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• Fortnite: Search a chest, use a vending machine and a campfire

  In this week’s Fortnite challenge, you’ll need to find yourself a chest, a vending machine and a campfire to earn your Battle Stars.

• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - a beginner's guide to finding Shards, 8-bit Coins and more

  Gothic side-scroller Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is now out in the wild and it’s proving to be as much of a challenge as promised.

• Fortnite: Fortbyte 48 - Accessible by using the Vox Pickaxe to smash the gnome beside a mountain top throne

  It’s time for another daily Fortbyte challenge and you’re heading up the mountains.

• Nintendo E3 Direct, Keanu Reeves at Xbox are E3 2019's biggest moments on Twitter - report

  Despite this year’s E3 being somewhat uneventful compared to years past, there were still a few clear winners.

• The best Nintendo Switch games

  People say the Switch has the best library a Nintendo platform has had in years. Here’s our picks of the best Switch games.

• Fortnite: Season 9 secret Battle Star and Fortbyte locations

  Season 9 is well underway, so let’s look at the loading screen for each week and where you can find the hidden Battle Stars and Fortbytes.

• Fortnite: Fortbyte 59 - accessible with the Durrr! emote inside the Pizza Pit restaurant

  Another Fortbyte is out in the wild, so here’s where to find it on the Fortnite Battle Royale map.

• Massive Fortnite leak reveals 75 new items, Heist skin and 14 Days of Summer LTM

  Over 70 new skins and items for Fortnite were leaked this morning after the v9.30 update and it looks like a new LTM and Heist mode could be on the way.

• Fortnite v9.30 update adds Chug Splash item to Battle Royale and new Prop Hunt mode to Creative

  The v9.30 update is now available for Fortnite, bringing with it a healing item, team-based LTMs and a new Prop Hunt mode to Creative.

• Here's how long it takes to beat Wolfenstein: Youngblood

  I’m really excited for Wolfenstein: Youngblood. It’s a two-player co-op shooter that looks to take the series’ signature combat mechanics and mix it with Arkane’s game design sensibilities. And apparently, it’s sizeable too.

• Release dates: every game confirmed for 2019

  2019 has officially kicked off and there’s plenty to get excited about.

• Fortnite: Fortbyte 58 - Accessible by using the Sad Trombone emote at the north end of Snobby Shores

  A new Fortbyte is available in Fortnite Battle Royale, so let’s look at where to find it.

• Animal Crossing New Horizons will let you set your region, so you can match your seasons to the real world

  Great news for those of us in the southern hemisphere – the next Animal Crossing will let us match up our seasons.

• Luigi's Mansion 3 is looking great in this direct capture E3 footage

  Luigi’s Mansion 3 is coming to the Switch later this year, and some footage of the E3 demo – along with some new screens – give us a good idea of what to expect.

• Ahead of being delisted, the Minecraft Story Mode episodes cost $100 each on Xbox 360

  The story of Minecraft: Story Mode’s delisting just got another weird, sad twist to it.

• Animal Crossing New Horizons has autosave, so Resetti's out of a job

  Everyone’s favourite terse, annoying mole, Animal Crossing’s Mr Resetti, needs to find a new job.

• Nintendo E3 Direct: Breath of the Wild 2, Zelda: Link’s Awakening, The Witcher 3 - all the news here

  The Nintendo E3 Direct presentation was a 40-minute long news extravaganza. Here’s everything we pulled from it.

• Former Epic production director almost canceled Fortnite

  All of you Fortnite naysayers almost had your wish: Rod Ferguson, the former production director at Epic Games for Fortnite, says he tried to cancel the game before he left.

• You don't need rhythm to play Cadence of Hyrule

  One of Nintendo’s big surprises at E3 this year was The Legend of Zelda spinoff Cadence of Hyrule, a crossover with the rhythm-based indie hit Crypt of the Necrodancer. Cadence of Hyrule might look like your typical, top-down Zelda game, but like Crypt of the Necrodancer, every action you take is performed to a musical […]