Consoles aren’t just alive and kicking. They’re doing better than ever. Longer cycles, better games and an eye on creating titles with extended longevity is making the industry as profitable as can be. While it’s highly likely that you won’t see a PlayStation 5 or even an Xbox Next before 2020, the current generation is still doing well. And it still has potential to do even better.

The new God of War has been five years in the making. It’s a big change for Kratos; not only has he switched over to a new Pantheon of gods to kill, but he’s also got a son in tow. In a world with new gods and monsters, Kratos must teach his son Atreus not only to survive, but also prevent him from making the same mistakes. It’s got everything you’d expect from God of War and more – with a strong narrative, a dark world and unflinching, brutal combat. It’s out on April 20, but reviews hit today. Here’s what critics think of the game!

If you happen to have a PlayStation Plus membership that is activated before October 10 this year, Spotify will cost you 10% less every month. Here’s the full list of details, straight from the horse’s mouth while I tap a hole in my floor thanks to the sweet rhythms of The Offspring.

There’s a commonly held belief that executives at EA are all evil, money-grubbing suits who don’t understand games. Instead, all they’re after is profit – and will mandate certain practices on creative teams to extract as much cash from the consumer base as is humanly possible. That may or may not be true – but according to former Bioware general manager Aaryn Flynn, it’s a bit of fiction.

It’s official! For the first time in four years, a proper solo Spider-Man game is dropping on console, with Sunset Overdrive developers Insomniac filling up the development web canisters and slinging code to deliver what looks to be the best version of the wallcrawler. So when can you expect to see Spider-Man in action?

You could reasonably argue that Overwatch has a toxicity problem. You could also reasonably argue that much of that toxicity has to do with the nature of the game itself and its prescribed meta – and how players not adhering to that meta makes other people angry. That said, Blizzard starting taking its first steps to combatting the game’s toxicity last year, with improved reporting tools. Now, they’re looking towards machine learning and AI to curb awful behaviour

According to a paywalled article, the PlayStation 5 will use AMD’s Navi architecture as the base for the next system. coup-led with a Zen CPU - and it could be out this year.

The first Far Cry 5 live event is now…uh…live, and Ubisoft wants you to get your hunt on. Not just any hunt mind you, but an expedition into the rocky Montana wildnerness where you track down and kill live game with fire.