August may just be the greatest month yet with which to dip your toes into that world, thanks to a smorgasbord of titles that’ll soon be available to play. Got a console or a PC? Then you’re pretty much good to go, as the following games will have you backtracking and stabbing your way across plenty of levels.

The video game industry may have plenty of Overwatch tournaments, DOTA championships and at least a half dozen CS: GO events to tune into every year, but there is always will be only one fighting game championship that draws in thumbs and eyeballs from all over the world: EVO. Taking place from the original Sin City once again, the Las Vegas event is gearing up for its biggest year yet as old rivals and new challengers hit the scene.

EA's Strike series of games boasted a combination of speed, precision and strategy that no other game has managed to copy successfully in the years since the series first made a name for itself.

In Dead Cells, your first run through the game will result in you facing the guardian of the Black Bridge: The Concierge. Formerly known as The Incomplete One, the Concierge is an early-level bruiser with some frighteningly quick attacks and counters to your arsenal. He’s also not that hard to take down, if you know exactly what to keep an eye open for.

Scattered throughout Dead Cells are these mystical stones, ancient chunks of mystical stone that can unlock new areas and treasures for players. Where do you find them? Right here!

There’s something magical about being drawn to a comic book, and with the market bursting at the seams lately thanks to a deluge of talent, every comic book has to pull out all the visual stops if it wants to stand at the top of the pile. Comic books like the following entries below, whose covers are pure art and available for a fraction of the price that infamously corrupt art institutions would charge you for.

Here’s the full list of what to expect in August, from Dead Cells to Dead Cells. Also Dead Cells will be out on console. Have I mentioned yet how god Dead Cells is?

In 2005, Doctor Who was reintroduced to the world in a brand new TV series, nearly two decades after the long-running British sci-fi show was first cancelled. Before that cancellation though, Doctor Who gave us some of the genre's most memorable stories - here are 10 of the best.

Reinvention is the name of the game, and Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is utterly owning it right now by bravely blazing forward with a bold new path.

You start out with a pistol. You eventually graduate to a weapon that spits out bullets at a faster pace or a shotgun that feels like a gentle summer breeze caressing you if its buckshot lands from a distance that’s greater than 25cm. You’ve got your regular death-dealers, saving the more exotic weapons in your arsenal for tougher opponents as ammo ain’t exactly plentiful for these guns in particular. Then you get your hands on that weapon.

Toxicity is an unfortunate and expected part of any kind of competitive setting. Dealing with defeat (as an example of what could cause this) is often something many people can’t actually process properly, and there have been many circumstances where those people straight up quit the game or even blame others for the mistakes that they have made.

It may be almost a decade old, but Red Faction Guerrilla’s bland sandbox and story is still easily overlooked in favour of its gold standard of open-world demolition that now benefits from a substantial bump in visual quality.