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It's alarming how swiftly Gamescom came and went this year. It feels like we only just shipped Ian and Chris out to Cologne and yet, by the time this article goes live, they'll already be home.

I may be a city-boy, but I'm still a fan of The Great Outdoors. I've conquered all three of the national peaks, surviving only on service station flapjacks and chocolate Yazoo. I've enjoyed failing to make campfires as much as any modern half-man. Nostalgia for the romantic bucolic? I've felt those pangs, too. I'm particularly fond of the Yorkshire Tea 50-pack because of the stone walls and green-pastel fields printed on its foil bag; it reminds me of a more innocent time. Not one that I remember personally, mind - I was brought up in Birmingham.

Galak-Z developer 17-bit's turn-based strategy game Skulls of the Shogun is getting an animated series.

UPDATE 07/08/2015 11.46pm Ori and the Blind Forest developer Moon Studios clarified that the game is actually getting a Definitive Edition for Xbox One and PC due later this year.

Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, Tiger Style's long anticipated sequel to 2009's exploration-based mystery Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, is out now on iOS, PC, Mac and Linux.

A 20-minute section of Avalanche's upcoming Mad Max game has been revealed via IGN at Gamescom.

Hitman GO developer Square Enix Montréal has revealed the release date to its follow-up, Lara Croft GO, as 27th August for iOS and Android devices.

Konami has released a series of images comparing the graphics quality of the various version of Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain.

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium will this evening unveil the space game's multi-crew feature.

Puppy-avenging hitman John Wick is set to star in his own virtual reality first-person shooter, due for release in spring 2016.

The people behind Final Fantasy 15 are talking with the people behind Just Cause 3 in a bid to get the fantasy role-playing game's airship off the ground.

Valve's ongoing Dota 2 tournament threw up a surprise last night: a 20-player match.

It's easy to take for granted what an extraordinary body of work Blizzard's Battle.net game launcher represents. By any measure of quality, profitability and breadth of creativity, Blizzard has everything most publishers could ever dream of - and yet it's never looked more vulnerable when measured against the standards of its own achievements.

Wilkommen to our third and final Gamescom update. The show's going to continue over the weekend, but the business folks are packing up and fleeing, leaving the vast showfloor to the general public to drift between heaving booth demos, like Dead Rising but with more Final Fantasy cosplayers.

UPDATE 7/8/15 11.30am: Xbox One will only allow you to record live TV if you have an external hard drive attached to the console, Microsoft has confirmed.

Assassin's Creed Syndicate's secondary protagonist Evie Fry has a unique stealth ability to become invisible and sneak past guards.

We all look like Palmer Luckey on the cover of Time magazine when playing Virtual Reality.

There's something about the Deep South - its sticky nights, those dense bayous and that subtle undertone of violence carried on the hot breeze - that seems so well suited to video games, so it's a surprise not more have taken up the city of New Orleans as a backdrop. Mafia 3, 2K's open world gangster epic developed by new studio Hangar 13, demonstrates just how great it can be.

Divinity Original Sin Enhanced edition is at Gamescom this week and, as this exclusive PS4 gameplay demo shows, it's had a pretty serious overhaul.

Yager is no longer working on Dead Island 2 - and it's paying the price - but the German developer still has eye-catching PC spaceship battle game Dreadnought.

Electronic Arts will start releasing its games on Thursdays in the UK rather than the industry standard Friday.

I think I've just upset Hideki Kamiya.

Well, well, well, a second podcast, what on earth is going on. I tell you what's going on: Gamescom! Day two is over, Bertie, Chris and Ian are knackered, and Martin's gone home. However, we're not too tired to have good chit-chat about what we saw today (Thursday 6th) and we saw quite a lot: the brilliant Oculus Touch, the brilliant XCOM 2 and the brilliant but maybe a little simple Star Wars: Battlefront spaceship fights. We also saw Ninja Theory's curious new game Hellblade, which Bertie was a bit underwhelmed by. And how about that man who sent his game in a briefcase to Gabe Newell? Join us as we debrief - hope you enjoy it.

Avalanche Studios has released the following system specs to play Mad Max's PC version.

Fallout 3 features a funny glitch in which players can escape the game's tutorial while playing as a baby. While always good for a laugh, this kooky bug was oft thought of as nothing but a ludicrous lark. Yet YouTuber Bryan Pierre decided to turn this glitch into the ultimate challenge: to save the Capitol Wasteland as an infant.

Crusader Kings 2 and Europa Universalis 4 developer Paradox Development Studio has announced a new sci-fi strategy game called Stellaris.

Cities: Skylines publisher Paradox Interactive has revealed an expansion to its city-building game entitled After Dark.

Fallout 4 is breaking series tradition by omitting a level cap, developer Bethesda has revealed.

Battlefield 4 is getting a new map as part of its upcoming Night Operations DLC due this September, nearly two years after the game's October 2013 launch.

Blizzard has revealed the sixth expansion for World of Warcraft, titled Legion.