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It's been a good week for people who enjoy half-cloaks and complicated bits of machinery, all things told. Star Wars Battlefront's new DLC let's you play as cape-sporting cloud man Lando Calrissian, whereas Fallout 4's Contraptions workshop DLC lets you tinker with all sorts of, well, contraptions.

Imagine being Ben Fogle. I'm sure we all have, at some point. It must be tough. The daily challenge of having to look rugged and cuddly at the same time. The effort of batting away armies of women who just want to ruffle your hair. The struggle to convince yourself that it's OK, safari jackets ARE still cool.

Pac-Man looks poised to make his debut on current gen consoles as a listing for Pac-Man: Championship Edition 2 has been spotted on the Korean ratings board (via lifelower on Twitter).

Furi, an action game comprised entirely of boss fights, is due on 5th July for PS4 and PC (via Steam), developer The Game Bakers has announced.

My hands-on time with Shadow Warrior 2 started innocently enough: a quick run-through of the controls from Flying Wild Hog's, Tadeusz Zielinski before an introduction to the sequel's brand new level structure.

Machine Games, the developer of Wolfenstein: The New Order and a studio that contributed to id's recent Doom reboot, has made a new Quake episode in honour of the classic shooter's 20th birthday.

Whore of the Orient, that mysterious game by Team Bondi (LA Noire), sounds like it is dead and buried - and has been for a while.

The UK has voted to leave the European Union in an historic campaign - but what does it mean for the UK video game industry?

Destiny's Hunter class took a big hit in the game's recent June update.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is not giftable during the ongoing Steam sale, Valve has confirmed.

Halo 5 gets the big Warzone Firefight update next week - and the full game will be free to download and play to coincide with the launch.

I learnt everything I know about history from Civilization, which I played for hours on end on my Amiga back in the early nineties.

This week, Alderac Entertainment Group announced it would cease production on collectible card game Doomtown: Reloaded. On paper this means that, after October 2016, there will be no new expansions released for the cowboy card game set in the weird west town of Gomorrah. In practise, it means that I - and many other Doomtown fans worldwide - am very, very sad.

On the face of it, Mighty No. 9 shouldn't be causing PlayStation 4 or Xbox One any problems. After all, it's a simplistic Unreal Engine 3-based side-scroller, and despite its humble origins as a Kickstarter-funded project, this should be a fairly easy win for Keiji Inafune and his team at Comcept. As a spiritual successor to Mega Man, we expected rock-solid 60fps platforming, a firm-but-fair level of challenge and something close to the visual style shown in its original pitch. What we've ended up with is something remarkably sub-par.

Mighty No. 9's end credits are an incredible three hours and 48 minutes long. This is because developer Comcept needed to thank all 71,493 backers who pledged at least $5 to the crowdfunded title.

Sega mascot and Mario arch-frenemy Sonic the Hedgehog has turned 25 today.

Devil's Third, the debut effort of Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki's Valhalla Game Studios, only launched last August but it's already shuttering its online multiplayer at the end of the year.

Steam's annual Summer Sale is now live, offering plenty of sales and daily deals between now and 4th July at 6pm UK time.

Dynasty Warriors developer Omega Force recently revealed its upcoming Warriors spin-off based on the popular pulpy manga series Berserk. Now we have a trailer showing brief snippets of gameplay.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, the Castlevania spiritual successor by Castlevania: Symphony of the Night producer and co-director Koji Igarashi, now has a demo for folks who pledged $60 or more to the game's Kickstarter.

Nintendo has finally shown off its Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DLC for Hyrule Warriors: Legends on 3DS.

Last night, screenshots of upcoming Wii U game Paper Mario: Color Splash caused a storm on Twitter, as sections of dialogue were interpreted as a reference to the harassment of developer Zoe Quinn.

The UK's two biggest video game magazine companies are now one.

In space no-one can hear you scream - unless you're in a Call of Duty spacesuit, that is.

The video game birthdays keep on coming: now Quake is 20 years old.

Rez Infinite comes out on 13th October 2016 for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR.

Next week Capcom will update fighting game Street Fighter 5 so that you can finally buy Hot Ryu.

We have the 1980s to thank for any number of embarrassing cultural trends - neoliberalism, an epidemic of mullets, Christopher Lambert's acting career - but sometimes I think the decade's most terrible legacy is allowing video game creators to pass off shabby design as quasi-satirical retro entertainment.

The boys from Respawn are back. By the time Titanfall 2 launches, it will have been two-and-a half years since their mech-focused first-person shooter first touched down on Xbox One.

The N64 launched 20 years ago today in Japan.