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Microsoft's made its one millionth Xbox One Elite controller.

Sony has nearly 21m PlayStation Plus subscribers on its books.

Overwatch's highly anticipated Competitive Play mode is launching today on PC. That's the good news.

For four years League of Legends has been the most-played game each week in South Korean PC gaming cafes - but no longer. Overwatch has beaten it.

We're used to cringe-worthy video game celebrity promotions. Who can forget the time EA wheeled Pele on-stage at E3?

Doom's first post-launch update is due this Thursday, 30th June, and it adds the new Photo Mode feature for capturing classier screenshots. This will be available from the pause menu once you're loaded into a game map.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3's upcoming Descent DLC Pack adds dragons. Really.

Viking strategy sequel The Banner Saga 2 wasn't going to launch on consoles until 26th July, but porting team Shiny Shoe was remarkably ahead of schedule so we're now getting it in the next few days.

Adventures of Mana, a remake of the precursor to Secret of Mana, is now available on Vita for £10.49 / €13.99.

Free-to-play team-based mech shooter Hawken is finally coming to PS4 and Xbox One next month. Or, more specifically, 1st July on Xbox One and 8th July for PS4.

Gearbox's MOBA/shooter hybrid Battleborn may not have been a smash hit sales-wise out the gate, but the Texas studio is committed to the game and has big plans to flesh it out with a plethora of DLC.

PlayStation owners aren't the only ones suffering a bereavement today. Microsoft has announced plans to "sunset" Xbox Fitness, its Kinect-powered workout app for Xbox One. As of yesterday, Xbox Fitness content can no longer be purchased. In a year's time - from 1st July 2017 - support will be pulled entirely, and even owners will no longer be able to download or play the workouts they've bought. The Free With Gold offer that allowed Xbox Live Gold members to access over 30 workouts as part of their subscription will be removed on December 15th.

UPDATE 28/06/2016 4.56pm Firewatch developer Campo Santo has offered the following pisstake on Ford stealing the game's art for its ad campaign. It also points out that Firewatch is 33 per cent off on Steam until 4th July. Nice!

Microsoft's announced July's Xbox Games with Gold titles.

Update 11/patch 2.5.0 will be released for The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited 1st August on PC and Mac, and 16th August on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It'll be around 5.6GB, according to an announcement on the ESO subreddit.

There is a rainbow in my heart, as Chang once said (in The Blue Lotus?). The good news is that Housemarque is adding a load of new stuff to Alienation for free this July. The bad news is that this probably means that some people at Housemarque are working on Alienation when they should be prepping the Eugene Jarvis Project for release ASAP. Swings and roundabouts. (Also a Chang quote.)

What a cruel week it's been. Sony has just announced that the PlayStation 4 is to cease support of Ustream, the broadcast service that's been a part of Live from PlayStation since its launch. It's a truly sad day.

Development on the PC version of Godus has ground to a halt, Eurogamer understands.

I used to be a massive fan of survival games, especially ones featuring zombies. I couldn't get enough of them, and streamed them for countless hours. Well, you probably could count them if you went back through all the archived videos, but it'd take a while, is what I'm saying.

Yooka-Laylee may have been delayed until early 2017, but we're hopeful that Playtonic can match the lofty expectations that come with creating a successor to Banjo-Kazooie. From our early look at the studio back when they revealed their Kickstarter campaign, to this most recent gameplay reveal, it's difficult not to get swept up by the enthusiasm.

Fans have restored some of the content that got lost in translation when Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE made the journey from east to west, patching the Wii U JRPG in order to move it in line with its Japanese counterpart.

Sony has forced a Saudi gamer to change his PSN Online ID after declaring it offensive.

For some reason, we're watching Quantico in my house. It's a drama about terrorists and the FBI. Have you seen it? It's not terrible, but it's not great, either. In fact, Quantico is barely anything at all. Something in a recent episode made my wife sit up pretty sharply, however, and then grab the remote, rewind and pause. It wasn't a plot twist or a pithy line of dialogue, because this is Quantico we're talking about. No, it was a diploma on the wall of an office belonging to one of the main characters. A diploma proudly announcing that he had graduated from the "Universisty of Kentucky". That must have been nice! Everybody's better off with a degree from a good universisty!

I spent the first few hours of Inside thinking: sure, this is all fine, but it's hardly the spider, is it? That's the danger of making a follow-up to a game that has such a singular impact, I guess. In my memory, at least, when you're playing Limbo, when you're navigating that monochromatic dream world riddled with 2D platforming puzzles, you're either dealing with the spider or you're worrying about her coming back again. Inside's another near-monochromatic affair (although the understated use of dreary dawn colour is really excellent). It's set on a 2D plane once more and it's filled with all manner of platforming puzzles. Inside even has the same deft wit when it comes to delivering endless, crushing death after death after death, always with an appealing kind of bluntness. This is death as a full-stop: silent, definitive, dramatically non-dramatic. Death that says: that didn't work, so what now?

Twitch has launched microtransactions that let you buy cheers.

Warner Bros. has delayed Batman: Return to Arkham.

The developer behind Orion: Prelude says Activision had Valve pull his game from Steam over allegedly stolen guns.

Ah when creativity inspires creativity! Behold the work of professional artist Astor Alexander, who has made characters from The Witcher series, Mario, Zelda, BioShock and Metroid look very different indeed. He's turned them into pulp book covers, noir detective images and even Renaissance-style paintings.

Recently revealed prototype controllers for the original Xbox keep up the longstanding tradition of absolutely bonkers game-pad mock-ups.

Drugs and driving don't go together. Unless you're blissed out in the passenger seat of a Citroen Saxo listening to Spacemen 3 while the glorious English countryside rushes by. Generally, though, it's best to keep the two well apart.