The first rebooted hitman was sold off as an episodic game. Despite being a brilliant murder simulator that got the episodic formula so, so right, many consumers didn’t take to it just because it was sold piecemeal. They wanted a finished product, a retail game that they could hold in their hands. And that game is here. With developer IO Interactive nearly murdered themselves when Square Enix decided they were done with Hitman, Warner took the developer and the franchise on, The sequel is, admittedly, more of the same – but when that same is a glorious sandbox that lets you kill people in delightfully inventive ways, that’s a good thing.

Red Dead Redemption 2 has been a massive critical success, and it's becoming an even bigger sales one for Rockstar already after less than two weeks on store shelves.

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!