There are missteps, especially with the open worlds feeling lifeless, but Gears 5 is a more confident turn from a developer that no longer has to prove it’s capable of making a faithful Gears of War sequel. It’s bigger, better and more beautiful – and a bold step in the right direction for Gears. The action is superlative, the writing hits humorous and emotional notes and the number of multiplayer modes is extensive. If ever there was a reason to subscribe to Game Pass, this is it.

We sat down with Executive Producer Nouredine Abboud to talk a little more about how Ghost Recon: Breakpoint plans on building on from what Wildlands established.

I’m going to need a lot of bullets.

Making a game and then slyly using heavier themes to market said product means that Ubisoft can and should be criticised for their PR sleight of hand, because this is a company that knows all too well what will sell and how they’ll push it out so that all eyeballs will be focused on their product. Nobody knows this more than the Ubi-Boss himself, Yves Guillemot.

We’ve spoken before about how Neversoft pulled off a 1080 miracle with this project, smashing a deadline and delivering an experience that was the perfect way to end a decade, a century and a millennium. Celebrating the mother of all milestones, the Hawk himself posted on Twitter some previously unseen footage of the motion capture for the game.

While CD Projekt Red have hinted in the past that they’d be open to the idea of taking their upcoming title into the online realm of PvP and other social interactions, that was just it. It was an idea, a thought that there was no real form commitment to. Until today that is, as the developer have officially announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will receive multiplayer content after launch and once the DLC has wrapped up.

If you’re looking forward to Borderlands 3, chances are that you’re also dreading the download which will show zero mercy to your Millennial need to want stuff right now. The game looks gorgeous, the world inside it is probably going to be massive and the size of said game is going to match up with the lofty expectations that fans have for this long in development sequel.

However you spin it, big Dave Bautista has a resume that most entertainers would kill for. The hulking bruiser made the king of kings bleed in a climatic Wrestlemania showdown, gave a young Superman a run for his money and helped save the day from galactic threats in the Guardians of the Galaxy films. Now, the man who was simply known as the animal in the WWE (or Bluetista in a return to the ring that wasn’t exactly well received) is about to face his greatest challenge yet: Multiplayer mobs.