Nintendo popped a surprise Direct announcement online yesterday, one that was as short as it was sweet. Focused more on the indie side of gaming instead of massively-anticipated high profile games, it was still a focused slice of games that are on the horizon. With an eye on quality and brands that have made a comfy home on the Switch and definitely not any of the roughly three trillion shovelware titles that currently infest that marketplace, the road ahead looks pretty darn good for fans of smaller scale games!

A whole lot of missions, new multiplayer maps and changes to Warzone are in the way if recent data-mining into the existence of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is on the digital money.

Here’s a new map to gawk at, which may just be Valhalla for anyone looking to play some two-wheeled board games: The Big Ramp. That’s it, that’s the story right there. A massive collection of ramps and half-pipes, in the middle of the desert. Perfection.

Insomniac Games’ is the first studio out of the gates to start talking about such next-gen console optional performance features, with the studio recently tweeting that Spider-Man: Miles Morales will allow you to sling webs across Manhattan in glorious 4K at 60 delicious frames per second on PS5.

Fallen corporate shogun Lo Wang and his former employer turned nemesis turned sidekick Orochi Zilla embark on an improbable mission to recapture an ancient dragon they unwillingly unleashed from its eternal prison.

Ghost of Tsushima may be Sucker Punch's love letter to the samurai era, but the studio almost whipped up a Three Musketeers game back when they were deciding what to do after the success of InFAMOUS: Second Son.

For those players looking to get more benevolent kicks, there are those games that offer a no-kill challenge. Just remember, Deus Ex: Human Revolution isn’t one of them. Cyberpunk 2077 on the other hand, does have a non-lethal approach to dealing with cyber-aggression and other cyber-stuff.

Kicking off or ending this Thursday's Xbox Series X showcase with an announcement regarding a massive overhaul of Xbox Live? That could be a serious showstopper.