Car football game Rocket League is getting its own version of Fortnite's Battle Pass, named the Rocket Pass.
It works in much the same way - developer Psyonix will sell a pass for each new in-game season of content released throughout the year. If you pay up you'll get extra cosmetic rewards as you play.
There's a free version of the Rocket Pass as well, which everyone gets. It includes customisation options, banners, titles and decryptors.

Perhaps having taken note of every other online retailer offering big batches of discounts on PC games in waves recently, Amazon has decided to get in on the action with a couple of one-day-only sale ranges on digital PC titles from and .
Over at Amazon UK's daily deals section, you'll find a range of alongside . These are all PC digital titles, most of which will redeem on Steam, though some of Rockstar's offerings are codes are for Rockstar's own Social Club.
Grand Theft Auto 5 is down to one of its lowest prices ever, £13.20, while you can also find Mafia 3 for £14, Bully for £3.50, and the entire XCOM 2 collection for £40 all-in. Over on the Activision side of things, you'll be able to pick up Call of Duty WW2 for £28.99, Call of Duty Infinite Warfare for £19.49, King's Quest Complete for £15.99, and Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines for £3.49.

On 25th June Street Fighter 5 gets a big new update - and part of that is the addition of loot boxes.
The loot boxes have to do with Survival Mode and a new system called Fighting Chance. Menat, one of the playable characters, has opened up a shop to tell you your fortune. Spend 500 Fight Money, the in-game currency, and you get a Fantasy Fortune Reading, which Menat helps you decipher. These readings are the loot box: they contain multiple items, including some exclusive to Fighting Chance.
Items include Battle Goods, which increase your chance of completing Survival Mode, new colours only available from Fantasy Fortune Readings, classic pieces of Street Fighter art from across the series, and, to the consternation of the Street Fighter community, rare costumes only available via Fantasy Fortune Readings.

It seems the Netherlands' threat to prosecute video game companies over loot boxes has claimed its first victim: Valve.
Players of CS:GO and Dota 2 in the Netherlands were today greeted with a message from Valve saying the company had pulled item trading and Steam Marketplace transfers for both games.
Valve said the move was in response to the Dutch threat to prosecute video game companies who failed to alter their game's design by 20th June after it found some loot boxes were gambling.

Activision has announced Call of Duty: WW2's third DLC pack - United Front.
United Front, which comes out on 26th June on PlayStation 4 ahead of other platforms, includes three new multiplayer maps: Stalingrad, Market Garden and Monte Cassino.
There's also a new War Mode mission called Operation Supercharge, which sees you push across North Africa, and a new Nazi Zombies experience that stars four new heroes who are sent across three locations to transport and defend the final pieces of Emperor Barbarossa's sword.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' third map, Sanhok, comes out this Friday, 22nd June.
Sanhok is a lot smaller than PUBG's other two maps. It's 4km x 4km (one fourth the size of Erangel or Miramar), and so games tend to end more quickly on the tiny island. Still, every game features 100 players, as is battle royale standard.
Because Sanhok is a small map, certain settings have been tweaked to fit its design. For example, faraway players and vehicles aren't rendered in the same way on Sanhok, which the developers said improves server performance.

Sea of Thieves' latest update is now live and marks the start, at long last, of Rare's regularly scheduled live events and smaller-scale activities for the piratical multiplayer adventure.
With The Hungering Deep now over, and the ancient megalodon now returned to the depths of the ocean, the , which were briefly introduced in the last update, have now become a fully fledged faction in Sea of Thieves - joining the likes of the Merchant Alliance, Gold Hoarders, and Order of Souls.
The Bilge Rats work slightly differently to the base game's Trading Companies, however; rather than offering a never-ending supply of quests for purchase, the Bilge Rats present one activity to complete for a fixed duration, with new activities being introduced every week or two. As you progress through the current activity, you'll earn commendations, titles, and a new currency: doubloons - which can be spent on items in the Bilge Rats' store.

Fans of faintly absurd bonus characters can breathe a sigh of relief today; Capcom has confirmed that both Hunk and Tofu will be returning for the Resident Evil 2 remake on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
For the uninitiated, Hunk and Tofu were bonus characters present in horror classic Resident Evil 2 - appearing in their own mini-missions, and unlocked if various criteria were met. Hunk, a mysterious gas-mask-wearing Umbrella operative, featured in the 4th Survivor mini-mission, and was unlocked by completing the Leon and Claire scenarios with an A rank.
Tofu, a knife-wielding lump of coagulated soy milk, appeared in the unlockable Tofu Survivor mode - a tough reworking of Hunk's mission, accessed by completing any combination of scenarios six times with an A rank in under two and a half hours.

, but never has the issue seemed as petty - and yet also as big - as it has this week.
I'm talking about if trying to log in using an account which has ever played Fortnite on PS4. To reiterate: this isn't even cross-play, this is simply logging in.
Even if you've only played Fortnite once on PS4, and play the majority of your Fortnite on PC or mobile (these platforms are compatible), you will still be blocked from using your account on Switch. Your only option is to create a new account to play.

Remember The Battle for Middle-Earth games? Like the Balrog in the depths of the Mines of Moria, the real-time strategy series was left dormant after its online servers were snuffed out when EA's The Lord of the Rings licence expired in 2010.
Now, there's a new fan project that has rebuilt The Battle for Middle-Earth in Unreal Engine 4 - and there's a fancy new teaser video.
Based on the video, it's clear a lot of work has already been done to get The Battle for Middle-Earth up and running in Epic's game engine. According to the project's , all the original game's code has been rewritten, but the developers are working to preserve the original gameplay. The focus is multiplayer, but if all goes well, the developers may make a campaign.

