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CD Projekt has officially brought the development of its Witcher card game spin-off Gwent to a close with one last update, putting all future balance changes in the hands of the community.

Paradox has confirmed Cities: Skylines 2 won't be getting official mod support until sometime after next week's release, with the feature set to arrive alongside its first wave of modding tools.

Roblox is mandating most remote employees return to office working three days a week, or take a severance package.

Slay the Spire studio Mega Crit has released Dancing Duelists, a free new deck builder created during a game jam as it explored the Godot engine following the recent Unity controversy.

A decade in, Jackbox Games has established itself as a master of the mini-game format - and this latest crop of games from the annual franchise offers a familiar mix of instant favourites, as well as those you feel could still grow on you through further play. And, most importantly, there's often room for you to be as rude as you'd like.

A free update for Dark Pictures: Switchback VR which adds a new Horde mode to the game is out now, just in time for Halloween.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder almost had running 'live' commentary, like a sports game.

Redfall was a key 2023 Microsoft exclusive that didn't land especially well with players or critics. Many aspects of the title were controversial, from the sparsely populated open world to the relatively basic quest design, but the title's performance was perhaps the most obvious missed target. All preview materials for Redfall showcased 60fps gameplay, with relatively unambitious visuals, and yet the final game targeted 30fps on consoles, with occasional frame-rate issues and stutters as well. A 60fps performance mode was promised and five months later, it has finally arrived, but how well does it work, and what the rest of the game's issues?

I've been playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder for about a week now, and my head is full of it. What's more - and slightly less convenient - is that my house is full of it too. I'll play and make a note about something incredible but then I'll move on, play somewhere else, make another note, move on again. And all of this brings us today. Let me look around. Stuck to the back of a shirt in the closet is a Post-it with "Platforms of Doom!" written on it. Down by the cactus lamp is a piece of paper talking about Ice Block Tennis. Two pages of my diary are filled with huge letters spelling Young's modulus. What to make of it?

Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters of Eurogamer. It's a series that highlights some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also about having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!

Second Extinction developer Systemic Reaction has announced it is ending active development on the game. The game's servers will remain online for now, but Systemic Reactions plans to shut them down next year.

A Comic Book Skin DLC for Sonic Superstars was briefly available on Steam after the game's release, but is now mysteriously unavailable.

Don't expect Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard to suddenly mean the revival of Guitar Hero, or other classic franchises. These things take time, Xbox boss Phil Spencer has said, and should come from a genuine passion amongst developers.

Nintendo is taking down videos that show a modded version of Super Mario Bros. Wonder with swearing flowers.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is releasing this Friday, 20th October, and developer Insomniac has said you should download the game's launch day patch to get the best experience possible.

Nintendo has confirmed that Super Mario Bros. Wonder was not inspired by the Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer has explained the delay in getting Activision Blizzard's back catalogue added to Xbox Game Pass, and blamed the hold-up on the lengthy and difficult process of sealing the deal.

The co-op horror game Phasmophobia will not release on consoles this month, following another delay.

Xbox head Phil Spencer has shed more light on what Microsoft's recent acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision will mean for the series, and no, it isn't about using timed exclusivity deals for the franchise in order to sell consoles.

GAconf returned to the US this week with a series of accessibility talks hosted at the Archer Hotel in Redmond, Washington. Virtual attendance was available through Zoom and YouTube. Talks ranged from those on personal experiences of disability and accessibility to more pointed talks about the process of bringing accessibility to specific games and series. All of this was emceed by GAconf co-director, Tara Voelker.

Developer Stairway Games has announced its tropical island farming sim Coral Island will be getting its 1.0 release on 14th November after just over a year of PC early access, and it'll be launching for Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 on the same day.

UPDATE 8.28pm: Diablo 4's Season of Blood is now live on all platforms following a last-minute delay which Blizzard blamed on "complications". Unfortunately, not all technical issues have been resolved as yet, and Blizzard has been forced to temporarily disable cross-play between PC and consoles while it attempts to find a solution.

Paradox Interactive has announced it is parting ways with BattleTech developer Harebrained Schemes, citing "strategic and creative priorities". The seperation follows last week's news that Harebrained Schemes' The Lamplighters League has been a $22m flop for Paradox.

If you're super-excited for the release of Alan Wake 2 later this month, but can't quite recall the events of the first game (entirely reasonably seeing as the original version came out over a decade ago), Fortnite of all places might have the answer. Epic has whacked a free playable 20-minute Alan Wake recap episode that should serve as a refresher while offering a bit of spooky battery gobbling fun along the way.

Exactly 364 days after its unveiling, Mortal Kombat: Onslaught - NetherRealm's free-to-play character-collecting RPG - is out of beta testing and available to download on iOS and Android.

There's a new King Kong game out right now, but you might not have known about it. Developer IguanaBee and publisher GameMill Entertainment have remained silent on social platforms about the game, despite the fact it only released earlier today.

John Rhys-Davies is set to return to Middle-earth when The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria releases in just one week's time.

The cosy postal game Lake will be getting its festive DLC, Season's Greetings, next month on 15th November.

It's time for another wave of Xbox Game Pass games!

Intel's "Raptor Lake Refresh" 14th-gen CPUs are here, reprising the designs and prices we saw on 13th-gen models, but bumping up clock speeds - up to 6GHz for the flagship 14900K. These minor changes come thanks to manufacturing improvements and more generous binning, but are they enough to break the deadlock and give Intel the fastest gaming CPU title once more? We've received the 14900K and 14600K to find out, as we put Intel's latest against our usual barrage of game benchmarks and content creation workloads.