The next chapter in the increasingly positive post-launch story for No Man's Sky launches next week, with the NEXT update introducing multiplayer, improved visuals and a whole bunch more gameplay for free.

In the past, if you wanted to jump into World of Warcraft, you had to but the Battle Chest, which contained the base game and many of the previously released expansions as a flat, upfront fee, along with needing to fork out for the monthly sub. No more!

Almost 300 days later, Shadow of War is now a drastically different gold after its latest patch, which saw the game’s secondary premium currency and hand-rubbing Orc pulled from the base game.

This year, Zombies is on of the main pillars of Call of Duty Black Ops 4, which ditches the traditional single player campaign to instead focus on traditional multiplayer, Battle Royale and the Zombies mode.

Accessibility options are becoming more prominent in games, but their application still leaves a lot to be desired by the players that use them. Mark Brown aims to tackle this very issue in a brand new series of design videos.

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus may be a game of compromises on the Nintendo Switch, but the end result is a port which manages to not only capture the complete content of the Nazi-killing game but also the very essence of that experience.

According to Siliconera, the new Rookie Hunter mode will halve the damage taken in the first three X games. In X 4-8, players will receive less damage, as well as disable instant deaths from spikes and bottomless pits.

South Africa’s East Coast gaming and geek lifestyle convention, ICON Durban, is happening 27 to 29 July. This year, e-gaming joins the tabletop mix, and we've got con tickets up for grabs.