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Having decided to replay Dishonored recently, I was faced with a dilemma. Not a big Walking Dead "choose which of these people you want to live" dilemma. More of a Bioshock-level dilemma. In my excitement over going back to Arkane's magical murder-sim, I had neglected to consider that I am a parent now. As such, I am as likely to find time to return to a game I have already played as I am to find El Dorado in one of my daughter's nappies.

As Eurogamer's Oli Welsh explained back in September, World of Warcraft: Legion had an incredible launch. Artifact weapons, class halls, loads and loads of demons - it had it all.

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Skyrim arrives on current-gen consoles and gets a PC upgrade in the form of the Special Edition, a remaster of sorts featuring several visual upgrades over the original game. New lighting and effects work is woven into the existing rendering pipeline, while some of the core assets are reworked. Draw distances and streaming are also improved too, adding another layer of refinement to the presentation. It all adds up to a tangible boost in visual quality over the original game, especially when looking at the last-gen console versions. But with that said, what's the best way to play the game? And which console provide us with the better overall experience?

I've written about this on the site once already so I shan't go on about it, but there's a really cool bit in Titanfall 2 that involves time travel.

Radiant Silvergun, that masterpiece of design and engineering, is surely the most famous Japanese shoot 'em up from the genre's golden age. But it's Battle Garegga that, for many, holds the era's crown. Released in arcades in 1996 it's by far the plainer-looking creation, a muted palette of World War II gunmetal greys and khakis foreshadowing the next decade of militaristic video game colour schemes. Unlike its peers and rivals, which have your fidgety aircraft feinting and swerving through a brightly coloured hail of enemy bullets, Battle Garegga's designers make you navigate a shifting maze of realistic looking artillery fire. The grey and silver bullets blend infuriatingly with the tops of trees and froth seas over which they zip. No boss fights with sprinting deities here, either. Just a corridor extending up the screen and beyond, filled with battalions of crotchety tanks, kamikaze biplanes, and the odd spindly air fortress.

After several centuries of teasing, Overwatch's 23rd hero has finally been revealed. Her name's Sombra and she's really into hacking things.

It's been a decent Blizzcon so far, hasn't it? Despite both Overwatch's new hero and Diablo 3's next character pack being leaked prematurely, there have still been a couple of surprises.

The New York Times released its first op-ed video game with The Voter Suppression Trail, a modern parody of the classic educational historical game The Oregon Trail.

Doritos have made a VR shooter for HTC Vive.

Blizzard has announced Hearthstone's next expansion, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, due in early December.

No Diablo 4, but a new Necromancer class and a recreation of Diablo 1 in Diablo 3 instead.

Blizzard has announced Sombra for Overwatch as well as an Oasis map, a new Arcade mode that will offer new game modes, rulesets and maps, and an entire professional eSports venture called Overwatch League.

Hello! We're just a few hours away from Blizzcon 2016's opening ceremony - it begins at 6pm UK time - and finding out which of his nice bowling shirts Mike Morhaime will be wearing to mark the occasion.

Narrative-driven sci-fi adventure To the Moon is getting a fully fledged sequel with Finding Paradise, due next summer on PC, Mac and Linux.

Call of Duty's new PlayStation VR demo, the Jackal Assault VR Experience, doesn't actually require owning Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare in order to play.

The time for tearful Wii U eulogies has likely been and gone (it felt like notice was already being served on Nintendo's home console not long after it came out four years ago), but as production winds down now is as good a time as any to take stock of its legacy. Maybe you might look for it in its sales figures, which are notoriously poor - the 13.36m sold as of September fall well short of the 21.74 million GameCubes Nintendo shifted, making it comfortably the company's poorest performing home platform. It's edged ahead of Sega's Dreamcast - itself with a tally of 9.13m sold - but looking at the sales alone the Wii U has been a disaster.

UPDATE 4/11/16: Nidhogg 2 will also leap onto PlayStation 4 when it launches for PC next year.

We received our PlayStation 4 Pro unit earlier in the week and with its arrival comes the daunting task of evaluating 30 games updated with support for Sony's new console - not to mention assessing the hardware itself, something we'll be in a position to talk about in more depth on Monday. But for now, as part of Sony's phased embargo, we can release a video where we present the PlayStation 4 Pro box and then open it, revealing the contents - an 'unboxing' video, if you will. Spoilers: console, power cable, HDMI cable and joypad are contained therein. Possibly more.

PC Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare may be temporarily cheaper on the Windows 10 Store (£33) than on Steam (£40), but if you buy from the Windows Store, you will not be able to play with people who buy on Steam.

Bastion, one of the finest indie games to launch on Xbox 360, will get a fresh release next month for Xbox One.

Whatever your feelings on the Call of Duty series, you can't really deny that their releases still feel like notable events in the annual gaming calendar. Today, in case you hadn't noticed or didn't care, is both Infinite Warfare and Modern Warfare Remastered's time to shine.

Back in the summer, Microsoft launched a limited run of Xbox One onesies for you to buy and wear.

Titanfall 2 is a 60fps first-person shooter. On paper that might not sound particularly special. After all, it is the signature element that defines the Call of Duty experience, the standard that has come to dominate top-tier console-based first-person shooters to the point where 30fps challengers have had to evolve to match it. Case in point: both Battlefield and Halo have now joined the 60fps club. But what makes Titanfall 2 different, what makes it special, is that it does more than targets 60fps - it comprehensively delivers it. It feels great, but crucially, even in the most intense multiplayer action, it's consistently brilliant to play.

Grasshopper Manufacture's upcoming survival action game Let it Die includes two of the original Star Wars trilogy's principal cast members with both Mark Hamill and Billy Dee Williams joining the fray.

Koei Tecmo's upcoming samurai action game Nioh received a lot of praise in its alpha for allowing players options for whether they wanted a slick 60fps framerate with 720p resolution, or a crisper 1080p resolution capped at 30fps. Now Team Ninja's latest is adding even more customisation options for people playing on PS4 Pro.

Peter Molyneux, the man behind Dungeon Keeper, Fable and Godus, has released a new mobile game called The Trail.

Both Mirror's Edge Catalyst and the original Mirror's Edge are coming to EA Access' vault on 9th November.

The Eve Online community is rallying around the family left by the passing of player Jeff "BigCountry" Waltman two days ago. He was only 37 years old.

The Dragon Quest 8 3DS remake comes out on 20th January 2017 in Europe, Nintendo has announced.