While the rest of the year’s biggest gaming conventions have all but closed their doors, Gamescom is looking at marching ahead, undeterred by the coronavirus.

Resident Evil 3 is mere days away, and Capcom is looking to build some hype with a demo. Jill Valentine’s Day will kick off on March 18, with Capcom saying that the console and PC demo will have a fair chunk of content within it.

Animal Crossing has always been one of those franchises that either clicks with you or it simply doesn’t. While it might seem strange that such a purposefully tranquil experience can be so immediately polarising to the public, I firmly believe that when it comes to paying off your mortgage and building up your idyllic town, carefully populating it with friends …

Not that big. But pretty big! You could still fill a fridge with several of them. This public announcement has been brought to you by the Bureau of Useless Information. Serving the greater good since 1963.

Say what you like about Microsoft, but nobody makes a video game controller like Team Green. Sony may have come up with the standard design for a controller, but Microsoft perfected the concept with the Xbox 360 controller and sharpened it to an absurd edge with the Xbox One generation. For the Xbox Series X era, not too much is changing on the surface, but under the hood there lies a whole new status quo for what these devices will be capable of.

What’s in an Xbox? Lots apparently! If there’s one message that Microsoft seems hellbent on emphasising with their next video game console, it’s power. Pure power in a raw form that’ll pave the way for games to not only look better but perform beyond the norm and load quicker than ever before.

That’s a lot of people trying to keep themselves busy instead of venturing out into the quarantine zones.

It’s so clever, how did no one think of this before? You take Super Mario Bros, which in its most recognisable form is still that of a 2D game wherein you inflict massive brain trauma on Mario by directing his skull through solid bricks, and you combine that with LEGO to capture that aesthetic and give it a more creative approach in our plane of existence.