While The Outer Worlds may have a brief narrative to chew on, the extra sidequest dishes are numerous and abundant. That all makes for a chunky game in the long run, but just how quickly can The Outer Worlds be clocked if you’re in a rush? Around 25 minutes, give or take.

The PDP Ultra Slim Charge System ably lives up to its promise of providing a handy station with which to charge your Xbox One controllers when you’re done. It’s a simple and elegant solution, that’ll result in you chucking your tangled micro-USB cables into the dustbin of history.

Long story short: No new Battlefield game until the next consoles are out, which EA totally aren’t losing sleep over thanks to Apex Legends and Battlefield 5 currently pumping more cash into their coffers while I stay up at night crying about how Titanfall deserved better.

It’s cheesier than a Wisconsin cheddar tour, its coming off of the back of the massively panned Payback game and its going head to head with the current king of arcade racers, Forza Horizon 4. Need for Speed Heat certainly has its work cut out for it and then some. EA and Ghost Games’ semi-regular racing franchise has been in need of a substantial retune for many a year now and with a benchmark so low that it may just be a speed hump thanks to Payback, Heat has nowhere to go but up.

A stacked package of single-player and multiplayer offerings, Call of Duty Modern Warfare may not hit every mark that it fires but this ballsy reinvention of the franchise is still the blockbuster benchmark that is thrilling, thoughtful and terrific.

From melee heavy characters such as Buttercup to a granny by the name of Maeve who uses cunning traps to keep opponents locked down, the variety and lunacy of the Bleeding Edge cast is shaping up nicely. So how about some cool local flavour then? One such character does indeed exist in Bleeding Edge, a Xhosa warrior by the name of Miko.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare may have a gripping mission featuring a stretch of desert road that you fight to reclaim, but Russian players aren't exactly happy with history being rewritten in this stage.

This week sees a new mode introduced in estiny 2's Crucible: Momentum Control. It’s a game where the kills are quicker, the respawns just as fast and weapons play a larger role than ever before thanks to their ability to eviscerate being given a massive upgrade.