Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is making it even easier for you to catch up if you're constantly in last. And that doesn't spell good news for better racers.

A new month means new games and while July in the past has been a month that is somewhat more barren than right swipes on my Tinder profile, the scene is changing somewhat. Here’s the full list of games out this month.

Diablo III is the game that just keeps on giving. The latest extra content is the Necromancer; the best spellcaster in the game. And now you can win a code to give you access.

The industry needs to get young people interested in competitive gaming if it wants to flourish beyond the current old guard. It’s why initiatives like the recent esports weekend in Cape Town are so important. With the ntoduction of new PvP mods, the next big youth-focused esport could be the block-breaking and building sandbox Minecraft – and that’s got people like Nickelodeon interested.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder however, as I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about Assassin’s Creed Origins. It’s not just another Assassin’s Creed game that features the usual leap-of-faith shenanigans, but rather the fact that it looks and feels far like Ubisoft has managed to fine-tune the series to evolve in a more dynamic direction.

StarCraft Remastered is launching much sooner than you might have expected. And it isn't going to cost an arm and a leg either.

For the first time in over a decade now, Kurt Angle wil be officially playable in a WWE game…if you pre-order WWE 2K18 that is. Oh it’s true, it’s damn true. Joining Seth Rollins, Angle will have two specific incarnations to play as in October.

It seemed plausible that, with the Mass Effect: Andromeda on hiatus, that polishing and future DLC work on it was outsourced. Work, it was rumoured, that had been cancelled. Bioware and EA have denied those rumours.