Steam’s recommendation engine isn’t as robust as it should be – and after years of its algorithm at work, it either recommends games with a dazzling dash of homogeny, or suggests so much random nonsense that it’s useless. Hopefully, that won’t be the default with Steam’s new recommendations update, which Steam hopes will be both more precise and more diverse – suggesting more games you’ll want, from a wider pool.

If you were holding your breath waiting for Valiant Hearts 2, you might want to check your expectations at the door as Ubisoft toils away on pure time-sink sandboxes.

Which is also, purely coincidentally, when the actual awards are taking place this year so clear your schedule for the annual Geoff Keighley and his Super Friends Show! Despite the horrendous glitz and glamour, unnecessarily high-end production values and needless showboating from publishers and developers, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t actively look forward to The Game Awards. …

Games publisher Curve Digital want to give you the chance to take on the law and America’s Drug Enforcement Agency, by building your own cartel as you become the Rupert Murdoch of booger sugar. Here’s a trailer for it, which shows off a little bit of the tactical gameplay.

On paper, the formula should be easy enough: You as the Predator, equipped with the best science fiction weaponry ever made and ripping spines out of torsos without ever being seen. That’s kind of the game we’re getting in Predator: Hunting Grounds, but the twist here is that you won’t just have a chance to play as the infamous stalker of Schwarzeneggers. You’ll be teaming up to take on the dread dreadlocked menace as a team of soldiers who have a job to do.

Goku's entire Dragon Ball Z story will be told yet again, as the latest game features the iconic anime hero battling his greatest foes and being the worst dad ever come January 17.

Exercise! It’s the one thing that many of us just don’t do enough of, and even for those of us who do manage to fit some gym time into our schedules, the actual effort is a bit of a slog. Nintendo reckons that they may have a way to make exercise fun again, with Ring Fit Adventure.

Man of Medan offers some interesting community play features to make it easier to experience its cheesy horror with friends, but it’s a far less compelling tale than Until Dawn ever was.