Exploration is the factor that pays off in the end, and doing more of that in Hitman 3 will unlock a handy new feature in each of the game’s new levels: Shortcuts.

A slow-motion bullet ballet extravaganza, The Hong Kong Massacre is a lean and mean action gameplay whose core gunplay makes for a satisfying and challenging loop that’ll leave you feeling like a hardboiled action star after every face-off.

Going forward, Sony will only offer the PS4 500GB slim model in its jet black colour scheme, moving efforts towards production of the PS5 consoles which are currently rarer than living parents in a Batman comic book.

Microsoft is now poised to be the leading name in western role-playing games. Alongside Bethesda, it also has experienced studios such as Obsidian and InXile Entertainment under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella. That’s a lot of RPG experience right there, which will pay off in the years to come.

Technically, it’s news to someone even if it is almost a week old! While we were all shoving handfuls of food into our gaping maws during the silly season (how do you make mince out of fruit and turn it into a pie asking for a friend), developer GSC Game World dropped a new trailer showing off STALKER 2’s first-person atmosphere.

In news that won’t shock anyone, it’s still going to a hell of a long wait before The Elder Scrolls 6: Mission to Moscow makes an appearance. Bethesda has said in the past that it’s all hands on deck for Starfield right now. And then presumably more hands will be required for fixing all the post-launch bugs. Once that’s all done, it’ll be time to focus properly on The Elder Scrolls 6, but until that day arrives here’s something else to tide you over and make tinfoil hat fashionable again: A tease of what’s next.

According to the company’s resident expert on all things related to overpowered pugilism, Katsuhiro Harada, his next game may just have the biggest development budget in the history of the publisher and developer.

I’m naturally quivering with delight as Hitman 3 is mere days away now, and y’all know how I have a fondness for digitally murdering horrible people and making their accidents look like bizarre accidents designed by a higher power. In addition to that, Xbox kicks off the year with an exclusive of its own, the dual-reality terror of The Medium. Time to see just how well the new SSD tech in the Xbox Series X and S consoles handle the ability to simultaneously explore reality and the afterlife.