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XCOM 2 has just landed on consoles with a decent port of the PC version - a bit stuttery when loading missions, but otherwise fine, as far as I can tell. Meanwhile, how bad am I at XCOM 2? By way of an answer, here are a few of my recent save file names: Everyone Dead. Big Error. Oops. These sound like cocktails served at the world's worst theme party, but they also, to their credit, sound like the sort of thing an inexperienced soldier might radio back to base when things go horribly wrong. Okay, maybe not Oops, but when I'm the soldier in question nothing is ever entirely off the table.

Back in the early 90s when I was blowing on cartridges and recording episodes of Captain N: The Game Master on VHS, the thought of being able to play video games with my friends in virtual reality was the sole preserve of science fiction. Twenty-five years later however, those childhood dreams look set to become a reality.

First-person hero shooter flop Battleborn will be free to play in the near future, a new report suggests. But there's some confusion about what this will mean.

Bungie has moved to swiftly lock down an ancient Destiny exploit, after players used it to dramatically speed up Rise of Iron's glacial loot grind.

Japan is getting its own Nintendo Classic Mini, with a palm-sized take on the Famicom coming out this November.

Here's a question: What do you do in Mario?

Could this be our first look at how Xbox One titles will look on next year's Project Scorpio? Forza Horizon 3 represents a fascinating balance between looking good and running well on current generation console hardware while at the same time scaling up to provide an improved experience on high-end kit. Combined with the cross-platform nature of the new Play Anywhere system, what's clear is that Microsoft is laying the foundations for Scorpio's arrival right now - and it looks great.

Killer Instinct developer Double Helix was acquired by Amazon Game Studios shortly after the release of its free-to-play fighting game and now the developer is courting the esports market with Breakaway, a four-vs-four competitive action arena title. Revealed today at TwitchCon, Breakaway uses the dev's penchant for deep fighting systems, only this time re-appropriates towards complex team-based action.

Make Sail, the latest crowdfunding endeavor on Fig, looks like an endearing alternative to Rare's upcoming Sea of Thieves. Both titles are first and foremost about sailing, naval combat, and treasure-hunting, but where Rare is gunning for the co-op audience, Make Sail is tapping those with an appreciation for physics-based pirating.

XCOM 2 is out on consoles this week and it seems to be a fairly decent port. We used this latest release date as an excuse to go and have another chat with Garth DeAngelis, the game's Senior Producer.

Updated story: Since Destiny released, the level cap has increased several times with several expansions. For an explainer, as well as strategies to reach the maximum fast, see our how to reach the Light level cap in Destiny article.

Finally, there's more information on the Bulletstorm remaster we discovered back at E3 in June.

Dragon Quest Builders has been out in Japan since the beginning of the year and next week marks the release of the English language version.

Norse strategy role-player Banner Saga 2 is now available on iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

Crowdfunded medieval no-fantasy role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance will be co-published by Koch Media/Deep Silver.

The latest Kickstarter update for backers of Shenmue 3 is the most charming yet, as the adventures of fans lucky enough to head to Japan for a guided tour by series creator Yu Suzuki were chronicled in a short series of photographs.

UK shops are today selling original PlayStation 4s at dirt cheap prices.

Stardew Valley's next beta update has a lot of new features (and yes, it's still all being made by that one guy - incredible), with one that will shake up how you start the game.

Blizzard has announced more changes to Hearthstone in an attempt to reign in some of the game's most popular cards.

Tribes: Ascend, the multiplayer shooter revived by Hi-Rez Studios, has once again come to an end.

After an hour of tumbling between cascading lorries, smashing against the delightfully improbable lunar physics of this impossible game, I think I'm done. I'm done cursing at every unreadable twist in each level, and I've had enough of twisting my controller tightly in my hands in pure frustration as its plastic audibly tweaks and I can feel its screws starting to strain free. Clustertruck is too hard, too painful and too frustrating for someone with my limited talents. I can't wait to watch others suffer, though.

UPDATE 29/9/16 9.15am: He's done it again - Michel Ancel has posted another piece of artwork, and this time we're even more certain its concept art for Beyond Good & Evil 2.

Hot on the heels of the announcement of Wasteland 3, inXile has released a teaser video for one of the other games it has in the works: The Bard's Tale 4.

UPDATE 29/9/16 8:40am: Digital Foundry has assessed World at War's performance on Xbox One, concluding that the game runs more smoothly than the same code operating on original Xbox 360 hardware. It's not the night and day improvement seen in Call of Duty 2, but many of the smaller sub-60fps dips in both campaign and zombie mode are ironed out.

Development on the incredibly popular fan-made game Pokémon Uranium has ceased.

Super Mega Baseball 2, the sequel to surprise hit Super Mega Baseball, has been announced for a 2017 release on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

PlayStation Plus' Instant Game Collection for October includes the most recent Resident Evil remake and Transformers: Devastation for PS4.

As Donlan pointed out in his review last week, Virginia is a pretty special game. It's also fiendishly difficult to talk about without spoiling, but suffice it to say that Virginia is an exemplary piece of narrative design.

The Advertising Standards Authority has confirmed to Eurogamer that it has launched an investigation into No Man's Sky.

inXile has announced Wasteland 3.