I have sipped deeply from the cup of Fortnite Battle Royal and I like what I’m tasting. Said cup has a new flavour to sample this week, as developer Epic Games have introduced a new limited time event: Blitz mode.

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.

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.

What worked once clearly works twice, as SEGA is doubling up on Kazuma Kiryu’s underworld troubles with an English port of the first Yakuza sequel. Yakuza Kiwami 2 will drop in the West in August, picking up a year after the dragon of Dojima settled his score in the first game.

Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight to spend some of your legendary shards on new armour and weapons in Destiny 2. In that case: Where is Xur?

Wish you could help train the next generation of really really good doggos? Well now you can, and you’ll get a treat of your own for doing the simplest of tasks. Remember, we want to see photos of your pooch cosplaying Boomer from Far Cry 5.