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It's taken years of gruesome experimentation but Sonic Team's designers have finally pulled it off. They've created the Ur-Sidekick, the Sidekick of Sidekicks, a total embodiment of a wayward franchise that can be invested with the traits of every other noxious bit-part this universe has produced. The task at hand may be to run down Dr Eggman's latest henchman, Infinite, a preening, masked spectre who can mess with dimensions and resurrect old nemeses to fight you, but if you really want to stare into the abyss of time, to witness reality cracking and splintering under the eternal return of the same, look no further than the hyper-accessorised, player-crafted abomination at your side.

PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X enhancements are coming next month, on 5th December, to Destiny 2.

Recent years have seen the rise of one particularly positive story; that of the gamer turned professional racing driver, as personified by Lucas Ordóñez, Jann Mardenborough or the eventual winner of McLaren's world's fastest gamer competition that's been running through the year. This one, though, is entirely new to me - it's about a bona fide racing driver turned game developer.

Brendan 'PlayerUnknown' Greene has offered another look at Battlegrounds' upcoming desert map. And it's not just a bunch of sand!

EA has announced it will buy Titanfall developer Respawn Entertainment.

You'll be able to download and play Overwatch for free next weekend on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4, Blizzard has announced.

Developer Dumb & Fat Games has announced that Wandersong, an adorable side-scrolling adventure in which you manipulate the world around you using the power of melodious mouth sounds, will release on PC and Switch early next year.

Crytek has announced that Hunt: Showdown, its multiplayer swamp-based bounty hunting horror game, will hold closed alpha sessions for a limited number of participants this winter.

"Is this a joke?"

A change is as good as a rest, so they say. In Infinity Ward's case, a change must have been absolutely essential for its own collective sanity, having worked solidly on World War II shooters for longer than can be strictly healthy.

LA Noire had a lot going for it - pulpy murder mystery cases to solve, an open world 1940s Los Angeles to explore, and that weird uncanny valley facial motion capture.

The 10-hour Star Wars Battlefront 2 trial is now live for EA Access on Xbox One and Origin Access on PC. This is the full version of the game, meaning we can use it to see how loot crates work at launch. The only restricted content is single-player, where three levels are available to play.

Telltale's first season of Batman episodes launches for Nintendo Switch next Friday, 17th November.

Nintendo Switch just got its first video-streaming app outside of Japan: US TV service Hulu.

If you put your disc of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in your Xbox One X and play the game unpatched it will run at 60 frames per second.

The people behind Humvee are suing Activision over the appearance of the famous military vehicle in Call of Duty.

Assassin's Creed Origins arrives on Xbox One X, giving us a fascinating insight into how a key developer aims to scale their multi-platform projects most effectively across the current generation of consoles - both base models and 4K mid-gen refreshes. On the face of it, there are few surprises here: the more teraflops your console has, the better the resolution, automatically meaning that, yes, the game looks best on Xbox One X. But the techniques Ubisoft has deployed to scale its game across consoles produces some interesting results: Microsoft's new console hands in by far the best raw metrics in terms of pixel counts, but PS4 Pro still holds up rather well.

For years now the FIFA community has wondered whether EA would stop selling a new game in the huge football series each year.

UPDATE 8/11/17 11.00pm: Niantic has now officially announced Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and offered just a smidgeon more information on what, exactly, players will be able to do when the augmented-reality smartphone game launches in 2018.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has been updated with its new Xenoblade quest and support for the Champions amiibo.

Clocking in at just under a minute, this Assassin's Creed Origins video is but a morsel of a trailer. Still, amongst all the bombastic gameplay and review score braggery we usually see in promotional trails, it's well worth highlighting.

I've got my own particular tale about a hamster and a vacuum cleaner, but it's probably for the best I don't share it here (I was eight years old, me and my friend were very stupid and it's not something I'd ever do again. The hamster lived, though). This tale's a bit more savoury, and it's about Monster Hunter World's best new beast.

UPDATE 8/11/17: Developer Digital Extremes has announced that Warframe's major new Plains of Eidolon update will finally come to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 on November 14th. The free expansion launched on PC last month, October 12th, and marks Warframe's first foray into open-world action. More details on Plains of Eidolon can be found below.

Fire Emblem Warriors' new 1.2 update, due next Thursday 16th November, introduces (for reasons that are not entirely clear) a new feature that sees certain characters' clothes falling off whenever they get hit.

UPDATE 8/11/17: Publisher Flyhigh Works announced last week that its superb rhythm game Voez would receive 14 news songs on Switch in a free update tomorrow, November 9th.

UPDATE 4/11/17: Frontier has announced that Planet Coaster's big free anniversary update, better known as update 1.4, will launch on November 22nd.

Nintendo has released a rather lovely bit of art, made up of hundreds of different Miiverse posts, to bid the service farewell.

Another day, another Grand Theft Auto 5 sales milestone. But this one's a biggie: GTA5 is now the best-selling game of all time in the US.

At last week's Blizzcon, Blizzard announced that all Hearthstone players would net the new Legendary card Marin the Fox for free from November 6th. Consider this your reminder (because I completely forgot, so perhaps you did too).

Total War: Rome 2 is set to receive a new "grand-scale" campaign pack at the end of the month, entitled Empire Divided.