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Plague Inc - the game which tasks its players with infecting the world, and bringing about the end of humanity - has received a surprise sequel.

Nintendo will kill Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp in just a couple of hours' time, meaning you don't have long to ensure your Nintendo Account is linked to save your progress and in-game purchases.

I never want to discover exactly how much of my life has been spent grinding for experience points. Even discounting all the hours spent training Pokémon, it's still going to be an uncomfortably large number thanks to my 18-year investment in RuneScape. Technically, I could find out at least how much time, down to the minute, I've spent in Gielinor by talking to an NPC called Hans. I don't talk to Hans. I've long accepted that RuneScape is more of a life choice rather than a video game.

Next week, Minecraft will add a spooky-looking new forest biome in its The Garden Awakens update, which will launch on 3rd December.

It is time to dig out the blanket, and curl up with a steaming mug of cocoa (with some added Baileys if you are like me) while enjoying some lovely savings, thanks to the Steam Autumn Sale.

Tencent development studio Polaris Quest has announced Light of Motiram, an open-world survival crafting game with mechanised animal-like creatures which - no matter which way you shake it and squint - looks remarkably similar to Guerrilla's Horizon series, but with some additional Palworld elements thrown in for good measure.

UPDATE 28/11/24: If it is more monkey business you are after, Nintendo has you covered. Along with Donkey Kong Land, Switch Online members can now also get their mits on its sequel.

I bought Forspoken on PS5 for £5. I didn't want to play Forspoken at all, but I had £5. Forspoken on PS5 has sat on my desk (complete with character cards) sealed since November 17, 2023. Yes, this was a waste of £5. I'm an idiot who does stuff like this (glances over at a shelf full of Mega Drive games I can't play as I don't own a Mega Drive), but in recent days this pristine copy of a middling PS5 exclusive from Square Enix has started to haunt me. I no longer have a PS5 with a disc drive, so of course I want to play Forspoken more than I've wanted to play any other game in my life.

No Man's Sky didn't get off to the smoothest of starts, but eight years after its controversial launch, Hello Games' exploratory space sim has reached a significant milestone, finally gaining enough favourable player reviews on Steam to shift its overall rating to "Very Positive".

Larian would like you to know it's still not done with Baldur's Gate 3. The studio has now revealed what's next for the multi-award-winning RPG, with cross-play, a photo mode, and 12 new subclasses all set to launch next year.

Trust Devolver Digital to turn a bunch of sad-faced delay announcements into an evening of glitzy fun for all the family. And as per the publisher's freshly aired 15th Annual Devolver Delayed Awards 2024, we now know precisely which of its titles have missed their most recent release windows, gliding effortlessly into 2025.

Following last week's report Valve is working on a new iteration of its brilliant (if divisive) Steam Controller, a fresh leak has offered what might well be a first look at its refreshed design - and it's probably not a complete surprise to see it taking plenty of cues from Steam Deck.

Sony has announced the Monthly Games coming to its PS Plus catalogue this December, as well as how it's celebrating PlayStation's 30th anniversary on the platform.

The Night Train to Lantern City. Just saying these words out loud immediately conjures an image of a place with warm, hushed lighting spooling out of glazed windows, with billows of steam and smoke misting over the landscape. It's certainly an evocative kind of opening, but 30 Birds goes one better, placing its detective heroine Zig on a train careering through space on tracks made of clouds, heading toward a city made of actual paper lanterns. It's a dreamy and impossible kind of architecture, its inhabitants shifting up and down each lantern's colourful panels and wrapping their 2D bodies around the edges of a very real, 3D space, with doorways transporting them to other miniature lamp spaces hanging around its periphery. The locals themselves are a little impossible, too, as you'll clock sentient aubergines and disco-loving djinn glyphs, and, of course, a heck of a lot of birds as you saunter through the city's various districts.

Gran Turismo 7 remains one of the best-looking games this generation, with remarkably high-quality materials, lighting and visual design. The original PS5 release had its limitations though, with limited RT deployment and VR relying on asychronous time warp to the detriment of motion clarity. With the PS5 Pro, there's clearly plenty of potential to deploy the extra horsepower, RT acceleration and PSSR in new and interesting ways. Happily, developer Polyphony Digital has implemented basically everything on our wish list and more in one of the best PS5 Pro patches we've seen yet. Buckle up, this is going to be good!

UPDATE 27/11/24: Sony's PlayStation Portal looks set to also soon be released in a black version.

UPDATE 3pm UK: NetEase has told Eurogamer it remains committed to "a strong global presence" despite pulling funding from Worlds Untold, whose project it has praised.

Activision has said it is conducting "hourly sweeps" of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's Ranked Play mode and leaderboards, as work to try and combat the game's cheating problem continues.

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A Sniper Elite battle royale spin-off has reportedly been cancelled, after Chinese gaming giant Tencent pulled funding.

Star Wars: Hunters, Zynga's free-to-play arena battler, is heading to PC next year.

Dragon Age writer David Gaider has continued sharing stories on the series' most beloved characters in the wake of The Veilguard's release, most recently focusing on the origins of gay mage Dorian.

Balatro, the indie roguelike inspired by poker, has generated almost $4.4m on mobile alone since its release in September.

Shuhei Yoshida will step down from PlayStation in January 2025, after more than 30 years at the company.

Three more classic Sega Mega Drive games have today joined Nintendo's Switch Online catalogue.

The next round of cards joining Pokémon TCG Pocket have leaked ahead of December's events.

UPDATE 2ND DECEMBER: Today is the last day of the discount. The code will expire at midnight UTC tonight.

Nintendo's Switch might be nipping at its heels, but PlayStation 2 continues to hold the record as the best-selling console of all time - with Sony now confirming the machine has shifted a whopping 160m units since launching all the way back in March 2000.

Assassin's Creed Valhalla studio Ubisoft Montreal is reportedly working on a new Animal Crossing-inspired social sim featuring Minecraft-like building elements, with former Gotham Knights creative director Patrick Redding said to be at the reins.

The Witcher 4 - AKA Project Polaris AKA "the first instalment in the new Witcher saga", as it continues to be referred to in lieu of a publicly announced name - is another step closer to release, with CD Projekt confirming its development has shifted to "full-scale production".