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We will never know how my life could have gone had I never been introduced to mobile puzzle games. Over the persistent draw of just one more round, assignments were left unfinished, books unread and emails unanswered. I spent endless hours of procrastination determined to prove that I had the smarts it took to solve games that wanted me for my brain and not my reflexes. Even though I've since moved to YouTube as my favourite method of procrastination, Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle makes it clear that deep down I haven't changed.

Developer Bluehole has announced that PUBG's third map, codenamed Savage, will enter its second round of testing next week, and that beta key sign-ups will re-open this Saturday for PC players wanting to get involved.

Developer Stoic Studio has revealed that The Banner Saga 3, the final instalment in its critically acclaimed Viking series, will launch digitally on PC, Mac, Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on July 24th, with the latter two consoles also receiving a physical trilogy bundle.

Ubisoft's latest update for The Division, known as Update 1.8.1, has now released on Xbox One, PS4, and PC, bringing with it a range of tweaks and additions, including two new Global Events, and 4K support for Xbox One X.

Fortnite's regularly scheduled update is here, and it's a big 'un, introducing the new Port-a-Fort grenade, a fully fledged Replay system, the new Thunder Route 99 area for Save the World, new cosmetics, and a wealth of tweaks and bug fixes. Less positively, it also breaks Guided Missiles.

Last month, we showcased a gallery of artwork dug up from the ashes of Free Radical Design's cancelled Star Wars Battlefront 4.

If you've seen the excellent video game documentary The King of Kong then you'll have heard of Billy Mitchell, the cocky long-time champion of Nintendo's arcade classic Donkey Kong.

Hand-drawn adventure Forgotton Anne finally has a firm release date - it'll launch on 15th May for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, priced £15.49 on Steam, or £16 on console.

Every spring, when the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, people in Japan gather to celebrate in an ages-old tradition known as hanami. It's a celebration of nature's beauty, and a chance for friends and family to get together in the first blushes of spring. This year, Q-Games has assembled alongside its Kyoto compatriots on the banks of the Kamo River, laying a blue tarpaulin down beneath the tree that boasts the most impressive blooms for miles (a spot that a junior member of the team was sent down to secure some hours before the event started) before piling into a supply of beer, wine and other assorted booze.

Blizzard's 16-year-old real-time strategy game Warcraft 3 is now widescreen.

Destiny 2's second DLC will launch on 8th May, Bungie announced last night. It's named Warmind, and will "send you to new places to meet new heroes and battle new enemies".

I have heard All Walls Must Fall described as a blend of real-time and turn-based tactical action, set in a retro-futuristic Berlin in which the Cold War never ended and where all matters of consequence unfold in the procedurally-generated nightclubs favoured by gay time-travelling superspies. Deep breath. Influences cover everything from Twelve Monkeys and X-Com to Invisible Inc, Superhot and - when it comes to the wonderfully grungy animation that chops together 2D character models and low-poly 3D backgrounds - the old Paddington Bear children's series that was so memorably narrated by Michael Hordern. It all sounds a bit complicated really. But it isn't. When you get into a fight here, All Walls Must Fall is gloriously, deliriously, skull-shakingly straightforward.

Update, 11/4/18: Developer IronOak Games has announced that its wonderful tabletop-RPG-meets-digital-board-game For The King will be leaving Steam early access next week, on April 19th.

Developer Bluehole has announced that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' desert-themed Miramar map will be heading to Xbox One "before the end of April".

Mojang has announced that this year's MineCon Earth will take place on September 29th.

Developer Digital Sun has announced that its delightful shop management themed action RPG Moonlighter will launch on Xbox One, PS4, and PC on May 29th.

Yesterday, Steam's privacy settings were updated to make things a little clearer when deciding who can see your Steam profile and what exactly they can see. This means that you can now hide the games you've purchased or wishlisted, along with any achievements and playtime you may have associated with them.

A note from the editor: recently on Twitter, a number of games websites were called out for their poor representation of female writers, and to our great shame Eurogamer had the worst ratio of the lot. We've been thinking hard since about how we got into this deplorable position and how we can improve the diversity of voices on the site and provide better representation - not just for women, but for other underrepresented groups as well. In a similar analysis based on race, for example, we would come off even worse.

Once upon a time, Sam Fisher and Solid Snake were top of the gaming tree, stealth operatives in their prime. Times change, of course. Fisher hasn't starred in a Splinter Cell game since 2013's Blacklist, and the future of the Metal Gear Solid series looks uncertain after series creator Hideo Kojima left Konami to go it alone.

This fresh gallery of Star Wars art offers a glimpse at what might have been - had British developer Free Radical Design got to make its Star Wars Battlefront 4.

Video game companies like to keep the mysterious machinations of publishing deals behind closed doors. Only sometimes - usually via leaks - do we learn the hows and the whys of exclusives and contracts.

Shadow Archery is a new game launching on Wii U. Yes, Wii U. Yes, really.

"Making a game is obscenely challenging," Nathan Vella, boss of Toronto, Canada developer Capybara tells me over the phone.

Cultist Simulator, the card-based narrative horror game from the brains behind Sunless Sea, will launch on Thursday, 31st May.

Red Dead Redemption, perhaps Rockstar's best ever game, now has a shiny new update for Xbox One X owners.

Sledgehammer Games has released a big new update for Call of Duty: WW2 that makes sweeping changes to the game.

I was a huge wimp when I was younger. The strangest things would unsettle me. Red Skull in the very dodgy early 1990s version of Captain America terrified me for some unfathomable reason. I didn't sleep for days. Walking past Aliens action figures in Woolworths scared the life out of me, simply because I'd played five minutes of Aliens on the Commodore 64 and it was far too atmospheric for my overly imaginative mind. That's how absurd it was.

Square Enix has released the first of several planned updates for its poorly received Chrono Trigger PC port, this one adding "original style" visuals to the game.

Microsoft has revealed a new wave of backward compatible Original Xbox games coming to Xbox One.

Stardew Valley creator Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has offered a new update on the farming sim's long-awaited multiplayer mode, revealing that it "should be ready in about a month".