The Toys to Life genre is effectively dead. While Nintendo is still selling Amiibo by the truckload, they’re more popular for their collectability than for anything they do in games. The franchise that popularised it all, Skylanders, is on indefinite hiatus. Both Disney Infinity and LEGO Dimensions were cancelled – so Ubisoft’s late entry into the segment is curious. That game is Starlink: Battle for Atlas, a new release that has players mounting spaceships on their controllers, bringing the changes they make to those ships to life in the game.

I do hope there’s more to come from FIFA in the years ahead, but for now it’s more of a fun-to-have rather than a must-have for Nintendo Switch owners.

It’s not perfect, but WWE 2K19 is a massive return to fun form that focuses on what truly matters inside the iconic ring and delivers a pulse-pounding thrill ride that finally feels like a showcase of the immortals.

The Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti is a marvel of engineering and a glimpse into the future of PC gaming, but costs far too much for technology that is so far widely unsupported.

FIFA 19 shows that sometimes it’s not all about reinventing the game so much as it is about making improvements to what already works so well. FIFA 19 is probably the best FIFA to date, but EA will not want to repeat the tweak-performance next time out.

In the run-up to the release of Venom, director Ruben Fleischer’s Spider-Man-less live-action feature film adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book anti-hero, there was quite the brouhaha surrounding the news that the Lethal Protector’s first solo film would be a PG-13 affair. Turns out that crimson-free action – and there are a few laughable moments of that as decapitations apparently produce about the same quantity of blood as swatting a moth – is the least of Venom’s problems.

Super Mario Party is the same ridiculous, random board game fun that you've expected from the series already, but packed with intelligent and compelling minigames that make great use of the Switch.

This year’s trick-or-treating is amounting to be a mixed bag for moviegoers. The Basement and Hell Fest have been ripped apart by critics, reception for Shane Black’s entry into the Predator franchise has been lukewarm, and the most anticipated movie this Halloween is turning out to actually be Halloween, the follow-up to John Carpenter’s 1978 cult classic. But these movies are all for the adults. What do younger audiences have to enjoy and be terrified by this scary season? Enter The House with a Clock in its Walls.