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It's been nearly seven months since the troubled launch of Halo: The Master Chief Collection. November 11th 2014 marks the day that Halo fans everywhere were left out in the cold when the game hobbled out of the gate with serious functionality problems. While a number of other high profile releases shipped with nasty bugs, The Master Chief Collection is perhaps the most infamous of all. This is Halo we're talking about, after all. It's the most important franchise in Microsoft's stable. As good as the campaigns are, it's the series' multiplayer action that has kept fans playing for more than a decade now. Unfortunately, while the single-player modes were generally excellent, The Master Chief Collection was simply not fit for purpose when it came to online multiplayer.

What a week! Between Lego Worlds, XCOM 2 and Fallout 4, it's been game announcement crazy - not to mention Ark: Survival Evolved rampaging its way onto Steam Early Access.

I don't know where you guys have found the time to play The Witcher 3, but I can only assume it's when I've been emptying the dishwasher. I don't know how it happened but a few years ago something changed. Something... domestic.

XCOM 2 developer Firaxis doesn't plan on launching its upcoming turn-based strategy sequel with gamepad support, though it intends to add that later.

Fallout: New Vegas has a new world record speedrun, courtesy of Ryderc33, who completed the game in 24 minutes, 15 seconds.

Acclaimed speedrunning platformer Action Henk is heading to PS4, PS3, Vita, Xbox One and Wii U this summer.

Capcom has released its latest batch of free Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate DLC, as it's wont to do the first Friday of every month.

Desura's and Indie Royal's parent company, Bad Juju, has filed for bankruptcy.

Amazon is listing a new 1TB Xbox One bundle that includes the system's newly-tweaked controller and a copy of Halo: The Master Chief Collection.

Sony will shut down PlayStation Mobile this July.

Nintendo will launch Earthbound's Lucas as a downloadable character for Super Smash Bros. on 3DS and Wii U next Sunday, 14th June.

UPDATE: Here's Iwata's quote on the NX, translated officially by Nintendo:

What to make, then, of yesterday's Nintendo announcement? A certain amount of shock met the news that Nintendo was partnering with DeNA and making the move into mobile gaming development, but it could hardly be called a surprise. This is a company, after all, that used to run a taxi firm as its playing card business sprawled outwards in the 60s, and has a proud history of the unexpected. But even though yesterday's news marks perhaps the most significant shift since Nintendo moved out of the arcades and into the home with the NES, it's a move born of nothing more than common sense.

Nintendo has signalled it will abandon region-locking for its consoles, beginning with the upcoming NX.

UPDATE 27/2/15 1.40pm: Project Cars developer Slightly Mad Studios has responded to the outcry from Nintendo fans at the news that the racer's Wii U port may never be released.

UPDATE 2/6/15 3.00pm: Nintendo has discounted yesterday's Nikkei report that the company is considering an Android-based operating system for its upcoming NX console.

Valve's upcoming Dota 2 world championship tournament has the biggest eSports prize pool of all time.

Slightly Mad Studios racer Project Cars has passed the 1m sales barrier after a month on sale.

Oldboy and 25th Hour director Spike Lee is working on the story for NBA 2K16's MyCareer mode.

We've just received a bunch of high-res screenshots taken from this week's Fallout 4 reveal and thought we'd share them below for your viewing pleasure.

Square Enix has ditched a number of features it revealed as part of Final Fantasy Versus 13 - the game that became Final Fantasy 15.

Yesterday, Valve detailed when it would launch its first wave of Steam Machines and its long-in-development £39.99 / €54.99 Steam Controller to the public.

After years of waiting and false hopes, Bethesda has finally announced Fallout 4. It's as good an excuse as any to take a trip through time to where it all began, in a very different kind, but now much more familiar kind of Wasteland. This was back in 1988, on technology so primitive that most of the original's game text had to be printed in a manual, with the game simply giving a number to look up every time anything happened. Nevertheless, it found almost instant critical and commercial success... and immense difficulty getting a sequel off the ground. At least, an official one.

UPDATE 5/6/15 9.05am: Sales of Destiny charity T-shirt have raised more than $1m for Nepal earthquake relief.

Dimension Drive's crowdfunding effort has succeeded at the second time of asking.

There's now an official Video Game Hall of Fame, the first of its kind, at The Strong museum in Rochester, New York.

Surreal visual novel series Danganronpa is bringing its action adventure spin-off, Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls, to European Vitas on 4th September, developer NIS America has announced.

GNOG is a peculiar puzzler about cosmic monsters heading to PS4 next year with Morpheus support.

Apples to Apples, the famous card game about making loose connections between words, is now on iOS.

I am Bread, the game about playing as a slice of bread struggling to ascend to a piece of toast, is coming to PS4 this summer.