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Street Fighter 2 on Nintendo Switch is a traditional 2D fighting game, but it also has a first-person mode that lets you move about a pair of Joy-Cons to throw out Hadoukens and Dragon Punches.

In the battle against Counter-Strike cheaters, Valve has enlisted the help of an unusual source: AI.

Footballing car game Rocket League and NBA 2K17 are both free to play throughout this weekend on Xbox One.

With Resident Evil 7's previous DLC pack, Banned Footage Vol. 1, I suggested that Capcom would need to "pull out some new tricks" in order to keep us interested in its smart but slim pseudo series reboot. With its latest add-on, Banned Footage Vol. 2, Capcom hasn't strayed far from the well by delivering an expansion that's even slighter than its first, yet costs 50 per cent more. That's not to say that this latest add-on isn't entertaining - as it's still quietly captivating - but rather that it's inessential and only caters to Resi 7's most devoted fans.

Elite Dangerous will soon let you create a Commander - and developer Frontier has shown off how it will look.

Finished Doom and looking for another id Software game to play? Rage is now available to buy digitally on Xbox 360 (and through backwards compatibility, on Xbox One) - more than five years after its original release.

Developer Rebellion certainly can't be faulted for its ambition with the new Sniper Elite 4 - the title represents a big step forward for its Asura engine, offering up improved visuals and environments up to three times larger than the last game. On the one hand, this offers up much more freedom in tackling objectives how we like, but on the other, it does demand a lot more from console hardware, with variable results. And just like its predecessor, it's Xbox One that struggles most in delivering consistent performance.

Former boss at Daybreak (formerly Sony Online Entertainment, the studio behind Everquest, Planetside and H1Z1), John Smedley, has joined Amazon Game Studios' San Diego team.

Retro arcade collectathon Snake Pass is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC on 29th March in Europe (and 28th March in North America).

PlayStation Now, the service that lets one stream PS3 games to other Sony devices, is being discontinued on all platforms save for PS4 and PC come 15th August.

I'm fond of mushrooms - my surname is also the name given to a type of mushroom, in fact. So, when someone suggested I cook something from Paper Mario for our ongoing cookery series, I pounced on the idea of making a shroom cake. It certainly seemed like a challenge, either way - mushrooms surely don't belong in a sweet cake, do they?

Last week, Aoife and I paid a visit to Bethesda's London offices to have a look at Prey. While neither of us managed to turn into a coffee cup, we did get the chance to play through the game's first hour. The demo, which you can watch in the video below, really showed off just how tense things can get as Morgan stalks about the place - doing his (or her) best to sniff out camouflaged enemies and bash them in with a wrench.

Remember Homefront: The Revolution, the open-world shooter that came out last year but failed to set tills alight? It's back, this time with a major new update due out in March.

A new Nintendo Switch trailer from Japan has given us our first glimpse of EA's FIFA game for Switch.

Watch Dogs 2 has been updated with a new scene that plays out after beating the game - and some fans think it teases a future location for the series.

For Honor's bots are bastards.

Nioh is a rock hard game. Though it's only been out for a week, it's already earned a reputation for being among the most challenging action games in years. Nioh's tough enough that even folks like me who found Dark Souls 3 too easy will struggle with some of its more devious bosses for hours on end. But Nioh isn't just hard. It's also deep. And with hundreds of thousands playing Team Ninja's samurai epic there are sure to be some secrets strategies that make Yokai-slaying significantly easier.

Konami is the not the Konami of old. The Japanese company has ditched Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima and big-budget console video game development in general in favour of mobile games, casino machines and... gyms.

The original Halo Wars ends by putting itself in stasis, with the human warship Spirit of Fire coasting through void - its crew forced into cryosleep, its ultimate relation to the rest of the saga left open for debate. The in-game explanation for this uncertain denouement is the loss of the vessel's Faster Than Light drive. The creative rationale was perhaps Bungie's intense ambivalence about handing the keys to its universe over to Ensemble, developer of the Age of Empires games. Packed with all the floaty jeeps and energy swords a Halo fan could wish for, the plot of Halo Wars nonetheless sits at a careful remove from the numbered Halos, offering a separate cast and events that, for all their dizzying import, never quite overlap with the antics of Master Chief and co. Fast-forward to 2017, and even as the robust-looking Halo Wars 2 approaches release, there's the sense that the Spirit of Fire's fate has become that of Halo as a whole - a mass of trailing story threads and lost souls, waiting for somebody to give it a heading.

The Kickstarter for the Elite Dangerous pen-and-paper RPG was put on hold after a copyright claim sent just five days before the crowdfunding effort was due to end.

The recently revealed Apocalypse Now video game has moved to its own crowdfunding platform, ApocalypseNow.com, after receiving a less than enthusiastic backing on Kickstarter.

UPDATE 14/2/17 4:20pm: The results are in for GTA4's Episodes from Liberty City, tested via Xbox One backward compatibility - and perhaps not surprisingly, we're seeing the same kind of performance profile we saw on the main game.

Battlefield 1's incoming winter update will be introducing a new way to earn XP, with ribbons being awarded for in-game feats.

A Nintendo fan's project to digitally preserve every SNES game has ended in defeat after the US Postal Service (USPS) lost a package containing 100 cartridges.

UPDATE 14/2/17 3:30pm: Rounding off our analysis of PS4 Pro's upcoming boost mode, we take a look at a title that clearly requires as much horsepower as possible - Avalanche's Just Cause 3. It's been six months since we last looked at the game in the wake of reports that a succession of patches had actually made in-game performance worse, not better. Our results back then were inconclusive, but one thing was clear - with lows of 15fps, the title clearly needed substantial optimisation work.

UPDATE 14th FEBRUARY The Practice Tool is now live on the North America (NA) region server, with all other regions, including EU West, expected to follow the rollout today. Riot Games put out a short note on the NA site to announce the feature going live this afternoon:

Following an open and closed beta - and more trailers than you can shake a longsword at - For Honor is finally out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. While it's safe to say its tricky combat mechanics have rubbed a few people up the wrong way, our Wes absolutely loved it, calling it the best fighting game he's played in ages

A show of hands, please. Have you heard of Bleed, a 2D indie shooter that appeared on Steam and Xbox Live Indie Games about four years ago? No? I didn't think so.

Obsidian Entertainment has assured Eurogamer it is "doing fine" following the announcement it will no longer develop Armored Warfare, the free-to-play tank game. Those duties will move wholesale to Russian studio My.com, owned by the Russian company bankrolling the whole operation, Mail.ru.

Nintendo has announced a £17.99 (€20/$20) expansion pass for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.