Trivia Vault: Video Game Trivia Deluxe

Batman has starred in video games for 40 years, and his early years were much weirder than a Gotham made of Lego bricks. We take a closer look at the strange origins of Batman games.

Check out the first hour of Directive 8020 gameplay, recorded on PS5. Supermassive's first foray into space is as tense as it sounds.

In an attempt to avoid GTA 6, almost every other big end-of-year game is launching in September, turning the month into a bloody video game battle royale.

There are, after a good few hours playing it, quite a few games like Control Resonant. It's an RPG with a kind of pseudo open-world - an "open-ended modern world" I believe was Remedy's way of putting it in its presentation to the press earlier this week - and it has skill trees and some light resource-gathering and item-upgrading. It has some light platforming with a double-jump and a dash, and melee combat with perfect dodges and aerial combos. Read more

One of the enduring questions over the past few months - or really years - has been what happens next. Video games have seen arguably their greatest upheaval as a medium, as an exodus of investor cash and evisceration of talent, particularly in North America and Europe, led to a grim drought of the bigger-budget blockbusters that would have normally kept the industry ticking over last year and beyond. Read more