Plenty of games, a decent running time and news on what lies ahead. No longer just the domain of Nintendo and their series of Direct presentations, but an idea that’s also home to Sony now! The home of PlayStation has a new series focusing on exactly those key points, and in the spirit of things, let’s get the show rolling …

That anime game your one friend who’s really into anime games is always telling you to play on his PS4? Yeah, there’s gonna be another one.

As a first step towards a future of more live service content, The Division 2 already feels amazingly complete. It works from day one, its various systems are staggeringly deep and its combat is in a class of its own. Everything else that’s still to come over the next couple of years? That’s a satisfying cherry on top of an already massive sundae of excellence.

While plenty of video games aim to be as neutral as possible in their approach to avoid losing revenue, Vampire The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is going in the opposite direction.

Mortal Kombat the movie would have been poorer without actor Cary-HiroyukiTagawa’s presence as Shang Tsung, and now the next Mortal Kombat game is preparing to enrich itself with his addition to the roster.

Nintendo’s has the right idea for building up buzz on their upcoming games. Called Nintendo Direct, these irregularly scheduled episodes highlight upcoming games from across the Big N’s library, favouring both small and large announcements. Heck, sometimes those announcements even have a theme to them, like a Pokémon Nintendo Direct! It’s a damn good idea, and one that Sony looks to take a page from as the Japanese giant will be launching its own take on Nintendo Direct, with Sony State of Play.

The latest map for Sniper Assassin mode, a standalone co-op experience within HITMAN 2, transports players to a container yard set on the island of Singapore where Han Ldong and his wife have been kidnapped by a group of highly skilled criminals known as the Heavenly Guard.

It’s official! Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is finally getting a sequel after a decade and a half of hibernation and I bet it’ll wake up without that messy crypt-hair look! After some extended teasing on Twitter, Paradox Interactive have properly unveiled the digital pain in a neck (HAW!) simulator which they say shall be a “true successor” to the original.