Welcome to video game Valhalla! For anyone cooped up inside, now is the best time ever to tackle your backlog. Those games which have been gathering digital dust in your Steam library, Xbox Game Pass subscription or your PS Plus collection that you were totally going to play as soon as you’d mastered not dying in Dark Souls. The thing is, for all the options I have on my plate at any given time, I’m more content to dig deeper into a favourite game.

Valorant’s current closed beta audience is not happy with what they call a heavy-handed approach to keeping cheaters off of the game servers, especially with the software having administrator-level access on any machine it's installed on.

A new Nintendo handheld console that has not one but two displays? Sounds sort of familiar...

XCOM: Enemy Unknown would carry the franchise forward while The Bureau floundered, bolstering its ranks in 2016 with a sequel that franchise fans couldn’t et enough of. That was 2016 and although some fantastic DLC has been released along the way, gamers have been wonder: What’s next for XCOM? Answer: XCOM Chimera Squad.

Ubisoft has announced that you can groove the fat away, provided that you own Just Dance 2020. Ubisoft says that owners can grab a free month of Just Dance Unlimited on Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch and Google Stadia, shaking your butt to the tune of of more than 500 Just Dance songs from past games.

Could 2K’s WWE games get any worse? Yes! Because there might not even be a WWE 2K game this year. That’s the word according to former WWE video game writer Justin Leeper, who claims that due to several factors (And the My Shaaaaaaarona virus), this year’s WWE 2K game is stuck in development hell in a cell.

Set an entire 12 years before the first Gears of War game even kicks off, Gears Tactics has you commanding mankind’s last remaining military forces as they band together to drive back the Locust horde on the planet of Sera, one bloody turn at a time. You’re not just looking to outfight your opponent, you’re working to outthink them as well.

The biggest digital distribution platform for PC games has revealed that it’ll be kicking off the Steam Summer Game Festival from June 9 through to June 14, an online show designed to give developers “the opportunity to show off their upcoming releases to a global audience, giving gamers on Steam the chance to try them out, learn more, and add them to their wishlist”.