Picture the scene: you’re about to get up on stage to give a presentation or performance. Something feels off – you look down, and realise your shirt is missing; in fact, you have no clothes on at all

Praise be! Prog’s most devout figure, Neal Morse, gets the gang back together, dials back the sermonising and reaches for the stars on his band’s sparkling first album in five years.

Organisers claim the Enhanced Games is a science-backed effort to help humans reach their full physical potential, while detractors call it the ‘Doping Olympics’ and see it as a threat to sport. What’s really going on?

ANCIENT CORP’S NEW MEGA DRIVE SHOOTER EARTHION HAS DELIGHTED AUDIENCES (INCLUDING NICK) WITH ITS STUNNING PIXEL ART, SUMPTUOUS SOUND AND ENERGETIC GAMEPLAY. WITH THAT IN MIND, WE ASKED LEGENDARY GAME COMPOSER YUZO KOSHIRO AND DESIGNER MAKOTO WADA TO LIFT THE LID ON ITS CREATION

DEEPMIND COFOUNDER DEMIS HASSABIS HAS ALREADY WON A NOBEL PRIZE AND A KNIGHTHOOD FOR HIS INSIGHTS INTO HUMAN BIOLOGY. HIS AI STARTUP ISOMORPHIC LABS COULD DELIVER EVEN BIGGER BREAKTHROUGHS.

Elden Ring Reforged spruces up a classic with some nostalgic new-game smell