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Fantasy Flight Games has licensed Fallout from Bethesda for an official board game due out later this year.

Gearbox has announced a new game, but it's not the game you were waiting for.

Valve has announced a new game. No, it's not that one.

Mention the city in the middle ages, and you likely either conjure images of streets awash in faeces and offal, or of a cosy collection of quaint houses reminding people of gallant knights and ladies. Even though cities harking back to medieval times have been a staple of fantasy games ever since the inception of the genre, they usually do little to challenge the clichés presented by Renaissance fairs or grimdark pseudo-realism. To make things worse, those sterile spaces function primarily as pit stops for the player, a place to get new quests, to rest, or to trade. It's difficult to imagine everyday life in those places once the hero is out of town. They're little more than cardboard cut-outs (I'm looking at you, Skyrim).

The Xbox 360 edition of Batman: Arkham Origins is now available to play via backwards compatibility on Xbox One.

UPDATE 9/8/17 7.45am: No Man's Sky update 1.3 will land this week, creator Sean Murray has now confirmed.

Last year's enjoyable first-person dungeon crawler Severed arrived on Switch earlier today in both Europe and North America.

Sonic Mania will have a competitive mode in which two players race each other through stages in horizontal splitscreen.

Overwatch's Summer Games event kicks off tomorrow through 28th August and now we know what its seasonal skins entail.

Minecraft convention MineCon won't be held in a publicly attended physical location this year. Instead, it will be beamed into our hearts and minds via the magic of livestreaming.

A cosmetic item for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is selling for over £300 on the Steam Marketplace.

Surprise! Atari has announced Tempest 4000, the sequel to the classic arcade game Tempest, is coming out later in 2017 for PC and consoles.

Nintendo has announced livestreams for two of its biggest upcoming titles during Gamescom.

All Walls Must Fall, the cool-looking tech-noir tactics spy thriller set in Berlin 2089, has launched on Steam Early Access today.

UPDATE 8/8/17 3.35pm: Spotify for Xbox will launch today, Xbox exec Aaron Greenberg has just confirmed.

Nintendo's latest special edition 3DS console is the striking burnt orange and gold Nintendo 3DS XL Samus Edition.

Hot on the heels of Ariana Grande's star turn in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius comes the mobile hit's latest crossover: Nier: Automata.

UPDATE 2.35pm: Ni No Kuni's season pass has now been officially announced. There's little more information on what it contains, however, other than the fact the game will have two post-launch expansions.

Injustice 2 gets a new DLC character today: Starfire.

UPDATE 8/8/17 1.50pm: Metroid: Samus Returns will include a hard mode accessible without the need for amiibo - separate to the one unlocked using the "squidgy" Metroid figurine.

Samus Aran is back. Good god it feels to great to be able to finally say that. Samus Aran is back! Metroid hasn't been away as such in recent years - let's not forget last year's Federation Force, an odd and slightly limp offshoot that didn't do much to allay fears that this was a series on life support - but this is a full-blooded return, a double header that could prove every bit as powerful as when Samus' late 90s hiatus was interrupted by 2002's exceptional Prime and Fusion.

On the surface, Pikmin is one of Nintendo's most adorable creations. A tiny spaceman called Captain Olimar marshals an army of even tinier plant sprites which swarm and scurry around an environment that looks, to him, like an exotic alien planet, but to us like our back yard. Even its inspiration is bucolic: the idea came to Shigeru Miyamoto's whimsical imagination as he pottered in his own garden.

Mario Kart Wii was once intended to have a full mission mode, one fan has discovered.

Zlatan Ibrahimović is looking for a new club after his star turn at Manchester United last season. What to do while we wait for news of the Swedish striker's next move? Play his game, of course.

There's a cool Skyrim mod that makes the game's NPCs act like Sims.

Hellblade has caused a stir after it emerged the game deletes your save file if you die too much.

Metal Gear Solid has always been a self-referential series, but this is something else entirely; a Metal Gear game that feels like an unofficial rip-off of itself. Even the premise of Metal Gear Survive reads like fanfic. Set in an alternate universe, the player-created character has been sent through a wormhole, along with other Militaires Sans Frontières soldiers and the remnants of Mother Base, to a world populated by weird crystallised zombies. It all feels strangely heartless; without Hideo Kojima at the tiller, those odd moments you'd previously write off as the eccentricities or flights of fancy of one man can now feel empty, soulless and written by committee by comparison.

Last night brought the arrival of Pokémon Go legendary creature Zapdos - and players were ready to take it on.

Ubisoft has revealed an extended section of side-mission gameplay from Assassin's Creed Origins. There's pyramid looting, eagle scouting, sneaking and fighting. At one point you follow a friendly dog.

It's not often big publishers warn their customers about the size of an upcoming patch, but that's exactly what Ubisoft has done with Rainbow Six Siege.