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Why did I decide to walk all the way to the sea in one evening while playing Fallout 4's new Survival Mode? I don't know. Does the swallow question why it flies south in winter, or the salmon why it must hurl itself against the rapids? All I know is that on firing up a new save, I felt the call of the ocean in my marrow.

Dark Souls 3 was the best-selling game in US retail for the month of April, analyst NPD Group has revealed.

UPDATE 13/05/206 12.01am: Ubisoft confirmed in its latest financial call that it's planning to reveal its mysterious new AAA IP at E3. Beyond that, the publisher wouldn't comment on what genre it is.

Star Trek Online is getting PS4 and Xbox One ports this autumn, publisher Perfect World Entertainment has announced.

Monster Hunter: Generations - aka Monster Hunter X - will launch in Europe on 15th July.

The Russian Embassy in London has tweeted a screenshot from PC real-time strategy game Command & Conquer: Generals.

There won't be any new content released for The Witcher 3 after second expansion Blood and Wine, game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me.

UPDATE 12/5/16: The Banner Saga 2 will launch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on Tuesday 26th July, developer Stoic has said.

Back in January, Eurogamer published artwork and gameplay details of Star Wars: Outpost, a PC and mobile strategy title which had been in development for two years at LucasArts before being canned.

I was listening to Tom Hanks' Desert Island Discs on the bus this week when I realised I was in no way emotionally prepared for it. This should not have been surprising, of course, since Desert Island Discs, particularly with Kirsty in charge, has a formula that helps get beneath the skin of its guests like no other interview programme. Hanks is typically great from the off, inevitably, but if you want to find the moment that killed me, it's around the 24 minute mark on the podcast, just after the theme from 2001 has played. Kirsty asks a gently probing question about Hanks' challenging childhood experiences, and after a slightly strangled "Ahhhh," there's a surprisingly long pause. Has the feed cut out? No. Because then Hanks asks, "What have you done to me?" and although he's chuckling it's clear that he's also crying. Then, through the snotty nose of the weeper, comes the line that floored me. "I've put far too much thought into this list."

Collectible card battler Chronicle: Runescape Legends will launch fully via Steam on Thursday, 26th May.

UPDATE 12/5/16: After a month-long fundraising campaign, Fear Effect Sedna has finally passed its crowd-backed total.

Less than a week since its reveal, Battlefield 1 now has the best-rated trailer across the whole of YouTube.

The Assassin's Creed movie now has its first trailer, which shows off Michael Fassbender's main character, the film's present day and historical storylines plus a brooding Jeremy Irons.

Hitman is a series of some wonder. It has been since its inception in 2000, and the latest instalment (helpfully differentiated as Hitmanᵀᴹ) is a hugely welcome return to form. Despite its focus on methodical professionalism and minimal exposure, the series has always been surprisingly lenient with allowing you to play it wrong. We've all done it; a Silent Assassin attempt goes awry and instead of rage-quitting, something snaps and we start getting even. Running around with guns blazing, innocents fleeing in panic while security piles in. It becomes a fight against the odds, an endurance challenge where luck is as important as skill. In one glorious fumble you go from elite professional to deranged mass-murderer.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Spirit of Justice, the new name for what was formerly known as Ace Attorney 6, will arrive this September as a 3DS-exclusive in Europe and North America.

Civilization 6 has just been announced, with a trailer that doesn't show us any gameplay, but does include narration from Sean Bean.

This autumn's Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing smartphone games will be free-to-play, Nintendo and DeNA confirmed to the Wall Street Journal today.

Medicine is broken. "Drugs are tested by people who manufacture them, in poorly designed studies, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques which are flawed by design, in such a way that they exaggerate the benefits of treatments. Unsurprisingly, these trials tend to produce results that favour the manufacturer," says Ben Goldacre in his book Bad Pharma. He also says quite a bit more beside, because medicine really is very broken. This is 1) terrible, because all of us rely on medicine at one time or another and have a basic faith in the white-coated ministers who provide it, and 2) a marvellous opportunity to make an extremely evil strategy game.

In last night's EA financial splurge we learned that Titanfall 2 will release alongside Battlefield 1 this autumn. Both have very different settings but both are shooters with a emphasis on multiplayer.

Dark Souls 3, "the spectacular conclusion to From Software's trilogy", has had the biggest launch in the series, shipping 3m copies.

Gamer Network is hosting an early round of battles in Overwatch's beta, with a few lucky readers who are going hands-on with the game ahead of its full launch later this month.

Uncharted 4: A thief's End just launched yesterday and folks have discovered a couple of very funny, self-deprecating hidden Trophies.

A couple of years ago I was dozing in front of the TV when I woke to see a spaceship on fire. In actual fact, it was a zeppelin, vast and menacing, presented via a slightly dodgy cable channel special effect, and it was on fire because of the plucky Brits. When German zeppelins raided England in the First World War, the slightly dodgy cable channel documentary explained, they were grim agents of terror, ghosting over the channel at night, flinging their bombs and leaving devastation, death and a profound sense of national violation behind them. For a while, there was no counter, either, until people started to think about the flammable gases that kept the zeppelins afloat. Could that be the key?

Star Wars: Battlefront will receive a sequel next year, publisher EA confirmed in a financial call earlier today.

Titanfall is is slated for a Q4 release, publisher EA has confirmed.

Disney Interactive will no longer self-publish console video games. That means it will cease development on Disney Infinity and shutter its developer Avalanche Software.

Star Wars: Battlefront has sold over 14m copies to retailers, publisher EA announced in its latest financial report.

UPDATE 10/05/2016 8.56pm: Another Xbox One backwards compatibility update has added Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut, Faery: Legends of Avalon, Final Fight: Double Impact, Frogger 2, and Puzzlegeddon.

A year ago I sat in a room with a downcast Adam Badowski, studio head of CD Projekt Red, and we talked about The Witcher 3 'graphics downgrade'. He wanted his game to visually knock people's socks off but instead it faced criticism.