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Five Nights at Freddy's developer Scott Cawthon has released a new game, named Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator.

TVs are an ugly room decoration when they're not in use, featureless black slabs our sofas point towards. I'd rather look at a bunch of peaceful fish swimming around. But oh all the moisture those aquariums pump out - I can't face the mould and mildew.

Things are not at all well in the world of Star Control, with a public war of words erupting between two parties who claim the rights to sell the classic PC space games.

It's fair to say that Battlefront 2 has endured a difficult time of late, much in the same way Anakin Skywalker had a difficult time after fighting Obi Wan Kenobi in Revenge of the Sith. Like poor, pathetic Ani, crawling through the mud with three missing limbs and his skin on fire, Battlefront 2 is a hot mess right now. There's a decent, upstanding multiplayer shooter somewhere in there, but it has been laid low by poorly-thought out microtransactions and subscribing to the absurd notion that Star Wars is somehow about making money. The cheek of it!

UPDATE 5th December 2017: The streamer who hit the headlines after broadcasting a real-life UFC pay-per-view event while pretending to play the latest UFC video game says he's been issued a 24-hour ban on Twitch.

PC players can download the excellent Assassin's Creed: Black Flag for free next week, as part of Ubisoft's Happy Playdays seasonal promotion.

In a frenzy of Mega Man-themed merriment, Capcom has unveiled a brand-new mainline series entry for the Blue Bomber in the form of Mega Man 11, re-releases for all Mega Man X games, and the long-awaited release of both Mega Man Legacy Collections on Switch.

Capcom has unveiled full, final details of its upcoming PlayStation 4-exclusive Monster Hunter World beta, due to begin this Saturday.

It's been a remarkable year for Nintendo's Switch and Monolith Soft is ensuring a strong finish with Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Building on the technology that powered Xenoblade X on the Wii U, this new game expands upon its engine in numerous ways enabling cool new visual effects in the process, but this ambition is met with unexpected drawbacks that detract from its overall presentation, including the one of the lowest recorded rendering resolutions we've seen on record. Clearly, the developers have walked the tightrope here in terms of balancing new features with the hardware limits of the Nintendo hybrid and we're not entirely sure that it's fully paid off.

Pokémon Go developer Niantic has announced that it's completely overhauling its first augmented reality game Ingress next year. The new update, known as Ingress Prime, will introduce a new story arc, new technology, and a new interface.

The first of EA's adjustments to the loot box ecosystem in Star Wars Battlefront 2 have gone live but they're insignificant and skirt the bigger issue. In other words, the loot box system remains the same.

DayZ will finally - after more than four years - shed the Steam Early Access label and launch in 2018.

For 15 years, American Bryan Bosshardt's 53-second speedrun of GoldeneEye's first level, Dam, has held fast. Over the weekend, the Dam burst.

Nintendo's latest mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp had a lengthy, delayed road to release - that much is widely known. But what fans may not realise is how much the project changed from initial concept to release.

The Switch is getting another classic from the sadly departed boutique developer Psikyo this week, with vertical-scrolling shmup Gunbird coming courtesy of publisher Zerodiv.

Children's campaigners and a UK Member of Parliament have criticised upcoming PlayStation 4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human for its controversial domestic abuse scene.

Sony releases a nostalgia-fuelled PS2 dynamic theme for the PS4 this week - and it looks and sounds awesome.

I never thought I'd write about a game called Legendary Gary.

ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2 is an interesting beast. Since 2012, the Fantasy MMORPG has offered players the chance to delve into the world of Tyria any time they want without ever being charged a subscription fee. Not something we see very often.

This month will bring a slew of updates for Assassin's Creed: Origins, including a new difficulty mode, Horde mode and a big fan-requested feature: enemy scaling.

There may be spoilers for the Dishonored series of games ahead.

Wondering why there aren't more Indian-made video games? In a way, you've been playing them for years without realising it. Faced by a massive rise in AAA development budgets since the early noughties, international publishers like EA typically outsource work to skilled but lower-wage workers in less affluent regions.

As treasured as Blade Runner is among game developers, I've yet to play a cyberpunk game that captures the thrill of the film's initial flight through near-future Los Angeles - Detective Gaff's cruiser spinning upwards past the whirring fungus of satellite arrays, cinder-black apartment blocks and the big blank grins slapped across video billboards. It's a slick yet self-conscious sequence, the camera jumping around like a player hunting for the right POV: you see the city by turns "directly", as though perched on the bonnet, then from behind Deckard's shoulder, reflected in the windshield and diminished, finally, to a neon wireframe on the dashboard display.

We've already looked at the Fallout 4 patch for Xbox One X, and the impression there is that although massively improved over the turn-out on base console, perhaps the visual sliders were pushed up a little too high, resulting in some issues with performance. Now the verdict is in on Bethesda's companion Skyrim release - and the end result is essentially the opposite: the consistent frame-rate is admirable, and the developer is willing to be flexible on resolution to get there.

Two things happened this week that made me think about beautiful stuff vanishing from the world, and about the strange notion that there might be a kind a melancholic pleasure to be had - if melancholic pleasures can be had - in the spaces created by fresh absence. I'm not ghoulishly thinking of death or anything as serious as that. More the weird kind of beauty you sometimes get when you look at a wall of framed pictures and notice the ghostly parchment patches where something else once hung and now hangs no longer. Ghoulishly, ghostly. We are not off to a great start here.

Here's an early Christmas present for PlayStation 2 fans - Jak 2, Jak 2 and Jak X Combat Racing will launch for PS4 next Wednesday, 6th December.

Enjoyable indie adventure game The Sexy Brutale will launch next week on 7th December for Nintendo Switch.

Abandon Ship, a kind of cross between Sid Meier's Pirates and FTL, will now be released "early 2018" on Steam Early Access rather than this year.

Far Cry 5 is the first game in Ubisoft's franchise to be set in the US. After more than a decade, the series which has defined itself by inviting players to explore various weird and wonderful locales will next look inwards.

Whew! Thank goodness all those sales are finished with. Wasn't it noisy? What, they aren't? Oh no!