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Final Fantasy! Monster Hunter! Sonic. A year late and under a cloud of controversy, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has officially kicked off to a soundtrack of familiar video game music. The Olympics’ traditional Parade of Nations saw athletes from all competing countries enter the Tokyo Olympic Stadium to the sounds of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts …

I had a fight with a hag in a park yesterday afternoon and no one seemed to notice. I had a fight with a griffin the size of a bus stop too, coincidentally right next to a bus stop. Did the people on the bus care? No they didn’t. I fought ghouls and wyverns and …

It’s a feature that Red Dead Online players have requested almost since the game’s launch, but the ability to purchase properties in Red Dead Redemption 2 – aside from the Moonshiner role – has sadly remained a distant dream. While the feature is yet to appear in the game’s online mode, modders have stepped in …

The delayed and controversial Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will hold its opening ceremony tonight – and to celebrate, Google has released one of its best ever Doodle games. Head to the front page of Google.com and you’ll find the Doodle Champion Island Games available to play. But rather than a quick mini-game, this is a …

World of Warcraft players have staged an in-game protest following recent allegations made against developer Blizzard. This week, the State of California sued Activision Blizzard over what it alleges to be a “frat boy” culture that created “a breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women”. The lawsuit includes a number of disturbing allegations and …

Digital Foundry’s top pick, the LG CX, is £989 from AO. On the lookout for a new TV? You can grab 10% off LG OLEDs from AO using the code LGOLED10 at checkout. This includes the LG CX OLED, highly recommended by Digital Foundry as the best 4K TV for HDR gaming. Perfect for your PS5 …

Horizon Zero Dawn protagonist Aloy is heading to Genshin Impact, PlayStation announced earlier today. A tweet from the official PlayStation Twitter account confirmed the crossover between developers Guerrilla and miHoYo, explaining Aloy will be available as part of the roster “for a limited time”. The tweet didn’t go into a huge amount of detail, but …

Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality will arrive for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation and Xbox on 30th September. This is a new and expanded version of the Jodie Whittaker-starring Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, which originally launched in 2019. The Edge of Reality “reimagines and expands” the VR experience with new story, new enemies …

Battlefield fans have spotted the return of a classic map buried in a teaser video that plays when players boot up one of the current Battlefield games. YouTube creator VickeP first spotted an image in the teaser that looked awfully familiar. He captured the frames of the video that showed the clearest view of the …

Konami will sell Master League and other offline modes as eFootball DLC, it’s confirmed. Following yesterday’s news that Konami had renamed PES to eFootball and made it free-to-play and digital-only, the company has now released some new information on how the game will sell content. eFootball launches worldwide first on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox …

Iona Stephen the first female on-course commentator. EA has announced a partnership with the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) to bring the LGPA Tour into the upcoming EA Sports PGA Tour. In a statement, EA said: “For the first time, the LPGA Tour will be experienced in high-fidelity on next-generation consoles and will feature a wide …

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a video game that is coming out soon, and it is… actually alright? Not bad? Maybe even quite good?! The question marks are question marks of surprise, obviously, because the whole Alien and Predator double-franchise (and maybe also its 80s-action-close-cousin Terminator, too) doesn’t have the best record as far as game …