With its striking cel-shaded art style and gripping spy thriller yarn, it's no surprise that XIII has become a cult favourite shooter from the early 2000s. And now it's available again over at GOG.

After a brief period of going dark, you can now get XIII for 4.99.

The timing of its return couldn't be any better, what with the XIII remake scheduled for release in 2020. If I were a cynic, I might suggest that such a stunt was orchestrated to drum up interest in that new version. I'll happily be strung along this time, though, just because of how fondly I remember the original game and the graphic novel series it was based on.

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It's tough to see how anyone can do much better than this latest speedrun record for Titanfall 2's Gauntlet.

Respawn's wall-hopping assault course is designed to be completed as quick as possible - and three years later, speedrunner Cash Mayo is still trying.

This latest time - 11.7 seconds - shaves a fraction of a second off Mayo's previous world record of 11.9 seconds, set three months ago. Both use a grenade at the start to fling your character through the course at breakneck speed.

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A few months ago, my friends and I decided to start a new Minecraft server. This wasn't something new for any of us - we've dabbled with Minecraft here and there for years, and the need for a chilled out experience away from competitive multiplayer games would occasionally draw us back into its peaceful cuboid world. But we weren't the only players with the bright idea of jumping back in. Minecraft celebrated its 10th anniversary back in May, and whether players like us realised it or not, this brought the game back into the forefront of everyone's minds.

Minecraft isn't experiencing a short-lived resurgence either, oh no. A decade in, its community only continues to grow. Thanks in part to a regular stream of updates, Mojang is able to show off a 112 million-strong monthly player count. And there's plenty of other projects in the works - the Pok mon Go-like Minecraft Earth, Minecraft Dungeons, a couple of Minecraft books, and even a Minecraft film - which have all helped Minecraft reach a level of popularity I don't believe anyone truly expected. This isn't to say Minecraft ever really went away, but a quick look at Google Trends shows you it's as prominent now, 10 years on, as it's ever been.

Minecraft has had a hell of a year, and a hell of a decade. But how has it got here? And what do the next 10 years hold? I caught up with lead developer Jens Bergensten and Minecraft Earth executive producer Jesse Merriam ahead of Minecon Live to talk about how Minecraft has stayed so successful - and what it must do to stay on top.

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Just a month after the LG B9 OLED was reduced to 1450 for the 55-inch model, another big price drop has taken place at retailer John Lewis. Now, our choice for the best 4K TV for HDR gaming has been reduced to 1299 for the 55-inch model and 1799 for the 65-inch version.

These are massive reductions on critically acclaimed 4K TVs - the 65-inch model is now as cheap as the 55-inch model was just a few months ago - and getting them with a five year guarantee from John Lewis is a great bonus. You can also find the 55-inch LG B9 OLED on Amazon for the same price if you prefer, but the 65-inch deal isn't available on Amazon.

LG's OLEDs are loved by gamers and film enthusiasts alike, thanks to their extremely deep blacks, excellent contrast and rapid pixel response times. The B9 is the most affordable model in the lineup, with the C9 and E9 costing a few hundred pounds more. The B9 uses the same OLED panel as the C9 and E9 so image quality remains impeccable, while a slightly older processor keeps the price low. This results in only minor differences in motion handling and a few missing features, so most experts recommend the B9 as the best value-for-money choice.

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I should probably never be put in charge of an evidence board. You know, one of those densely cinematic affairs where photos and newspaper clippings and the odd shell cartridge are connected by bits of string. It is weird to go to C&H Fabrics and think that so many of the people buying red wool may be detectives working hard to crack the big one.

Anyway, Murder Mystery Machine is an episodic detective game for Apple Arcade - the first episode is available now, the next should be here by the end of the month - and as well as visiting crime scenes, collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses, you can also do that thing with the evidence board and the string.

In fact, you have to. This is an adventure game at heart. As you explore each scene you collect information on the crime at hand, you cobble it all together with string - linking a gun to a bullet casing, say, or a newspaper clipping to a politician's unpopular policy - and then you try to answer the big questions: why? How? Who?

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The Bradwell Conspiracy, developer A Brave Plan's intriguing first-person tale of corporate skullduggery and Stonehenge, now has a release date - or rather, three release dates. It'll be heading to Steam and PlayStation 4 next Tuesday, 8th October, to Switch on 10th October, and to Xbox One a day later on 11th October.

Announced last September, The Bradwell Conspiracy unfolds during the Summer Solstice of 2026, in the aftermath of a disastrous presentation at the prestigious Stonehenge Museum - so disastrous, in fact, that at least some of the building is now an impassable pile of rubble.

Cast as an unnamed visitor, players must join forces with fellow survivor, and Bradwell Electronics employee, Amber (herself trapped on the other side of a locked door), in order to venture below ground in search of freedom - and the truth behind recent events. Luckily, you've access to a pair of Bradwell AR Smart Glasses on your adventure, meaning it's possible to take and share photos of your surroundings with Amber in order to figure out an escape route.

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LKA, the developer behind harrowing narrative experience The Town of Light, has unveiled its next endeavour: first-person psychological thriller Martha is Dead, which is currently expected to release some time next year.

Like The Town of Light before it, Martha is Dead seeks to ground its narrative (which offers a mix of "history, superstition, and psychological distress", according to LKA) using real locations and events. This time, however, the story unfolds in Tuscany, 1944, as the conflict between German and Allied forces during the second World War wages on.

Following the discovery of a drowned woman in the area, her twin sister - the daughter of a German soldier - is forced to deal with "the acute trauma of loss, while the truth of the brutal murder is shrouded by mysterious folklore and the extreme horror of war draws ever closer."

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Yes, Your Grace is a handsome pixel art game about being a king. A king who sits on a throne while lines of people ask for things. Can you spare some gold and supplies to help a village after it was raided? Can you send someone to help find a lost boy? Can you help a farmer pay for his daughter's wedding? Wait what? Get on with you, you rascal! Lowborn or high, they all want something from you.

Help and your realm's Contentment will rise - but you can't help everybody. You barely have enough gold to get by, let alone repair your dungeon, and your supplies are dwindling. What's more, you don't have an army - and you know you will need one. You know because you've seen what's coming three years hence: an enemy at your walls. If you're not prepared, it will crush you.

Will your preparations be enough? Will you be able to muster the defences you need while juggling the happiness of realm, alliance and family? That, in a nutshell, is Yes, Your Grace - part adventure game, part strategy. Week by in-game week, you make your choices.

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Hello! Normally we'd all be over our EGX hangovers and recovering from our show bugs around now, but thanks to the UK's biggest gaming expo's move from Birmingham to London and from September to October, it's still two weeks away. Feels weird, man.

(Disclaimer: EGX is run by our parent company, Gamer Network. And it used to be called the Eurogamer Expo. So, you know, we're biased.)

Anyway, the announcements of playable games are starting to pop up, and leading the pack so far is the first UK hands-on for Marvel's Avengers, Crystal Dynamics' take on the ubiquitous superhero team. Virgin Media will be hosting the Square Enix game on its stand, along with costumes and props, and there'll be an appearance from studio head Scot Amos in the EGX Theatre. Marvel's Avengers is out on 15th May 2020.

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Fortnite has delayed its 11th season launch by one week, which means there's a little longer to finish your Season X Battlepass.

Season 11 will now kick off on Sunday, 13th October, Epic said in what is likely its last set of patch notes for the season.

To keep you busy until then, a final week's worth of time-limited rewards ("Last Stop") will begin in a few days, before this season's delayed Overtime challenges ("Out of Time") kick in on 8th October.

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