For the first time in years, the highlight reel of Showcase mode is returning. Who will headline that main event in WWE 2K19? None other than the yes man himself, Daniel Bryan.

One of the great injustices in modern video gaming is the unfortunate demise of the Timesplitters franchise. Free Radical’s century-spanning shooter found its genesis on the Playstation 1, with sequels making their way to the original Xbox and Nintendo’s Gamecube. There were precisely zero Timesplitters games released in the last generation of consoles, though there was hope for a while. There's now more hope.

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta has come and gone, giving fans and newcomers a taste of the impending multi-player focused Call of Duty. Reception has been mixed. Most fans of the Black Ops series are incredibly positive, while others have found it be more of the same. The newly added Heist mode seems to borrow liberally from CS:GO, but is reportedly quite a bit of fun. With the decision to nix the traditional single-player campaign though, the mode I’m most curious and excited for is Blackout.

Dark Souls Remastered has been missing from the Switch lineup since its delay earlier this year, but be prepared to praise the sun during the already busy October.

Post apocalypse zombie strategy game may rely on strength in numbers to overwhelm players, but zombie units wandering on their lonesome? Pretty easy to pick off when you have a squad of competent soldiers on the prowl. That’s all set to change soon in They Are Billions introduces a new unit to the enemy mix. Say hello, to the Infected Giant.

Yakuza may not have been an overnight success story even when it did go all in on a massive marketing campaign and localisation in the west, but over the years to come the series found a dedicated audience outside of Japan. The tale of Kiryu Kazuma has come to an end though, paving the way for a new generation of Yakuza games to rise up.

So, you want to be a hero? I have always wanted to use that tagline from the Quest for Glory series of games (it probably shows my true age), but let’s replace hero, with “Twitch streamer”. In the South African context, this is becoming more prevalent, especially as fibre becomes more readily available all across this beautiful country. I am …

Gaming is an incredibly lucky industry with its relatively intimate access to its personalities but is that something that needs to change going forward?