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It's becoming increasingly hard to remember a time when we visualised our metropolitan future differently: no rain-polished streets reflecting the glare of neon signs, no fetid slums nestled snugly around imposing high-rises, no collective mass of humanity wearing the marks of economic oppression and state-sanctioned violence in their purposeless haste, their hunched postures, their fearful silence. In other words, it's becoming increasingly hard to remember how we imagined urban dystopias before the iconography of Blade Runner gatecrashed our collective consciousness and etched its initials on the concept.

In just over a week on sale the SNES mini has been hacked, the poor little, vulnerable thing.

UPDATE 8TH OCTOBER: Telltale Games will remove the image from the game.

Who has been the most effective Hero or Villain during the open beta weekend for Star Wars Battlefront 2? Of the Force users it appears to be Mr children's party facepaint himself, Darth Maul.

It's been a year to remember for fans of Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic Mania blew the doors off, becoming one of the finest platform games ever made, while yesterday saw the conclusion of a fantastic online event - the Sonic Amateur Games Expo 2017. SAGE brings together creators and Sonic fans the world over to deliver brand new experiences based on Sega's blue hedgehog. It's this event that sparked the creation of Retro Sonic by Christian Whitehead which, after a long and winding path, ultimately led to the creation of Sonic Mania. SAGE is also the catalyst which resulted in excellent titles like Freedom Planet and Spark: The Electric Jester - two great action games well worth checking out.

Among a flurry of updates at this weekend's Eve Vegas event comes confirmation that Project Nova, CCP's latest stab at an Eve Online-inspired multiplayer shooter, is still very much a going concern.

Intimidating space extravaganza Eve Online is coming to iOS and Android mobile devices, developer CCP has announced.

Multi-platform development sits at the heart of the way games are made today, with code and assets shared across multiple platforms - and this puts Nintendo Switch in a difficult position. It's highly capable bearing in mind its mobile chipset, but it's not quite potent enough to power cutting-edge triple-A titles, explaining why FIFA 18 is somewhat different to its PS4 and Xbox One counterparts. EA has promised a custom-built experience but to what extent is this really a bespoke edition of the game? Is it indeed built from the ground up with Nintendo's hardware in mind, or is it more like a custom variant of the last-gen versions? Yes, remarkably, PS3 and Xbox 360 still get annual FIFA updates.

Now everyone has agreed that Britain leaving the EU is going to go horribly, all that's left is to argue over whose fault it will be when the nation tumbles off a cliff edge into the dust of irrelevance. Runners include: David Cameron (the absolute plum who thought calling the referendum would be a fool-proof wheeze for uniting his Europe-torn party and shoring up his own position), Theresa May (the absolute plum who thinks Brexit can be left in the safe hands of David Davis and Boris Johnson), and David Davis and Boris Johnson (the absolute plums who are David Davis and Boris Johnson).

Epic Games has assured players of Fortnite's new Battle Royale mode that it's on the case as far as tackling in-game cheating goes, and that it has already banned "thousands" of players.

Microsoft has announced that all Xbox One and Xbox 360 users will be able to play online for free this weekend, no Xbox Live Gold membership required.

Rockstar has revealed a number of new updates coming to GTA Online this autumn and beyond, including dogfighting (the aeroplane kind) and "Transform Races".

With just over a week to go until Gran Turismo Sport's final release, the PlayStation 4 game's full car list has been revealed - and it's a much slimmer offering than we've come to know from the series in the past.

The work to improve No Man's Sky continues with an overhaul of the save system in patch 1.38 released on PC and PS4 today.

Blizzard's updated the beta version of its Battle.net desktop app so you can appear offline, among other cool things.

How much have you spent on your Steam account, do you reckon? Even if it's a rough estimate, try and come up with a figure; it'll be a useful one to have in the back of your mind as we delve into today's episode of Here's a Thing because I imagine, if you've purchased multiple titles over multiple years, that number likely isn't a small one.

The very important 3.0 alpha build of Star Citizen appears to be out, at long last, but isn't available to everybody and probably won't be for a while.

First it wasn't happening at all, but now it's a reality. The Witcher 3's PS4 Pro patch 1.51 landed this week, finally giving us that coveted 4K support, and what CD Project Red describes as a slight performance boost. It's a tiny update in size - just over 100MB - but the impact is huge for PS4 Pro owners. To what extent is 4K delivered with the update, how does it stack up against the base PS4 version, and what do 1080p display users get from the deal? And finally, how does the new code compare with the full fat PC experience?

You can't fault EA for listening to the fans, at least. When its revival of the Battlefront series came out in 2015, the main complaint was how basic it all was, and how developer DICE had watered down the epic skirmishes of Pandemic's original for a wilfully dumb shooter.

The Star Wars: Battlefront 2 beta is now open for everyone to play, following two days of early access for those who pre-ordered.

Fable Anniversary is finally available to play on Xbox One, via the console's backwards compatibility service.

If you played the first Call of Duty game you'll know Carentan well. Infinity Ward's 2003 World War 2 first-person shooter was a blast, and many fans spent countless hours fighting on the Carentan map. It looked like this:

There's a tiny Master Chief riding a scorpion inside every Xbox One X - but you won't get to see it unless you're comfortable voiding your warranty.

Some of the brightest lights of 90s gaming are beginning to wheeze, croak and lose some of their sparkle. But just as they take a step towards retirement, they're given a new lick of paint and booted back through the door in remastered form. Or kept upright by a battery of emulators and plastered across the front page of GOG. We're truly spoilt. But what happens when a golden oldie can't be revived?

Bungie will next week roll out Destiny 2's first multiplayer Iron Banner tournament, as well as its rock-hard Prestige version of the Leviathan raid.

You fight a toilet in A Hat in Time. It's a boss fight, too; it's actually quite tough to put that toilet down for good. It's a spooky toilet you're fighting, of course, so you have to factor in ghosts and green-glowing wraiths that swoop and lunge. It's an acrobatic toilet too, so you need to watch out when it's starting to feel spry and stompy.

Amanita Design, the developer behind such gorgeously, gloriously surreal point-and-click treats as Machinarium, Samorost, and Botanicula, has unveiled the first gameplay trailer for its upcoming comedy adventure Chuchel, due out next year on mobile, PC, and Mac.

Rogue Trooper will see its remastered Redux edition launch on PS4, Xbox One, and PC this October 17th. That much we already knew, but developer Rebellion has now confirmed that the announced, but previously undated, Switch version will be out on the same day.

Psychonauts 2 is the game that nearly never was, but that will now, thanks to the modern wonders of crowdfunding, eventually, hopefully be. And that still-distant day has drawn just a tiny bit nearer with the unveiling of Psychonauts 2's "First Playable" milestone level.

At this point in the life of Nintendo's Switch, it would probably be easier to start posting news stories about the indie games that aren't on their way to the console-portable. That sort of reckless non-conformity would probably be frowned upon though, so instead I'll simply tell you that The Flame in the Flood is releasing on Switch on October 12th.