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After a whirlwind tour of Paris, Marrakesh, Bangkok and the Amalfi Coast, Hitman touches down tomorrow in Colorado, USA.

QI-type question for you: What enduring PC game, first unleashed upon the world in 2002, links this here Eternal Crusade and the recently Death Star-augmented Star Wars Battlefront? Why yes, dear reader, your host does display a mischievous glint suggestive of a trap being laid, but too late - the quick-to-the-buzzer types among you have already blurted out an answer, which is of course wrong.

A patch is coming to Overwatch that could change the experience considerably on console. Blizzard is finally doing something about thumbstick acceleration.

Minecraft's next console update will get bears, beets and... banners.

EA and Origin Access subscribers can play Battlefield 1 early, as you'd expect.

The first Forza Horizon game is nearing "end of life" status, Microsoft has said.

The Witness is released on Xbox One today. Here's our original review of the PC version, first published on 25th January 2016.

As per Activision's marketing deal with Sony for this year's Call of Duty, the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta goes live on PlayStation 4 a week before it does on Xbox One.

The year is 1992. In a typical British household a typical British family is huddled around the television, still unsure about what has just transpired during the ad break of their typical British soap opera. Nestled among the traditional commercials for washing powder and breakfast cereal is a blistering whirlwind of fast editing and bizarre imagery; a smoke-filled barber's shop, a handsome hero with bionic implants and a generous helping of slickly-edited footage from a series of video games, punctuated by an infectiously catchy slogan: To be this good takes Sega. The effect is mesmerising. This is the family's first taste of an advertising campaign that will change the way video games are promoted in the UK forever. This is the birth of 'Pirate' TV.

Shovel Knight is going to guest star in Yooka-Laylee, where he will appear as a non-playable character. That's nice.

To celebrate 20 years of Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider will shortly add some nostalgic DLC that takes Lara back to Croft Manor, her once-swanky family mansion. Among the DLC is Lara's Nightmare: a mode in which she fends off a zombie home invasion while scrounging for ammo and destroying hovering Skulls of Rage. See how we cope in the video below.

This coming week, toys-to-life franchise mash-up Lego Dimensions will start its second year, and begin rolling out an even larger range of new inclusions than its initial offering.

Once more into the breach. It's the final day of EGX 2016 but the show has saved some of its best developer sessions until last.

Hello again from Birmingham's NEC, where we're wrapping up day three of EGX 2016. And what a day - a Sunless Sea sequel announced, a hugely-promising look at new Planet Coaster features, and a chance to watch Ian and Bratt making themselves look very silly trying out the ridiculous Pac-Man VR.

PlayStation 4 Pro's enhancements for supported titles are proving varied from what we've seen so far, ranging from resolution bumps to more fine-tuned visual tweaks. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare gave us more insight on this - the one game to demo the hardware at EGX 2016 this week. Running on a guarded row of six PS4 Pro machines, we could compare it to a similar multiplayer build running on the original PS4 - a rare chance to see the prospective gains for supported titles as we approach the new console's November 10th launch.

Failbetter Games has announced Sunless Skies, a sequel to Sunless Sea, live on stage at EGX 2016. The follow up to the Victorian exploration game is currently in the very early stages of development, with a Kickstarter campaign due to launch in February of next year.

Planet Coaster, the spiritual successor to the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, will have its own coaster crashes. Obviously.

The future is here, and it's a first-person Pac-Man game with VR headsets and a slippy treadmill which requires oversized Crocs.

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It's extremely good on Xbox One, but with the right hardware, Forza Horizon 3 is breathtaking on PC. Building on the DX12 foundation of the excellent Forza Motorsport 6 Apex, Playground Games has assembled a technological masterpiece for PC owners - one that I was eager to test out at 4K resolution at a fully unfettered 60fps. A Core i7 6700K paired with Nvidia's Titan X Pascal mostly does the job with minimal tinkering and it's an absolutely phenomenal experience.

Destiny's new raid went live last night - and it was defeated in record time.

We're back at the NEC in Birmingham for day three of EGX 2016. Do say hello if you're here, or if you're not - well, then you have more time to watch Saturday's developer session schedule.

UPDATE 24/9/16 9.45am: A day after a bombshell report on Palmer Luckey's political leanings, the Oculus boss has now responded to the allegations.

It was the summer of 1992. Nirvana dominated the airwaves, Batman Returns squatted resolutely in multiplexes all over the world and Alan Shearer became Britain's most expensive football player with a now laughable £3.6m transfer from Southampton to Blackburn. But to be honest, I had to look all this up on Wikipedia, because I really didn't notice it at the time. I was locked in a small office on a Leamington industrial estate testing Game Genie codes for the Game Boy.

Injustice 2 developer NetherRealm has addressed concern around the fighting game's new Gear System.

UPDATE 3.20pm: You won't have to eat at a US burger restaurant or buy Mountain Dew to access Titanfall 2's one-versus-one mode.

I wasn't a fan of the original Watch Dogs. I was super excited for it when it was announced but, like many other people, upon playing it I found it rather dull and I lost interest pretty quickly.

Star Wars Uprising is shutting down, developer Kabam has announced.

Riot Games has announced a broad set of changes to the way it distributes eSports funding, following weeks of debate amongst the competitive League of Legends community.

Of the two new Star Wars Battlefront heroes it looked like Chewbacca would outgun Bossk, because in the right circumstances Han's hairy friend is a beast. Sorry, poor choice of words - I mean powerful.