While you can create your own augmented gangbanger with a suite of tools available at the start of the game, Cyberpunk 2077 will also let you pick one of two preset configurations for the protagonist of the game, V. A model who now sports a much scruffier design to reflect the dark world of tomorrow.

If you’re a freshly resurrected servant of the night, feel like dipping your toes into a more gothic and romantic version of vampire lore and you’ve got ambition to match your hunger, then the Ventrue is the clan for you.

Some games gave you the option to be history’s greatest villain, while others actually rewarded you for being what the office calls a “Darryn”. They probably mean that in an endearing way. So here we go, here’s a bunch of times where being gad didn’t just feel good, it was actually worth the effort.

A virtual version of M5 Industries will soon play host to a Mythbusters video game, which will have you testing many of the classic myths from the show and drawing your own scientific conclusions in the process. Like finding out if you can use salami as rocket fuel.

Buckle your butts up and take a huff of NOS kids, because Codemasters is reviving a franchise that hasn’t been seen in many a year: GRID!

Able to render spooky backdrops with proper digital ACTING with ease (or a team of Japanese developers who long to remember what it was like to sleep once), the RE Engine is another example of software pushing a console generation to the bleeding edge of what’s possible in the waning days of that era. According to Capcom’s latest financial reports, that engine is only getting started as the next generation of devices will also see the Big C use it for future projects.

Five hours. That’s how long it took for PC players to work their way through the first raid for The Division 2, as a team of eight players took on Operation Dark Hours and paved the way for other squads to reach one of the more challenging finish lines in Ubisoft’s massive new sandbox. Over on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 side of The Division 2, it was a whole other story.

While this year’s incarnation see’s Infinite Warfare’s Infinity Ward (try saying that five times fast without tying your tongue in a Gordian knot) step up to the plate for a rumoured new Modern Warfare 4, next year’s chapter in the franchise will see Sledgehammer back in action. Or maybe not.