You might be shaking your fist right now, moaning that back in your day, there was no DLC. There were no season passes, games that needed hourly patches and services being delivered piecemeal to you on a weekly basis while you paid monthly for the privilege to play those games. No sir, you’d pop a cart into a machine, switch your console on, switch it off, take the cart back out, blow the dust off of it and then you’d play a game. Simple as that. No long-ass loading screens, just simple plug in and play gameplay. That’s how games of that age were the best. Bollocks.

Fans hunger to see faces ripped off, opponents beaten bloody with their own limbs and an entire slaughterhouse of finishers that make the Hostel series look like an episode of the Care Bears in comparison. That’s the true identity of Mortal Kombat, and it’s something that the upcoming film knows all too well as the latest cinematic adaptation is looking to rip the big screen a new one and find an R-rating within.

Remember the legal spat between Duke Nukem maker 3D Realms and classic Metal maker Iron Maiden? The latter claimed that anybody who saw 3D Realms’ upcoming Ion Maiden - a 3D shooter in the vein of Duke Nukem – that they’d be led to believe that the band was involved.

This year’s multiplayer hook in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare goes by the name of Gunfight, a 2v2 mode that focuses on duos as they take each other on in what developer Infinity Ward calls “multi-round cage matches”.

Showing off some of the experimental updates and inclusions, Steam Labs is meant to involve users in the process of enhancing and building on Valve’s storefront.

Super Mario Maker 2 is, quite frankly, brilliant. Not only does it allow level designers to unleash their creativity, it also contains a fully fledges single-player campaign that allows Nintendo’s own level designers to be as deliciously devious as they please. And now you can win it.

It’s been an awfully long time since we’ve had a great Contra game. Judging by what we’ve seen from E3 and Konami’s impending Contra: Rogue Corps (yes, the ones with the armed panda in it), we’ll be waiting a while for a great Contra game yet.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 streamlines many of the smaller, frustrating systems in the first game while structing its main quest more to create a more welcoming and rewarding sequel that's just as fun to play.