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Let's start with the horses, because that's where the magic can really be found in Battlefield 1. That's where you stop and stare and think to yourself oh my how wonderful it is to be playing a video game in 2016, where you can see this noble beast's haunches flex and flow and where you feel that same sense of wonder those first laying their eyes on the work of Eadweard Muybridge must have felt all those years ago, because horses.

I had this steel breastplate on and I was holding a huge pike when I learnt a cool fact about swords. This actually happened by the way. I learnt that not all the edges of a sword were sharpened for slicing. I was like... what? But in the films and stories and games they slice people up like meat in a butcher's shop. But the historian chap was like... no. The edges are blunt and the sword is heavy so that people can try and break the bones of their opponent underneath the armour, or at least severely bruise them, and immobilise them. It's just the tip that's razor sharp for the plunging stab that kills them. Oh and that groove down the middle of the sword: that's there to let the air into the wound so you can pull the sword back out.

There's an uprising among ultra hardcore Dead Rising fans - no, not the undead.

Some of the biggest internet providers in the UK have ganged up to try and force through better internet in Britain - and it's calling on gamers to have their say.

This month's EGX will offer the world's first public hands-on with Arkane's stealth adventure, Dishonored 2.

UPDATE 6/9/16 9.30am: Ark developer Wildcard has issued a statement to fans enraged by the release of paid expansion Scorched Earth while the base Ark game is still in development.

Tokyo 42 is due out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well as PC, publisher Mode 7 has announced.

From what I've played of it, Fallout 4 is a game about nuclear war inasmuch as the Narnia adventures are books about a wardrobe. Nukes may add a dark wit to a few of the central systems and give NPCs something to latch onto when they want to philosophise about humanity's endless cycles of violence, but their primary function seems to be ushering you from the character creation sequence and into the vast and brackeny post-America playground where the real fun takes place. Like Skyrim, Fallout 4 is a fantasy game. It's just that this time the fantasy revolves around the notion that there could be a meaningful kind of life following any decent exchange of ICBMs.

In 1992's Streets of Rage 2 Eddie Hunter, better known to his friends as 'Skate', wore a yellow vest and red rollerblades. In a pinch he could roll into a tight little ball and, like a bowling ball striking a huddle of ninepins, send a crowd of bruisers wheeling through the air. Skate referred to his signature move as the 'Dynamite Headbutt.' Classic Skate.

The proof of any racing game is in its time trial mode. Just you, your vehicle and the track in communion; nothing to dilute or interfere with the faceted challenge of shaving seconds off your time through skill, ingenuity and courage; and nowhere for the game itself to hide. It has to be fun and interesting to drive for its own sake, or it's sunk.

My story, and I'm sticking with it, is that Islands is the best video game I've ever played about LA. The reason that this is only my story is that I'm not actually sure if Islands is meant to be about LA in the first place. No matter. Whatever conclusions you ultimately draw - and you will definitely draw conclusions - Islands, which is currently working its way through Steam Greenlight, is worth keeping an eye on. It's beautiful, mysterious and rather menacing. Like I said, it's the best video game I've ever played about LA.

No one predicted Metroid Prime: Federation Force would sell well, but few thought it would sell this badly.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf has opened its gates to Japan's most famous cat: Hello Kitty.

Happy rainy Monday. Don't worry, I've got something to cheer you up. Duke Nukem is 3D is nearly 20 years old! Oh sorry I meant: I've got something that will make you feel old!

Indie mash-up parody No Mario's Sky has been squashed by lawyers.

Ex-England goalkeeper David James - who in the late nineties infamously blamed his poor form between the posts on playing too much Tekken 2 on his PlayStation - is button-bashing at Tekken 2. He's awful, but the audience is cheering him on regardless.

What are wasps actually for, eh? Turns out they're quite handy in the rarified world of God-tier Scrabble. They've just helped Brett Smitheram win the World Scrabble Championship at this year's final in Lille.

