You can expect much of the same humour in South Park: The Fractured But Whole. Following on from the Stick of Truth, a game which featured you fighting Nazi Zombie abortions, Fractured But Whole’s American M for Mature rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) indicated some pretty gross and obscene humour.

When Far Cry 5's storyline was revealed earlier this year, there was quite an internet storm regarding it. In Far Cry 5, you're taking on an extremist religious organisation as you the aim to topple their hatred and free the people from their tyranny by using lethal force in all its glory.

Final Fantasy XV is plugging itself into the Animus to bring players all manner of Assassin’s Creed content in a crossover with Ubisoft’s premiere franchise of back-stabbery. No really, this is actually happening. August 30 will see the city of Lesatalium put on an “Assassin’s Festival” as Noctis and co. suit up in the garb of a familiar brotherhood.

For a change, I was free to explore Gamescom and its many halls. On top of gaming, there's a Cosplay village, oddball sports, a console museum, panels, more esports than you can shake a stick at. Oh, and an entire hall filled with just about all the gaming and pop culture merchandise you could ever dream of

Ubisoft’s got a much-improved sequel to The Crew popping up in 2018, a successor in the high-octane genre that has realised that nobody wants to have some balmy story of revenge and redemption nipping on their exhaust pipe when they take a corner at a ludicrous speed. The Crew 2 is skipping that nonsense, focusing rather on the actual thrill of speed and the pure joy of unbridled engine power whether it be on land, sea or in the air.

There's no new gameplay, but you'll struggle denying just how gorgeous this new trailer for Assassin's Creed: Origins is anyway.

South Park: The Stick of Truth wasn’t exactly the Crysis of demanding PC specs, and neither is its upcoming sequel The Fractured But Whole (giggity). Here’s what you’ll need to have running if you want your PC to respect your authoritah.

What about the player who wants to sail around at their own steam in Skull and Bones? The player who wants to focus primarily on single-player over multiplayer high seas shenanigans? Ubisoft has a plan for that, although it’s not a traditional campaign that the publisher and their Singapore-based development team has in store for players.