I like arcade racers. And I mean arcade racers that were not saddled by the shortcomings of the contemporary racing game experience. The open world formula that has been embraced by developers in recent times has only succeeded to a point. Scaling the North American continent in The Crew is at most times a lonely road trip. Modern Need for …

NetherRealm wants to give you the tools to be a badass. Want a warrior who earns more experience from performing a grisly finisher? There’s a build for that. Want to sacrifice defense in favour of more offense? There’s a build available for that style of play. Which is all well and good in regular play across Mortal Kombat’s system of Towers, but how does this influence ranked online play where fighting games live and breath?

Batman: Arkham Knight's Batmobile is an example of genius that was and still remains, years ahead of the curve.

Thanks to some recently deleted tweets, it looks there won’t be too much of a wait between now and the final release, as the official Borderlands account seems to have jumped the gun on that reveal. According to its hasty pull of the tweet trigger, Borderlands 3 will be out in September.

Yesterday, Avalanche and Bethesda released a trailer detailing how you’ll be able to activate some highlight reel exclamations within Rage 2. It wasn't an April Fools joke.

There’s a certain sense of bloodlust in the air. The floor below is littered with dried crimson, the people around me demand to see entrails fly and after a good couple of years, I’ve once again wandered into Netherrealm’s latest spectacle of gore and savagery. It’s often been said that you can’t build a better mouse trap, but year after year NetherRealm Studios manages to prove the old adage wrong.

Without Activision pulling their strings, Destiny 2 is in a good place right now. The recent Joker’s Wild content has been an injection of freshness into Bungie’s cosmic sandbox, overhauling Gambit and adding some interesting wrinkles to the lore of Destiny and its suddenly dicey morality. That’s not just a fascinating setup for the future of the series, but also a damn good foundation for where Destiny can go next after the Penumbra DLC launches.

I ain’t fooling you when it comes to April, because we’ve got another banger of a month on the way! While the bigger releases that were seen in the first quarter of the year seems to have slowed down in April, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t some fun to be had.