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Apex Legends is almost a year old, and developer Respawn will be celebrating its free-to-play battle royale game's first birthday on 4th February by ushering in a new season. And now, in preparation for the big day, it's outlined a few of the additions coming to Season 4 - subtitled Assimilation - including a brand-new Legend by the name of Forge.

Forge, as his beefy demeanour and hefty championship belt might suggest, is a five-time Hyperfighting Federation champion, and the first Legend to have a (fictional) corporate sponsor in-game, thanks to Hammond Robotics. Respawn isn't going into much mechanical detail about Forge just yet, but hints that he's an "up close and personal" brawler with a mean left hook. As part of Forge's introduction, Respawn is teasing "big map changes" for World's Edge, similar the King's Canyon update in Season 2.

Also new to Apex Legends' fourth season is the Sentinel, a bolt-action sniper rifle that "feels really powerful". Again, Respawn is being coy about specifics, but teases that the weapon is a little different to other sniper rifles in-game, thanks to its new charge mechanic.

The peaceful, pleasant farm-life sim Stardew Valley was released on Steam in February 2016, and by April it had surpassed one million copies sold—a big benchmark of success for just about any game, and particularly for a niche indie release developed entirely by one guy. Four years later, the game is available on Mac and Linux, consoles, and mobile devices, and it's now moved past ten million.

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Psyonix is dropping ongoing support for Rocket League on Linux and MacOS. A patch will roll out in early March which will eliminate the game's online component, though local matches and split-screen play will still function.

ConcernedApe†™s charming farming sim Stardew Valley has officially surpassed 10 million copies sold across all platforms. ...

One of the biggest controversies in videogames in 2019 revolved around Hearthstone grandmaster Cung "blitzchung" Ng Wai, who was suspended from pro competition for a year and stripped of his winnings after declaring "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our age!" during a post-match interview. That startlingly harsh punishment was eventually walked back to a six-month suspension and no forfeiture of winnings, but it was still an ugly mess that reflected far more poorly on Blizzard than it did on Blitzchung.

Where would you like to live? A brown, wooden settlement in Spruce Knob, or in the wreckage of a massive crashed space station? I feel like it's an obvious choice. Space station, please! Even a space station that's no longer in space is cooler than anything else on the ground.

What’ve we got here, eh? Some sorta proper Poirot type, are you? A real Miss Marple? Well, I’ve got a case here that’ll make you look like PC Plod. Political police thriller Disco Elysium reckons it’s been going easier on you, releasing a tough new Hardcore True Detective mode to test your smarts. Try solving […]