The wonderful Summer Games Done Quick event has raised more than $2m for Doctors Without Borders.
The speedrunning charity drive raised $2.12m for the non-profit organisation, which delivers emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters or exclusion from health care. Last year, SGDQ raised more than $1.7m.
There are some spectacular speedruns worth watching (and you can still donate via the GDQ website). Here are a few highlights to get you going:

A Fortnite player sparked a debate about video game griefing after breaking the game's solo mode kills record by taking advantage of a group that had gathering to watch an in-game rocket launch.
Yesterday, Fortnite launched an in-game rocket - an event that occurred across all versions of the game on all platforms at the same time - and players across the world jumped into the battle royale phenomenon to watch it take flight.
Players holstered their guns and worked together to create ramps using Fortnite's building mechanic. These ramps joined together to hit the upper limit of the Fortnite map - and provided a perfect platform from which to view the rocket.

After dozens of series and countless episodes, Telltale Games is finally set to replace its aging game engine.
That's according to a new report, which confirms earlier rumblings Telltale would move away from its own, increasingly rickety Telltale Tool in favour of the widely-used Unity engine instead.
Telltale Tool has been the bedrock of the company's choose-your-own-adventure gameplay since the studio's founding, years before it was popularised by The Walking Dead. Yes, we're talking before CSI: Fatal Conspiracy, before even Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures. In recent years, it's fair to say the engine's age has showed, reflecting in what Variety reports were poor sales for the studio's latest series.

I'm calling it, I'm finally letting go of Alan Wake. There is more to Remedy than its hoodie-and-tweed-wearing writer hero, and more to the studio's trademark brand of pulpy sci-fi than his gravelly, never-ending voice-overs. This is a good thing. Six years on from Wake's last outing, with no sequel in sight and Remedy's odd, live-action hybrid Quantum Break out of the way, Control feels like a clean break for Remedy.
Control is the studio's first game for PlayStation 4 - its first for any Sony platform since Max Payne 2 on PS2 - something underlined by its unveiling at Sony's E3 conference. ("It felt like a good way to announce it this way and make this statement," Sam Lake, Remedy's chief writer and public face of the studio tells me after.) Control is also a clean slate to tell a new story with a more modern approach - albeit one which will still feel familiar to the studio's fans.
The demo shown to press at E3 2018 is a proper peek at what everybody saw during the game's Sony conference trailer. You play as Jesse Faden (Courtney Hope, AKA Beth in Quantum Break), who like all Remedy protagonists is skilled in third-person shooting and physics manipulation while exploring dark, mysterious surroundings. These surroundings will host a big change for Control - a space to explore with a narrative path, but also side-missions and Metroidvania-inspired exploration. At one point in the demo we pass a series of prison cells, the unlucky occupant of one screaming for help. It's a side-mission which we can return to later.

Dwarf Fortress' seemingly never-ending development means more brilliant patch notes.
Dwarf Fortress is one of the most ambitious, complex world simulations ever crafted - and it can be a nightmare to play (be sure to check out Dan Pearson's feature, , to find out why).
The game has a tendency to... do its own thing. Once, for example, it started inexplicably killing cats. (Chris Bratt - remember him? - did a whole episode of Here's A thing on that very subject, and it's in the video below.)

Over the weekend, some people found they were able to download the PC version of Forza Horizon 4 - over four months before the game is due out.
Redditor discovered Forza Horizon 4 began pre-loading from the Windows Store, and, as you'd expect, went fishing in the game files.
It wasn't long before , although this appears incomplete.

Please be advised: this article deals with traumatic real-world events.
"The longer we go without a new Petscop video, the further we drift from God," says StableChaos, a user on the Reddit channel , where nearly 20,000 readers congregate. Petscop is the internet's most popular haunted video game, and no-one knows yet what it all means, nor what it's all leading to.
Users of r/Petscop - true to Reddit form - seem mostly irreverent and curious, with a smattering of death-cult-esque sentiment in the mix too. Comments include mad-cap predictions based on dates, colours, and emoticons, detailed patterns dissected from seemingly innocuous events and talk of an unknowable horror to come.

For those of you not in the know, Worlds Adrift is a PC title from Bossa Studios - the folks who brought you I Am Bread, Surgeon Simulator and Purrfect Date - that drops players onto islands and asks them to explore, grapple, build and survive.
The game features a swinging mechanic similar to the one seen in Spider-Man 2 and even lets you build your very own airship, all of which is done in a massively multiplayer world. The game recently made its way into Early Access on Steam and the lovely people over at Green Man Gaming have paired up with Bossa and Jelly Deals to offer 40 copies of the game's 'Pioneer Edition' to give away to some of you folks.
The Pioneer Edition in question is , and comes with the DLC extras detailed below:

Escape from Monkey Island, the fourth chapter in LucasArts' beloved adventure game series, is now available on GOG.
The last entry in the series directly developed by LucasArts, Escape is also widely regarded as the weakest in the series - although enjoyable overall.
As Guybrush Threepwood, aspiring mighty pirate, you are once again tasked with exploring the Caribbean, solving puzzles and defeating demon pirate LeChuck - who this time is in league with an Australian property developer.

A former Sony developer has said the great PlayStation 4 cross-platform block is all about the money.
John Smedley is the ex-boss of Planetside 2 and H1Z1 developer Daybreak Game Company, which changed its name from Sony Online Entertainment in 2015.
In a tweet referencing the fact , Smedley said Sony's controversial policy comes down to money.