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UPDATE 18TH JANUARY: Sony has told me the online service for Rigs will be unaffected by Guerrilla Cambridge's closure. There will, however, be no further downloadable content released for the virtual reality game.

A Russian-owned publishing giant has picked up Crytek's free-to-download first-person shooter Warface.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild releases 3rd March for both the Nintendo Switch and Wii U and now we know the differences between each platform's version of the game.

Back in 2015 a handful of former BioShock and Dead Space developers announced an ambitious horror game about a blind woman called Perception. Now that game is confirmed for a PS4 release via publisher Feardemic.

Valve founder and one of the richest people in the world, Gabe Newell, confirmed today via a Reddit AMA that Valve is working on a new game in the Half-Life / Portal universe.

Watch Dogs 2 now has a free demo on PS4 that lets players check out three hours of Ubisoft's latest open-world adventure.

UPDATE 17/01/2017 7.38pm: Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls now has an official release date of 23rd June in Europe and 27th June in North America. Despair no more!

Nintendo shocked us all when it revealed its plan to bring Mario to the real world - or a close approximation of it anyway - with its upcoming Switch adventure Super Mario Odyssey. Given that it's set in a slightly Nintendo-ised version of New York, Grand Theft Auto 4 fan CrowbCat has re-imagined this family affair as a gritty tale of Mario's brushes with the law, gravity, booze, and automobile theft.

Surreal children's horror tale Little Nightmares is due for release on 28th April for PS4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and GOG, publisher Bandai Namco has announced.

Oh listen, you know how we never have guests? We have a guest! And listeners to the Golden Era of Eurogamer podcasts - by way of clarity, the current era is the Uranium Era - may recognise Will Porter, also known as The Velvet Owl, also known as the man who's written for video games including but not limited to Alien: Isolation, Need for Speed Shift 2, and No Man's Sky. Also, he used to write for Eurogamer. And some magazines.

DC supervillain Darkseid is a playable character in fighting game Injustice 2 - but you have to pre-order to get him.

For this week's Tuesday stream, I'm going to be playing a game that almost certainly would have been my game of 2016, if I hadn't discovered it early on in 2017. Maybe it'll be my game of 2017, but since we're only mid-January

You can craft and name your weapons in Mass Effect Andromeda - a first for the series.

Brexit has already hit Toblerone and Terry's Chocolate Orange, but now its effects are about to really hit home.

When Nioh resurfaced at last year's Tokyo Games Show, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed - mainly because the trailer's opening seconds made me think there was a new Onimusha on the way. Having had time to adjust, I played a new demo section of Team Ninja's upcoming action game last week, and I'm pleased to report that Nioh is looking very robust indeed.

We're just three weeks into 2017 and already we have a brand-new PS4 platform exclusive in the form of Gravity Rush 2 - Sony Japan's physics defying action game. With the original release created with PlayStation Vita in mind, we were excited to see what the development team could achieve on much more powerful hardware. The opportunity to push environment complexity and interactions through the roof offers a huge amount of potential, so we were eager to check that out - and to put the PS4 Pro features through their paces.

For over 18 months, players have been following the breadcrumb trail of clues left by Frontier Developments towards the existence of aliens in Elite: Dangerous. And now, they've finally found them.

First contact was made January 2017.

January in the UK means cold weather, dark mornings and Brexit.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set to defend Oculus in court today in the lawsuit with id Software owner ZeniMax over the development of virtual reality technology.

The Xbox One's Guide feature is about to get a spruce-up, care of an incoming console update.

Video games, 'ey? They're alright, and we're willing to wager that there will be quite a few of them in 2017. Some of them might even be quite good! The next 12 months will be dominated by new hardware such as Microsoft's Scorpio and Nintendo's Switch, but as ever it's the games that really matter, and here's a list of the 50 we're most excited about.

The Joy-Con grip bundled with Nintendo Switch does not charge your Joy-Con controllers.

Watch out, Resi fans - a big spoiler from the ending of Resident Evil 7 has popped up online.

Back in 2010, after a stint working on the early version of Eidos Montreal's Thief reboot, Rhianna Pratchett set to work writing a very different Lara Croft. The brief from developer Crystal Dynamics was clear: this new Tomb Raider would be a reboot for the long-running series, a game that would drag Lara Croft kicking and screaming into the modern era. For Pratchett, that meant helping craft a personality for a younger Lara, an origin story in which the world's most famous video game action hero could find herself.

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has defended Switch's meagre five game launch line-up by saying it was not the "be-all and the end-all" for the console.

Just over a year ago, I published a video presenting my theory on how all the Far Cry games might be connected.

Wii U owners can no longer access BBC iPlayer.

Nintendo has officially confirmed Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which will launch on 28th April priced £49.99 in the UK.

A download of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will fill nearly half of Nintendo Switch's internal storage.