If you were looking to grab a quick special over at Xur or run a few rounds in the Crucible of Destiny 2, then bad news: The game was pretty much unplayable for a while. Hooray always online connected video games! So what’s the deal? The brouhaha all broke out a few hours ago when Bungie took Destiny 2 offline in every way possible, as players were hit with a bug that had the slightly nasty side effect of wiping out their materials.

Could there be werewolves and witches awaiting players in Resident Evil 8? Maybe! With a bunch of new rumours circulating around the net, Capcom's horror series is back in the spotlight with many a source claiming to have a scoop on what to expect.

DOOM Eternal will of course have its own fair share of new and returning faces. In a new NoClip documentary, game director Hugo Martin revealed how the sequel took demons from the classic era of Doom and gave them a new 4K lick of paint.

For the fans who still play the utterly superb swansong to all things Batman via Rocksteady, good news! While the studio’s next project may be anything from a Superman game to a full-on Suicide Squad experience according to whichever direction the rumour winds flow in on any given day, some new content from the studio has finally come out: A Batman Earth-2 skin for the caped crusader.

A console dawn may be on the horizon, but without the software to play it on those fancy consoles might as well be very expensive bricks to get excited for. It’s a given that Sony and Microsoft will have a selection of games ready for day one, but it’s the rest of the gaming industry that’ll be relied upon to …

There are still those who are willing to get up at the crack of dusk and boot up their console to find him for you. People who’ll risk digital life and limb to let you know if Xur is selling a treasure or rubbish. I just so happen to be one of those people. Maybe you’re stuck at work and can only log in later tonight. In that case: Where is Xur?

Geras, the terror of online play in Mortal Kombat 11, is finally getting a nerf that looks to scale his power back significantly.

Apex Legends will unleash Forge on February 4, a brawny scrapper who happens to be a five-time (Five times! Five times! Five times! Five times! Five Times!) Hyper Fighting Federation champion who is after a new thrill in the colonies after he proved again and again that nobody can rearrange a face like he can.