destiny's story usually centres around evil alien gods or sci-fi technology gone horribly wrong and Forsaken, Destiny 2's latest expansion, is noticeably darker in tone than anything else in the series yet.

The FIFA 19 demo came out yesterday, and while I'm still getting to grips with it, I'm having a fun time.

We knew the space ninjas were coming to Switch, but now we know exactly when they'll be landing.

You find the heart of a game in some surprising places. Take a typical Sakurai joint, which might nominally be about scrapping across large arenas and trying to knock your opponent off the screen. That's not what Smash is about, though - its real heart is in the menus, in their abundance and splendour and their hearty, generous and colourful spill. Play a game like Diablo and it's not so much about what happens when you're crushing skulls - it's about the screen where you're optimising your character so that they might crush skulls in the most efficient way possible.

Nintendo trusty Switch will get the hulking huge Assassin's Creed Odyssey via a special Japanese version of the game that streams it from the cloud.

Developer Playground Games excels in creating vibrant, varied landscapes - and Forza Horizon 4 doesn't disappoint. Based on a preview build we recently sampled, Xbox One X offers up two compelling ways to explore it too. For the first time in the Horizon series' history, console users get a choice between 4K resolution at 30 frames per second and a new performance mode that delivers a solid 60fps. It's a long-requested feature, and while a mainstay of the Forza Motorsport games, it's been off limits for the Horizon series on Xbox - until now.

Adorable Wii platformer Kirby's Epic Yarn is getting a re-release for 3DS next year in the guise of Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn.

What do you do after creating a successful game franchise based on monsters? Do it again of course!

Nintendo has at last announced an Animal Crossing game for Switch. It's coming in 2019.

UPDATE 14TH SEPTEMBER: I've just head back from developer Binx Interactive and the Nintendo Switch version of I Hate Running Backwards is apparently going through certification now, and should be ready in a matter of weeks.

A lot of scriptwriting lore has pretty much gone mainstream by now. We're all supposed to know that good writers show and don't tell - so much so that it's enough to make you ask, reeeeeeally...? - and if you hang about around the local cinema you'll probably hear people coming out of screenings talking about delayed third acts and all that kind of densely technical stuff. (Also you'll go home smelling of popcorn, which is always money in the bank.) One of the most interesting things that scriptwriters like to talk about, though, doesn't seem to have broken through in quite the same way. One of the most interesting questions scriptwriters often ask themselves is also one of the most fundamental. Whose story is this?

Luigi's Mansion is getting a third game in the series for Nintendo Switch, due in 2019.

What's that you say? You'd like a few more Wii U ports to beef up your Switch collection? Well then here's some good news for you: New Super Mario Bros U is coming to Switch next year, on January 11th.

Oh Cities: Skylines, why do you build me up just to let me down?

Nintendo has announced that it's bringing an updated version of its classic NES controller to Switch soon.

Frostpunk, 11 Bit Studios' superb snowbound city management and survival sim, is getting its next major free expansion next week, on September 19th.

Blizzard has announced that Nintendo Switch owners will finally be able to get their hands on dungeon-crawling compilation Diablo 3: Eternal Collection on November 2nd.

Word has it that Assassin's Creed Odyssey is shaping up to be a bit good. But if its speculated 100+ hour playtime somehow isn't quite enough Assassin's Creed for you to be getting on with, there's some extra good news: Ubisoft has outlined its post-launch DLC plans for Odyssey.

Surprise! Dying Light: Bad Blood has launched on Steam Early Access, meaning you can now try this fresh take on the battle royale genre for yourselves.

The FIFA 19 demo is out now.

The floodgates to the Nintendo eShop opened some time ago, and this week is no different - a staggering 24 games arrived on the store today.

Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro has announced an 11th October release date for his new game The Missing.

Ballistic Interactive's supernatural investigation RPG HellSign is a game that, regrettably, had completely slipped under my radar until it spirited into my inbox earlier today. Which is a shame because it sounds wonderful - and also happens to be heading to Steam Early Access on November 7th.

At the start of 2018, Gen Design - the development studio helmed by Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian creator Fumito Ueda - shared an image of what many suspected to be its next game. Nine months on, Ueda has offered a bit of an update on that mysterious title.

Blackout, Call of Duty's take on battle royale, has been out a few days now and a lot of people are enjoying it very much indeed. But there's one aspect of the game that pretty much all players agree needs a rethink: body armour.