Bad news for fisticuffs fans: EA's magnificent Fight Night Round 4 has one more round in the tank before it shuts down its servers in early 2020.

With Resident Evil currently reliving in a sort of renaissance with the excellent release of the Resident Evil 2 Remake earlier this year and the recently announced Resident Evil 3: Nemesis Remake arriving early next year, it seems like the perfect time for Capcom to sit down and really reflect on what made the franchise so successful in the first place: The atrocious voice acting and localisation.

That console you’ve got in your living room? Its more than just a gateway to new gaming experiences, online adventures and a hub for sharing content. It’s also a box that can serve a certain other need that usually revolve around a little of the ol’ five-knuckle shuffle. With consoles having a web browser, a lot of pocket pinball players opt to get their sultry kicks through that piece of hardware.

Geoff Keighley’s baby, the Game Awards, kicks off tonight in the eastern US, at a reasonable 8pm. Unfortunately for those of us in the bottom of Africa, that’s 3 AM on Friday morning, and as an old bloke, there’s just no way I’m staying up or waking up early for that. I’ll be watching whatever happens with that at a reasonable time on Friday morning. With that said, Keighley has said he wants to do something different with the things this year

If there’s a joy in life that has to be experienced, it is the sheer thrill of petrolhead paradise that is Forza Horizon 4. A gripping collection of races over a vast section of merry ol’ England, you don’t even need to be competitive to enjoy, as a simple afternoon drive behind the wheel of an impossibly fast supercar is …

Unable to comply, building in progress! At some point in the 90s, that was sound was the bane of my existence. It would probably be followed soon by “low power,” “silos needed” and “insufficient funds” because my god was I bad at Command & Conquer. If you recognise those phrases, you’ll know those were the words that EVA, the Electronic Video Agent that served as the UI and Battle Interface in the Command & Conquer universe.

The war on stream exclusivity continues to rage on as Twitch has now taken measures to ensure it retains some big names.

If video games are escapism, then role-playing games are the endpoint of that idea. These are the games that truly do allow us to inhabit the bodies of characters and grow them according to our own whims and desires. Role-playing games also happen to come in a variety of flavours to suit any palette, whether they be meaty mechanical beasts that we can tinker with or more subtle character-driven experiences that task the player with finding a path that suits their specific tastes of engagement. These, are the best RPGs of 2019.