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This piece contains spoilers for a mission in Titanfall 2 that you really don't want spoiled.

Red Dwarf has landed in Lego Dimensions, via a new area of the game hidden in the the upcoming Fantastic Beasts expansion.

The Legend of Zelda is being turned into a live action escape game - in North America, at least.

The biggest Overwatch patch to date is now live on PC, introducing a whole raft of changes to the game. Arcade mode introduces several new match types including 3v3 elimination and 1v1 duel modes, while Sombra finally makes her way into the hero roster.

Watch Dogs 2, Ubisoft's latest open world adventure, annoys the hell out of me. I can't stand the characters, the dialogue is cheesy and the hacker culture the game portrays is 20 years too late. I mean, hacking was cool in 1996 when Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie were trolling each other in high school. Now, 20 years later, I listen to DedSec characters Marcus, "Wrench", Sitara and Josh chat about hacking the planet in the basement of a board game shop in San Francisco and I can't help but think of that "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme. For me, Watch Dogs 2 is an eye-rolling hot take of a video game. It tries too hard to be cool.

Crowfall, a massively-multiplayer PC game with bags of potential, has returned to crowdfunding to raise more money. But this time things are different: this time you can invest directly into ArtCraft, the company behind the game.

Last month, you might have seen that Aoife and Chris went to play Final Fantasy 15, discovering to their delight that the game is making great strides. Aoife in particular was impressed by the changes made to the combat system, providing a more fluid and intuitive experience.

Five top Ubisoft executives are in hot water over claims of insider trading - a serious legal matter now being investigated by the French stock market regulator.

UPDATE 16/11/16 10:02am: We've seen reports and discussion of reduced performance on PlayStation 4 Pro since the introduction of patch 1.04 yesterday, leading to speculation that the Pro features are disabled in the new update. Temporal anti-aliasing has been been tweaked, but we can rule out the disabling of Pro enhancements as our data is taken from the game running the 1.04 update. We've also just re-ran a small section of campaign tests and see no obvious impact to performance.

Norwegian developer Krillbite, best known for Among the Sleep, its horror game about a two-year-old crawling into a nightmare realm, has revealed that its upcoming evocative mystery Mosaic will come to PS4 along with a PC, Mac and Linux release planned for next year.

UPDATE 15/11/2016 8.51pm: A new report suggests the Ubisoft sci-fi game teased within Watch Dogs 2 is real. There's only one problem: it may never come out.

Dishonored 2 offers many nifty tricks up its sleeve, but perhaps its most entertaining is that players can avoid fall damage by creating a doppleganger of themselves to cushion their landing.

Overwatch's highly anticipated new character Sombra is now live on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Despite all the excitement that built up before its release, I think it's fair to say that Watch Dogs was a bit of a disappointment. What once seemed like such a promising game was marred by dull gameplay, an unlikable protagonist and some underwhelming hacking mechanics.

Have you ever wanted to try Eve Online but stopped yourself because there's a subscription fee and actually it looks a bit complicated anyway?

In the most recent Mass Effect Andromeda trailer we saw the game's antagonistic kett race for the first time. We saw presumably the game's main baddie, back turned, approaching our heroes restrained before him. He had a high collar, bald head and a halo-shaped horn protruding from it. In a different clip he hovered. Cool!

Super Mario Run - Nintendo's first mobile outing for its mustachioed mascot - will launch for iPhone on 15th December, priced at $9.99.

UPDATE#2: And we've just been treated to our first proper look at Daytona 3 in action. As promised, it's very much a return to the 1994 original, with familiar looking locations and updated car models more in line with modern NASCAR rides. A whittled-down version of Daytona 3 Championship USA is being shown at IAAPA at present, and Arcade Heroes has some further impressions, noting that it's running on PC hardware and the gateshift of the older cabinet has been replaced by what looks like a sequential shifter - though this is still a pre-production cabinet so that could well change.

"Those who have not tasted his superbly creative bad taste are traitors." That's Salvador Dali, talking about the Sagrada Familia, which means that I've been looking things up on Wikipedia, which in turn means that this is the Eurogamer Podcast, where we talk about games, games, games! And my recent holiday in Barcelona. Have you been? You should definitely go. I had a wonderful time, and then I was quite brisk with an uppity lady at Gatwick, but hopefully Chris Bratt will edit that bit out.

UPDATE 15/11/16: Sony has made its decision. Its new bear mascot has a name. And that name is...

Tyranny is a Dungeons and Dragons game where the top half of the alignment page has been ripped out and burned. It's a fantasy world where being nice to someone will result in bewilderment from the affected party and scorn from your own. It's an RPG where, rather than choosing between giving someone flowers or stabbing them in the face, you choose between stabbing them in the face or giving them some warning before stabbing them in the face.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo's biggest Switch game, will not be available when the console launches in March.

Watch Dogs 2 isn't officially out until Tuesday, 15th November, but there are already copies in the wild.

UPDATE: Our review for Watch Dogs 2 is now live - and despite its online problems it's a massive improvement over the original.

Three weeks before Watch Dogs 2's release, hackers co-opted millions of connected devices around the world - principally security cameras, but also other web-connected domestic devices - and combined their power in an attack that took great swathes of the internet offline. For most of us, the attack, by perpetrators whose identity remains unknown, was both a short-lived inconvenience (Netflix, Twitter, Reddit, Spotify and even the UK government's website were successfully brought down) and a sobering reminder of the risks of installing wifi in a kettle. The game's development team, by contrast, must have been giddy with satisfaction. The news story precisely mimics the plot of the game in which you play as a member of an elite Bay Area-situated team of hacktivists known as DedSec, a name that echoes real world groups such as GhostSec and LulzSec, who plan to takedown a prying corporation ("Like Big Brother and Little Brother all rolled up into one") by using the internet of things.

Eurogamer has spoken to Creative Assembly studio director Mike Simpson about the future of Total War. What new historical settings are under discussion? Will there be more remakes? What about consoles? Those questions, and more, are answered in the article below.

Dishonored 2 is a lovely game, but it's also very familiar. Even with the addition of an entirely new protagonist, the core experience is largely unchanged from the first (not that that's necessarily a bad thing, mind). Anyway, with that in mind, you might be tempted to skip Dishonored 2's tutorial.

UPDATE 2.30pm: Ubisoft has deployed a patch for the game's online modes - which are currently, er, offline.

It's nice sometimes to go into a game knowing nothing about it. Okay, not quite nothing: the name, the price, and the most basic hint of what it might involve moment-to-moment. This is how I approached ROD: Revolt of Defense, which I just picked up on Steam for 79p. Looks tactical, I thought. Signs of a grid. Less than a (large) Twix. IN.

Dishonored 2 has failed to match the UK launch sales of its predecessor.