After fannying about in the future for a few games, Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War will bring the subseries back to the past with a direct sequel to 2010’s Cod Blops. Treyarch last night gave Cod Blops Cow the ol’ reveal-o, with a trailer showing some of this year’s hot new war crimes. Along with a singleplayer campaign, the usual multiplayer modes, and cooperative Zombies action, yes it will continue the battling royale of Call Of Duty: Warzone. Here, check out the trailer.

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FIFA goes through cycles. We’ll get a few years of exciting innovation, and then a few years of EA simply changing the fella on the front cover. It’s how it’s always been, and I can only imagine how it will always be. In 1997, though, it was most definitely the former.

While the ISS vs FIFA feud was hotting up (due to the sheer quality of ISS, the series that eventually morphed into PES) I was still firmly in Camp Blatter. As well as the real names and kits, which were very important to a 9-year-old me, EA gave us one of the best football games of all time in FIFA: Road To World Cup 98.

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Here’s a surprise treat for the fellow puzzle adventure fans. Hello Games have announced that their adorable game The Last Campfire will launch tomorrow, August 27th. I’m always ready for a cute little adventure full of color, so I’m quite ready to try out the much smaller next game from the folks who did No Man’s Sky.

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Looks like Gotham Knights will let you ditch the quintessential awkward co-op experience. You know the one. You and your friend both want to play the same character but can’t. My best pal and I run into it every time. Inevitably he wins, so he gets the dexterous ranged character and I’m stuck with a melee bruiser who’s got the finesse of a fire hose. Good news then, WB Games Montreal say that you and your co-op buddy can play as the same character. Each one will have a breadth of skills available so that you may even want to both be Nightwing.

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You know what four things go together just as well as the four blocks of a tetromino? Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 on three major consoles and PC. Sega have announced a sequel to their Tetris and Puyo mashup game and the good news is that PC players won’t be waiting around too long for a port. PPT2 will launch on PC in early 2021.

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Hold your warthogs folks, 343 Industries are setting a few things straight about Halo Infinite delays. It is true that 343 announced earlier this month that they would delay Halo Infinite from late 2020 to sometime in 2021. That bit was officially announced. What aren’t real, they say, are the subsequent rumors that Infinite could be delayed even further into the following year. We should still be expecting it in 2021, all clear?

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The second series of the Netflix’s The Witcher show is still a way away, especially after production was interrupted by the pandemic, but Netflix do have a wee bit more to tide folks over. Today they released a half-hour behind-the-scenes documentary with cast and crew talking about the making of the show, fittingly titled Making The Witcher. It’s not hugely enlightening but does have lots of my favourite behind-the-scenes bits: men in green mocap suits, and sped-up monstrous makeup application.

Speaking of witching, CD Projekt Red announced a new mobile game today, The Witcher: Monster Slayer. It sounds a bit like Pokémon Go with Witcher monsters.

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Ever since I squeezed my face into David Braben’s Rift hole (humblebrag), I’ve been a VR convert. I’ve moved house three times since then, and each time I’ve managed to tether up some sort of VR system, from the pokiest of rooms to my reasonably spacious home office. That last one is not a humblebrag, as I’m far too humble to do two in one paragraph. It’s just a brag.

I’ve been using VR for a long time, so I thought I’d ask myself what people might be worried about before committing to it themselves. What about those awkward tangibles, like wires, space, and PC power? Or troublesome intangibles, like what you look like when you watch a John Travolta movie in VR.

Here’s what I’ve learned in the past eight years.

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After several days of rumours, Nvidia have confirmed that the Founders Editions of their upcoming Ampere RTX 3000 series GPUs will indeed have a new 12-pin power connector. There’s still just under a week to go before their big GeForce event, but today Nvidia released a new video and blog post detailing the next-gen cooling solution for their RTX 3000 cards, giving us our first glimpse of the new power connector, as well as a few more details on why they’ve decided to eschew the traditional 8-pin connectors in favour of this new (and seemingly vertical) power solution.

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The season of announcements for announcements continues with an Avengers announcement for more announcements. Marvel’s Avengers is just around the corner in early September but hold your super horses they’ve got another War Table livestream for you before that. Crystal Dynamics’ third announcements reel on September 1st will feature hot tips for starting with your most heroic foot forward and detail some more of their free content coming after A-Day.

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