Playing video games online is a bit like the Tale of Two Cities. It can be the best of times, getting together with friends and shooting at random people online while having a laugh. It can also be the worst of times, because some people find it necessary to absolute cockwombles once they put on a gaming headset. One of the most aggrieving aspects of this untoward online behaviour, especially in team games, is when one player just doesn’t hold their weight. I’m not talking about lower-skilled players either, but rather the absolute pillocks who join a game, then sit twiddling their thumbs or doing something else while the rest of the team has to do what they can with a player deficit.

To celebrate Mother’s Day, the Overwatch League was asking fans to send in appreciation posts for their mothers, but a troll managed to slip an unsavoury picture through the cracks Image: Robert Paul During yesterday’s Overwatch League Stage 2 finals, fans watching the broadcast live were asked to send in images of their mothers and kind words of appreciation for …

There’s no perfect character in Mortal Kombat 11, but Liu Kang is currently close to godlike in the current metagame.

In a surprise that nobody expected, the underdogs of the OWL came out swinging against the Titans and proved victorious, taking the final and $200,000 in prize money Yesterday’s stage 2 finals of the Overwatch League saw perhaps one of the most surprising games seen thus far in OWL history – with San Francisco Shock toppling the previously undefeated Vancouver …

God of War was emotional, it was splendid and you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t feel satisfied by the time the final credits rolled on an adventure that starred an older and crustier Kratos as he battled back against Norse mythology. A five year odyssey, to create not just the best God of War game, but the definitive example of how the video game industry can be create true art. Want to see how it was all done? Then watch the full-length documentary.

Machinegames’ Wolfenstein alternate history reboots have given us some of this generations finest straight up shooters. Both The New Order and The New Colossus were exemplary FPs games, using new technology couple with old-school design to make killing nazis as cathartic as it could possible be. In July’s Wolfenstein: Youngblood, BJ Blazkowicz passes the torch to his twin daughters, delivering a 1980’s co-op shooter experience that’s a change of pace for the series.

For Ghost Recon Breakpoint, Ubisoft is dropping players onto the fictional island of Auroa, a sandbox checklist of various locations that are perfect for a squad of hairy black ops soldiers to engage in a bit of the ol’ Rambo LARP. You’ve got rainforests, snowy mountains and even a freakin’ volcano to navigate around. Pretty diverse terrain, which happens to be populated with killer attack drones that have zero empathy and ethical safeguards thanks to inventor Jace Skell not having to worry about pesky government regulations.

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?