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"Hello, Succulent is a short free first-person video game where you watch a man eat a popsicle," began an email I saw upon returning to work after being out sick for several days. As a man who spent much of his last week sucking on popsicles (to nurse an angry sore throat), I thought, "clearly, this is of utmost importance."

Sega and strategy specialist Creative Assembly have accidentally revealed the game we all knew was in the works: Total War: Warhammer.

Shadowrun Returns developer Harebrained Schemes teased an upcoming Kickstarter campaign last month and now that campaign has launched. It's for Shadowrun: Hong Kong, and it's already raised over a quarter million dollars in its first day.

Peripheral-based music game Rock Band 3 gets brand new downloadable content today, Harmonix has announced.

Indie prison escape sandbox The Escapists launches for Xbox One on 13th February 2015, publisher Team17 has announced.

Xbox One has won an Emmy Award, Microsoft has announced.

Hello! Today Ian Higton has not one, not two, but - oh, he has two live streams for us: Saints Row 4: Re-Elected and Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell.

Rockstar has delayed the PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5 until 24th March.

Ah, good old permadeath - who isn't a fan of when a beloved family member or pet passes of this mortal coil, never to return again? It's great in video games too, as Far Cry 4's new DLC, Escape from Durgesh Prison, proves. In this new slice of open world action, you're given 30 minutes to reach a goal, your success in side missions helping unlock new tools to help boost your chances. Die, though, and that's it - there's no coming back. Just like that time my cat had a spinal embolism!

I am brilliant at Monopoly. This is my burden. If you and I were to play a quick game - and it would be a quick game - I would not just win, I would make you cry. This is because of the way I play, employing a strategy in which the real game takes place off the board. The real game is about what nicer people than me might term the negotiation, and in Monopoly I have given myself the leeway to negotiate in any way I please. If we have a personal history together, I will dredge that history, sifting any past misdeeds and suggesting that I might share them with the rest of the group if I don't get the oranges on highly favourable terms. If we don't have a personal history, I will just be a massive jerk to you - and very, very occasionally I will be inexplicably lovely. This will wrongfoot you and you will become confused. You will start to lose hope. Eventually, you will cave, and I will get the oranges on highly favourable terms.

There Came an Echo launches 24th February on PC via Steam, developer Iridium Studios has announced.

Nintendo's official Wii U GameCube controller adapter is in limited supply and proper expensive following the recent release of the new Super Smash Bros. game. So, there's big demand for a cheaper alternative.

The third downloadable content pack for sci-fi survival horror game Alien: Isolation launches today for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC. European PlayStation owners get it tomorrow, Wednesday, 14th January alongside the PlayStation Store update.

Big-name actors lending their vocal talents and motion-capture expertise to games are commonplace nowadays. But Captain America's Chris Evans made headlines last week for showing off his guns in a TV spot for China's free-to-play Call of Duty: Online, despite having no ties to the actual game itself.

Blizzard's free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Heroes of the Storm enters closed beta this evening with a raft of improvements.

Microsoft has announced Forza Motorsport 6, due out exclusively on Xbox One.

Somebody once told me an interesting fact about Homer's poetry, and I'm now going to abuse it in a shameless fashion to kick off a short feature regarding a battle-racer that I've been playing all morning.

Developer Mike Bithell has released a new trailer for his upcoming stealth game Volume, revealing for the first time voice over by Andy "Gollum" Serkis.

The battle for the legacy of Stalker may yet prove to be as intriguing and complex as any tall tale from the Chernobyl exclusion zone.

I've lost track of how many times I've played through the opening chapters of Duke Nukem 3D. It's a game that still delights me today, over 20 years since its original release, and also a game that makes me cringe with embarrassment for the easily amused adolescent twerp I was. It somehow still manages to represent both the best of what games can be, and the worst of gaming's lazy vices.

We've seen publishers create controversial incentives designed to drive pre-orders. Now we're seeing more and more incentives designed to drive digital "pre-purchases".

Rockstar did it with Grand Theft Auto 5. Now a modder has done it with Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes.

YouTube channel Did you know Gaming? has taken on the Dreamcast, Sega's ill-fated late 90s console.

Valve has updated Steam Trading to include Captcha in a bid to prevent unauthorised trades.

The Awesome Games Done Quick live video game speedrunning event has ended with an impressive $1.5m raised for charity.

Take a few hours off to play these games.

The recent leak of the Xbox One development tools - along with the accompanying documentation - gives us a fascinating insight into the creation and evolution of Microsoft's latest console. Recent innovations, such as the release of a seventh CPU core for game developers, have come to light owing to the leak, but the docs contain much more in the way fascinating background information. In fact, they give us an entire timeline of the system's development from the moment alpha devkits first arrived with developers way back in April 2012, all the way through to refinements and enhancements added as recently as November 2014.

When film scholars talk about the magic of cinema, you increasingly wonder if they mean being hit by a Skyrim Vampiric Drain spell. There is nothing enchanting about the fiddly process of online booking, of navigating the drab corridors of a 13-screen multiplex, of breathing in the aroma of foot-long hot dogs apparently doomed to stew on heated rollers for eternity. Even if you manage to find your allocated seat among the choppy, often chippy sea of humanity, there's a deafening prelude of crass house ads, spoiler-filled trailers and Kevin Bacon hawking 4G before the magic can even begin - and that's usually the exact moment someone opens a gigantic bag of crisps.

Happy New Year Eurogamers! Hopefully you had a restful festive season and are good and ready for another weekly dispatch from the OX outpost.

Each Saturday, one of our four regular columnists will be taking turns to fill the weekend opinion slot here on Eurogamer. Today it's Jon "Log" Blyth. You can find out more about the columnists in this editor's blog.