Activision recently released the official minimum and recommended requirements for the game and while the hardware needed is far from unexpected, it’s the storage required for Modern Warfare that’ll throw a little shock and awe at your face: 175 entire gigabytes of space will be needed.

Local co-op and couch gaming are largely dead; a relic of the past because – certain party games excluded - it’s so seldom that people invite friends over to play video games. Instead, people now play video games with their friend over the internet. It’s a pity, not just because sitting with friends on a couch and playing video games together or against each other is awesome, but because there are so many games that don’t have online multiplayer support; games that would be better if played with others.

Next month, Google will officially launch its cloud gaming enterprise, Stadia. Using the power of the cloud and their own processing farms, Google will allow players to play the latest and greatest games, without having to own expensive hardware. Instead, with a Chromecast Ultra and a connected controller, they’ll be able to buy games and play them on their TVs, beamed in real time over the internet, with their inputs streamed back to Google servers – with this going back and forth as people play games. It works - but it will soon work even better.

Last week saw Shawn Layden say sayonara to Sony after calling the company home for many a year, and that’s a departure that’ll be joined by Microsoft’s own corporate vice president as Mike Ybarra bids a fond farewell to the global brand.

Ideas may give birth to games, but it is art that shapes those dreams into something tangible. Art that guides a project, that gives it a signature look and a style that sets it apart from other games. In an age where everything was browner than Midrand in summer, Borderlands was a revelation at the time. Colourful, cheeky and brimming with personality, it was the visuals that helped set this grand experiment apart from so many other games that were released at the time.

Hey, remember the Simpson’s Hit & Run? The PC, PS2 and Xbox game was probably the best Simpsons game ever made, done all the way back when the series was still funny. The follow up to The Simpsons: Road Rage which was a Crazy Taxi clone, was itself more than just inspired by the unbelievably popular Grand Theft Auto. With its own vehicular focus, Simpson Hit ‘n Run took the GTA open world formula and applied it Springfield, with the mad sort of Simpson's zaniness you’d expect.

I don’t know about you guys, but hearing the whirring of locking mechanisms, the coil of a spring and the click of a latch springing open is music to my ears. ASMR at its finest, a relaxing collection of sounds that make me feel at ease and peaceful before I grab a shiny new revolver and use it to make heads explode across all of creation.

According to Sensor Tower, Call of Duty Mobile has been downloaded by more than 100 000 million players around the world within its first week Whaaaaaat? A version of Call of Duty that was designed and built for mobile turned out to be wildly successful? Who could have ever seen this coming? Absolutely everyone, let me tell you that. Released …