Within a mere three hours, the Eiyuden Chronicle Kickstarter was obliterated, easily grabbing the initial $500 000 that its team was asking for.

That's not just a whole lot of PS5s being predicted to sell like the hottest of cakes, that's double what the Xbox Series X is expected to do during itsown life-cycle.

Night City isn’t exactly a sprawling Metropolis that you’d want to plan a vacation to. Between corporate espionage and radical trans-humanist activists hacking away at their flesh in a gruesome example of how best to remove those tattoos that you wish you’d never gotten, Cyberpunk 2077’s sandbox is rife with danger and intrigue.

Every cut will count, in Ghost of Tsushima's new difficulty modifier that makes enemies more dangerous and Jin Sakia's blade even sharper.

It may be a bit of a stretch to see if any game holds up after 15 years, but Destroy All Humans! is still a mindless romp of manic mass destruction that excels in the replayability department. A brilliantly polished slice of nostalgia, Destroy All Humans! knows exactly where to focus its energies with its silly story, updated gameplay and a graphical overhaul that is light-years ahead of the original invasion.

Coming in hot to trot thanks to Batman: Arkham Asylum’s genre-breaking debut a few years earlier, Arkham City had plenty of hype behind it and giving it the necessary momentum to be a sales juggernaut at the time.

Suikoden isn’t coming back anytime soon, but the people behind several of its games are putting together a super-band in Velvet Revolver style, to create a spiritual successor in the form of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.

The rejiggering is still continuing, with Bioware Austin currently handling the workload on Anthem 2.0 through a dedicated team of developers .