Welcome to episode 74 of The Next Level. In this month’s episode Ant uses his paternity leave to play lots of games, Amaechi gets back on the gaming horse with a couple of indie games and James dust off his surprisingly still working Gameboy Advance for some retro gaming.

In the news

· New Legends of Gaming event coming to the UK

· Call of Duty Blacks Ops 3 and Star Wars Battlefront trailers released

· New Guitar Hero Live and Rock Band 4 games announced

· The Order 1886 gets some body parts censoring in Japan of all places

· The National Video Game Arcade/Museum in Nottingham host special gaming events

· Telltale announce they are working with Marvel on a new games series

· The Witcher 3 is a very big game…..prepare to lose nearly 200 hours of your life. So when are long games too much?