Nintendo held their September direct late this night (or early this morning, depending on your perspective) after delaying it following the devastating earthquake that hit Hokkaido. It was expected to be a direct that detailed the upcoming Nintendo Online service – but ended up being so, so much more than that.

From today, you’ll be able to sample a taste of all the horses under the hood of Forza Horizon 4 ahead of the October 2 release date for the game, with a demo that offers “a tour of beautiful, historic Britain."

The creme de la creme of Destiny’s end-level events, Raids are a test of skill, logic and patience as players usually realise that there’s no problem that can’t be solved by not firing an absurd amount of bullets into a cosmic space-god that transcends casuality and happens to simultaneously exist within multiple dimensions. I mean, like well duh.

Today, you might have noticed that your console is ready for firmware update 6.0o. So what does it do? The answer, in my clickbaitiest of voices, may just surprise you.

I’m going to be dead honest with you here: I have no idea what Left Alive is even about. What I do know, is that it has cover art from Yoji Shinkawa, so my interest is automatically activated and aroused. That’s some damn good art right there. According to Square Enix, Left Alive is an “upcoming survival shooter set in the Front Mission universe”.

Destiny 2: Forsaken returns the story that Bungie began back to its roots: A power fantasy with a more sombre story, that retools the sequel to once again feel like a hobby that’s well worth investing in, even if some rough edges do still show in this adventure to enact some old school justice on some new school enemies. Exciting, mysterious and always engaging, it’s good to see Destiny 2 back on track.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey is out next month, and we chatted to the game's Senior Producer, Marc-Alexis Côté. Topics covered in the interview include setting choices and scope, fundamental changes to the franchise experience and post-launch content.

We’ll probably never get another sequel to Remedy and Microsoft’s brilliant, psychologically-jarring action-adventure Alan Wake. Remedy has moved on to multi-platform games, with the incredible-looking control being published by 505 Games. That doesn’t mean it’s the end for Alan Wake though - just that in future, it won’t be coming as a game