From first-party titles such as Marvel’s Spider-Man to Bungie aiming for redemption with Destiny 2: Forsaken, here’s a look at the month ahead. Hold onto your butts folks, this is one heck of a big month!

Another year, another iteration of a sports game franchise. Has 2K Sports done enough with NBA 2K18 to not only retain the franchise's title as the best basketball game around, or will it finally give up the crown?

NBA 2K 18 is out, and as a basketball game, it’s pretty damned good. As a way of extracting money from the customers who’ve already paid for the game, it’s even better. The game’s single player mode is riddled with microtransactions, affecting everything from player stats to simple things like haircuts.

2K Games have been releasing annual NBA games for a couple of years, games which have built on a solid system of passes and dribbles while also making players look unbelievably realistic. That’s a pedigree which continues in NBA 2K18, which releases later this month on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But before your journey from the street to the prime-time court begins for real, you’ve got to try out the Prelude.