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Publisher FoxNext has announced that a brand-new X-Files game, The X-Files: Deep State, will launch on iOS, Android, and Facebook early next year. It marks the TV series' first video game spin-off since The X-Files: Resist or Serve appeared on PS2 back in 2004.

Developer Scott Ethington has announced Ripped Pants at Work, a "frantic stealth game about searching for new pants". That's the trouser kind, by the way.

Square Enix CEO Yosuke Matsuda has spoken out on the future of Deus Ex - the first time the company has discussed the status of its long-running sci-fi series since reports emerged more than ten months ago that it had been placed on hiatus.

Frantic, local-multiplayer-focussed dungeon raider Crawl is coming to Switch on December 19th, developer Powerhoof has revealed.

Update, 28/11/17: Nosebleed Interactive has finally announced a release date for Vostok Inc on Switch. The bizarre twin-stick clicker hybrid (of which Christian Donlan is a big fan) will arrive on Switch next week, Thursday December 7th. It'll cost £11.99 in the UK, and $14.99 USD / €14.99 in other, more distant lands.

Update, 28/11/17: Defiant Development has announced that the delayed Xbox One and Xbox One X editions of its excellent deck-building RPG, Hand of Fate 2, will now launch on Friday December 1st. Both were originally due to release alongside the PC and PS4 versions earlier this month, but were held back due to “unavoidable delays and issues in testing”.

Earlier this month, Take-Two interactive chairman and CEO Strauss Zelnick told investors to expect "recurrent consumer spending" to be a key part of every game the company published.

Hearthstone's 2018 release schedule will take the form of three more big expansions, developer Blizzard has revealed.

Firaxis has announced the first big expansion for strategy game Civilization 6.

Hysterical multiplayer brawler Gang Beasts is coming to PlayStation 4 on 12th December, just in time for family arguments this holiday season.

Do you still spot people staring intently at their phones, spinning their finger across the illuminated screen, and think, 'I wonder if they're playing Pokémon Go?' Maybe you played the game yourself at launch or, maybe, you're one of those still playing. This past week has shown millions of people still are.

At long last, Yooka-Laylee will launch for Nintendo Switch on 14th December.

A Hat in Time is heading to consoles next week.

Marvel Heroes has shut down over a month earlier than planned.

Chinese tech giant Tencent announced last week it had won the exclusive rights to publish and distribute PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in China. Now, wasting no time with the hot commodity, it has announced plans to port the game to mobile platforms in China.

I'm convinced much of Animal Crossing's magic happens in my head. When I'm away from my town, I mean, and wondering what's happening back in the game. If Portia is still angry at me for nudging her into that trap. If my gorilla neighbour has replied to my letter about his awful wallpaper. Whether anyone new has popped into town today, or something strange has washed up on the beach.

After a successful Global Catch Challenge to unlock Farfetch'd worldwide, Pokémon Go has another surprise up its sleeve - legendary raids for Ho-oh.

Amid increasing unrest within the Destiny 2 community over a variety of experience point gain issues, endgame problems and a lack of meaningful communication from developer Bungie, Activision has released a free trial for the online shooter.

Only months after Atomega landed, Ubisoft Reflections has a new game out. It's a playful musical adventure called Ode.

Prison Architect's Escape Mode is coming to Xbox One and PS4 next year as paid DLC.

Grasshopper Manufacture's oddball free-to-play PS4 hack-and-slasher Let It Die is getting a slightly inexplicable World of Tanks collaboration event as part of its first birthday celebrations. The event was teased in September, but full details have now been revealed.

From Software's seminal action RPG Demon's Souls will, after nearly nine years of unremittingly bleak multiplayer adventuring, see its wonderfully idiosyncratic online services discontinued on February 28th, 2018.

UPDATE 27/11/17 4:15pm: We've spent the day checking out the Project Cars 2 demo, which features three separate and distinct presentation modes for users with PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X hardware. These modes are currently unavailable in the full game, which we cover in the main piece below, but we can reasonably expect the full patch to arrive in short order. Three separate modes are on offer - with an emphasis on resolution, visual quality or frame-rate - so while testing is only preliminary based on demo content alone, we wanted to put it to the test to get a flavour of what we can expect before the main game is updated.

Last month Epic Games filed civil complaints against two alleged Fortnite cheaters. The pair were accused of being associated with the cheat provider Addicted Cheats, allegedly acting as support personnel for the site and using aimbot software "with the deliberate intention of ruining the game for other players and players who watch streamers".

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 game in the works - yes, another one! - but this one looks interesting.

Out of hours and during a public holiday, Bungie was forced to respond to a firestorm of controversy over the past weekend, after Destiny 2 players discovered the game frequently constrained progress towards your next free loot box-style Bright Engram.

Call of Duty: WW2 suffered yet another leak over the weekend, this time video footage of unreleased game modes and weapons.

Sega has embraced its inner meme and released a Sanic T-shirt DLC for Sonic Forces.

UPDATE 28/11/16: A week on from the US Resident Evil 7 Collector's Edition announcement comes word of the UK-specific version.

We have discovered the purpose of the mysterious "dummy finger" in the Resident Evil 7 demo.