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Hardware: Rivals, currently in beta on PS4, entered my consciousness recently not so much with a fanfare but with a low, persistent rumble. The majority of the people I've spoken to so far about Sony's drivey-shooty title have been more than happy to play the soothsayer, each saying the same thing; this game might be onto something special. This, they say reverentially, could be the next Rocket League.

Shovel Knight's retail release was originally scheduled for next week, but it's just been delayed a fortnight. Now it's set for 30th October in Europe and 3rd November in North America on 3DS, Wii U, PS4, and PC. (Note: The PC version is Europe only.)

Battlefield Hardline will be added to the EA Access Vault on 14th October, allowing members unlimited access to the latest shooter in DICE's long-running series.

Blackwell series developer and Gemini Rue, Primordia and Resonance publisher Wadjet Eye Games has revealed its next sci-fi point-and-click adventure Shardlight.

Bombastic 16-bit platforming shooter Broforce will finally emerge out of Early Access for an official launch on 15th October for PC, Mac and Linux.

People poking around the Star Wars: Battlefront beta files on PC have found mention of other iconic heroes as well as something called Hero Hunt or Hero Battle.

UPDATE 4PM BST: The patch is 15GB on console and between six-15GB on PC, community manager Marcin Momot has revealed. The Hearts of Stone expansion will be a separate download (comes out 13th October). But according to Momot, speaking in an email, the HOS download will be "considerably smaller".

Telltale's final Tales from the Borderlands episode will launch on 20th October for PC/Mac, PlayStation 4 and PS3.

Open world explosion simulator Just Cause 3 has blasted out a new gameplay trailer, which includes more fireballs than our EGX curry house on vindaloo night.

When the man that made XCOM asks you to fund a Kickstarter campaign, you listen. It's been more than a year and a half since Julian Gollop raised $210,854 to remake Chaos: The Battle of Wizards and from the time I've spent with the game in Early Access, I'd say he's done a pretty fine job. It's now almost time to see the full release, with version 1.0 planned for the 26th October.

The other day, I experienced a rather unwelcome reminder of my own mortality; I found out that I was the oldest member of Eurogamer's video team by oh, about 10 years. Leaving aside from the whole 'getting closer to dying' thing though, being a decade older than the rest of my colleagues does have a few advantages, the main one being I've had the time to experience way more games than the rest of those baby-faced nerds (I'm not bitter, honest).

"The future is the same, but different." It's a phrase I've heard oft repeated and yet never attributed. Whatever its origin, it suits Eidos Montréal's vision for Mankind Divided very well indeed. Not only do the team want to continue to serve us their very particular flavour or cyberpunk cynicism, showing a world where technology has created as many problems as it has solved, they also don't want to alienate players who so enjoyed Human Revolution. "You don't have to reinvent the wheel every time," is producer Olivier Proulx's philosophy.

League of Legends is already the biggest video game in the world. Now, the BBC will stream its biggest tournament.

Destiny: The Taken King owners can now finally get their hands on Sleeper Simulant, the much-teased exotic fusion rifle that has - until today - been unavailable.

EA account security has once again come under fire after a handful of high-profile FIFA YouTubers were hacked.

By many accounts, Metal Gear Solid 5 is unfinished. A final mission that actually brought closure to the game's convoluted plot was left on the cutting room floor, and many players felt that the entirety of chapter two, when compared to the confident execution of chapter one, seemed like a rush job. Metal Gear Online feels a bit like that too.

Because you don't directly earn experience points for combat in Torment: Tides of Numenera - you may as part of a quest - it means combat is handled a little differently.

It sounds like development on Battlecry, Bethesda's Team Fortress-esque multiplayer game, isn't going well.

Xbox timed-exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider includes microtransactions for blind packs of game-modifying cards.

Most developers avoid telling us how long their game campaigns last. They prefer to speak of their stories in vague terms when asked about hours, for fear of putting off prospective customers who might have had an expectation that ends up wide of the mark.

The second Street Fighter 5 beta test begins on 22nd October and ends on 25th October, Capcom has announced.

There's a scene in the film Hook where Peter Pan and the Lost Boys sit down for a glorious feast, pungent vapour wafting from pots and pans piled high on a table before them. The lids come off and the children stuff their big satisfied mouths, but Pan, the adult, stays still. He's forgotten how to use his imagination: he can't see the food. He no longer sees the magic.

Last month a slew of prominent video game voice actors voted to go on strike through the union SAG-AFTRA. That strike is now authorised with a whopping 96.52 per cent of union members having voted in its favour.

UPDATE 6th October 2015: Metal Gear Solid 5's costume DLC is live now. [Editor's note: It appears that this is only on Xbox One and Xbox 360. The PlayStation and PC versions have yet to arrive, but an alleged screencap of a since-removed listing on the PlayStation Store suggests a 20th October release.]

Capcom has released some new gameplay footage of Resident Evil: Umbrella Corps, the third-person multiplayer shooter spin-off of its popular horror series.

Apotheon developer Alientrap Games' has launched its upcoming procedurally-generated sci-fi adventure game Cryptark on Steam Early Access.

I thought I wanted to play Anno 2205 because it would let me build a city on the moon, but really, it turns out that's just a bonus. Five hours with an early preview build this week have revealed that the game's biggest strength actually comes from the way it handles multiple settlements at the same time. Or rather, how it asks you to handle them.

Game soundtracks are getting standalone releases with ever greater frequency these days, which is great; they lend so much to our gaming experiences, whether we notice it consciously or not, and they absolutely deserve greater recognition.

Sky Broadband customers have got in touch with Eurogamer to let us know they have been unable to play Rocket League on PlayStation 4 following the release of the console's most recent update.

UPDATE 7/10/15 10.20am: Ghost Trick will return to the iOS App Store, Capcom has now said.