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It's the MMO that's taken six years build and it's nearly here for PC and PS4. It's Kingdom Under Fire 2.

The "rough diamond" Sniper Elite series makes the most of a quiet summer with new entry Sniper Elite 3 - "a solidly enjoyable mid-tier action game" - topping the UK video games chart.

The universe is big. Really, really big. Unfathomably big. So big that our brains cannot understand the numbers involved. Back in 2006, I remember being really excited about Spore and Mass Effect. Both were games that promised they'd really give us a sense of scale; tiny people, tiny beings, competing on a mind-bogglingly large stage. They failed, of course - and for the longest time I felt that I'd never see something that would really make me feel utterly insignificant. And then I played Distant Worlds.

In hindsight, "solid" may not have been the ideal word to describe Sniper Elite 3 when I was talking up Ian's last video, despite Dan's reasonably positive Sniper Elite 3 review, because if there's one thing the game often lacks it's the polish associated with AAA releases. Then again, sometimes the bugs bring the charm.

Hearthstone is fantastic as a quick, anonymous multiplayer game, where you can always find a never-ending line-up of worthy opponents ready to do battle, but strangely for a game set in a bustling Warcraft tavern - not to mention one of the most popular attractions on Twitch - it's not actually that social. You can't really talk to other players that much, and the system of canned emotes - conceived to limit griefing - has already been subverted by sarcasm. Take too long to act and you generally get a "Greetings!" to hurry you along, while the intent behind "Sorry" and "Thanks" is nakedly hostile.

Every Sunday we bring you a selection from our archive, a feature you may have originally missed or just maybe would like to read again. This week, it's Simon Parkin's profile of Capcom's Yoshi Ono, the hard-working producer behind the revival of the Street Fighter series. The piece was originally published in June 2012.

Back in the days when arcade conversions were often enough to make or break a home console, the earth-shattering news that Nintendo had secured a port of Capcom's Final Fight for its soon-to-be-released Super Famicom sent shockwaves through playgrounds all over the globe. In this pre-Street Fighter 2 world, Final Fight was the biggest ticket in town; a side-scrolling brawler in the tradition of Renegade and Double Dragon, it boasted massive character sprites, a wide repertoire of attack moves and instantly accessible gameplay. Nestled neatly within Nintendo's 16-bit launch line-up, it was a definite system seller - despite the fact that cartridge memory constraints meant the two-player mode, third character Guy and an entire level were left on the cutting room floor.

More than six months into the life of the new consoles and it's become clear that platform parity between Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is rare. Sure, the odd platformer or sports title, such as Strider or FIFA 14, have managed to achieve this but those are exceptions. Utilisation of the last-gen Unreal Engine 3 hasn't made much difference either, with cross-platform titles suffering from frame-rate or resolution discrepancies. In the case of Outlast though, developer Red Barrels and UE3 have come up trumps. And in these days the novelty of platform parity makes it kind of interesting to examine.

It's Christmas Day, about half past four in the morning, and I feel betrayed by chocolate. It's my own fault, obviously - a stocking full of Smarties and cheap coins in now-scattered golden foil, some biscuits Santa had turned down, a bit of cake to help pass the time between pretending to go to sleep and everyone else getting up, all stirred and churned and now not tasting anything like as good. It's an explosion; a floor-splattering chunderpocalypse, the kind that leaves but one happy thought in the mind - that one day, all things die. And for some reason, this is not treated as a reason for sympathy. Not even a little bit. Just a pointed, bleary-eyed reminder that when people say you can have too much of a good thing, this... exactly this... is what they're thinking of.

Last month we saw mischievous indie developer Pippin Barr convert Seinfeld's classic "Junior Mint" episode into a browser game and now developer Boondoggle Studios has made an officially licensed iOS and Android game based on Monty Python's classic The Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.

When creative director Ragnar Tørnquist said "no episodic gaming" in an interview leading up to Dreamfall Chapters' to-be-successful Kickstarter campaign, he meant it.

Sony has confirmed the rumoured The Last of Us Remastered PlayStation 4 bundle for release across Europe.

Polyphony Digital is at work on Gran Turismo 7, and it's likely that the standard cars whose heritage stretches back to the PlayStation 2 era are to stay for the PlayStation 4 sequel.

Sony has released a new video about eye-catching sci-fi adventure game No Man's Sky.

BioWare does not want you to refer to the next Mass Effect game as Mass Effect 4. Doing so would imply it was a sequel to Commander Shepard's story.

The next Mass Effect game will reference the series' existing trilogy, BioWare has said, although there's still no clear confirmation of when the new title will be set.

BioWare has just shown off a sneak peek at Mass Effect 4, currently in development at its Montreal studio.

It feels as though a solid Sniper Elite game has been sneaking up on us for a while, dragging itself quietly through the long grass of slightly shonky game design in the direction of something that might not fall apart when you lower the scope. And then, wham! Like a bullet in the testicles, Dan reckons Sniper Elite 3 is pretty good.

Sales of the Compendium virtual booklet have boosted the Dota 2 International tournament prize pool over the $10m mark.

Cows.

How many times have you woken up and thought, "What I really want to do today is watch a video where Eurogamer deputy editor Oli Welsh play Yoshi's Island while wearing a Pikmin hat and discussing the back catalogue of mediocre nineties white soul band Simply Red"?

Insomniac, maker of Sunset Overdrive, Fuse, the Resistance games and Ratchet & Clank, is trying its hand at something a lot smaller and a little different.

How quickly can you beat Super Mario Bros.? There's a new world record holder who's done it in under five minutes - the whole thing, without cheating.

The Hossin update for online first-person shooter PlanetSide 2 has finally been released.

Around 2m copies of Mario Kart 8 have been shifted within the game's first month on sale, Nintendo has confirmed.

Another Battlefield Hardline beta launches this autumn, EA has announced.

Horde mode: the enduring last gasp of the ailing shooter. It gives the multiplayer team the chance to leverage the AI of a campaign into its own mode. No need to worry about weapon balance or spawn camping or any of that other nightmarish stuff that separates the CODs from the dead fish in the water.

Sandman scribe Neil Gaiman's video game debut, Wayward Manor, is coming to PC and Mac via Steam on 15th July, developer The Odd Gentlemen has announced.

YouTube is finally bolstering its video playback to support 60 frames-per-second.

The World Ends with You: Solo Remix - the mobile port of Square-Enix's quirky, futuristic DS action-RPG from 2008 - has finally launched on Android.