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Cliff Harris, the brain behind Positech Games (Big Pharma, Gratuitous Space Battles), has announced development of Democracy 3: Africa. It's a full-on "re-imagining" of the policy-juggling political strategy game Democracy 3, and will be standalone so you won't need the older game in order to play it.

There's a problem with the Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 transfer patch that was finally released at the end of October: it doesn't include the final few days of summer football transfers which, as we know, are when a lot of moves tend to happen. It means the PES community has waited a long time for an incomplete roster update.

Microsoft has shown off a video tour of the new Xbox One dashboard, which launches worldwide on 12th November.

Activision Blizzard has bought King, the company behind Candy Crush Saga, for $5.9bn.

Naughty Dog's hints that Uncharted 4 could be its last entry in the series - a suggestion made most recently at last week's Paris Games Show - shouldn't come as a big surprise. Especially so, judging by the ideas bandied about in its multiplayer demo, a five versus five team deathmatch set to a striking jungle stage. It's clear the team is in a reflective mood, as if casting its mind back on the series' highlights since its 2007 debut, and incorporating it all into one package. It's an online mode that feels like a celebration, a carnival of all things Uncharted, as the studio looks to close its tenure with the series.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will receive a map editor and modding tools for its PC version in 2016, developer Treyarch has announced.

Metroid has been re-imagined as a '70s sci-fi epic in an impressive new fan film, titled Metroid: The Sky Calls.

Around 24 staff have been let go from Just Cause 3 and Mad Max developer Avalanche Studios.

The name of the game may be Overwatch, but we all know what we're playing is a slice of a bigger project Blizzard would no doubt rather forget. Titan, the long-in-development game designed to revolutionise the MMO genre, never quite found its flame - save, that is, for one bright spark that Blizzard couldn't quite put out: a team-based shooter that went into beta last week.

A flurry of leaked Fallout 4 gameplay videos have hit the net, giving us our first proper look at all the perks available in the game. New perks have been singled out on Reddit and added to the full list on the Fallout Wiki.

Fallout 4 gameplay has hit the internet over a week before the game launches.

Welcome to the final episode of Arcadia Baes, our spoiler-filled podcast/therapy group for fans of Life is Strange.

There's a certain tension at the heart of every good theme park. As a park owner, you naturally want your punters to have a good time. But as a currency, smiles and laughter only go so far. At some stage, you're going to need them to open their wallets. "It's like a John Lewis advert, right?" says John Laws, art director at Frontier Developments. "I get the exact same feeling when I see the John Lewis advert at the end of each year: 'Oh, that's really nice production design, better than most other ads'. And ultimately they just want me to spend money. But I don't care, because it's nice to watch."

Xbox One exclusive Halo 5: Guardians topped the UK all-format charts for its debut week of release.

Planning to buy Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 on a last-generation console? There are a few things you need to know.

Nintendo has covered up a character's clothing in the Western version of Wii U role-playing game Xenoblade Chronicles X.

It's the kind of stunt a beleaguered producer at Top Gear might, in a flash of inspiration, devise over a steak dinner: "I've got it! Football, but, wait for it, played with cars!" The joke works because cars are not designed to spin on a heel and change direction mid-sprint. They cannot, typically, leap, salmon-like, into a diving header. The angled bodywork of a sedan does not encourage predictable rebounds or strikes. On the football pitch, a vehicular head-on-collision will likely result in more than a mere crimson card. And yet, as Rocket League, the smash hit car-footie video game of the summer, of which more than 200 million matches have been played by six million players since July, demonstrates, from these physical limitations wonderful opportunity arises.

Anyone can now get a full refund for Batman: Arkham Knight's PC version, regardless of how much of the game they have played.

InXile's Torment: Tides of Numenera has been pushed to 2016. It never had a rock solid 2015 date but the hope was to have it out in quarter four.

Fan-favourite Black Ops multiplayer map Nuketown returns for Black Ops 3.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based upon a review event for Need for Speed, as well as a weekend playing at home. Given the online nature of this Need for Speed, we'll have our full review up later this week once we've had experience of the game running on live, fully stressed servers.

It's one of the most frequent questions we get asked at Digital Foundry - especially on our YouTube channel. Just how do we measure console frame-rate and create our performance videos? Is there some kind of console equivalent to the classic PC performance tool, FRAPS? It's a long story, and one we've partially covered in the past, but one of the aspects that most excited me about expanding our video output was the opportunity to use the medium to demystify a lot of what we do, to show our tools and processes. And that begins right here.

With James Bond's latest outing Spectre in cinemas this week, it's the ideal time to revisit 007's less than stellar record of videogame spycraft.

Few creatures have ever been as ferociously tribal as the '90s Apple fan. It may be difficult to imagine now that Apple is the richest entity on the planet, but the '90s were not a good time for the company. Windows 3.1 wrecked Mac OS's special snowflake status, and Apple's own executives seemed hellbent on finishing the job with an endless succession of lousy-yet-expensive computers (eg the underpowered $7,500 20th Anniversary Mac) and interesting-yet-underbaked ideas (eg the Newton PDA).

Time of day dynamic lighting has returned to the Assassin's Creed series in its latest outing - and we thought we'd make the most out of it. Over the course of the last week, one of our PlayStation 4s has been attached to a spare capture system, patiently recording time-lapse video of Victorian London while we busy ourselves with other tasks. It's been a fascinating experience - exploring an environment we know so well, finding key locations and comparing Ubisoft's renderings of 1868 with our own knowledge of the city 147 years later.

This week, Kotaku published an excellent summary of [08:46], a "VR experience" that takes place in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre on the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

It took my Xbox One more than a day to download Halo 5 on an extremely fast connection: the power of the cloud, eh? It felt like I was back on the Dreamcast. But let's be honest, slow downloads are the least of Xbox One's problems: last week I read an article headlined 'The Xbox One is Garbage and the Future is Bulls***.' While I don't agree, it was hard to read about mandatory installs, updates, and other tiresome minutiae without some empathy. We've all been there and, in the grip of frustration, many of us react by letting rip like this.

Austin-based multimedia festival SXSW could be adding an all-day event focused on combatting online harassment following the backlash it's received after canceling two gaming-related panels due to threats of violence.

UPDATE 4.45pm: November's other PlayStation Plus games include the excellent Mass Effect 2 and Beyond Good & Evil on PlayStation 3, plus Invizimals on Vita and Dragon Fin Soup across PS3, PS4 and Vita.

Look, there's no way to say this without sounding horribly smug so I apologise in advance, but we've got a Fallout 4 Pip-Boy edition.