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UPDATE 11.15am: Nintendo has now gone live with the official reveal trailer for all of the below Pokémon, likely prompted by this morning's leak.

Nintendo needs to shift 2m copies of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild to recoup the game's huge development costs.

Neverwinter, the MMORPG that's been spun out of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, has been given a final date for PlayStation 4. Oh, and that date is July 19th.

It's been a week of making hard choices with big consequences, and the toughest one lies ahead. On July 22nd Splatoon is getting its final Splatfest, and Nintendo's positing the ultimate question: Callie or Marie?

Capcom's given us a peek behind the development curtain and revealed a handful of characters who didn't make it into Street Fighter 5.

Talk about kicking it old-school. The signing of one-man brand Dino Dini should have been a real coup for Sony. Coming over 25 years after Kick Off 2 - still a totemic 16-bit scrambler, as beloved in its own weird way as the all-conquering Sensible Soccer - the announcement of Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival had the makings of an irresistible comeback. Here was the return of a coding legend with a thumping reboot of his signature game, promising a stripped-back antidote to the iterated bloat of the FIFA/PES monetary industrial complex. Kick Off Revival would also be a six-month exclusive on PS4 with a Vita version apparently warming up on the touchline. For the players, indeed.

Trippy rhythm game Thumper will be a launch title on PlayStation VR upon its 13th October release, developer Drool has confirmed.

Last months rumours of a BioShock collection have resurfaced with new promotional art and screenshots briefly found on 2K Games' website.

Splatoon has been ported to mobile devices in China... only this isn't Nintendo's doing.

UPDATE 29/06/2016 5.14pm: Fallout 4 mods have been delayed on PS4, with no word on when to expect them.

It's no secret that the Kinect has been a colossal failure on Xbox One with very few developers implementing the motion-tracking peripheral in any notable way. That's about to change on 13th July with puzzle/platformer Fru, an Xbox One Kinect-exclusive that requires players to contort their body in tandem with more conventional gamepad controls.

Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens lets you play as the film's director, JJ Abrams.

Sony has unveiled its Instant Game Collection - i.e. PlayStation Plus freebies - for the month of July.

The System Shock remake - which is to say not System Shock 3, which is being made by a team that includes Looking Glass co-founder Paul Neurath alongside Warren Spector, nor the System Shock Enhanced Edition, which is from the same team that's behind the remake - has just received a short playable demo that confirms the fan favourite is in very capable hands.

UPDATE 29th June 2016: A modder has done as I'd hoped and put Overwatch's Roadhog into Street Fighter 5.

Total: War Warhammer's first major patch arrives tomorrow at 2PM BST.

We're leaving the European Union, and the video game community has reacted in the best way possible: they've created a Twitter hashtag.

Editor's note: Prison Architect releases on consoles this week, and to mark the occasion we're returning to our original review of the game, first published last October. Double Eleven has handled the console versions, introducing a new introductory Prison Warden mode with ready-made prisons, as well as featuring a mode that lets you share and play other people's prisons.

There has been an awakening in your wallet. Have you felt it?

Finally, it's happened: Final Fantasy 7 Monopoly is real.

The people behind Press Play, the developer of Max: The Curse of Brotherhood and Kalimba, have formed a new studio and announced a new game.

Julian Gollop, the man that made X-COM, is finally returning to the genre he helped define.

Here's a blast from the past: Hewson Consultants, aka the people behind 21st Century Entertainment, have returned with a new game.

UPDATE 29th June 2016: EA has said it's looking into the FIFA Ultimate Team chemistry glitch that hit the headlines this week.

Road Redemption, the spiritual successor to the much-loved 90s classic Road Rash, has a release date, with the final game coming to PC, Mac and Linux on October 15th, while Xbox One and PS4 versions will follow on January 15 2017.

Oculus Rift is extremely hard to get hold of. The VR headset manufacturer has had parts supply and manufacturing problems that have severely restricted the number of headsets available to the extent that it still hasn't fulfilled all preorders made through its own website. (Its launch date was March 28th.)

The Tetris movie is being spread out into a trilogy because the story is so big.

Just over a year after it originally came out, acclaimed detective game Her Story is finally on its way to Android devices. Well, it's out now in fact.

No longer shall Civ players have their games interrupted by a pithy Queen Elizabeth, demanding to know if they'd be interested in a new trade agreement with England.

DICE's decision to go back to WWI for its latest Battlefield looks to have been complemented by a wealth of historical research and a neat line in authenticity, as chronicled by a recent and quite fascinating video detailing all the real-life artifacts that have made their way into the game.