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It's pretty safe to say that Johnny and I, well, we both play games very differently.

A British man has become the first person on these shores charged over an incident of swatting.

Elite Dangerous: Horizons 2.3 - The Commanders comes out today on both PC and Xbox One.

This Thursday will be huge for Star Wars fans as 2017's four-day Star Wars Celebration kicks off in Orlando, Florida. There'll be plenty for Jedi young and old to look forward across the four day convention, not least the long awaited trailer for Rian Johnson's Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.

Mass Effect Andromeda had a mammoth five-year development, so it's no surprise that over time various visual designs changed.

Load up many older iPhone or iPad games and you may now find yourself facing a stark warning - that the "app will not work with future versions of iOS".

11 bit studios, creator of This War of Mine, has finally revealed what kind of game Frostpunk, it's next title, will be. Whereas in This War of Mine you controlled a shelter of four or five people, in Frostpunk you will govern the last city on Earth.

Xbox has launched an enormous spring sale, with some eye-catching offers and more than 350 game prices slashed.

The Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ missed the Switch launch window, but still managed to make it to North America by 17th March on both the eShop and as a retail release. The European and Australian releases, however, were MIA. Now we've got confirmation on a release window, a physical version, and a price.

Star Wars Battlefront took its time to come good. It wasn't until the end of 2016, when the Death Star DLC dropped and completed the package, that it finally delivered on its considerable promise. Having burned plenty of early purchasers who paid full price for a content-light game at launch, EA DICE bigwigs have their work cut out to bring back singed-finger fans for the sequel. A proper campaign option would be one way of winning people over, but a better approach is perhaps to look at what the first game (eventually) got right - in particular, the Walker Assault mode on Hoth, Sabotage on Bespin and Battle Stations on the Death Star.

The next Xbox, codenamed Project Scorpio, features 100 per cent compatibility with any software that runs on the existing Xbox One console, be it the latest triple-A blockbuster or any one of the hundreds of Xbox 360 titles successfully adapted via Microsoft's backward compatibility programme.

In 2005, Microsoft launched Xbox 360: a piece of hardware at least a year ahead of its time from a technological standpoint, introducing multi-core CPU processing and state-of-the-art advanced graphics technology. PlayStation 3 arrived a year later - an absolute age in technological terms - but the Xbox 360 still shone through. It was the product of a company determined to do everything it could to create the most powerful games console ever made. After the media missteps of Xbox One and the loss of performance leadership, Project Scorpio is a return to that fierce determination to produce the best possible box. This is the result of an Xbox team with something to prove - exactly the reaction we hoped for.

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has sold 1m copies on Steam Early Access, developer Bluehole Studio has announced.

Last week Gearbox cut ties with game key reseller G2A, where it was planning to sell the exclusive Collector's Edition of Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition, due to a series of shady dealings that have given the auction site a bad reputation.

Two years after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign, Yooka-Laylee from Playtonic Games is ready for action. At its core, Yooka-Laylee draws platform gaming inspiration from the Nintendo 64 era, specifically tapping into Banjo Kazooie and its sequel, which makes sense considering that a number of key ex-Rare staffers helped form Playtonic. From a design standpoint, this is a decidedly retro affair and one that we had a lot of fun playing, but there has been plenty of controversy surrounding its performance - and we wanted to put that to the test.

Bethesda really wants you to play The Elder Scrolls Online.

Set your alarms, pop on your Pikmin onesie and gather round your electronic devices! A new Nintendo Direct will be broadcast on Wednesday, 12th April at 11pm UK time.

The Signal from Tölva is an open-world wasteland game of unusual profundity, its trash activating a set of cultural reference points that extend far beyond Mad Max-bred cliché. Sculpted by former Aardman Animations artist Olly Skillman-Wilson from concept pieces created by ex-Rockstar doodler Ian McQue, the game's titular planet is a wilderness of crash-landed starships and war machines, picked over by robot factions lured to the surface by a persistent, inexplicable whispering in the aether. Rendered using a desiccated industrial palette that is lent further texture by sporadic visual artefacts and interference, it's a superbly allusive stew - an arid yet evocative snapshot of a sci-fi universe dreamt up by lead designer Jim Rossignol and writer Cassandra Khaw. (Disclaimer: Jim is a founder of our sister site Rock, Paper, Shotgun and a former Eurogamer contributor, and Cassandra is a current contributor to the site.)

YouTube's most-subscribed creator, Felix 'PewDiePie' Kjellberg, has launched a weekly show on rival platform Twitch, during a period he's coined the 'Adpocalypse'.

Whether you've been fighting for your life in Resident Evil 7 or clubbing down Moblins in Breath of the Wild, 2017 has been a pretty eventful year for games thus far.

Retrotastic tank shooter Battlezone will get a PC beta next week, on Wednesday 19th April.

In its first three days in Early Access, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds made over $11m. That's a staggering figure for what technically amounts to an unfinished game. Such is the power of "Battle Royale" - an emerging breed of massively multiplayer action gaming based on the Japanese book and film of the same name, in which scores of players fight for the title of last person standing on a single map. It's an enormously popular subgenre, and it's almost entirely the work of one man - a modder whose online moniker is now synonymous with the game mode.

UPDATE 08/04/2017: The voting has come to a close and the winners are The Gods Must be Hungry, Darwin's Dinner, Kiln, and I Have No Idea What I'm Doing.

Greetings Eurogamers. It's been a busy week over here, what with the reveal of Xbox's Project Scorpio. As the entirely non-partisan, unbiased sorts that we are, we feel obliged to point out that there is still a slim chance it might not be the most impressive visual spectacle in console gaming. An /extremely/ slim chance.

Last week's big Mass Effect Andromeda patch made faces look better, fixed some shonky animations plus all sorts of other things. And, quietly, it also updated the game's Denuvo anti-piracy protection.

Persona 5 is the UK chart number one, with the series' best launch sales to date.

In its early promotional material for the ZX Spectrum, Sinclair often went to almost painful lengths to avoid using the word 'games'. Released 35 years ago this month, the microcomputer was designed by Sir Clive Sinclair with serious applications in mind, and an optimistic role as a central hub for the nation's households. Constantly reiterating its expandability, these initial adverts were all about tech, emphasising the Spectrum's 'massive' RAM of 16 or - crikey! - 48k, as well as its high resolution and accessories, including a printer and the doomed ZX Microdrive. As it turned out, the manufacturer was swimming against the tide. Programming? Hmm, might try and type in a few POKEs I suppose. Educational? Game of chess or Scrabble aside, not likely. No, what the majority of kids wanted from the Spectrum was games. And games, much to the chagrin of Clive Sinclair, were what they got - in their hundreds.

On the off-chance that you haven't heard of David Wise, you've almost certainly heard his music. As a third of Rare's trio of ground-breaking composers, he was responsible for the tunes behind Battletoads, Wizards & Warriors, the RC Pro-Am series and countless licensed titles for the NES and Game Boy - plus, of course, the ever-popular earworms that form the Donkey Kong Country soundtracks.

Classic 80s video game mascot Dizzy celebrates his 30th birthday today. His first outing, Dizzy - The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure was released in 1987, a fact that should make some of our readers feel more than a little bit old!