It’s hard to believe, but it has been several years since Square Enix last trotted out a Final Fantasy game with a new number attached to it. The franchise may live on with remakes and spin-offs between these core releases, but when Final Fantasy decides that it’s time for a proper sequel? That’s big news. First seen during the PS5 showcase, Square Enix’s latest entry in the series is going back to its fantasy roots.

According to developer GSC, STALKER 2’s world won’t just be massive, it’ll be shaped by your your decisions that will have consequences both in the short and the long-term.

Developer People Can Fly has been pretty on the ball with their deep dives into the world of Outriders over the last couple of months, with the previous broadcast detailing just how the world will adapt to your ability to be a far-future gun-toting messiah on an alien planet. Last night’s livestream had more details to share, casting its eye towards the world of Enoch and how it’ll have a ton of content for players to jump into, even though it isn’t an open-world game.

Hideous demons roaming the land looking to turn your bones into a collection of musical instruments, beasts beyond mortal ken being right bastards as they terrorise entire towns and the mother of all Nephalem is looking to stage a comeback akin to that of Green Day striking oil with American Idiot. Whether you’re down for the darker art style or you get a weird thrill from clicking on colourful enemies until they explode in an orgy of blood and steel, Diablo 4 looks set to scratch that itch and then some.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder however, as I’m feeling cautiously optimistic about Assassin’s Creed Origins. It’s not just another Assassin’s Creed game that features the usual leap-of-faith shenanigans, but rather the fact that it looks and feels far like Ubisoft has managed to fine-tune the series to evolve in a more dynamic direction.

Far Cry 5 is crazy, mad stuff that feels perfect for its environment. At E3 this year, we got a quick chance to quiz narrative director Jean-Sebastien Decant on the environment, Boomer and your fellow guns for hire. Here’s what he had to say:

One of my final sessions at E3 gave me the chance to briefly grab Destiny 2’s executive producer David Allen for some one-on-one. I had some questions. Allen had some answers for me. So here they are from our short and sweet session.

A week with Bolivian special forces and experience on burning down a cocaine lab. That's how Ubisoft immersed themselves for the creation of Ghost Recon: Wildlands and its Bolivian landscape.