This year, the grind might be easier for players. Pokémon Let’s Go Eevee/Pikachu scales back the action, giving players the choice of two games: Traditional battling and Pokémon capture that’s straight outta Pokémon Go. There’s also far fewer Pokémon to catch, a mere 151 of the fellas to add to your Pokedex as opposed to the hundreds and hundreds of other pocket critters that are sitting in my Pokémon Bank right now. Does that make Pokemon’s traditional endgame a more diminished affair? Not exactly.

Video games as we know them have only really been around for four decades. By the limitations of their technology, games back then were simpler experiences that were open to everyone. The evolution of games and the technology that runs them though, coupled with an early-90’s push of videogames as things for boys means that games are still predominantly made for blokes and skilled gamers. Intellivision wants to take things back to beginning, by making a games console that levels the playing field, delivering games that everyone can play – no matter their age or skill level.

Fallout 76 has plenty of old favourites in the factions department, but also a few new faces entering the mix. Say hello, to the Responders and the Free States who have emerged to reclaim America after the radioactive dust has fallen.

tetriswinner Believe it or not, but Tetris cane be one hell of a competitive game. So much so that there’s an annual Tetris World Championship that has opponents stacking up (and hopefully clearing) tetrominoes that descend at an increasingly rapid pace, vying for high scores. The Classic Tetris World Championship is played using the 1989 NES version of Tetris and requires eagle-eyed vision, quick-thinking and lightning reflexes.

As Shania Twain once sang, that don’t impress me much. Show me a collector’s edition that is bonkers! Give me a special edition of a game that is stupidly expensive and only for the richest bastards on the planet! Show me something like this, Devil May Cry V’s Ultra Limited Edition whch comes with the game, some box art and a freakin’ replica of some of the clothing worn in the game

Jade Raymond, formerly of Ubisoft and one of the creative forces behind Assassin’s Creed joined EA in 2015 as one of the co-founders of EA”s Motive Studio in Montreal. Motive was heavily involved in the since cancelled Amy Hennig-led narrative-driven Star Wars game that Visceral Games was working on before EA shut them down, cancelling the game. She's now left EA.

What can Destiny 3 do differently when that sequel eventually releases? Will it return the series back to its casual roots once again, or will this be the game that Bungie banks even more intense ideas and themes into? According to one serial leaker, Destiny 3 may just be the most hardcore version of Bungie's grand vision.

One of the biggest and most annoying bugs in Destiny 2's legendary Whisper of the Worm quest, has finally been fixed.