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Tickets have just gone on sale for this year's EGX game show, which takes place at Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre (NEC) 22nd-25th September.

If someone were to make a movie out of a big-budget first-person shooter, it might look something like this.

We Europeans (the UK's still a part of Europe, right?) are used to seeing Guilty Gear games launch ages after they do in Japan and the US. So, it comes as a welcome surprise to learn that the latest in Arc System Works' fighting game series, Guilty Gear Xrd - Revelator, will launch in Europe just a few days after it does in the US.

The Hitman beta launches at 10am on Friday, 12th February on PlayStation 4 and then on PC a week later (as previously announced, the beta isn't coming to Xbox One). Developer IO Interactive has explained how it'll all work in a post on the Hitman website, and a few bits of new information have come to light.

As gamers age, competitive gaming becomes less appealing and genres such as strategy rise to the fore, according to a new study.

"It's like Elite Dangerous, but with actual s*** to do" is what a number of space gaming fans seem to think of Evochron Legacy. Most of them, no doubt, would put it in kinder terms: that thanks to all the bolted-on features that have been applied to Star Wraith 3D Games' flagship over the years, there exists within its current iteration a diversity that the 1.4 million buyers of Frontier's space adventure can only dream about.

Figurine manufacturer McFarlane Toys announced a series of Titanfall action figures due this winter that "will be released in conjunction with the highly anticipated launch of Titanfall 2".

Whimsical isometric puzzle-adventure Lumo is slated for a 26th April release on PC, Mac and Linux, developer Triple Eh? has announced.

Descent's original creators at Revival Productions have launched a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to their six-degrees-of-freedom shooter called Overload.

Post-apocalyptic family management game Sheltered is coming to PS4, developer Unicube Studios has announced.

Several folks have complained that Firewatch's PS4 build suffers from framerate hitches and developer Campo Santo has addressed the matter, assuring players that a fix is on the way.

Southern gothic roguelike The Flame in the Flood will arrive on PC, Mac and Xbox One on 24th February, developer The Molasses Flood has announced.

The Walking Dead: Michonne, Telltale's three-part spin-off of its popular Robert Kirkman zombie apocalypse adaptation, will premiere on 23rd February on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac.

Philip K. Dick-inspired sci-fi adventure Californium will arrive on PC and Mac via Steam on 17th February, developer Darjeeling has announced.

We like a good local multiplayer game in the Eurogamer office, usually for playing last thing of a Friday. Something that brings us together, unites us in the spirit of jolly co-operation and has us bonding over a greater, shared goal. Until Christian Donlan and Chris Bratt come along and ruin absolutely everything with their incessant squabbling, that is.

Well, this is unexpected. A brand new Pokémon has been revealed via Japanese magazine Coro Coro.

PlayStation 4 racing game DriveClub gets harder tomorrow with the release of a big new update.

Mode 7 Games has announced Frozen Synapse 2, the sequel to the brilliant double-blind tactics game in which everybody plans their moves in secret and then they all play out at once.

Gigantic, the MOBA notable because of cross-platform play between Windows 10 and Xbox One, looks in trouble after its developer suffered big layoffs.

Sega is working with Sony to make a Sonic movie.

This review was written before Intel made clear its intentions to lock down on unofficial overclocking on non-K series processors. At the time of writing, this avenue is still open but as and when it closes we will update with specific options open - or not - to users.

Well, this is more like it. We're at a heaving fashion show, where the marbled halls of a grand Paris palace that sits on the sun-kissed banks of the Seine is click-clacking with the heels of thousand dollar shoes while champagne glasses tinkle in the courtyards. What better place for a spot of dress-up? First there were the slacks and t-shirt smuggled from an unfortunate soul in a makeshift dressing room that helped us get past security and to the uppermost levels, but that was just the first rung on the ladder. What we found in the loft, though, is surely some kind of fashion end-game.

Crimson Days, Destiny's new attempt to pull back players, is all about couples - but it fails to properly address either of the game's two biggest problems. Once again, players are faced with a limited amount of things to do. And, once again, players are being left feeling like that haven't been properly rewarded for their time and efforts even if they do choose to engage and take part.

Since late December, it's been possible to overclock Intel's previously locked Skylake processors - and as we revealed in our review of the Core i5 6500, this allows for some pretty explosive performance increases in gaming. Now it seems that the party is over as Intel prepares a firmware update likely to spell the end to this unofficial route to extra processing power. Once this mandatory update becomes the standard, only Intel's officially unlocked chips - the Core i5 6600K and the Core i7 6700K - will be overclockable.

I've been having a lot of fun in XCOM 2 over the past week. Granted I made fellow video producer Chris Bratt in character customisation and then immediately got him killed, but hey - it's war, there are casualties.

Street Fighter 5 gets its first downloadable character in March.

UPDATE 10/2/16 9.00am: Mad Catz has reported its latest financial earnings and it's a mix of good and bad news - but mostly bad. The company will cut 37 per cent of its staff in a bid to save $5m over the next year.

The housing market is out of control. Look at the horror stories that come from London, about beds in cupboards that cost £500 a month to rent - and they're not even Harry Potter themed. But people want to be where the action is, so demand outstrips supply. Real estate in desirable locations: it's the most desirable thing. And Richard Garriott is banking on it.

UPDATE: Don't want to read words? Well here's Chris Bratt to save the day with an overview of Overwatch's recently announced progression system in video form. Look at the pretty pictures. Listen to his dulcet tones.

Screencheat - the experimental splitscreen first-person shooter where everyone is invisible and you have to gauge your opponents' location by looking at their quadrant of the screen - is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on 1st March, developer Samurai Punk has announced.