Robert Purchese

Now we know why 2008 role-playing game The Last Remnant was removed from Steam: it's being remastered for PlayStation 4.

Dormant-brand vacuum THQ Nordic sucked up another surprising IP last week: Kingdoms of Amalur, the accomplished but bland fantasy role-playing game from 2012.

Sony hosted a PlayStation Lineup Tour event this morning in Japan, ahead of the Tokyo Game Show later this month, and made a few new announcements.

Provocative German movie-maker Uwe Boll, infamous for trashy big-screen adaptations of video game franchises, is the subject of a new documentary titled Fuck You all: The Uwe Boll Story.

Talk about mopping up: THQ Nordic has bought the Kingdoms of Amalur IP as well as the unreleased Copernicus MMO.

Charismatic Icelandic developer CCP, maker of Eve Online, has been acquired by the South Korean maker of Black Desert Online, Pearl Abyss, in a deal reportedly worth $425m.

The delectable perspective-warping mobile puzzle game Monument Valley sure has some surprising influences. Did you know one level was based on Kim Chi from RuPaul's Drag Race? Kim Chi didn't either, and is delighted.

Anthem is still causing image problems for BioWare. Each time we see more of the game, debate swirls around the studio's departure from single-player storytelling, for which it is so well known, into cooperative multiplayer action games.

The search for the star of the Netflix Witcher series is over but I can't work out if it's a bird or a plane or... That's right, it's cleft-chinned British actor Henry Cavill, who launched to fame portraying Superman recently, playing the iconic witcher Geralt.

Out of the blue, Prison Architect has added cooperative multiplayer.

It's bumper update day for Rainbow Six Siege and servers are currently down (or just returning) while Operation Grim Sky rolls out for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Don't expect to see esports in the Olympic Games any time soon. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach believes the video games being played still promote violence and killing too much to be included.

The faintly flickering PlayStation 2 flame has finally been snuffed out by Sony in Japan. The console hasn't been in production for several years but an aftercare service for the beloved old console stayed alive, at the wonderfully evocative-sounding PlayStation Clinic. But no longer.

Everyone likes an argument. Don't try and tell me otherwise, I've read the comments. It's why we're organising two on-stage arguments, I mean debates, for UK game show EGX this month. We'd love you to be there for them.

Gabe Newell is the hallowed leader of one of gaming's most powerful companies, Valve, but we don't often see him. He's like some whispered-about deity at the top of a mystical tower.

The new Football Manager game will come to Nintendo Switch. Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson confirmed the Switch version on Twitter this afternoon.

It is a celebration of D. Va! Blizzard has unveiled a typically gorgeous new Overwatch animated short showing the Korea-defending backstory of D. Va, AKA Hannah Song, the former StarCraft pro turned elite government MEKA pilot; and Blizzard has revealed a Busan map for Overwatch based on a futuristic interpretation of South Korea's second largest city.

The beautiful and very successful mobile series Monument Valley is going to be turned into a movie of sorts and, excitingly, Patrick Osborne is at the helm.

Funcom's XCOM-like strategy game Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden will be released 4th December on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

DayZ is coming to Xbox One in a little over a week. The granddaddy of multiplayer survival games (with a sprinkling of zombies) hits Xbox Game Preview 29th August.

Amazon is making a PlayStation 4 and Xbox One racing game based on Top Gear-by-another-name car show The Grand Tour.

CD Projekt Red has released a few new screenshots from Cyberpunk 2077.

Saints Row is coming to Nintendo Switch! But it's not Saints Row: Gat out of Hell, the most recent game, nor is it series high-point Saints Row 4, from 2013. It is Saints Row: The Third, for some reason, a 2011 PS3 and Xbox 360 game.

THQ Nordic has announced a new Desperados game - Desperados 3 - for release on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One next year.

The Vive wireless adapter, which frees the headset from the cable tethering it to a PC, will launch here 24th September and oh my giddy aunt it's £300! And the Vive Pro wireless adapter is £364!