There’s no shortage of rare shoes out there either, with some versions fetching a ludicrous sum on the open market, but can any of that footwear run your feet and Crysis? I’m not exactly certain if RTKFT’s “virtual and physical next-gen collectible sneakers for the best esports, gaming, and entertainment celebrities” can, but it certainly looks like it can run a few games of Minesweeper at the very least.

Creating Half Life: Alyx reignited a spark in the company to develop single-player games… probably just not that single-player game.

Xbox fans expecting to see a similar treatment through the Game Pass service were in for a ravishing Rick Rude awakening yesterday. The mild drama kicked off when a comment on the Xbox Instagram account claimed that Fall Guys would be coming to Game Pass. Chatter started circulating, but Fall Guys publisher Devolver Digital quickly pounced on those rumours and tweeted “that's incorrect”. In another tweet, Devolver confirmed that “there are no plans for Fall Guys to come to any form of Gamepass”.

Lizardcube shared a kickass mock-up for its concept of a Garou: Mark of the Wolves sequel this week, and the end result has me throwing coins at a busted Neo Geo cabinet in my room.

I’m writing this up because hope is a strange and powerful weapon, and one can only dream that its’ not being abused in this case.

One UK-based group known as Carnage took to social media to show off that it had grabbed 2000 new PS5 consoles from retailer GAME. Carnage decided to gloat about this, caught the attention of many pissed off consumers and now GAME is investigating the mass purchases.

Kinda Funny’s Greg Miller asked Naughty Dog’s big cheese Neil Druckmann to provide a top-five list of games that he’d love to develop if given a chance to do so, and at the top of his wishlist was Marvel’s resident anti-hero Fran Castle AKA The Punisher.

The resurgence in popularity of the survival game might be down to Twitch's biggest names banding together.