The newest game pack for The Sims 4 has been officially revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live, and it is the Star War. The Sims 4 Star Wars (TM): Journey To Batuu is coming out on September 8th, just over a week from today, and will allow your Sims to just, like, go to a Star Wars planet and see the Millennium Falcon and everything.

There’s a fairly extensive look at all this in the new trailer, which also appears to show someone getting arrested for asking a Stormtrooper out on a date. Play stupid games, as they say. Importantly, it is confirmed that you can create both your own lightsaber and droid.

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A new trailer for Star Wars: Squadrons is coming in hotter than a tauntaun’s guts, fresh out of Gamescom Opening Night Live. It shows more of the story campaign, which’ll have us playing on flying for both the Empire and New Republic, seeing two sides of a weird time in Star Wars history. That ‘weird time’ being before shortly after Palpatine died but a good few years before they discovered actually he was fine and his clones were sewing their wild oats across the galaxy and… welp. Here, watch the new Squadrons trailer and I promise it will remind you of none of that.

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We just got the biggest look yet at Dragon Age 4 during Gamescom’s Opening Night Live and… they still didn’t really show us much. Not that I’m complaining! A morsel of info on BioWare’s excellent RPG series is enough to sate me months, and the new screens and tiny segments of in-game footage shown tonight will surely keep fans speculating until we finally get a release date. So, what did BioWare actually show? Well, the most interesting thing I reckon was a new look at Solas, who is, of course, making a comeback after his rude exit in Dragon Age: Inquisition.

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You’ve killed every god, demon and monstrosity in the world of the living – so I s’pose it’s time to quest through the afterlife instead. The next chapter in Blizzard’s seemingly-unstoppable MMO, World Of Warcraft: Shadowlands tonight announced that it’ll open the gates to the collective afterlives in October with two new trailers.

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Unknown 9: Awakening

is a newly-announced action-adventure game from Reflector Entertainment that already has an extended universe oven fresh and ready to go. All we have of the game right now is a teaser trailer, so we have no idea how it’ll actually play when it’s out. We do know that the protagonist is Hoona, a young girl from Kolkata in India who we are told is “haunted by visions of her own death” and has a “mysterious innate ability to manipulate the unseen”.

Unknown 9’s teaser was revealed at Gamescom Opening Night Live, a livestream to mark the first night of Gamescom (and, by dint of being hosted by Geoff Keighley, inextricable in my mind from the never ending Geoff Keighley summer of games). Give it a watch to see Hoona avoid an attack in the street by using a cool time-stop power.

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“Every mission we go on is illegal,” our heroes proudly declare in a new Call Of Duty: Black Ops Cold War trailer. They’re explaining to Ronald Reagan (the actor) and to us why they should be given free rein to hunt for Perseus, a maybe-mythical Soviet agent who could be raising a big stink. Cod Blops Cow will have multiple endings, unusually for a CoD, so maybe we’ll be able to sack it off and just grill the Gipper on what it was like to work with Bette Davis.

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You’ve ripped and tore your way through Doom Eternal, and now you’re looking for more. Well, young slayer, you’ll be glad to know Id Software are continuing the fight against hell, heaven and everywhere in between when it’s first DLC, The Ancient Gods – Part One, arrives on October 20th.

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Valve plan to add optional profanity filters to Steam Chat, and it’ll also be able to filter language in games which use Steam’s own chat system. If you want to block effing, jeffing, and slurs, you’ll be able to fiddle with a load of settings and filters to add and remove words and otherwise fine-tune your chat civility. If you don’t want to filter chat, no worries, just don’t turn it on. This system debuts today as a Steam Labs experiment so Valve can gather feedback and improve it, then they plan to launch it as a regular Steam feature “soon.”

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Videogames are television now. But while everything from Splinter Cell to Fallout is gunning for streaming gold following The Witcher‘s Cavill-shaped successes, Resident Evil probably makes more sense than most. With a long run of live-action films behind it, the horror series is now getting a Netflix original series, one that follows the plucky Wesker kids as they uncover the no-good rotten antics their dear old dad Albert’s been up to. Probably.

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This week the podcast truly is the daddy of all podcasts, as we decide to talk all things dad in games. This of course means we must first establish what a dad game is. Are we talking about games that dads will like, or games about dads? And what is the crossover between the two?

Eventually we settle on having a lovely chat about some of our favourite dads in games, including the sad murder dads, and the phenomenon that is developers growing up and having kids and therefore making entirely different games. I ask Nate, as the only dad amongst us, for his dad analysis of the game dads, and we have a lovely time. Plus, Matthew leads us into the Cavern Of Lies where he presents us with a cavalcade of game dads. But which ones are real and which are fake?

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