Nature is healing. PlayStation 5 consoles now roam the land, nesting in the homes of many a games journalist and influencer as the great unboxing exodus begins. Seen every few years in the wild, these new consoles are the advance scouts for the primary herd of next-gen devices which will soon establish hunting dens in homes around the world, provided that this new beast can fit into the TV units that they prefer to raise their DualSense controller cubs in.

In a terrible world filled with too much bad news, sometimes its best to just laugh at the strange things that happen inside of it.

The USA is looking to follow India in possibly banning TikTok over fears that the company is working with the Chinese government.

Huawei has received yet another reprieve as the US announces a delay on their ban against the company once again.

According to the industry analysts who looked at every platform that games had been released on in the last decade (Even Ouya, probably), Activision’s blockbuster series dominated the charts and claimed seven of the top ten spots overall.

For years now, developers have been looking to get a proper union organised and recognised, with Game Workers Unite being an organisation that has led the charge for worker rights in the gaming industry when it was formed two years ago. One of its leaders, Emma Kinema, has joined forces with the Communication Workers of America to launch the Campaign to Organize Digital Employees (CODE), which may just be the best effort yet to improve working conditions in the US and Canada.

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Grand Theft Auto V has been this generation’s biggest seller in the US of A PlayStation market, for both physical and digital sales.

Electric engine vehicles are on the rise, and figuring out how to arrange some powerful batteries to fit into the agile frame of a motorcycle has been an incredible challenge for the industry. Harley Davidson reckons that they’ve got the problem solved, as they’ll be rolling out their first electric motorcycle in 2019 with the Livewire.