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Owlboy is a real treat to play. The presentation is gorgeous and the story manages to be by turns witty, touching and heartbreaking. Of course, hopefully you knew it wasn't a turkey from Joe Donnelly's review published earlier this week.

I am going to get straight to this. No preamble. Spike is returning to Animal Crossing. Possibly, he's back already. If you downloaded the very recent update that was launched to coincide with today's Nintendo Direct, you may have him rattling around in your 3DS right freakin' now. He will be grumpy in there, maybe even angry. But all of that is a front. Beneath the bluster, Spike is someone special. Reader, hold onto him. Cleave to him! Take it from me. I lost him once already.

While we wait for Nintendo Switch and an all-new Animal Crossing, Nintendo has just given us a big reason to return to the 3DS' Animal Crossing: New Leaf.

Arma dev Bohemia has unleashed a new early access platform called Incubator, and on it are two new games: Project Argo and Ylands. Both are made by small teams at Bohemia.

The Game Awards 2016 kicks off at 1.30am UK time on 2nd December. Yep, it's a late one.

A Nintendo Direct dedicated to Animal Crossing: New Leaf will be broadcast at 2pm UK time.

Blue Dragon, the Japanese role-playing game that was supposed to endear Japan to Xbox 360, is now backwards compatible on Xbox One.

Uh oh, someone's in trouble! Yep, an unidentified person who works in the video game industry accidentally leaked the name of the next Tomb Raider game. It's going to be called - wait for it - Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

The Mass Effect series will be getting four new spin-off novels bridging the gap between the trilogy we all know and love and the highly anticipated fourth entry, Mass Effect: Andromeda, due in Q1 2017.

BioWare didn't show much of Mass Effect Andromeda at E3 2016, but one thing it did reveal was Ryder, the game's protagonist.

BioWare has showcased a section of Mass Effect: Andromeda gameplay running on the newly-announced PlayStation 4 Pro, and a huge information blowout for November.

UPDATE 2/11/16: Overnight, Mass Effect boss Mac Walters has confirmed a fresh tidbit of information on the voiceover for yesterday's trailer - and fans have been speculating about who's behind that gravelly voice.

Mass Effect Andromeda's male and female main character options are both canon choices - and they're brother and sister.

Now you can roleplay a Mass Effect character for real - BioWare is letting two fans voice NPC roles in the upcoming Mass Effect Andromeda.

One of the greatest names in 90s coming is coming back, with SNK Playmore announcing its changing its name to SNK Corporation from December 1st.

UPDATE 2ND NOVEMBER: The issue preventing people picking up Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, for free, as part of their PlayStation Plus November membership, still remains.

Titanfall 2 launched last week to sparkling reviews but decidedly underwhelming sales (despite launching on PS4 as well as PC and Xbox One, it couldn't match the PC and Xbox One launch of its predecessor).

UPDATE 2ND NOVEMBER: Something did happen yesterday - a groan. Blizzard released a small Sombra hacking-themed ARG, another one, that amounted to a countdown, another one. Mercifully this new countdown points to BlizzCon this weekend where we expect Sombra to actually be unveiled and also maybe released.

Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die director Hidetaka "Swery65" Suehiro has left Access Games, the studio he co-founded in 2002.

Steam's impending "Discovery Update 2.0" will change its policy so that all images on a game's store page will have to be in-game screenshots. No more concept art or pre-rendered stills here folks.

Journey, Flower and flOw developer thatgamecompany has revealed the following first image of its upcoming game:

Retro sci-fi horror game Routine was announced way back in 2012 and now it's finally coming out. Well, soon anyway, as developer Lunar Software has released a new trailer teasing a March 2017 launch for PC on Steam.

Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi just launched a new mobile game called Woorld.

Escape-the-room visual novels Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (or 999 for short) and its sequel, Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, are coming to PC, PS4 and Vita in Q1 2017 as a bundle called Zero Escape: The Nonary Games.

As of 5.30am UK time this morning, Red Dead Redemption was officially made playable on Xbox One.

Xbox One has added eight new Xbox 360 titles to its backwards compatible library.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatible library.

Fresh from the news that Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown will be playable on PlayStation 4 in a roundabout way, Microsoft has announced Xbox One backward compatibility for the Xbox 360 version.

Three new titles are being added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility library today.

Call of Duty 3 is now available on Xbox One's backwards compatible library.