The best thing I ever read about Jack Reacher - and I'm sure I've mentioned this before - is that the hero of Lee Child's books doesn't solve crimes or right wrongs. What he does is kill the plot. The plot comes at him in the form of baddies and deadly set-pieces and locked doors, and he just punches and shoots a way through it until there's nothing left.
Square Enix is continuing with its multiplatform strategy, despite a drop in sales of its games.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 director Guillaume Broche has said a Switch 2 version of the game "could be interesting", though it seems there are no firm plans as of yet.
Anssi Hyytiäinen, Remedy's lead designer on FBC: Firebreak, and studio veteran of more than 25 years, is "one of those really dangerous designers". This is how his colleague, the game's director Mike Kayatta, puts it to me in a conversation at Remedy's predictably stylish HQ in Espoo, on the quiet, grey outskirts of Finland's capital Helsinki. Kayatta means it as a compliment, although with maybe just a tinge of truth to it as well. He's dangerous because, as Kayatta puts it, he's one of the rare few designers who can "make his ideas manifest faster than he can tell you what it is."
I am quietly optimistic about FBC: Firebreak, Remedy's upcoming co-op, PvE Control spin-off. Having played a couple of hours of it, particularly towards the end of my time, as the systemic complexity began to compound, its coming together at the last minute almost feels like a strength, as I wrote in our big FBC: Firebreak preview. But naturally at a time when live-service, multiplayer-only games - particularly ones from studios known for the purely single-player output - are hardly the most popular pitches in the world, there is plenty of scepticism out there.
Nintendo has released its own technical specifications for the Switch 2 console hybrid, but it's fair to say that the detail is somewhat selective - and that's OK. It's been a long time since the firm ducked out of the technological arms race against Sony and Microsoft but at the same time, an information void demands to be filled. We've covered compelling leaks about the new console's T239 processor in the past, but today we can rule out the various asterisks and caveats surrounding unconfirmed rumours and deliver what you might call a final specification - along with some of the limitations developers are dealing with in working with the new console.
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Sony sold 2.8m PlayStation 5 consoles in its most recent financial quarter, bringing total lifetime sales to 77.8m consoles.
Sony has revealed the next round of additions to its PS Plus Catalogue for subscribers, which will be added on 20th May.
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