I got a bit of hands-on time with Journey to the Savage Planet, the first-person exploration adventure game from Typhoon Studios, back in June. It proved to be a colorful, humorous, and sometimes gross experience filled with bizarre landscapes, shrieking aliens, and oddball weapons and tools.

The wall-running parkour revolution has kind of fizzled out in video games, and that's a sad thing. Fortunately, an upcoming game called Ghostrunner seems to remember the heady days of Titanfall 2 and Mirror's Edge as fondly as I do, and developer One More Level seems keen to pack as much of that stuff into one trailer as they can fit.

Remedy has released another new trailer for Control with ray traced global illumination enabled throughout the footage.

We've seen modders add path tracing (which is similar to ray tracing) to Minecraft with impressive effects. But now Nvidia have announced they're working on official ray tracing support for it. This, only a week after the Super Duper Graphics pack was cancelled for being "too technically demanding". 

Microsoft are presenting an Inside Xbox showcase as part of Gamescom on Monday, and they're teasing some "exciting" news related to Age of Empires as part of it. There's a couple of things in the works this could relate to. Most excitingly, there's Age of Empires 4, currently in development by Relic (of Dawn of War and Company of Heroes fame), which we don't know much about though Phil Spencer told us it's "making good progress".

There were rumors of a Resident Evil Netflix series doing the rounds back in January and whether that's still in the works (if it ever was), now there's news of a movie reboot. Screenrant asked director Johannes Roberts, previously responsible for several movies I've never heard of like 47 Meters Down and Forest of the Damned, about the untitled Resident Evil project his name was attached to on imdb. Here's what he had to say:

Dreamcast JRPG Grandia 2 made it to PC back in 2015, but the original in Game Arts' classic series remained unavailable. That's about to change as a Steam page for Grandia HD Remaster has appeared with a release date set for September this year.

Cliff Bleszinski surprised us in November when, following the failure of his battle royale Radical Heights, he swore off making games forever. But the LawBreakers creator and former design director at Epic Games has now changed his tune, saying he has "a game idea and it won't get out of my head".

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes, the latest game from Killer7 creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, is coming to Steam on October 17. It's the first time Suda's No More Heroes series will arrive on PC—the previous two games were Nintendo Wii exclusives, while Travis Strikes again first released on the Nintendo Switch earlier this year.

A Reddit thread in which Apex Legends developer Respawn admitted its fairly expensive, complicated Iron Crown Collection Event had "missed the mark" has descended into recriminations and more debate about the relationship between developers and fans.