A few days ago, in front of an audience of over 3000 people, the leader of the Imperium — the largest coalition in EVE Online and perhaps the largest player alliance in any video game — announced that it would go to war.

"Added good ending," read a recent patch note for the sci-fi Souls-like Immortal Planet. The game's small community was thrilled. They had a new goal, a reason to put on their sleuthing caps. But after weeks of struggling to unlock this secret ending, the game's developer revealed it was all a big joke.

Batterystaple Games and Fire Hose Games must agree with me that Mega Man X is the best Mega Man game, because their 20XX is an obvious tribute. 20XX perfectly recreates the feeling of Mega Man X, and generously adds all the procedural elements (scheduled challenges, permadeath, a progression system, loot) that players want out of an old-fashioned game these days.

Once this year's tournament season is done in November, Blizzard are looking to make some "major design changes" to StarCraft II's units and economy.

Today Thomas Was Alone and Volume designer Mike Bithell dropped a surprise game on Steam called Subsurface Circular. It's a short robot detective story set entirely on a train beneath a futuristic city, and it's pretty cool.

CCP Games has announced a massive shakeup to its immersive VR shooter EVE: Valkyrie. A free expansion coming in September called "Warzone" will, among other things, remove the need for a virtual reality headset. By decoupling Valkyrie from its VR roots, a much wider player base will be able to log in and play CCP's unique and beautiful shooter.

I've been reviewing Razer accessories and hardware for ages, and aside from the odd licence tie-in and those rainbow headsets, they have mostly had one thing in common — they have been black. Well now we've got the Mercury line, so bright and white they look like the restless spirits of real Razer products.

Want to know how No Man's Sky has changed since launch? The first thing you should do is check out the beautiful grass.

The new Razer Blade Stealth is an unusual beast. It's manufactured by a company that proudly states on the box that they are “For Gamers, By Gamers” but, like the previous model, it's not really a gaming laptop. But it is one of the best ultrabooks you can buy.

The worst part of games like Cities: Skylines is that you can make an awesome city you can't actually live in. Cities: Skylines new Concerts add on won't let you live in the city of your dreams, but it brings the game a little closer to the things that make cities fun to live in.

Sci-fi adventure game Original Journey entices with its hand-drawn pencil art of alien mutant egg creatures. And luckily, they feel as good to bombard with cannons as they do to look at.

You blink. You rub your eyes. You look around. "Oh crap," you realise, "I'm at a party."

Most of the time, it isn't terribly difficult to slot games on Steam's best-sellers list into categories. You have your multiplayer survival game of the week, your triple-A hit, your discounted indie, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and so on. West of Loathing, though, defies categorisation. It marches to the beat of its own drum, spits into its own spittoon, and tells its own poop jokes.

For years, Blizzard faithful have been clamoring for a remake or remaster of Diablo II, and now that StarCraft's remaster is fresh out of the hatchery, they have only gotten louder. One fan is trying to give them the next best thing.

If you haven't played it already, Scythe is an extremely good board game that blends strategy with massive mechs and the 1920's. And now there's a game set in the same universe.

Lona: Realm of Colours is an adventure game in development from a small team based in Sweden. There's a strong Miyazaki vibe running through the game's art style, and it looks cool as hell.

Telltale Games' ongoing creation of its own unique Dark Knight continuity — which began with last year's Batman: The Telltale Series — has been fascinating to play through. The changes made to the people in Bruce Wayne's double life have been surprisingly dramatic and the best one may be yet to come.

If AMD was more of a threat, NVIDIA might be encouraged to rush their next line of GPUs, codenamed Volta, out the door. But in the company's latest earnings call, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang indicated that the Pascal-based GPUs are the best option for gamers over the holidays - meaning we won't see Volta until next year.

Saints Row spin-off Agents of Mayhem is out today, and it's a very different game than its over-the-top, gang-banging, devil-taunting predecessors. It can be daunting, but worry not — we've got tips.