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17 games have been added to the Facebook Messenger app on your mobile, including Space Invaders, Galaga, Pac-Man and Zoo Keeper.

A new map called Oasis has just gone live on the Overwatch public test realm, which is a nice midweek surprise. Oasis is a control map (so actually three separate stages) featuring lots of high vantage points, a jump pad and, most importantly, a busy road packed with drivers who aren't precious about running heroes over (maybe they could do with a trip to the D.VaLA). There's no Reinhardt shoulder either, so it's a pretty dangerous area.

For a while there, Final Fantasy 15 performance was looking a touch dodgy. Seemingly prioritising visual accomplishments over a stable frame-rate, each of the title's early previews exhibited profound issues - and even the more recent Platinum demo, which introduced dynamic resolution scaling, still disappointed. The good news is that the release code's finishing touches include the required raft of optimisations required to sustain 30fps. The bad news is that a key issue remains unresolved on PlayStation 4 hardware - one that Square-Enix really needs to address.

Here's what's clear: big console game sales are down. Titanfall 2, Watch Dogs 2, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, Dishonored 2 and more all failed to even match the sales of their predecessors at launch. People I've spoken to in the UK retail business are in panic mode. The PS4 has been a huge success. Xbox One is doing well. What's going on?

The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled No Man's Sky's controversial Steam page did not mislead consumers.

UPDATE 30/11/16 8.45am: Amid the news Stardew Valley is headed to Xbox One in a fortnight, developer Eric Barone also gave an update on the game's progress to a Nintendo platform.

Ubisoft is attempting to bring together the rather fragmented VR market by making its trio of impending VR titles support cross-play across various devices and platforms.

Overwatch's new Oasis map is now live on PC, via the Public Testing Realm.

Lego Worlds is now confirmed for a 24th February launch on PS4, Xbox One and Steam.

Darksiders Warmastered Edition, the spruced up remaster of the first Darksiders, just launched on Steam where it's a free upgrade to those who already own the original game.

The Binding of Isaac is almost definitely coming to Nintendo Switch, based on a pretty strong hint from its creators.

The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion has been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility library.

Titanfall 2's multiplayer modes will be available to all as part of a free trial this weekend.

Let's get the awkward bit out of the way first.

He's done it! Maxime the Frenchman on a mission to reach level 1800 in Overwatch before anyone else has done it. He's unlocked the golden portrait frame with five golden stars. It's the final portrait frame in the game.

Hello! It's time for another Eurogamer podcast with two of the three Eurogamer Chrises! And oh man, the games we have been playing.

After a long wait since E3 in June, Nintendo will finally unleash a fresh look at The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild this week.

Hearthstone expansion Mean Streets of Gadgetzan will be released this week on Thursday, 1st December, Blizzard announced on Twitter (via Metabomb).

I've been playing around with Beasts of Balance recently. It's quite impressive, really - it manages to take stacking bits of plastic and somehow turn it into a sandbox game about the nuances of hybridisation. How's that for a pull-quote?

Fumito Ueda has penned a heartfelt message to The Last Guardian players, which Sony has bundled with the game's media kit.

Dishonored 2 is known for giving players a multitude of ways to eliminate opponents and YouTuber Cosmic Contrarian has put together the following video suggesting 80 possible methods of eliminating the villainous Kirin Jindosh.

UPDATE 28/11/2016 9.24pm: The Inside demo is available on PS4 as well, where it's also on sale for £7.39.

Square Enix implemented its president and CEO Yosuke Matsuda as a special lvl.99 boss for its Final Fantasy 15 promotional livestream.

No Man's Sky just received a colossal Foundation Update, drastically expanding the space exploration game's feature list, and developer Hello Games has promised much more to come. While it's been cagey on the details of what that entails, recent signs suggest that the sci-fi game will soon receive land-based vehicles.

Forza Horizon 3's first big expansion has been dated and detailed, and as suggested in an earlier tease it introduces extreme snow and ice to the series in a new themed campaign.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive now has a cool-looking changing weather system thanks to a couple of modders.

IO is today putting out a big update for the latest Hitman game that makes unlocks work offline.

Pokémon has often been a series trading on nostalgia. That warm, fuzzy and sort of sickening feeling some of us are prone to when thinking back to simpler times of link cables, your dad's Game Boy, and maybe the occasional semi-exploitative playground trade. Pokémon's relied on the stirring up of wistful reflection for so long that even pointing it out feels like a tired and unimaginative observation itself.

Hackers have shut down the payment system for San Francisco's public transport, and in doing so gifted free rides to thousands of passengers.

It sounds like Mass Effect Andromeda has a bit of a metagame going on, as well as the main campaign where you run around as Ryder, land on planets and make cool alien friends.