After months of not giving a damn, I’m now sat at my desk just wishing I was playing Far Cry 5. There’s a certain enigmatic charm to Hope County’s unhinged hillbillies and sociopathic religious zealots, and I can’t wait to kick the stuffing out of them.

God of War is coming to the PlayStation in just about a month. Now a father, Kratos and his son are going to slay an entirely new pantheon. Sony hasn’t shown very much of the game, but it looks like some very nice direct capture footage has leaked out. It shows Krato’s new Mjolnir-like axe quite nicely, showcasing the game’s fluid combat. The footage comes ahead of a preview event’s embargo that’ll be up today. Expect previews soon!

For a long time, I’ve been down on Far Cry 5. “It’s just more of the same,” I’d mutter to myself under my breath whenever anybody on our team showed any interest in the game. I’ve played and loved all of the previous ones (yes, even Far Cry Primal) and loved them all, but I’ve just been burned out on the formula, and open world games in general. Joseph Seed made a believer out of me.

The latest editions of Warframe's Prime Time and Devstream brought with them lots of cool new reveals, including the most unexpected game mode to ever hit the sci-fi shooter.

Wild, adequately beautiful and a reminder of what a real need for speed truly feels like. Burnout Paradise Remastered may not be essential for anyone who has already spent many an afternoon committing its many and shortcuts streets to memory, but as an example of how racing games can fuse euphoria and momentum into one packed package of V8 action? It’s the original benchmark that hasn’t a single ounce of torque.

EA has decided to finally remove Star Cards from loot crates in Battlefront II, bringing six months of pay-to-win microtransactions to an end.

The week ahead and beyond has some chuffing good releases on the horizon. The biggest names on the list below include Ubisoft’s zealot-shooter Far Cry 5, Rare’s return in Sea of Thieves and co-op puzzle escape game A Way Out. Here’s the full list below of what you can get your hands on this week and beyond.

A terrible story emerged this weekend where a 13 year-old girl was shot in the head by her 9 year-old brother over an argument over a video game controller.