Say what you want about BETAs being glorified timed demos, but they’re genuinely are useful slices of gameplay that allows developers to receive some necessary feedback to help them rejigger the parts of a game that just aren’t working. Take Fallout 76 for example, as Bethesda’s upcoming life after the apocalypse simulation is in need of plenty of fine-tuning ahead of its release next week.

Marvel's Spider-Man will see the wallcrawler finally butt heads with Hammerhead on November 20, in the second DLC episode, Turf Wars.

Gaming subscription services have really started taking off – and there’s a good reason for that. Games – which are a luxury item – cost a heck of a lot of money, so capped subscription services make a lot of sense. It’s more economically feasible for many to pay a single monthly fee that offers a smorgasbord of games than it is to buy new games all the time. And with services like Microsoft’s Game Pass and EA’s Access ones, those subscriptions even net you the newest games from those publishers.

Nearly five years ago, bohemia Interactive’s trailblazing zombie-infested survival game was released on PC as an alpha, early access game. It’s gone through sweeping changes in that time, getting new features, new guns, tuned gameplay and the sorts of frequent feedback-based tinkering you’d expect from an early access game.

Not just a done in one game, Final Fantasy XV was designed for longevity and as a platform for more content to thrown into its mix along the way. That was two years ago, and in a new announcement from Square Enix, it looks like the tale of brotherhood has finally reached the end of its road. Albeit far earlier than intended.

It all comes down to this, Trainers—to be the best, you’ve gotta beat the best! Get ready to go up against some familiar faces in Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee!

During the great big Smash Bros Ultimate direct, some people noticed that one of the characters – the dude from Nintendo’s old Game & Watch games – exhibited a potentially offensive stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans. Nintendo's removing it.

The Humble Store is running a special for the next two weeks with the Humble Warhammer Bundle, as well as a few properties from Games Workshop that are thrown into the mix. For a single space-dollar, you’ll get the original Dawn of War in its comprehensive Game of the Year edition, Talisman: Digital Edition and the expansions Blood Moon, Harbinger and Sacred Pool.