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As a thank you for your studio-changing support, 11 bit Studios has released a chunk of new content for This War of Mine. It comes as part of an Anniversary Edition retail release of the game but will be given as free DLC on PC. It will come to PS4 and Xbox One in the future but at the moment 11 bit Studios will say no more than that.

Nintendo is holding a special launch event for Pokémon Sun and Moon in London later this month, and we have 30 pairs of tickets to give away.

Rainbow Six Siege's first year is coming to an end, but Ubisoft has already promised to support the game for a second year.

John Lewis and M&S eat your hearts out. Sony's released a fancy new PlayStation 4 advert just in time for Christmas - and it's packed with video game references.

At its heart, it's still Call of Duty - but both tonally and technologically, Infinite Warfare is quite a shift from CODs of years past. Sitting down to play the campaign on PlayStation 4 Pro, there's still the sense that this is the videogames equivalent to a full-on Michael Bay-style Hollywood blockbuster, but now the core aesthetic of the game has evolved to match the franchise's cinematic aspirations, requiring a significant shift in rendering technology. The question we had going in: what's changed under the bonnet, and can the title sustain the series' signature 60fps action?

If there's a genre of videogames today that diversifies players like no other, it's the walking simulator. Many examples have found favour, especially at Eurogamer, with Firewatch and, latterly, Virginia, both well-received. Yet for every praiseworthy voice, there are critics, keen to expose this style of game for being over-hyped, underwhelming and, frankly, boring.

Inventive bunch, the Overwatch crowd. Or perhaps bored. Either way they've found a way to sort of break the game with new character Sombra.

UPDATE 12TH NOVEMBER: Skyrim Special Edition update 1.2 is now live on PC. "Stay tuned for news on the Xbox and PS4 release of 1.2," wrote Bethesda on its official support forum.

Here are three facts about Chris Bratt - he is taller than you might expect; he has a new winter coat which some people made fun of him for earlier this week, but I think is nice; he does a surprisingly good impression of Sean Bean.

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DICE's Frostbite engine now powers a great majority of Electronic Arts' internally developed game - a state-of-the-art piece of technology that has strongly delivered cutting-edge experiences on key franchises including Battlefield, FIFA, Need for Speed and the upcoming Mass Effect. With some of the sharpest rendering engineers in the business working on the technology, we expected big improvements bearing in mind Pro's big GPU boost. By and large, we haven't been left down.

I was halfway through a piece on poetic game mechanics as allegory, but then Trump won the US election, and I just didn't have the heart. So you're excused that until next month, at which point I'll probably do, like, a Christmas Pumpkin Spice column anyway.

Minigames are interesting things. They're purpose built to distract the player - to give them something different to do for ten minutes in order to break up the flow of the main game. In a sense, they're tacit admissions of the fact that sometimes games - especially long ones - can get a bit monotonous.

Exploratory familial mystery Gone Home is free to download this weekend for PC, Mac and Linux, via itch.io.

Final Fantasy 15 is actually out at the end of the month. Like, it's actually out. After all this time. Weird.

Now don't get yourselves all worked up over this, I'm just using them as reference points rather than yardsticks of depth and quality, but when you first fire up House of the Dying Sun (and for quite a long while after you've closed it down), the two games you're likely to be reminded of are Homeworld and Freespace. That's not to suggest what we're dealing with here is the greatest space game since either and that you should should stop reading immediately and start playing instead, but if you did do something along those lines you wouldn't be wasting your time or your money. I'd appreciate it however it if you'd come back later, if only to nod through the rest of what I have to say. You'll do that won't you? Good.

The nostalgia-fuelled Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System came out today in the UK, but you'll be hard-pressed to find one for sale at face value.

Sports Interactive has unveiled some of the new features included in Football Manager 2017 - and shown off the new match engine.

Brexit is in Football Manager 17.

The Football Manager series has been trashed on Steam by a wave of angry Chinese fans who wanted an official translation of the game. They also harassed Sports Interactive boss Miles Jacobson on Twitter, and he said he'd received a death threat to his family.

What's the longest you've managed a team for in Football Manager? 10 seasons, 20, 50? Try 154. That's how long Norwich chap Darren Bland (unfortunate surname) managed Fiorentina for - and now he's a Guinness World Record holder for it.

Annoying hipster simulator Watch Dogs 2 launches early next week but I've been given the go-ahead to stream a couple of hours of gameplay on our YouTube channel at 3pm GMT.

Last week, former Battlefield developer David Goldfarb pulled back the curtain on Project Wight, the ambitious role-playing game in the works at his new indie studio.

UPDATE 11/11/16: The officially-licensed Razer Raiju Playstation 4 Controller will cost £149.99 and be a GAME exclusive in the UK.

With Battleborn continuing to struggle, players have taken matters into their own hands in a bid to save the game.

After everything that's happened in 2016, it can be difficult to remember this year's positive moments. But, over the past 11 months, one thing - a certain game's release - stands out.

I've been enjoying Dishonored 2, but I find it really, really tough.

If you were a little fed up of seeing the same creatures in Pokémon Go, now's a good time to check back in.

There's nothing quite like a video game face-off, and we've had a few good ones over the years. Mario vs Sonic. Street Fighter vs Mortal Kombat. Call of Duty vs Battlefield. FIFA vs PES.

Final Fantasy 15 is getting a one-off collector's item that will cost you almost £375,000. For that, though, you get a special edition Audi R8 Star of Lucis, with design details inspired by Square Enix's upcoming RPG.