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Remember Sensible Soccer? Jon Hare, lead designer of the famous football series, is back with a spiritual successor, called Sociable Soccer.

You've got to hand it to Treyarch - the team's Call of Duty titles always push boundaries in terms of scale, scope and spectacle. Blacks Ops 3 delivers yet another bombastic Call of Duty campaign, this time backed by four-player online co-op, along with a two-player local split-screen mode. The team's technological ambitions are also remarkable in terms of the game's visuals: physically-based rendering, simulated global illumination and a battery of impressive post effects work makes this new campaign the most visually arresting yet.

Microsoft has just released the new Xbox One dashboard, which is rolling out now to users worldwide.

In 2002 Relic Entertainment - of Company of Heroes and Dawn of War fame - released a 3D real-time strategy game called Impossible Creatures for PC. It was unique in that the armies consisted of nine creatures, each one a combination of any two animals from a list of 76.

"You're playing it wrong." This frequently uttered pedantic phrase tends to draw my ire as it suggests a myopic view that your way of enjoying a game is the correct way of enjoying it. Fun isn't fun unless it's your kind of fun, amirite? But with Ludosity's experimental iOS game Progress to 100 I was playing it wrong and yet I still had a bloody good time with it.

Fallout 4 players have discovered a way to get as many bottle caps - the in-game currency - as they want.

EA has launched its Star Wars Battlefront companion app and website, just in time for the game's early launch today via EA Access.

SPOILER ALERT: This is an article about playing the Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 campaign backwards, so expect serious spoilers from the start.

Star Wars, Star Trek and Lost director JJ Abrams is working on a mysterious action strategy game named Spyjinx with Infinity Blade and Shadow Complex developer Chair.

UPDATE 11/11/15 4:45pm: Ghost Games have got in touch with this comment about our article, specifically about missing detail on the PS4 version of the game: "We're aware of the missing road detail in some areas of the world and are addressing this in an upcoming patch."

Fallout 4 differs from previous games in the post-apocalyptic series in that it lets you build bases. But the way the game introduces this eye-catching feature to the player can be a tad overwhelming - and confusing.

Remember that ridiculous (but I quite wanted one) Borderlands: Handsome Collection special edition that came with a remote controlled Claptrap robot and cost £270? Did you buy it? Let me rephrase that. Would you have bought it if the Claptrap robot had a moustache and a top hat, and a painted-on tux? Because for some reason that's exactly what GameStop will be stocking in November, several months after the game came out (27th March 2015).

It seems Black Ops 3's great Nuketown farce failed to dent the Call of Duty sales juggernaut: the shooter's once again made millions and millions.

Dark and delicious four-player Warhammer action game Vermintide has sold 300,000 copies, Swedish developer Fatshark has announced. And it will get some juicy new - and free - content on 3rd December (which is still too far away dammit).

Demon hunters seem pretty great. Having mucked around with World of Warcraft's second hero class at this year's BlizzCon, I came away impressed by the sheer amount of mobility they're set to offer. We're talking double jumps, dashes and the ability to glide through the air using a pair of big ol' demon wings that sprout from your character's back. Being primarily a Player vs. Player kind of... player, this all sounds like good stuff, but unfortunately I'm just not really that into elves.

In my review of Rise of the Tomb Raider earlier this week I wrote about how the game's Expeditions replay mode, with its blind packs of game-altering cards, was "a blatant play for YouTube relevance and micro-transaction revenue". Crystal Dynamics has now both proved my point and challenged my cynicism by announcing some pretty novel and interesting Twitch integration for Expeditions.

Steam Machines, those things that once seemed so mysterious and revolutionary, are finally here. Well, "select Steam Machines" are. Of the 15 Steam Machines listed earlier in the year, three are available, but one of them I can't find for sale in the UK.

There are 924 player names that Fallout 4 robot buddy Codsworth can pronounce although it won't say Louise, oddly enough.

Hearthstone's latest update, live now, has added support for tomorrow's League of Explorers expansion, and includes a few extra bonuses for fans of the collectible card battler.

I am an Imperial Agent. I am a Smuggler. I am a Jedi Knight.

Sonic creator Yuji Nakas's new aerial action game Rodea the Sky Soldier is out today in North America - and this Friday in Europe - and the legendary game developer took to Twitter to suggest folks play the game's Wii version rather than its Wii U or 3DS counterparts.

Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki's Valhalla Game Studios is facing a trademark dispute with the similarly branded Valhalla Motion Pictures (now known as Valhalla Entertainment).

Ubisoft has released the following PC system requirements for Rainbow Six Siege, due 1st December along with its PS4 and Xbox One brethren:

Yesterday we reported on Fallout 4 console performance, finding that both PS4 and Xbox One target 1080p30 gameplay - with somewhat variable results. Both versions have issues maintaining their frame-rate targets, but it's the Xbox One version that has a tangible disadvantage - there's a 'macro-stutter' issue that seems to be related to the game's background streaming technology. Entering new areas can see second-long pauses, and even switching weapons sometimes causes problems.

The first Nintendo Direct broadcast in more than six months will take place this Thursday at 10pm UK time.

We've seen people asking why Fallout 4 can take a while to install on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Metal Gear Solid 5's latest update, which has just gone live, introduces a set of sweeping changes to its online FOB missions, as well as a surprise tweak to the story mode that's been quickly uncovered.

Metal Gear Solid 5 publisher Konami is helping to make a prosthetic limb for a double amputee gamer.

Here's something of a surprise: free-to-play 3DS software Nintendo Badge Arcade launches in Europe this Friday, 13th November.

Your reaction to Fallout 4 will depend greatly on your expectations. If you're a fan of the series - or at least Bethesda's rebooted first-person take on it - then you'll find everything you wanted, and more. If you despair of Bethesda's creaking game engine, with its frequent glitches, stutters and occasional fatal crashes, then you'll also find everything you feared.