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Third-party emulation has always been a dicey issue for hardware and software manufacturers alike as it offers access to content people may not legally own, but that's about to change in the case of Wii emulator Dolphin, which has become so adept at emulating Nintendo's decade-old console that it can access the official Wii Shop Channel and directly purchase games from Nintendo.

The fact that Flatout 4 even exists after the tragic car crash that was Team6's Flatout 3 is an achievement in itself, so having a new developer, Kylotonn in the driver's seat and not BugBear (the original creators of Flatout) could be seen as a rather unnecessary risk.

With EGX Rezzed, the London games event brought to you by our parent company Gamer Network, less than two weeks away, it seems like a good moment to round up some recent announcements of what will be playable at the show.

Monopoly will soon welcome three new player tokens - at the cost of three old favourites.

Rebellion's just announced a mini-campaign for Sniper Elite 4.

UPDATE: Sega's released a gameplay video of Sonic Forces, the 3D Sonic game due out later this year on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.

For Honor got new emotes this week - and they cost an arm and a leg.

Ask a Mass Effect fan to pick their favourite mission from the trilogy and you'll probably hear a range of responses. There's the Virmire level in Mass Effect 1, for example, where BioWare unexpectedly forced players to choose between two squadmates' lives. Then there's the superlative Suicide Mission finale of Mass Effect 2, perhaps the most intricately-plotted episode of the whole series. There are whole flowcharts to explain that one.

Ever wondered what Metroid star Samus Aran would look like in Street Fighter 5? Of course you have. Well, wonder no longer.

The Surge comes out on 16th May 2017. That's for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

After a decade on sale, PlayStation 3 production ends soon.

Like the music from The Elder Scrolls, Fallout and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture? Then you may be interested in an event happening next month.

Comic Relief is doing a 12-hour gaming marathon to raise money for charity - and our very own Aoife Wilson is involved.

Get Even's been knocking about in some shape or another since 2014, and in all that time it hasn't really been on my radar. Now, though, with only a handful of months until its release and having sampled the first hour of this first-person thriller, it most definitely is.

Red Barrel's upcoming first-person horror game Outlast 2 has been rejected by the Australian classification board.

In late 2015 Night Dive Studios released a remastered version of Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. Now it's done the same for its sequel, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.

Horizon: Zero Dawn has shifted 2.6m units globally since its 28th February launch, Sony has announced.

Capcom's fighting game classic Street Fighter IV has been added to Xbox One's backwards compatibility library.

EA/Origin Access subscribers can now play Mass Effect Andromeda's opening hours - though the early access trial is getting a mixed response.

You can now download Splatoon 2's Testfire app - essentially, the game's multiplayer beta - from the UK eShop.

The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater games are legend and created an entire genre, which is why someone wants to make a documentary about them.

Microsoft has released a new pilot feature called Game Chat Transcription for Xbox One and Windows 10. It both transcribes what you're saying as well as reads text aloud. I wonder what "lol" and "gg" sound like.

Just like Mass Effect 3, Andromeda has a mobile companion app so you can keep track of your progress in the game's online modes.

One 4am nearly five years ago I ended a Skype call and went to sleep, but two of the people I was chatting to stuck around. They were Chris Avellone and Colin McComb. I had been speaking to them, and others, about Planescape: Torment, a game they all helped make. And it was a really good game. A legend, if you like.

It's coming up to seven years since Tekken X Street Fighter was announced, and each passing day feels like we're getting further and further away from it ever actually happening. The last significant update came via Tekken game director Katsuhiro Harada last August, when he confirmed that the game was no longer in active development.

Resident Evil 7 is getting an upcoming free expansion, named Not a Hero, which stars series legend Chris Redfield - but fans had been speculating all was not what it seemed.

I want to tell you about the moment I figured out what sort of game Breath of the Wild was. There have been many moments like it since, and everybody who plays it will have dozens of their own. But this one was mine.

Dark Souls 3 is adding a lot of new multiplayer options, even for those who don't buy the upcoming add-on, The Ringed City.

Isometric multiplayer roguelike Crawl has been in development so long that we reviewed its Early Access release 2.5 years ago, but the asymmetrical dungeon-crawler is finally ready for primetime on 11th April, wherein it will launch on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux.

Capcom has collected six of its classic Disney collaborations into one remastered collection for PS4, Xbox One and PC.