The update brings with it a slew of both free and paid content as well as a brand new heist that wraps up the “story” of Payday 2

In a surprise move, Sony has announced that it’s made Horizon Zero Dan developer Guerrilla Games managing director and co-founder Hermen Hulst as its new head of PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios. That’s the job that’s been filled by the universally adored Shuhei Yoshida.

Silent Hill fans may still mourn the loss of a Hideo Kojima directed entry in that dormant franchise, but Death Stranding star Norman Reedus reckons that Konami's blunder resulted in the best outcome possible for the video game industry.

You don’t need to do a double-take on that headline, you read it right the first time.

While I’ve not had as much time to spend playing this year’s Call of Duty as I’d like, it’s a pretty damned good game. The single player, while having a bit of a jingoist, hokey story, tells that story exceptionally well, The multiplayer has – for the most part – gone down exceptionally well, bringing new and lapsed players back to Call of Duty.

The heavy-handed Chinese government may be focused on making covert moves towards reclaiming Hong Kong from the scourge of democracy, but between those brutal displays of power and telling the world that everyone had a fantastic time in Tiananmen Square between April and June 1989, China is also tackling video game addiction.

The new mid-gen consoles heralded the beginning of the 4K era, brining UHD gaming to the masses. Sure, you could argue that few games consistently run at the target resolution natively. Some games instead use dynamic resolution scaling or rendering techniques. That techno-disclaimer aside, a great many games are actually outputting in native 4K, especially on the Xbox One X, and they do so using setting that hover around “medium” settings, usually at 30fps. The PS4 Pro isn’t quite up to that task, and usually runs games at a lower resolution.

Hitman 2 more than delivered on its promise to turn players into the ultimate killing machine. The November roadmap may still have a lot of content on the way, but it’ll be done by a smaller dedicated crew as IO Interactive ramps up development on Hitman 3.