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Destiny 2's latest update has added bounties, a core part of the gameplay found in Destiny 1.

In a modernist hotel lobby on the outskirts of Barcelona I sit face to face with the President. He's pretty casual as far as presidents go, dressed in jeans and a t-shirt, wearing sunglasses even though we're inside. He's got a tattoo up the underside of his forearm which reads 'Neverdie'. It's his alias, but more of a name to him now than Jon Jacobs ever will be. He is President of Virtual Reality. It has nothing to do with Oculus Rift or VR goggles, and it's not some silly title in a game. President of Virtual Reality means president of all virtual realities - World of Warcraft, Eve Online, Destiny, the lot.

In 1925 the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his expedition team set off from the Brazilian city of Cuiabá in search of the Lost City of Z, which Fawcett was sure lay hidden in the depths of the Amazon rainforest. It was the culmination of years of obsession for Fawcett, who had come to believe in the existence of an advanced lost civilisation based on sketchy travellers' tales and a mysterious idol given to him some years earlier by the pulp author H. Rider Haggard and said to be from the region.

Rare has announced that Sea of Thieves' second major content update, Cursed Sails, will release for PC and Xbox One on July 31st - and there's a brand-new trailer to accompany the news.

Visceral Games' hellish hack-and-slasher Dante's Inferno, and Ubisoft's real-time WW2 strategy game RUSE, now feature backward-compatibility support on Xbox One.

UPDATE: 17/7/18: Developer Vostok Games has announced that it will be delaying the July 18th Steam early access launch of its battle royale Stalker spin-off Fear the Wolves "by a few weeks", following feedback gathered during Closed Beta.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole's next story DLC is called Bring the Crunch and is coming to PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Switch on July 31st, Ubisoft has announced.

One of the modes PUBG fans have wanted most desperately in the game is the ability to create custom matches. It seems their wishes have finally come true, as PUBG Corp has today announced the mode is in open beta on test servers.

Hello Games has unveiled its first trailer for No Man's Sky's major, multiplayer-focussed NEXT update, which comes to PC, PS4 and - for the first time - Xbox One, on July 24th.

Team Cherry, maker of insect-riddled indie Hollow Knight, has today revealed the release date for the fourth and final free content pack for the game.

Today's the day the patch ripping the market and microtransactions out of Middle-earth: Shadow of War will be released. Hooray! Good riddance!

Years ago, I read a description of a game in Edge and it has slowly transformed, with time and a forgetting of almost all of the details, into a perfect game - a dream game. This was a while back, so far back in fact that I think the N-Gage was the platform the game was headed for. It was a game about building up a city or something like that - really, I have forgotten almost all of the details - and then your city might be attacked by another player, in real-time, and in real time you would have to do something about it.

Nintendo has announced the winners of its Labo Creators Contest, with the top-ranking entries including a coin-operated sweet dispenser, a teashop time-management game, and, delightfully, a solar-driven accordion.

I'm delighted to announce that Bendix Engmann has joined Eurogamer as the newest member of our video team! Bendix will join Aoife, Ian and Johnny on our YouTube channel, and I'm sure she'll pop up from time to time here on the site too.

Firefly and Castle actor Nathan Fillion did not return to record lines for this September's Destiny 2: Forsaken - the expansion which will see his fan-favourite character Cayde-6 killed off for good.

Hungry Shark World is a mobile game from Ubisoft in which you race around as a shark, eating things and unlocking new sharks. As of today, though, it's also available on Switch, PS4 and Xbox One with fully optimised gamepad controls and upgraded visuals for 4K displays on PS4 Pro and Xbox One X.

A bird indoors, I read recently - I cannot remember where - is an omen of bad things. I have no idea why this is, except there's just something very wrong about it, I guess, a topsy-turviness to the order of the universe that brings on panic. I have a distant memory of a thrush getting into the house when I was very small, all of these grown-ups around me suddenly flung into a state of chaos: standing on chairs, looking for towels and brooms - to guide it rather than clobber it, I think - and opening windows. The thrush seemed calm, as I remember the moment, and it left when it wanted to. I don't know how long thrushes live or the kinds of things they can expect to get up to over the course of a busy flapping life, but I imagine I think about that particular incident more of then than the thrush in question ever did.

Developer Nightdive has offered backers of its beleaguered System Shock remake a fresh look at the progress being made toward the project's big September milestone, dubbed the Adventure Alpha.

Square Enix has revealed that Monster Hunter World will be infiltrating Final Fantasy 14 on August 7th, as part of its collaboration event with Capcom.

Over two years have passed since Fallout 4 was released, but for some the main game was simply not enough to satisfy their Fallout cravings, and many turned to modding to reinvent their favourite post-apocalyptic world. In the search for some Fallout 4 après-ski, one player has produced a mod known as Northern Springs DLC: a massive fan-made expansion which adds a new snowy area to the game.

Pokémon Go's return to Chicago this year was as important for fans as it was for developer Niantic: revisiting the site of an old wound to repair things completely. Last year's disastrous loss of connectivity struck a far wider blow than the disappointment felt by attendees - it stung the game's dedicated community across the globe, unseating faith Niantic could foster the phenomenon it had founded, earning a black mark in the company's corporate copybook as custodians of a global brand. Coming back risked reopening that old wound - and yet Niantic had something to prove, and was keen to atone for what had gone before.

PUBG Corp has announced Sanhok will soon be receiving two shiny new content additions exclusive to the map.

When Dave Jones, one of the chief creators of Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto and the first Crackdown game, took to the stage during Microsoft's 2015 Gamescom media briefing to present pre-alpha in-game footage of Crackdown 3, gamers were promised a competitive multiplayer open-world experience with "100 per cent destructible environments". By connecting to the Microsoft cloud, Crackdown 3 would benefit from 20 times the computational power of the Xbox One, we were told. As virtual buildings blew apart in the most realistic, expansive way we'd ever seen in a video game before, Crackdown fans dared to dream about the kind of game they would eventually play.

For a while, Elon Musk was the chosen one.

Germany has banned vague release dates for pre-orders.

Fortnite has hit the mainstream headlines, is played by some of the biggest celebrities around and is pretty much the most popular game in the world. Now, there's one more thing to strike from the Fortnite bucket list: the World Cup final.

There's something incredibly magical about the latest God of War. Kratos's world feels like a rich tapestry woven from various strands of ancient mythologies; a complex re-imagining of stories and history that has resulted in the creation of a mysterious Nordic world. This sort of depth can only be achieved through careful research and design, and Santa Monica has (rightly) received a great deal of attention for its clever use of mythology to write the game's lore.

Do you ever get the urge to act like a bit of a jerk in public?

As a gaming machine, the Casio Loopy isn't particularly good. But as a collection of ideas, it's fascinating, a ragtag novelty that may well have been ahead of its time if it wasn't so scatty.

This week wasn't the most exciting time for new releases on Playstation VR so, for today's episode of Ian's VR Corner, I decided to look back at a title from last month that had completely passed me by.