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UPDATE 17/2/23: Another day, another update on the Saudi Public Investment Fund's ownership of Nintendo - which has further increased to an 8.26 percent stake in the Mario maker.

Microsoft is set to defend its beleagured $69bn Activision Blizzard deal at a meeting with the EU next week.

It was 2015 when I switched to a standing desk. This popular trend, designed to reduce the amount of time you spend sitting, certainly appealed to me. I had purchased a stool which I could use from time to time, but even still, my desk setup was designed for ergonomics rather than relaxation. I never felt relaxed in front of my PC as a result - when I wanted to sit back and enjoy a game, I shifted to a much more comfortable chair nestled in front of my TV. Consequently, I basically lost touch with the world of PC gaming.

Well this is a surprisingly tough thing to write: after what's fast coming up to 12 years knocking around these parts, today is my last at Eurogamer. I hope you don't mind a self indulgent pick for my final crack at Game of the Week (Bertie and Donlan will be taking over from next week, from whence a higher quality level of posting shall commence).

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: arms, tabletop RPGs, and intergalactic bounty hunters.

JRPGs do bloody hate God. There's that old joke of a JRPG's first quest being to collect chicken eggs, and its final quest tasking you with slaughtering a deity. Five years ago in 2018, Octopath Traveler embodied that distaste for deities, albeit with decidedly less egg collecting to get through first.

A group of games industry veterans - consisting most prominently of former Respawn Entertainment developers with credits on the likes of Titanfall and Apex Legends - have teamed up to form new "remote first" studio Wildlight Entertainment.

In the run-up to next week's launch of Yakuza samurai spin-off Like a Dragon: Ishin, Sega has released a two-part combat demo for Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam.

Firaxis' excellent superhero strategy adventure Marvel's Midnight Suns is preparing to open The Abbey's doors and welcome another new fighter, with its previously announced Venom DLC now confirmed to be arriving next Thursday, 23rd February. And ahead of that, publisher 2K has launched another free trial across all platforms, plus discounts on the base game.

Welcome to Azuma, a fantastical spin on feudal Japan where cherry blossoms dance playfully across shimmering waters beneath mountains of gold, where Kemono – behemoth creatures fused with the very essence of nature – roam free, and where anyone that's ever played a Monster Hunter game will feel immediately at home.

Twitch has revealed the dates and locations of its TwitchCon events this year in both Europe and America.

Bungie's eye-catching new Destiny 2 cinematic arrived this week to cap off the game's current Season 19 in style.

Payday developer Starbreeze has released its financial reports from the last quarter of 2022, which detail its plans for the future of Payday and new projects.

The Legend of Dragoon is on its way to PlayStation Plus, marking the first time the JRPG has been available digitally in Europe.

I've seen some fine views in my time on this planet. The Mavora Lakes in New Zealand, the Tokyo skyline, the reflection in my bathroom mirror of a morning... They're all beautiful and memorable sights in their own right, but when it comes to video games, I'm pretty sure Horizon Call of the Mountain delivers some of the greatest virtual vistas I've ever witnessed.

PlayStation VR2 arrives at a crucial moment for virtual reality gaming. In 2012 - with a duct-taped prototype in hand, John Carmack demonstrated what was possible: an incredible sense of presence and immersion for PC gamers. Over the next few years, however, the market began to fragment - Oculus transitioned from its own proprietary PC storefront to standalone hardware, while high-end PC software diminished in step with the huge cost of the latest headsets. Then there was Sony - launched in 2016, PSVR offered owners of PS4 consoles an opportunity to step into the world of virtual reality. Now, with PS5, we have a companion VR headset that brings cutting-edge technology to the console with a more affordable price-point.

Games should identify if a user is under 18 "with a reasonable degree of certainty" and ensure their experience is not detrimental to their well-being, a new report by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office has stated.

Five Lord of the Rings games are in the works at Embracer, planned for release in the financial year 2023/2024.

If you are yet to pick up Kratos' leviathan axe in God of War Ragnarök for one reason or another, but still fancy giving the game a whirl at some point, I have good news - Sony Santa Monica's Norse epic has now joined PlayStation Plus Premium's expanding trials programme.

Respawn's free-to-play title Apex Legends has broken its highest concurrent player count on Steam, as players flock to try out the new content in Season 16.

Disney Dreamlight Valley gets its next major update today, which adds Olaf from Frozen, Mirabel from Encanto, and also extends the game's ongoing storyline.

UPDATE 16/2/23: Valve has edited a post which promised a "full-on update-sized update" for Team Fortress 2, dialling back on the update's previous description.

There's a dilemma to remaking a 30-year-old game, and it's how much do you remake. If you build it completely anew and reimagine everything, then how much of the original game do you still actually have? Then again, if you don't change enough, how much of a remake is it?

Xbox's new "carbon aware" energy saving feature - which launched for Insider testing last month - is now available to everyone as part of the console's February update.

Valentine's Day has been and gone but Warframe is still in a romantic mood, charting a love affair across the Void in its new Citrine's Last Wish update, out today on all platforms.

If you're not a PlayStation Plus subscribers but have always been faintly curious about what life might be like for those on the other side, now's your chance to get some answers courtesy of Sony's imminent free PlayStation Plus online multiplayer weekend.

UPDATE 4.45pm UK: Sony has now officially announced its February PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium games, confirming this morning's leak and adding several other titles as well.

Wild Hearts developer Omega Force has pledged to address performance issues reported by players taking advantage of EA's 10-hour early access offer ahead of this Friday's release.

With the launch of Call of Duty Warzone 2.0 and Modern Warfare 2 Season 2 today, Activision has teased what's coming next in both a mid-season update and in the next season.

Behaviour Interactive has announced Dead by Daylight's next (and 27th) chapter, Tools of Torment, which debuts a brand new Killer: The Skull Merchant.