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Talk about a bait and switch: We Happy Few's prologue feels like it belongs to an entirely different game. The intro suggests a claustrophobic satire in the tradition of Portal and The Stanley Parable, casting the player as a rat caught in a violently jolly bureaucracy, somewhere in the heartlands of an alternate-history 1960s England. The Xbox Game Preview build opens, like the recent trailer, with player character Arthur Hastings busy at his desk, operating a censorship machine through a cheery haze of mood-altering drugs, till a chance article about his long-suppressed childhood dulls his buzz and slices away his allegiance to the regime.

Some developers, quite deservedly, can boast of excellent reputations for game development. With Overwatch, Hearthstone and World of Warcraft being as hugely popular as they are, for example, it's hard to imagine Blizzard ever having turned out a duff game.

Pokémon Go has been out officially in the UK for what, two days now? And yet it's hard to remember a time when it wasn't draining the life from my phone and reacquainting me with that thing healthy people do - walking, I think they call it.

If you've had a look at the Eurogamer video channel before (or read my Necropolis review, for that matter), you'll know I'm a big fan of roguelikes. There's something about the sense of challenge, the feeling of going it alone against insurmountable odds, that I really enjoy.

10 Second Ninja X is out now and goodness me does it ever make me want to smash my controller into little tiny pieces and then sprinkle those pieces over some breakfast cereal. It's not like I expected to top the global leaderboards when I started playing earlier today, but I at least expected a half decent performance. I'm alright at these games - or so I thought.

This is the Police is an interesting game. Playing as a police chief, you have to respond to emergency calls and use the officers at your disposal to keep the crime rate down and earn yourself a nest egg. While the core experience is fun, however, there are some elements of This is the Police that are profoundly ill-judged.

UPDATE 27/07/2016 2.43am: Edmund Mcmillen has confirmed to Eurogamer that this untitled game will be on PC and Mac for sure. Consoles are "a big possibility", but it's too early to confirm anything at this stage.

Dedicated Dark Souls fan and YouTuber Katapultoffel has recreated the opening level of From Software's classic action-RPG in LittleBigPlanet 3.

Modder Edy Pagaza is working on a Doom mod that merges it with Capcom's 2006 PS2 classic beat-'em-up God Hand.

To commemorate its 25th anniversary Blizzard Entertainment has erected a statue of World of Warcraft villain Lich King Arthas Menethil in Taiwan.

Resident Evil 7's lead developers have reassured fans the full game won't be a ghost story, despite the recent playable demo and announcement trailer suggesting otherwise.

Lumo, the isometric-puzzle adventure by former Ruffian Games co-founder Gareth Noyce, finally has a release date on PlayStation Vita.

Sony's former indie game guru Adam Boyes has joined Killer Instinct and Divekick developer Iron Galaxy Studios as its CEO.

PS4 players can sign up to be an early tester for the platform's upcoming software update.

Pokémon Go has not long made its debut on smartphones, but developer Niantic is already teasing what's next for the location-based game.

UPDATE 1PM BST: CD Projekt Red has, in a statement given to Eurogamer, confirmed The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition.

GTA 5 Redux is perhaps the most ambitious GTA mod yet - and it's out on 26th August.

We Happy Few turned out to be a very different game to the one I was expecting. The twisted, dystopian world shown in this year's E3 trailer suggested a game similar to Bioshock. Having spent an hour or two in the procedurally generated town of Washington Wells, however, I'm much more inclined to liken it to jolly hockey sticks survival horror game, Sir You Are Being Hunted. The Alpha build releases publicly today, but I've had a bit of head start with the Xbox One version - if you want to take a quick look at how the world of We Happy Few works, look no further.

Pokémon Go, in the places it has been released (which don't include the UK yet), is a phenomenon. The search term Pokémon has never been as popular and the game has rocketed to the top of the American iOS chart, making an estimated $1.6m a day. It's a top 10 Android game in the US.

UPDATE 11TH JULY: Now then, the Wall Street Journal has today run a report that says Pokémon Go will "likely be available in other regions, including Europe, Japan and other Asian nations within a few days". That info comes from "people familiar with plans for the game", apparently.

Splash Damage, the maker of Dirty Bomb and Gears of War 4's multiplayer, has an unlikely new owner: a Chinese chicken meat supplier called Leyou.

UPDATE 4.30PM BST: Kerbal Space Program will not be released on PS4 in Europe this week - only in the US. That's what Nestor Gomez, producer, told me this afternoon.

Battlefield, a series famed for its multiplayer battles and not its ropey stories, will be turned into a television show. Anonymous Content, the company responsible for hit TV series True Detective, will be in charge, collaborating with Paramount and EA to make it happen.

The huge Apex expansion has been released for Arma 3. It costs £25 alone or £45 bundled with the base game.

UPDATE 12TH JULY: The reason people weren't seeing the below change in effect was because of a bug, Blizzard has explained. The change is definitely live now.

UPDATE 13TH JULY: The patch notes covering the upcoming Overwatch hero changes are available to read - as well as test on the Public Test Realm.

After an excruciating wait - if indeed you did wait and didn't do the old workaround - Pokémon Go has been released in the UK on Android and iOS. It's right there - look!

There's something big happening in Guild Wars 2 this month: Living World Season 3, which begins 26th July.

There's always one, isn't there, who takes it a step too far. Take most medieval role-playing games for instance, with their six inventory slots for equipment or thereabouts; not Kingdom Come: Deliverance - it has 20!

Star Wars: The Old Republic will expand again this autumn with the release of Knights of the Eternal Throne (the acronym KOTET is catchier, particularly when paired with "SWOTOR", which is how SWTOR tends to be pronounced - sounds a bit like an alien Star Wars language when you say it altogether out loud).