Final Fantasy 8 is out soon with a facelift that would make Tom Cruise seethe with jealousy as he lays within his bathtub of moisturiser and stem cells if he caught wind of it. September 3 is when the best Final Fantasy arrives, but don’t just take my word for it. Here’s Square Enix delivering the good news.

Last night saw the first Gamescom Opening Night Live, presented by The Games Awards’ Geoff Keighley. It was the first real attempt to turn Gamescom – already the biggest gaming convention on the planet – into something that rivals E3 for hype, announcements and world premiere trailers. It was neat, but I have to say that it dragged on a bit. If you missed it all, you can catch up on everything here. During the event, a few of the Gamescom Awards winners were nonchalantly revealed, without much in the way of ceremony. Following that trend, here’s a list of the winners.

Insomniac games is the studio behind one of this generation’s most successful video games: Marvel’s Spider-Man. It makes sense then, that Sony would want to keep that sort of thing in house. And now that’s what’s happened.

It’s Gamescom! And this time, there’re actually announcements of new things thanks go Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Live event. The first announcement of something new to come came by way of a shiny, chrome plated trailer for a new Comanche game. It somehow wasn’t leaked – but there’s a new goddamned Comanche game coming from THQ Nordic

Cologne, the Big Apple of Europe. Home to amazing architecture, a scenic river that spins me right Rhine baby right Rhine and for one night only, a massive opening ceremony to celebrate the best that video games have to offer. Hosted by Geoff Keighley, tonight’s grand Gamescom 2019 kickoff show is promising to be one for the ages.

Is the world ready for a streaming future? Maybe, maybe not but the real takeaway here is that Google’s plan for tomorrow is going to be a pricy one. The infrastructure needed to handle a decent full high definition livestream ain’t exactly cheap, and bundled together with the need to have a workhorse screen to play said games on, the …

For a while now, Fortnite has had cross-platform play. It means that PlayStation 4 and Xbox One players can play the game together. Now, the same sort of cross-play is coming to the console versions of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds.

I’m pretty chuffed with Game Pass on Pc. I’m not especially keen on the Windows store or the Xbox app that I have to use to access the service, but it’s a lovely way to play a bunch of games for not very much money. It’s a killer service on both PC and console, regularly adding great new games to play.