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The chamber is dimly lit and smells of damp. On a battered wooden table sits a copy of The End Is Nigh, a brand new game from Super Meat Boy developer, Ed McMillan. Next to that is a dusty VHS player with a post-it note stuck to the front instructing you to "Play me!".

Miami-bright murder-scene cleanup game Serial Cleaner arrives on PC, PS4 and Xbox One today (the Steam Early Access version will become the launch version at 6pm). It costs £12.

Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition for Xbox 360 is now playable on Xbox One, thanks to the latter console's backwards compatibility programme.

The 10-hour Mass Effect: Andromeda trial once offered on EA Access on Xbox and PC has returned and is now open to people on PS4 as well.

Writing flavour text for games must be a strange job. On some days you're shaping the world around you, expanding and enriching the story with a tantalising trail of literary breadcrumbs (the Dishonored series would lose a lot of its depth and charm without the letters scattered about the place, for one). On others, however, you're less an epistolary world builder and more an archivist-cum-forger, creating mundane artefacts from a culture that doesn't really exist.

Tucked between shelves at the headquarters of Romero Games, Ltd in Galway, Ireland is a two-by-two-foot cube of black Plexiglass, mounted on a platform and lit from below. I picture it as a miniature of the alien monolith that appears during the prologue to 2001: Space Odyssey, looming over the bustle of a designer's office. This is Black Box, a game conceived by Brenda Romero as part of her board game series, "The Mechanic is the Message", following what she will describe only as an "unbelievably difficult" period in 2006. On top of the cube is a vintage hand-cranked adding machine, from which, when the device is in use, paper spills to the floor. The machine dates back to 1909, but has been extensively cleaned and remade; when Romero first opened it, she was startled to discover her own initials carved on the mechanism within, a moment of eerie closeness with the (presumably, long-dead) manufacturer.

"They just don't make games like that anymore. I don't think they ever really made games like that."

Since 1989's Pretty Hate Machine Nine Inch Nails' frontman Trent Reznor has pined for something he can never have. And now we know what that something is: the mythical early 1980s arcade game, Polybius.

The long-anticipated Just Cause 3 Multiplayer Mod is finally getting a proper launch on 20th July. It will be on Steam and everything.

Xbox One is receiving an update today adding a huge host of new features.

Dust off your copy of Warhammer: The End Times - Vermintide because free new content has arrived on PC. As for console: "We're working on it," Swedish developer Fatshark told me this afternoon, "but no date yet. Same goes for the Stromdorf DLC."

The Lord of the Rings Online finally gets to Mordor at the end of this month - over 10 years after the game came out.

Gran Turismo Sport has a new release date, and this one's for keeps. Maybe.

Microsoft has announced plans for a live show at Gamescom in August during which it'll make Xbox One X-related announcements.

Ni No Kuni 2 has been delayed to 19th January 2018, developer Level-5 has announced.

There was a time when the idea of streaming games over the internet was the hottest, most disruptive technology in the business. Why buy a console or PC when you can stream gameplay over the internet? Why upgrade your hardware when servers across the internet can be upgraded instead, with no cost to the user? Why put up with extended loading and installation times when you could have near instant access to a massive library of games right at your fingertips? PlayStation Now does all of these things and it now supports PS4 games, so why isn't there more buzz surrounding it?

Here's an odd one: UK superband Radiohead has released a super expensive version of perhaps its best album - and it includes a mysterious Easter egg found via a ZX Spectrum.

Mario Kart is getting a first-person VR spin-off for Japanese arcades.

We have a new record for the biggest esports prize pool ever - and it's gone to the previous record holder Dota 2.

Controversial retailer Sports Direct has plunged a huge amount of cash into GAME.

Officially, the NES died in 1995, some nine years after its launch. Unofficially, though, dedicated fans are keeping Nintendo's retro console very much alive.

"We had Communism and we had Cyberpunk."

The Netflix adaptation of Castlevania is kind of weird.

Capcom has just unleashed a new Humble Bundle, offering insanely cheap deals on games in an effort to help charity.

Titanfall 2 and Battlefield 1 will join the EA Access vault later this month, the publisher has announced.

Hitman's 26th and final Elusive Target for Season One will launch this Friday at 1pm UK time. It will be available for exactly 10 days (240 hours).

Surreal family drama What Remains of Edith Finch is coming to Xbox One on 19th July, publisher Annapurna Interactive has announced.

UPDATE 12/07/2017 4.38pm: It turns out that Shakedown Hawaii's bullish aging real estate mogul and reality TV star antihero is not meant to parody a certain politician, despite the similarities in the premise, developer Brian Provinciano has clarified to Eurogamer.

Nintendo has announced a special edition version of the upcoming Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon which includes extra in-game potions.

Treyarch's Spider-Man 2 was first released on 28 June 2004. More than 13 years later, it still holds up as a yardstick for both Spider-Man and superhero video games. But it's not the combat people remember. It's not the balloon kid or pizza delivery side missions. It's not the amazing cast of villains, either. It's the swinging, the sheer exhilaration of flying over, around, between and often smack into buildings. Spider-Man 2 is a tantalising playground of needles to thread, a true-to-life Spidey simulation - and we have a designer called Jamie Fristrom to thank for it.