NBA 2K19 is out today, and by all accounts is a very good basketball game – just as it is every year. Unfortunately, every year there seems to be some or other server issues or technical glitch that makes players angry. Right now, there’s a maelstrom of complaints about the game’s Virtual Currency – or VC. May say that instead of the 100 000 VC they were promised, they're stuck with -1 VC

The Battlefield V delay, along with reports that the game isn’t pre-ordering well have already hit EA’s bottom line. Thanks to reports that Battlefield V pre-orders are tracking 85% below Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s and lower than previous Battlefield games, EA’s stocks are down 9%. EA would like to remind you that their little financial blip hardly matters. Why? Because they have FIFA to prop them up as always. FIFA 19 is out at the end of this month, and it will sell like proverbial hotcakes, because it’s FIFA.

Next week is going to be like a French McDonalds if massacres were on the menu: A battle royale with cheese. With Spider-Man launching tomorrow and Destiny 2: Forsaken bringing justice to an untamed frontier, Activision’s planning to steal eyeballs with a preview of its Blackout mode in a few days.

Marvel's iconic flipbook effect intro is the company's promise of quality on anything that it is applied to. A feat that Insomniac's Spider-Man has earned by being the first Marvel video game to bear the signature brand.

There was supposed to be a new Nintendo Direct tonight, which many believe would have been to showcase the new Online services, and perhaps the latest version of the Switch’s operating system. Originally scheduled for midnight tonight in local time, the Direct has been postponed.

SNK Heroines: Tag Team Frenzy might rightly draw ire for its overt, unnecessary sexualisation of fighting games’ femme fatales, but its problems extend further than social problems. Its anaemic in content and the fighting itself lacks any real depth.

Hitman 2 isn’t just tweaking its formula while chucking in six new locations for you to explore and eviscerate in: It’s also going to be rejiggering the challenge of being an assassin

Dead Cells is perfect for the Nintendo Switch, a machine with a bit of portability. While there are no solid numbers for how many copies of the game have been sold on each platform, its developers have revealed that the Switch version of the game is outselling the PlayStation 4 version by a factor of four to one.