Its been a hell of a long road for Final Fantasy VII Remake. Originally given to CyberConnect2 to work on, Sony decided to move the production back to one of their internal studios. It’s not just a visual remake either, as this incarnation of Final Fantasy VII looks set to ditch the turn-based system in favour of something more action-packed.

Last night, a bit of information from Ubisoft themselves leaked this evening’s reveal of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, the newest game in the series that features Tom Clancy’s name, but has nothing to do with him whatsoever. Now that the reveal has come and gone, we know that Ghost Recon Breakpoint is not only a very real game, but we also know when it’ll be out.

Strong similarities between the two games were found in both introductions as well as several key gameplay elements, situations and characters. Released earlier this week, Bethesda’s free new table-top role-playing game Elsweyr, acting as promotional material for one of their flagship franchises The Elder Scrolls, has been found to contain several shockingly similar elements to a Dungeons and Dragons campaign …

EA confirmed in a recent conference call that they will be porting Apex Legends to mobile in the near future. Apex Legends exploded onto the scene in February of this year, and although it’s a fantastic game that I admit to having spent many, many hours in, it does have a really terrible name. Many people joked that Respawn’s plucky …

John Wick Hex is a fast-paced, action-oriented strategy game that makes you think and strike like, John Wick, the professional hitman of Lionsgate’s critically acclaimed film franchise.

I don’t think anybody other than game publishers actually really likes Loot Boxes and microtransactions, but we as consumers have learned to put up with them, especially when they’re the less egregious sort that only doles out cosmetic fluff. Of course, there is that nice dopamine rush that comes with opening loot boxes, especially when they dish out items you actually want. Of course, while that feels good, it’s not quite the same as liking something; it’s more like an abusive relationship, and one of the reasons that legislators are starting to view loot boxes as being problematic.

Clearly, the old way of launching a video game is not working for live service titles such as Anthem. EA agrees.

Two Point Studios, the developer behind the successful spiritual successor to Theme Hospital, Two Point Hospital has been acquired by SEGA. The developer started working the publisher as part of SEGA Euorpe’s Searchlight programme in 2017, and is now wholly owned by SEGA Europe. It joins other studios like Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive, Relic Entertainment, Amplitude Studios and HARDlight in the SEGA Europe stable.