Nintendo are looking towards esports as part of their core thinking, and that's great!

Need For Speed Payback is a game built around the most cringe-worthy of dialogue, quotes so shockingly cheesy that your eyeballs are in danger of rolling out of your head with enough force to puncture your skull. Nowhere else in the game is that fact more apparent than in the Street Leagues. You’re racing around the city of Silver Rock to gain allies, leaders of gangs who each operate according to a certain discipline and spout out lines that reads like bad fan fiction.

As you’ll recall, thanks tour friends friends at Megarom and Ubisoft, we’re giving away a collection of the three lovely collectibles – along with a copy of the game (on PS4 or Xbox One), a South Park Lanyard and a Cartman pin. Here's the winner.

Already arriving with Street Fighter’s Akuma in the main roster, Tekken 7 will also soon add Fatal Fury’s Geese Howard to the mix. So what’s the secret? How does a game like Tekken choose a guest character? “It was kind of a different circumstance from Akuma. The decision making occurred outside of Tekken 7 and outside of initial planning,” series head Katushiro Harada said to Game Informer.

Bouncing off recent controversy, StarCraft II pokes fun at the anger around Battlefront II's pay-to-win systems. Even if it's a little hypocritical.

The Game Awards have finalised their nominations. Not surprising anyone, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has six nominations, although it’s facing some stiff competition from Horizon: Zero Dawn, Super Mario odyssey and Destiny 2 who all have an equal number of nominations.

Reddit might have you assuming that EA is doing damage control to prevent players from refunding Battlefront II orders. But that's not the case at all.

The second Destiny 2 Faction Rally, Faction Rally 2: Faction Rally Harder With A Vengeance, has come to an end. As I predicted, New Monarchy came out on top this week. Whether that triumph can be summed up by the fact that Dead Orbit’s gear may be the very worst and the Future War Cult branded armour and weapons look like the equivalent of Space-NASCAR, is up for debate. Nobody knooooowwwwsssss…