Praying to RNGesus doesn’t help much, but there is a higher power that players can turn as they desperately search for a way to get their hands on top tier players: EA’s own employees.

Looks like the dark knight is about get a little bit better, as Microsoft has accidentally teased some sort of upgrade for 2015’s brilliant billionaire with anger management issues simulator, Batman: Arkham Knight.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time was the game to pump some coins into back in the day, and thirty years later it’s getting a spiritual successor called TMNT: Shredder's Revenge.

Next week’s Marvel’s Avengers is adding plenty of upgrades to the Crystal Dynamics-developed game, and while a sweeping overhaul that actually makes it fun to play isn’t currently on the list, a few admittedly neat features are.

A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility. A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. But enough about the Queen of England! We’re here to talk about Xenomorphs, second only to the British monarchy in its sheer ruthlessness and the stars of the upcoming Aliens: Fireteam game.

It’s official! ZeniMax, parent company to Bethesda and other subsidiaries, is officially owned by Microsoft after the company spent $7.5 billion to acquire it. With the formality of competition committees and EU approval process giving the acquisition the thumbs up, the approved merger now paves the way for Microsoft and Xbox to become the biggest name in the hemisphere for western RPG video games and much more.

Marvel’s Avengers does have the potential to be fun, but turning a burly Gamma-powered bouncer into one of Earth’s mightiest mortals requires a heck of a lot of grinding to get to a point where that character is a true powerhouse. That journey towards the top of the superhero food chain is going to take even longer next week when next-gen upgrades and a new patch arrive in Avengers, the messaging of which was kind of murky according to developer Crystal Dynamics.

Six Days In Fallujah publisher Victura Games is changing its tone on the upcoming and controversial first-person shooter based on one of the most brutal battles in the Iraq War. The studio now says that the game is “inseparable from politics” because of how it depicts real-world events, something which Victura boss Peter Tamte shied away from originally when he mentioned in an earlier interview that Six Days in Fallujah was “not trying to make a political commentary” about the war.