I’ve played a lot of Tetris variants, but never one quite like this

It’s the new year, and it seems as though game developers believe that in amongst all that spring cleaning and remodelling you’ll fancy a bit of digital renovation as well. Following this week’s earlier announcement of Architect Life: A Design Simulator, it’s now the turn of your derelict local sports hall, with Sports Renovations from Goat Gamez set to arrive on March 27th for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series.

Where to next for the Doom Slayer? Having battled against wave after wave of demonic invasion and delved through Hell to defeat even the Dark Lord himself by the end of Doom Eternal, there’s really only one place to go: back to the start. It’s time for Doom: The Dark Ages.

Rebellion know more than anyone how satisfying it is to blow the nuts off a Nazi. While that might not particularly trailer-friendly fare, it’s safe to say we all know that’s the first thing that anyone is doing when Sniper Elite: Resistance launches on the 30th of January for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. The second thing you might want to do is indulge in some of the all-new features that Rebellion are bringing to bear in this entry in the storied series, with a fresh new trailer here to give a deeper dive into them all.

There’s a really specific sort of nostalgia that hits me like a truck whenever the Tales series is mentioned. I grew up hovering around this series of JRPGs, but never playing them. Other series like Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy caught my attention, but I would still spot Tales in the periphery. The series seemingly spawning a new mainline entry almost every year, combined with me hardly following news of the franchise, led to this sort of awe I would experience whenever I continuously discovered more and more Tales games that I had no idea even existed. As I’ve gotten older and started digging deeper into games and series I never gave a shot earlier in life, I’m finally getting around to playing a lot of these Tales games that only existed as ideas and myths to me. Tales of Graces f was one such myth – a Wii game I barely knew existed, which became a PS3 game I downloaded but never touched, and finally, it arrives in my life for the third time as a massively remastered and polished multi-platform re-release. And with this kind of care and quality, I’m hoping every entry in the series can eventually re-materialize in my life this way.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 is on the horizon, and the voice actor for protagonist Henry has revealed he spent over 500 hours recording lines for the character.

Tim Cain, the co-creator of the original Fallout game says devs don't know what you want, but neither do you, apparently.

There's often quite a big difference between the number of people who start a game versus the amount who actually finish it, but RPG veteran Josh Sawyer says that doesn't matter – what does is making sure they're satisfied with whatever they do play, and Bethesda's timeless RPG Skyrim is a great example of that.

As whispers about the multiplayer Horizon game continue, it appears that developer Guerrilla Games could be expecting to deal with a lot of concurrent players, as a new job listing suggests it's looking to hire someone with experience handling at least one million global users.

Shortly after Nintendo issued a warning to players to "refrain" from using "unauthorized software" to keep their Wii Us online since it "may pose unexpected security risks," unofficial Nintendo Network replacement Pretendo has shared its own response, noting that "we are committed to user safety."