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The Game Boy is 25 years old in Europe this week, and by this point, they're pretty much everywhere. Or rather, they were pretty much everywhere. Now they're often in attics, I imagine, or in sheds, or in crates slid under beds. Nintendo made over 100 million Game Boys, which isn't bad, but today I don't want to think about that. I want to think back to a period - a period that probably didn't exist the way I see it - where there is just one of them. Just one Game Boy. The first. And somebody is road-testing it.

There were a bunch of interesting games tucked away in the Rezzed area at this year's EGX, but one I really wanted to play was Vermintide (Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, to give its full name). Now I run the risk of gaining a reputation for only talking about games involving Warhammer, but if it helps, this one isn't part of the strategy genre!

Prison Architect, the game that saved Introversion, did so in spectacular style: to date it has earned more than $19m from over 1.25m sales.

My nineties best friend lived in Dulwich. He had a lovely, big house, and a lovely, big living room with a lovely, big telly on the wall. And he had a PS1.

Sony's PlayStation hit a significant milestone yesterday in the UK, celebrating 20 years since the original PS1 released over here. Three generations later it's still going strong with the PS4, its newest console exceeding expectations and becoming the fastest selling PlayStation yet. You can forgive Sony, then, if there are a few hangovers in their offices this morning after any celebrations last night.

Modders have created an add-on for Fallout: New Vegas that looks as slick as an official expansion.

New DLC has been spotted for Super Smash Bros., with the classic Zelda-themed Pirate Ship stage that debuted in Brawl appearing on the Wii U eShop today.

Xbox One and the Xbox App on Windows 10 have been updated to add 12-person party chat.

Nintendo's doing theme park rides. Ubisoft's doing them. Now there's going to be a Mass Effect theme park ride.

Back in December 2013, when I reviewed Gran Turismo 6, I started off by saying it wasn't finished. Now, nearly two years later and with a tonne of people having abandoned their PS3s, Polyphony's driving sim can finally lay claim to being complete. Today, the Course Maker that's been promised since before the game's launch is finally out.

The people behind the Shadowrun games launched a Kickstarter for a new BattleTech game - and it met its target in just 53 minutes.

A House of Many Doors is a 2D exploration RPG that may resemble Sunless Sea and there's a reason for that: developer Harry Tuffs was not only inspired by Failbetter's seafaring steampunk roguelike, he's working from the developer's office.

Nevermind, a horror game that lets you use biofeedback to make the game scarier, is out now for PC and Mac on Steam and the Humble Store.

The Stanley Parable creator Davey Wreden has announced his next game, The Beginner's Guide, due this Thursday on PC and Mac.

Eurogamer video supremo Ian Higton has played the new Tony Hawk's game for over an hour and already found it to be a bit of a glitchy mess.

Blizzard has kindly provided us with 1000 StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void closed beta keys to give away. Bless their (probably Blizzard-branded) cotton socks!

If it truly is better to burn out than fade away, then the original Guitar Hero series was doing something right. In 2009, a mere four years after the series was introduced, Guitar Hero 3 became the first single video game to exceed $1billion in sales. Less than two years later the series was dead, a victim of its own excesses that brought the whole genre down with it. FreeStyle Games, developer of Guitar Hero's Activision stablemate DJ Hero, was one of many casualties.

Troubled theme park construction reboot Rollercoaster Tycoon World will finally launch on 10th December for PC.

Destiny: The Taken King has rightly received praise for including a far greater emphasis on the game's story and characters. But much of Destiny's lore still remains hidden away in its Grimoire cards, which, disappointingly, can still only be read outside the game on Bungie's website or app.

The new Hitman launches on 11th March 2016 with three locations: Paris, Sapienza and Marrakesh, developer IO has revealed.

UPDATE 29/9/15 3.15pm Telltale has now confirmed the previously-leaked Back to the Future: The Game - 30th Anniversary Edition, which will launch next month for PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

In a crossover so obvious it's amazing it's taken so long to happen, Japanese director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano will be making an appearance in the next Yazuka game.

Putting parity above all else, FIFA 16 arrives on PS4, Xbox One and PC with a near pixel-matched output on all three. It sticks to series tradition by keeping console-specific strengths limited to exclusive content, in the form of select cards in the Ultimate Team mode - where Xbox One gets a handful of legendary players this year. From a technical standpoint though, there's little to separate the console versions in terms of visuals or features - but as a package, does FIFA 16 bring anything tangibly different to the table over FIFA 15?

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 has a larger day-one update than game's main install size.

This is new: an addiction to skylights. There are two on the roof of the Consulate map in Rainbow Six: Siege, and I can't leave them alone. You don't need to use up a breach charge on a skylight, you just smash the glass - they'll hear you coming - and then rappel down. I like to hover, on the first skylight, between the first and second storey landings. I like to hover upside down, and wait for those jerks with the explosives strapped to them to venture out to investigate the sound of breaking glass. Then I shoot them. Or at least I shoot at them. Sometimes I accidentally unrappel myself due to adrenalin and general clumsiness. That gets awkward! But not for long. Not for long.

Microsoft's game creation software Project Spark will abandon its free-to-play model from 5th October.

We originally ran this piece last December, as one of a series of features to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the PS1's launch in Japan. But of course, WipEout was actually released much later as part of the European launch line-up, so we're republishing this piece today, exactly 20 years since both the game - and the console that hosted it - were finally released in Europe.

Frictional's latest sci-fi horror adventure Soma is a clever piece of philosophical pondering wrapped up in a stylish H.R. Giger-inspired package. To further flesh out its ominous universe, Frictional is releasing a series of live-action webisodes set as a prequel to the game.

Rare has revealed all sorts of info about its cancelled Xbox game, Conker: Gettin' Medieval.

Six weeks ago thousands of players took to playing the same game of Dark Souls, simultaneously, over Twitch. As you would expect, this poor Chosen Undead's rampant case of multiple personality disorder made them unable to even get past the starting area. At one point they destroyed their only weapon after smashing it against a wall too many times. Things were not going well, to put it mildly. So channel TwitchPlaysDark modded the game to make it a turn-based affair.