There's a prank I like that goes as follows: a team of performers go to a classy food fair and serve the taste-testing elite takeout from McDonald's cleverly disguised as fancy hors d'oeuvres. Cut into glamorous looking bite-sized appetizers and served on toothpicks, they suggest a far more refined experience than they actually provide. Everyone agrees that what they're being served is a cut above what it truly is. Omega Force's adaptation of the popular manga and anime series, Attack on Titan, is a lot like that.

I am determined to write about Pan-Pan without spoiling any of its delightful surprises, and since the game's stock in trade is surprise and delight, this isn't going to be easy. Here is the closest I am going to get, hopefully, to truly wrecking something for you: the whole thing clicked for me after about a quarter of an hour or so, when I realised that the flowers I had been stepping on for the last five minutes probably weren't purely for decoration. (This isn't a particularly huge spoiler.)

Greetings Eurogamers. We do our very best to make these weekly video digests a consistently enjoyable experience, making sure that, say, the middle video isn't so profoundly irritating that it spoils your entire day.

We've had fun mucking around with Infinite Warfare this week, but look anywhere on the Internet and you'll see fans are desperate for the series to pull back from this futuristic setting, with its wall-running and its jetpacks. As I've heard repeatedly whilst out at COD XP, players want their boots back on the ground.

Asus reckons that the ROG GX800VH could well be the most powerful consumer-level laptop in the world - and I it may well be right. The spec on this gaming laptop monster borders on the insane. An overclockable mobile Intel i7 K chip is paired with twin GTX 1080s in SLI, which works in combination with an 18.4-inch 60Hz 4K display. As long as the game in question is reasonably optimised for SLI, the bottom line is this - the GX800VH offers even more gaming power than a desktop i7 system paired with an overclocked Titan X Pascal. Other dual 1080 gaming laptops are available to challenge the Asus's crown - but to the best of my knowledge, none of them come with a liquid cooling dock to guarantee performance and stability. And yes, you can overclock it too.

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!

The third season of Telltale's The Walking Dead adventure series will be titled The Walking Dead: A Telltale Series - A New Frontier. And it will be released on PC, Mac, console and mobile platforms in November.

Alert! Alert! A new season of Overwatch Competitive Play has begun. Season 2 is here on PC and console. Remember, there is a free-play weekend on console Overwatch coming 9-12th September.

Resident Evil 4 is more than ten-years-old now, and despite myriad ports, we've still yet to receive a definitive edition, a remaster that matches and exceeds the quality of the GameCube original in every way. So when it was announced that Resident Evil 4 was being ported to Xbox One and PlayStation 4, we were interested to see how these new versions stack up. Has an iconic release finally been revisited, revised and remastered to the fullest extent? Or is it simply a port based on existing work?

Nvidia has lifted the lid on its new range of mobile GPUs based on the Pascal architecture - and the results are quite extraordinary. Gone are the days of laptop-specific graphics processors with reduced specs compared to their desktop counterparts. There is no GTX 1080M, only GTX 1080, with the same core specification as the desktop part: the same CUDA core count, the same boost clock. And it's the same for GTX 1060, too. Meanwhile, the mobile GTX 1070 does see some variation, trading boost clock speed for additional CUDA cores vs its desktop counterpart.

Resident Evil 7 looks pretty good, if you ask me - in all honesty I thought the days in which I could muster excitement for an upcoming Resi title were long behind me, but the next instalment seems to have real promise.

I will be 40 next year, and I am in the midst of a mid-life crisis. How do I know this? It's not because my idea of a party is staying in with a good Merlot and my complimentary copy of Waitrose Weekend. It's not because I sometimes put Radio 6 Music on extra loud, in the hope my cool young neighbours will think I'm still a hep cat. And it's not because I have multiple sexual fantasies about being trapped in a lift with the tall one out of the Making A Murderer lawyers. Although all these things are true.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered will contain all 16 original multiplayer maps from Infinity Ward's 2007 adventure.