In many ways, Devil May Cry’s Bloody Palace is the OG battle royale simulator. One hundred floors of action, one devil slayer and a chicken dinner waiting at the top. It'll be ready, on April 1.

Bow ties. Fancy champagne. Bow ties. What makes the BAFTAs neat, is that the even actually recognises the importance of video games and regularly elevates them to the same level of attention that film and television happens to enjoy, with their own dedicated awards show. This year, the nominations for the best in gaming makes for one heck of a stacked field, albeit one that isn’t exactly surprising.

Epic’s Game store is a little barebones right now, but that doesn’t mean that features aren’t coming in the near future. Unfortunately, it also seems to have a few unwanted features running the background. According to a thread on Reddit, Epic’s store prods into your processes and spies on your Steam usage a little. Metacouncil and ResetEra user madjoki looked …

Jump Force may be the kind of game that can be best viewed as pure anime filler when it comes to quality. And not even the good kind of filler. More like Bleach filler and oh yes, I just went there. Still, that hasn’t stopped the game from earning some fans, and all seven of them are going to be delighted to hear that Jump Force has a roadmap of downloadable content on the way.

2017’s Sniper Elite 4 saw Fairburne head to Italy for some fun in the sun that was molto bene. Fairburne’s next assignment? Not one, not two but four more tours of duty according to Rebellion, who announced a package of sequels and remasters. Here’s the intel, straight from their offices.

Microsoft has been pretty clear about its intentions to turn Xbox into more of a platform than a standalone console. We first saw this change with the integration of Xbox Live and Windows 10, along with Play Anywhere. Now the company is pushing its online suite, Xbox Live, to IOS and Android devices. Microsoft is launching a new cross-platform SDK …

For a little while now, Blizzards been teasing some impending news about Hearthstone, the company’s popular trading card game. That news is now out of the bag, and it’s a dastardly, brand new expansion. It’s called Rise of Shadows, and it’s a new expansion kicking off from April 9 that’ll have you being the bad guy in a year-long storyline. Rise of Shadows will introduce 135 new cards, along with some fresh mechanics.

There’s plenty of fantastic acting inside of Devil May Cry 5, a game that is already cementing itself as one of my personal highlights not only of the year but of this gaming generation.