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It is the end of an era: on 3rd September, five years of Xbox timed exclusivity for Call of Duty comes to an end.

In video games the act of creation and the act of destruction are usually closely allied. In Minecraft one button builds and another breaks. So too in the plastic blockbusters of the LEGO series, where a mini-figure's flailing arm can smash a car, house or space-rocket into a shower of bricks, then follow up with mystical wave that rebuilds the debris into a new object, for new purpose. In Sim City et al you must clear and level the land before laying your first road or power plant. In Tetris you build a wall to destroy a wall to build a wall again. In first person shooters, you remove foes in order to gain ground.

Streaming video service Twitch has allowed thousands of players to play the same game before with Twitch Plays Pokémon, an experiment later applied to Metal Gear, and now Twitch has faced its greatest challenge yet: Dark Souls.

Lego Jurassic World has topped the US retail charts for the month of July 2015, video game analyst group NPD has revealed.

Star Wars Battlefront's territory control based Supremacy mode has been detailed.

Thanks to the detective skills of 'OomaThurman' on Reddit, the means now exists to improve image quality on Xbox One gameplay streaming via a PC running Windows 10. A simple text file is altered on the computer to open up a hitherto blocked off 'very high' quality preset. Utilising this mode places a greater strain on your home network in terms of data throughput, but increases the resolution of the stream.

Spelunky player D Tea has set a new speedrunning world record by dashing to the true ending of Derek Yu's platforming roguelike faster than anyone ever has.

I am Bread developer Bossa Studio has released a new free update adding Team Fortress 2 content to its comical bread simulation.

The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy co-creator Edmund McMillen has unveiled a new game with the surreal police sim Fingered.

The Xbox One version of Smite will be released next Wednesday, 19th August.

Wii U-exclusive shooter Splatoon will add Rainmaker, a new ranked battle mode, this weekend.

Super Mario Maker's suite of level designing tools will slowly unlock over the course of nine days.

There's a new Warhammer 40K game coming this autumn but it's a mobile game subtitled Freeblade.

UPDATE 13TH AUGUST: The first gameplay trailer for The Following expansion has been revealed. The US price of $14.99 has also been revealed, but European pricing is still to be confirmed - as is the release date.

In many ways, producing video for the internet is a lot like soothsaying. We spend a lot of time reading the tea leaves (or fish guts, depending on your preference) to try and divine what videos will do well. Is the subject matter engaging? Have we tagged the video properly? Is this a game people want to see more of?

UPDATE 13/8/15 11.05am: Yet more Destiny: The Taken King details have emerged, detailing changes to the game's Strike missions, Light levelling and a new consumable for sale each week from Xur.

UPDATE 13/8/15 10:15am - We've updated this piece with a full analysis of how disabling post-process blur effects can improve performance, most noticeably on PlayStation 4. The video is embedded at the foot of this piece.

UPDATE 13/8/15 10.05am: Larian founder Swen Vincke has explained why the developer has again chosen Kickstarter as the funding method, this time for Divinity: Original Sin 2.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is making waves for being a realistic medieval role-playing game without wizards and dragons and all that fantastical paraphernalia. It's a historical role-playing game from the Czech Republic.

Last year Atari gave us the irredeemably bad Rollercoaster Tycoon 4 for mobile devices, a game so riddled with micro-transactions Eurogamer reviewer Chris Schilling gave it a 1/10.

What a difference one man and 18 months can make. Before Phil Spencer took over at Xbox, the brand was in troubled waters. Questionable policy decisions had shook Xbox and mired the early days of its new console in acrimony, and even though Microsoft wisely chose to listen to concerned consumers it's been working hard to regain the momentum lost ever since. As it heads into a vital fourth quarter of 2015, the momentum has definitely returned: the broadening of the Xbox brand to PC was helped by the relatively smooth roll-out of Windows 10, the Xbox division just turned a neat profit and, while it still falls short in sales to Sony's PlayStation 4, its line-up for the remainder of the year looks significantly stronger than its opposition's.

EA Sports has changed the cover of NHL 16 to remove Chicago Blackhawks Right Wing Patrick Kane following the athlete's recent rape allegation.

Last year The 7th Guest developer Trilobyte launched a crowdfunding campaign for a third game in the series. The effort was a failure though, with the developer only raising $41,218 of its $65K goal. Yet a group of fans at Attic Door Productions have raised even more than that to fund their own fan-made sequel, The 13th Doll.

Asymmetrical multiplayer horror game The Flock will launch for PC on 21st August, developer Vogelsap has announced.

Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 4, Escape Plan Bravo, is due next week, Telltale has announced.

Capcom has officially announced that it's remaking Resident Evil 2.

UPDATE 12/8/15 4.30PM: Amazon's offer of a (nearly) half-price Xbox One Elite Controller was sadly too good to be true.

The PlayStation 4 will get YouTube broadcasting among other new features, according to various reports.

Rocket League just got a spectator mode as part of a substantial patch that also adds a new arena.

The Electronic Sports League will randomly test professional players for cannabis, among other banned substances, during its next tournament as part of its new anti-doping effort.