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Few video game protagonists keep to strict working hours, and how could they? When there's a war to win, a world to save, a lover's heart to ensnare and all the other grand and arduous problems that a game designer asks us to solve, it would be practically irresponsible to clock off a five for a pint of lager, a packet of crisps and a prestige TV box set. Even if they did have time to unwind then, just as we rarely see Tony Soprano bobbing away at the urinal, or Donald Draper questingly exploring a nostril, surely these parts of the game would be first for the editor's chop. What Lara Croft does to relax (eating caviar off her butler's extended arm while listening to Brahms, I like to imagine) is rarely relevant to the story at hand. Aside from the indulgently barmy Final Fantasy XV, what your character eats for dinner rarely has a place in the core gameplay loop.

2D sandbox game Terraria has crossed the 20m sales threshold, developer Re-Logic has announced.

Valve writer Erik Wolpaw has left the famous Bellevue, Washington studio as of today.

Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro has released a bananas video encouraging people to pre-order Platinum Games' upcoming sci-fi adventure.

Phwoar! Big day in the Eurogamer office! We finally have a Nintendo Switch and we're here to show you exactly what it looks like.

For almost a century before Donkey Kong and Super Mario, Nintendo made playing cards. These sets, which you can still buy today, are called Hanafuda cards and are intrinsically linked to Japan's history with both Europe and gambling. I've been learning to play one of the more popular game types, 'Koi Koi', in an effort to annoy my friends but found myself just as fascinated by the story behind them.

Codemaster's excellent driving game Dirty Rally now has PlayStation VR support.

With the advent of the Switch, Nintendo is finally altering its system for digital purchases making it so software will be tied to one's account rather than console.

Two years ago we wrote about procedurally-generated RPG Songbringer back when it launched a Kickstarter campaign. Now that game is nearly complete and has publisher Double Eleven backing it for a release this summer on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux.

UPDATE 4PM: Reports are surfacing that the problem has been fixed. The original Reddit thread has been updated to say that person can now play the game, so the issue for them appears to have been resolved. I've separately downloaded, installed and played the game on Steam in the last hour and encountered no problems.

Sega's put out a cool new trailer for Relic Entertainment's upcoming RTS Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 that shows off each of the three playable races.

Remember Lock's Quest? I really enjoyed 5th Cell's 2008 Nintendo DS game, with its lovely story, lovely pixel art style and lovely tower defence gameplay. Now, nine years later, it's being remastered for the current generation.

A new Vampire: The Masquerade game has been released - but, yes, it is a mobile game. However, it does look interesting.

Over the past few weeks, in between obsessing over whether to go with grey or neon Joy-Cons alongside my Switch pre-order, I've been idly leafing through Nintendo's pre-video game history. Thanks to the incredible efforts of collector Erik Voskuil and his blog Before Mario, it's been a delight looking back at the various offbeat creations as Nintendo moved from the playing card business that had kept it buoyant for the first 75 years of its life into the toy industry. It can be pretty informative, too.

In 2014, God of War developer Sony Santa Monica suffered layoffs when a new PS4 IP it was working on was cancelled following years of work. The game was rumoured to be sci-fi-themed but largely remained a mystery.

UPDATE 16/02/2017 11.24pm: Gold and Silver Pokémon are now live. It looks like our Tom Phillips has even snagged a few out in the wild.

We've written about the Xbox One's upcoming Guides update before, which will make the shortcut Guide menu appear with a single tap of a button. This brings you to a mini-menu on the left frame that offers shortcuts to the home screen, your library, the Xbox marketplace, recently played games, background music and pins. What we hadn't seen until now is a new copilot feature, which will allow two users to share one controller.

EA's PC subscription service Origin Access just received three new games in its vault: Furi, Aragami, and The Saboteur.

Game developer veterans John and Brenda Romero (Doom, Wizardry) have released a new game made with their 12-year-old son Donovan Brathwaite-Romero.

Someone with a (very early) Nintendo Switch console has filmed themselves turning it on, going through the setup process and demoing the system's UI.

Minimalist multiplayer arcade game Inversus is coming to Xbox One later this year with a bunch of new content - which will incidentally be free for those who already have the game on PS4 or PC.

Hearthstone will add an enormous, wallet-busting 390 cards this year as part of three 130-card expansions. It's the first time in the game's history so many will arrive within a 12-month period.

There's been more bad news for SNES game archivist and emulator maker Byuu, who earlier this week we reported had lost $10k of game cartridges in the post.

Nioh is a fantastic, challenging action game, but it's fallen victim to a potentially game-breaking bug.

UPDATE 16/2/17 2.00pm: YouTube star Pewdiepie has responded to this week's media furore which lead both of his biggest business partners - Disney and YouTube - to distance themselves from him.

Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy - the remastering of Crash Bandicoot, Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Crash Bandicoot: Warped - will launch on 30th June for PS4.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands will be free to try next week in an open beta for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Four-player competitive DIY platformer Ultimate Chicken Horse is coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Xbox One in Q3 2017, developer Clever Endeavour Games has revealed to Eurogamer.

Critically-acclaimed city sim Cities: Skylines will launch for Xbox One and Windows 10 this spring.