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GAME plans to open concessions in WHSmith.

Fullbright's debut title, the exploratory coming-of-age tale Gone Home, was quietly revolutionary. Founded by a trio of ex-BioShock 2 developers, Fullbright hypothesised that it could make a game like BioShock, only without combat or supernatural elements, and it would still be interesting. It was. While Gone Home wasn't everyone's cup of tea, it gained a cult following and was at the forefront of a new wave of games such as The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, and Firewatch. How do you make another game in the same vein and keep it feeling fresh?

The new Xbox Holiday Update has arrived for Xbox One along with the Xbox app for Windows 10 and mobile devices, bringing about many features teased at E3.

Codemaster's acclaimed 2011 racing game, DiRT 3, is free on PC and Mac through the Humble Store.

Blazing hot and vaguely dangerous rhythm game Thumper just received a new update that adds an even harder difficulty, Play+ mode.

UPDATE 10/11/2016 5.03pm: And it's official: Skate 3 is available for Xbox One backwards compatibility.

Square Enix will offer two enhanced display modes for owners of the new and more powerful PlayStation 4 Pro console. One will display the game in 4K resolution at 30 frames per second; the other will display the game at today's standard 1080p resolution but at 60 frames per second.

Peer beyond the foliage that enshrouds Robinson: The Journey's planet of Tyson III and you'll find a little piece of Crytek's history, a fossil that's now been brought to live as a towering embodiment of so much that's defined this developer. Back before Jack Carver had even packed his bags for the South Pacific in the original Far Cry, Crytek made its name with tech demo X-Isle Dinosaur Island. Almost 15 years later it'd return there, this time for a tech demo that explored the possibilities of VR, and now we have this: Robinson: The Journey, a full-priced PlayStation VR title that has you stranded on a dinosaur-infested planet as you strive to find other survivors of your downed spacecraft.

Against all odds, the time has nearly come. After endless delays and fears it might have fallen into the void, The Last Guardian has gone gold and is all prepared for release early in December. It's pretty good, too - at least that's the impression we got after spending just over an hour with it last week. After our hands-on we got the chance to sit down briefly with the game's director Fumito Ueda - a figure almost as mystical as The Last Guardian itself during its tortured development, but in person a plain-speaking, down-to-earth designer who seems impervious to the pressures that almost ten years on one game must have wrought.

Rainbow Six Siege's fourth major update Operation Red Crow comes out 17th November.

A raft of video games are donating a portion of their sales to War Child's Armistice fundraising campaign this month.

UPDATE 10/11/16: Nintendo has at last confirmed the end of Wii U production.

UPDATE 10th November 2016: The PS4 Pro comes out today, so we've updated the big list of games that support the console at launch. Check it out, below.

Dishonored 2 has finally arrived and to mark our arrival in the arid, sun-bleached streets of Karnaca, I'll be playing through the first four hours of the PS4 version from 1pm GMT.

Rome: Total War, the whole thing, has been released on iPad. Can you believe it? Seems like only yesterday I was studiously sat at my computer conquering Europe and defying the Pope, and now you can do it on an iPad. What's that? It was 12 years ago? Right I see. That's... cheered me up.

Editor's note: Dishonored 2 is out shortly, and we've just got our hands on final code. We'll be bringing you our full review early next week, but before then here are impressions culled from the game's opening hours.

Pokémon Sun and Moon are still over a week away from release, but details of the games have been trickling out online from those with early copies.

Miitomo, Nintendo's first smartphone app, has received a big new update.

Skyrim Special Edition is one of the first games to support PlayStation 4 Pro, with the code already included on the game disc., and unlike the majority of Pro enhanced titles, Bethesda's popular RPG runs natively at 4K resolution - that's a 3840x2160 framebuffer without utilising checkerboard rendering or upscaling from a lower resolution. We can also confirm that resolution appears to be locked at that number with no dynamic scaling or any other similar technique. It's fair to say that the boost in pixel count provides an immediate leap over the native 1080p base PS4 game, resolving more detail and definition across the game's rugged environments.

The Last Guardian will be supporting PlayStation 4 Pro, with the much awaited game upscaling to 4K and bringing minor performance improvements on Sony's new console when it launches this December.

Whether it's embracing VR wholeheartedly or challenging the established console generation cycle, you've got to hand it to Sony - this company knows how to take risks. They don't get much bigger than PlayStation 4 Pro, a release that doesn't just ask you to upgrade your console, but your display too. Built primarily for the new wave of ultra HD 4K screens, the Pro offers both CPU and GPU upgrades over the current PS4. At its best, it offers stunning visual improvements over the same games running on base hardware, but even the more modestly boosted titles show clear improvements. Bearing in mind the entirely reasonable price-point, it's a highly compelling piece of hardware.

The short answer, before I lead you on any further, is yes. Despite an impossible amount of hype heaped up over the course of a decade, of hopes sparked by those all-too-intermittent trailers and by the glorious yet dimming memory of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, The Last Guardian can live up to expectations. It can even surpass them and surprise you with its brilliance, as it did when I sat down to play it for just over an hour last week.

UPDATE 10/11/2016 12.49am: It turns out that while another Metro game is on the docket, it's not going to be out in 2017 as the book series' site foretold.

Blizzard's popular team-based competitive shooter Overwatch will be free to play during the weekend of 18th-21st November.

UPDATE 09/11/2016 11.50pm: Firewatch developer Campo Santo has updated the game to include support for the PS4 Pro.

The 1997 N64 racer Diddy Kong Racing almost had a couple of sequels. There's the well known Donkey Kong Racing, a title Rare announced at E3 2001, which failed to see the light of day once Microsoft acquired the series developer. But there was another one too. This second stab at a gorilla-racing sequel was called Diddy Kong Racing Adventure and it was being developed for the Gamecube not by Rare, but by Climax Studios (Silent Hill: Shattered Memories, Sudeki).

Most people think of Steep as a snowboarding game, but having had a chance to play it last week at Ubisoft's offices it turns out there's actually a lot more to it. Big sections of the game's massively mountainous environment are dedicated to other extreme sports such as wingsuit flying, parachute gliding and skiing.

Okay, this is very, very cool. An Unreal Engine 4 developer has remade Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 and has it playable using the HTC Vive.

Epic Games is best known for its Unreal and Gears series, but founder and CEO Tim Sweeney is also a conservationist in his spare time.

Jonny Cruz is the good-looking face behind the voice of Lucio in Overwatch, and he was at Blizzard HQ recently. With his camera phone.