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Opinions about the Final Fantasy VII remake are everywhere you look today. People are excited by the new trailer, and simultaneously confused/intrigued/terrified by the announcement that the game will be broken down into multiple parts. Whether you treat this revelation with indifference or indignation though, it's certainly an exciting time to be a Final Fantasy 7 fan.

Developer Night Dive Studios has released new screenshots from the Turok remaster project. Remember how, in the 1997 original, you could barely see your hands in front of you for all that fog? Well now you can! You can see way into the distance! No need to hide the texture pop-in these days.

Ubisoft has delayed its beta for Tom Clancy's The Division. The test was due to run this month, but will now take place in "early 2016".

UPDATE 7/12/15 2.35pm The announcement of Ni No Kuni 2 during Saturday's PlayStation Experience keynote was one of the highlights of the night. Now, publisher Bandai Namco has revealed an extended version of the game's reveal trailer.

Codemasters' Dirt Rally will launch for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 5th April 2016, the publisher has announced.

Whether you call it "emergent gameplay," "emergent narrative," or simply "emergence," the idea of undirected and even unforeseen events happening in a video game has always been something of a holy grail for a certain flavour of designer. The idea behind this ideal is that your game, almost always something of a sandbox in its nature, has all the ingredients required to constantly cook up original, spontaneous and unplanned events. It can endlessly recombine its many elements to produce new surprises and new situations.

Torchlight developer Runic Games has shown a video of new game Hob in action. The game is console-exclusive on PS4 but is also coming to PC (at the same time).

Open world explodathon Just Cause 3 has blasted into the UK chart in fourth place.

Dying Light's The Following expansion will launch 9th February 2016, Polish developer Techland has announced, alongside - as well as included within - a newly unveiled Enhanced Edition of the game. This is for all three formats: PC, PS4, Xbox One.

This week, the Game Awards gave us a look at Far Cry Primal, which takes the Far Cry series all the way back to the mesolithic period.

Taito's seminal Darius series - like its arcade competitors R-Type and Gradius - is one of the franchises which helped shape and define the 2D horizontal shooter genre during the coin-op dreamland that was the mid-to-late '80s. However, unlike its aforementioned contemporaries - which have sadly fallen dormant due to developer collapse and publisher apathy respectively - Darius has more or less managed to remain in active duty since those glory days.

Emerging from the ashes of the cancelled Rainbow Six Patriots, Ubisoft's latest entry in the franchise has finally arrived as Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege on Xbox One, PS4, and the PC. It's a tactical multiplayer shooter built on Ubisoft's AnvilNext engine offering a selection of subtly beautiful, realistic locales ripe for action. The fact that a small scale, tactical first person shooter has been created using technology designed for large scale open world games is surprising but the results are excellent. The benefits of AnvilNext are abundantly clear with very natural lighting and realistic materials throughout each map. Rainbow Six Siege is not an inherently flashy game, but if you stop and look around its environments, there is a lot of beauty to appreciate. Many of the interiors sport very natural indirect lighting along with realistic stone and metal work reminiscent of the gorgeous Assassin's Creed Unity.

I can still remember the first family I created. On the fifth of February 2000, the day after The Sims launched, Mr and Mrs Bead moved into the single-bedroom bungalow located at 2 Sim Lane. Mr Bead was a slim, gentlemanly figure with neatly-cut black hair and pencil moustache, while Mrs Bead looked exactly like the Sim displayed in the bottom-middle square on the cover of the game box, turquoise dress and all.

And that's it - we're done. It was a decent enough show, with a proper look at Final Fantasy 7's remake, a Ni No Kuni sequel and Rez in VR. Oh, and there was some MOBA from Epic that I've already forgotten the name of. Here's all the action as it happened.

Tim Schafer's classic biker-based point-and-click adventure Full Throttle is getting an HD remake with Full Throttle Remastered coming to PS4, Vita and PC in 2017.

Super Crate Box and Luftrausers developer Vlambeer's action-roguelike Nuclear Throne is out today on PS4, Vita, PC, Mac and Linux with a PS3 version to follow.

Destiny will get a new Sparrow Racing League event, starting next week on 8th December.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi's trippy 2001 shooter Rez is coming to PlayStation VR as Rez Infinite, Sony announced during its PlayStation Experience keynote moments ago.

Ubisoft has announced Eagle Flight, a game for PlayStation VR where you explore a city via the air.

Earlier this week Psychonauts creator Tim Schafer teased an unannounced project in addition to the Psychonauts sequel that launched its crowdfunding campaign on Thursday. Now that game has been revealed as a Psychonauts spin-off for Sony's PS4 headset PlayStation VR.

Further footage of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End was revealed at Sony's PlayStation Experience keynote moments ago.

Square Enix has revealed the first gameplay footage of the PlayStation 4 Final Fantasy 7 Remake.

Following on from Mad Max, Avalanche Studios throws out gritty post-apocalyptic landscapes for Just Cause 3 in favour of a vibrant and bombastic open world action title, where the emphasis is firmly on crazy stunts and rampant destruction. Spectacle is what this series is all about, and in this regard Just Cause 3 certainly delivers - the question is whether the underlying technology is capable of fully delivering the necessary pyrotechnics while retaining its 30fps performance target.

With 2015 rapidly drawing to a close (seriously, where has this year gone?), we at Eurogamer are faced with the difficult task of picking a game of the year. And as Chris and I discovered, there's nothing quite like combing through the year's releases to make you realise how many games you haven't played.

I chose to be a doctor for lots of reasons. Some of them good! None of them to do with improved marriage prospects (I am only half Asian). None of them very sexy either, mind. If medical school was X-Factor, I wouldn't be picked to tell my life story in the crowd. I don't have a dead nan who always believed in my ability to take blood pressure or anything.

Trine developer Frozenbyte has announced its next game, a new fantasy stealth IP called Shadwen.

Eight PS2 games are being added to PS4 tomorrow to commemorate PlayStation's 20th anniversary.

Psychonauts​ 2 is doing the business with $1m raised in a scant 14 hours.

Earlier this week The Stanley Parable designer William Pugh teased an upcoming game and now that game is out. It's a free 20-minute first-person affair called Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger And The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist.

Double Fine's debut 2005 adventure Psychonauts is a game about dreams. On the surface, it's about actual dreams as your pre-pubescent psychic commander Raz hops inside the subconscious of others like a benevolent Freddy Kruger, but it also represents a dream for fans. Psychonauts may have been a critical darling upon its release a decade ago (it even snagged Eurogamer's highly coveted Game of the Year Award), but it failed to sell very well and any hopes to see a sequel were almost immediately stamped out.