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In the 80s, popular video games such as Asteroids, Pac-Man and Centipede all found themselves recreated in cardboard at a time when board games still ruled the roost back at home. But then their popularity began to fade. What kid in their right mind would ask for Monopoly for Christmas when they could be wishing for a Nintendo 64 and four-player GoldenEye instead?

Nintendo's newly revealed console, the Nintendo Switch, is both a home console and a portable console, which raises some questions about what will happen to the 3DS come March 2017 and Switch's release. Will Nintendo still need the 3DS or will Switch become, as Chesney Hawkes would say, the one and only?

Kids all ready for bed? Don't bother with a bedtime story, have them play the browser demo for Little Nightmares instead. No of course it's not really creepy - would I do that to you?!

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a new deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. (It also has the best name.) We've invited the Jelly Deals team to share a weekly roundup of (mostly) gaming-related bargains with us, so we can pass their tips on to you. Full disclosure: if you make a purchase from one of these links, we will receive a small commission from the retailer. Hopefully you'll find it useful!

Battlefield 1 combines the technical spectacle of the Frostbite engine with a return to the large-scale environmental destruction that made the Bad Company titles so popular. It's one of the most significant upgrades for the series since it arrived on current-gen consoles, and DICE backs this up with a range of technical improvements across all platforms. The core technology is immediately familiar, but visual effects are considerably ramped up with lighting, post-processing and particle effects taking centrestage.

All across the nation, people are getting ready for Halloween; costumes are being prepared, shopkeepers are amending their egg-selling policies, and games journalists are writing seasonal tie-in features.

Life as a tabloid journalist must be pretty tough these days. Not only is it illegal to listen to the private voicemail messages of murdered teenagers, you can't even get away with trying to falsely imprison former members of N-Dubz. So what else are you supposed to write about?

Trackless looks like a heady first-person sci-fi adventure with a unique mechanic: it lets players interact with the scenery by typing commands.

Steam's Halloween sale is now live, offering huge savings between now and 1st November on lots of horror-themed games.

There's a big difference between Skyrim Special Edition on Xbox One and on PlayStation 4: the space reserved for mods. On PS4, 1GB space is reserved, whereas on Xbox One it's 5GB. So what difference does that make to mod selection now the game has been released? Rather a lot.

Considering it's just been awarded an essential rating, you probably don't need me to tell you that Titanfall is very, very good. I played through the campaign this week and was decidedly impressed; it's a single player mode with some great set pieces and surprises that also manages not to outstay its welcome.

Hello! Eurogamer's typewriter correspondent here. I'm just about over Hanks' appearance on Desert Island Discs now, so I have two new items to discuss.

If you've been playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with mods on PC (and, chances are, you probably have) then your save file probably won't work with the newly released Special Edition of the game.

Those of you who watched my epic Fallout 4 Let's Play series will remember that my character, Mrs. Henry J. Buttminster, was a community creation. Fellow Eurogamer video man Johnny Chiodini came up with the character name and the base stats but the rest of the perks - and even the avatar's sex - were chosen by you, the viewers.

Tomb Raider turned 20 this week, if Wes' lovely article on how the franchise got started didn't tip you off.

Respawn is still a relatively new studio, but its legacy can be found in the modern first person shooter in all its forms - from Medal of Honor to Modern Warfare and then, finally, to Titanfall. There's a through line there that's clear to see when you embark on Titanfall 2's brief but sumptuous campaign. The heritage of a studio that effectively created the cinematic shooter, that married that with spectacle and storytelling in Modern Warfare, and now has been afforded the opportunity to build an FPS campaign around the rarest of things in this genre - ideas.

One of the new enemies From Software introduces in its new Ashes of Ariendel expansion for Dark Souls 3 could best be described as a ninja version of Freddy Kruger. A leaping horror of spindly limbs and metal claws, the resemblance could be coincidence, but I reckon it's not entirely accidental. Freddy invaded dreams, while From's Corvian Knights invade a painted world you're sucked into. These fake Freddys are no less fearsome than Wes Craven's creation. With their berserk souls madly scrambling towards you in a mad flurry of flips and razor-pronged pirouettes, they elicit a lot of character. From Software already built a breathtaking menagerie of monsters across its last few Souls titles (along with spiritual successor Bloodborne), but these ravenous rangers exemplify the developer's penchant for frightening foes.

Capcom updated its sales figures for its video games overnight and it doesn't look good for Street Fighter 5.

Two amnesiacs, apparently orphaned, on a journey to dethrone tyrants, reconcile kingdoms and suffer the niggling indignity of random battles. World of Final Fantasy, a game that heralds the beginning of a year of 30th Anniversary celebrations for Square Enix's flagship series, trembles with nostalgic resonance. Billed as a return to Final Fantasy's formative style (just as the company readies itself for reactions to the 15th and least conventional game in the series to date), the game revives Koichi Ishii's line-dancing, turn-based battles, as well as the careers of numerous heroes, brought out of retirement for the Disney-esque parade.

Hello! It is so lovely to be back with another podcast! Today Chris Bratt and I actually discuss some video game news. Well, a little bit at least. We have a lovely chat about Nintendo's new console, the Switch, which allows you to leave the house with it and play on a rooftop somewhere. We also pick over the best means of rooftop-to-rooftop communication, and explore why you should absolutely never play VR standing on top of your house.

Oh man. Wes has gone and written an amazing article about the history of Tomb Raider. And it turns out that the history of Tomb Raider reads a bit like a classic Tomb Raider narrative. Thematically, anyway: turns out that riches don't always make you happy, and treasure often comes with a human cost.

The developers of Titanfall 2 have come up with a brilliant way to keep players occupied while the game installs.

Deadly Premonition and D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die director Hidetaka "Swery65" Suehiro has the most amazingly bombastic back tattoo I have ever seen.

It's been a week since NX became Nintendo Switch and we finally learned all about Nintendo's next home console - except, actually we didn't learn all there is to it.

Doom's second multiplayer DLC, Hell Followed, is out now on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Ubisoft's open-world winter sports game Steep will receive an open beta from 18th-21st November on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Both Kingdom Hearts HD ReMIX compilations from the PS3 era are coming to PS4, bundled onto one disc, on 31st March.

At the very least, the Batman: Return to Arkham remasters are an interesting technical exercise, bringing the newer features of Unreal Engine 4 to two older classics - Arkham Asylum and its sequel Arkham City. Each were originally built on a modified Unreal Engine 3, but developer Virtuos (best known for the Final Fantasy X and X-2 HD remaster) chooses to revamp its character models, overhaul its lighting, and add higher resolution effects across both. The visual changes are often striking - but sadly, glaring issues with performance can't be overlooked.

Titanfall 2 is going the Overwatch route of ensuring all of its post-release maps and modes are free. Buy the game once and you'll get all the notable content from this point forth. There won't even be a season pass, bucking the trend of many a modern shooter.

Depression Quest creator Zoë Quinn has launched a Kickstarter campaign for a game that's about as far away from Depression Quest as you can imagine.