In celebration of the Game Developer's Conference taking place this week, Epic Games released a blog post and trailer showcasing some of the games that are going to be coming to the Epic Games Store this year, using their arrivals to grab everyone's attention away from competitors such as Steam.

It’s official! Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is finally getting a sequel after a decade and a half of hibernation and I bet it’ll wake up without that messy crypt-hair look! After some extended teasing on Twitter, Paradox Interactive have properly unveiled the digital pain in a neck (HAW!) simulator which they say shall be a “true successor” to the original.

It has been almost six years since Disney halted the workings of George Lucas's video game publisher, LucasArts. In the wake of their acquisition of Lucasfilm, the media giant laid off most of the staff and shelved the entity to serve merely as a licensor for its product portfolio. Now, LucasArts is back, restored to its original title of Lucasfilm Games and Disney is hiring en masse to get it going.

We may not have a consistent supply of power to keep the lights on, but if there’s one thing that South Africans do have, it’s a level of freedom that we make the most of. In terms of entertainment, we’ve got it made. We can create content online, upload it and publish it without having to worry about a squad of goons bashing down our door for daring to publish a highlight reel of Apex Legends kills. That may be changing soon.

Having entered a state of Torpor since its last release in 2004, Vampire The Masquerade has lain dormant within its coffin as it waits for the day when it shall rise again. That day may be soon, because Paradox Interactive has been doing plenty of teasing for the reveal of something on March 21.

There are games out there that are bright,happy and optimistic, that aren’t all about death and consequences and just remind you that, hey, there is good out there in the world. So I’ve compiled a list of games that I’ve been delving into to raise my spirits and, maybe if you’re struggling too, they can lift yours too.

So a couple of days back now, there was a bit of a hole in a dam concerning a potential Castlevania Anniversary Collection via a rating from the Australian Government’s Department of Communications and the Arts. The rating suggested that Konami were bundling some of the older Castlevania games together and re-releasing them for newer consoles. Well, as it turns …

For better or for worse, exciting times lie ahead of us. It’s a brave new world out there for video games and for many of us, we didn’t even see it sneak up on us.