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There is a well-worn story about the late Iain Banks and his relationship to video games. In the 1990s, the puckish, prolific Scottish author - who cheerfully hopscotched between publishing mainstream literary best-sellers as Iain Banks and science fiction novels as Iain M Banks - became so addicted to Sid Meier's Civilization that it threatened to short-circuit his writing career. Ultimately, he deleted the game from his hard drive in order to resist temptation. But the spirit of Civ - and other games - clearly bled into his work.

UPDATE 28/11/23: The Lost Legends of Redwall: The Scout Anthology has received a last-minute delay from 1st December to 30th January 2024.

Bethesda's customer support team has been responding to negative Starfield reviews on Steam.

Larian Studios says it's aiming to release Patch 5 for Baldur's Gate 3 later this week. The update will include a fix for performance issues in Act 3, Astarion's kisses, and more.

UPDATE 28/11/21: Following Reuters' report, the Marvel Snap team has said "Snap will continue to operate and flourish in the future!"

Bungie will now launch its climactic Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape on 4th June 2024.

Hey everyone, I wanted to share a quick update about Eurogamer, and its future which now looks to lie outside the Reedpop business.

NCSoft unveiled new trailers for its upcoming games Project M and LLL at G-Star 2023 which show off new features.

Developer Mane6 is ceasing active development on Them's Fightin' Herds, meaning there will be no new content once the game's Season Pass 1 is finished.

Videos of gameplay from a new Tribes entry have been shared online ahead of a public playtest later this week.

Writer Megan McDonnell, who has worked on Marvel projects WandaVision and The Marvels, has joined the team working on Amazon's Tomb Raider TV series.

The Silent Hill 2 remake is "progressing smoothly", developer Bloober Team has assured fans.

I was so taken with one game at EGX 2023 that I returned to play it every day I was there. It's called Book of Abominations and it's a bit like Pokémon - if Pokémon existed in a Lovecraftian nightmare.

Halo Infinite developer, 343 Industries, is looking for a new multiplayer playlist designer with an emphasis on Forge content.

UK games trade body Ukie's diversity initiative, #RaisetheGame, has partnered with recruitment agency Amiqus to launch Empower Up, a "comprehensive platform to equip game companies of all sizes with the knowledge, frameworks, guidance, and resources they need to establish, improve, or grow their equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies".

Nier series producer Yosuke Saito has confirmed that while "[director] Yoko Taro is alive", new Nier games will be released.

The Division: Heartland has been rated in Taiwan.

PlayStation Portal is an interesting gadget, an official, Sony-designed streaming device designed for Remote Play with PS5. It's not a console or a gaming handheld in the traditional sense, which makes reviewing it a little challenging as the quality of the experience is entirely dependent on the quality of your home network. Take on board some simple advice and it's relatively easy to get the best out of Remote Play and therefore the best out of PlayStation Portal - but there's still the sense that Remote Play itself isn't as good as it should be.

Valve boss Gabe Newell has been ordered to appear in court as part of an antitrust lawsuit filed by Wolfire Games.

Years ago, one of my university lecturers told me that he didn't really read much that he enjoyed anymore - I suspect he'd been marking one of my essays - but there was a line of poetry he had read the other day that he thought was phenomenal. He then said it out loud, and what I remember him saying was just part of a sentence, just this:

An "extremely early" Left 4 Dead prototype is now available to play thanks to Counter-Strike's 1.6 update.

A rating for Prison Architect 2 has popped up in Korea.

To celebrate The Sims 4's upcoming expansion pack, For Rent, EA is inviting you to "become the ultimate property mogul" and join Llandgraab & Sons Estate Agents for a day to sample what it's like to be on the other end of a tenancy agreement.

A Switch rating for Borderlands Collection: Pandora's Box has popped up in Germany.

Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch.

It's not something I brag about very often - mainly because remembering you once invested nearly 2,000 hours of your life into a single game does tend to trigger a degree of introspection - but Ark: Survival Evolved is easily the most played game in my Steam library. I eventually wrenched myself away shortly after its 1.0 release in 2017, but even today I look back on its early access years with a mixture of fondness and vague PTSD.

Back in August, as part of this year's TennoCon celebrations, Warframe developer Digital Extremes unveiled Whispers in the Walls, the next (and extremely weird) chapter in the free-to-play sci-fi shooter's ongoing saga. And as its new confirmed December launch window approaches, the studio has shared a heap of new information on what to expect come the expansion's release, including confirmation it'll arrive alongside cross-save support.

Super Mario RPG's recently released Switch remake is a lovely thing, freshening up a much-loved classic for a new generation, while ensuring its core remains faithful enough that it can deliver a wonderful blast of nostalgia for long-time fans. And it turns out that faithfulness runs deep, with players having discovered it restores a fun little easter egg that was cut from the original version during the localisation process for release outside of Japan.

We used to have a Digital Foundry merch store. We still do, actually, but we used to too. Today it relaunches with a host of new bespoke designs in a swathe of new categories, meaning you can now pick up zipped hoodies, stickers, posters and beanies in addition to more familiar shirts and mugs. Best of all, everything is 10 percent off for Black Friday.

Ubisoft has said that pop-up adverts seen last night within Assassin's Creed games have now been disabled, and were the result of a technical error.