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Dying Light 2 is upon us - hopefully you've already read Martin's review and checked out Digital Foundry's assessment of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S versions of Techland's zombie kill 'em-up. Well, for your viewing pleasure, we've got the first hour of Dying Light 2 gameplay for you to check out, too.

This week is video game industry earnings report week, which means we get a sense of how well each of the major platforms is doing, like Nintendo Switch outselling the Wii and that Sony can't make enough PlayStation 5 consoles.

Today brings a new trailer for Horizon Forbidden West, showcasing the challenges players will face in its titular West.

We need to talk about Bruno! Specifically, Bruno Mars - who is coming to Fortnite alongside his Grammy-nominated R&B partner Anderson .Paak.

A fan-made Bioshock short film gives a glimpse of what a full-length feature could be.

Yager, developer of Spec Ops: The Line, today announced the second round of beta testing for its upcoming free-to-play first-person shooter, The Cycle: Frontier.

A new expansion for the Pokémon Trading Card Game will focus squarely on Pokémon Go.

Battlefield 2042 just can't catch a break.

Hello there! This is one of those wonderful occasions where we get to welcome someone new to the Eurogamer family - so without further ado, I'm very happy to introduce Victoria Kennedy, Eurogamer's new news reporter!

In a world where video games seem to be fair picking for movie adaptations, Psychonauts' Tim Schafer just doesn't see that sort of thing happening in Double Fine's future.

Bungie wants to develop its franchises outside of gaming - and Sony looks set to help.

Not to be outdone by the traditional platform holders, Facebook parent company Meta announced its earnings yesterday - and revealed the Quest content store has surpassed $1bn in purchases.

Star Citizen, the still-in-development sci-fi game which has now earned $400m in user funding, has decided to change what goes on its product roadmap.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus has been a massive success for Nintendo, with the title being the fourth best-selling boxed copy of the franchise in the UK, and second fastest-selling Switch game in Japan.

The newly-released Bloodborne PSX demake has had an unbelievable debut, having been downloaded more than 100, 000 times in less than 24 hours.

Monster Hunter Rise outsold Resident Evil Village last year.

Following on from Nintendo's earnings report today, the company has disclosed that the Switch is only just in the "middle of its lifecycle".

Pokémon Legends: Arceus is now the second fastest selling Switch game in Japanese history.

After a busy period of acquisition announcements from both Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo has been asked whether it too planned to purchase other developers.

Nintendo Switch has now sold 103.54m units worldwide, meaning it has beaten the company's hugely-successful Wii (which finished on 101.6m).

I've been fascinated lately by micro-RPGs, and specifically micro-JRPGs. Typically crafted in RPG Maker and published on Itch.io, these clever miniatures run a wide gamut, as I learned from a Twitter chat with sraëka-lillian, creator of the experimental OI series. Some, like GeaSaga from Ka·in Works, are full-scale distillations of classic role-playing narrative structures, trimming back all the grinding, exposition and angst to a limber playlength of 10 hours or less. Others snip off and spotlight cherished pieces of those larger games, like slimes or fishing - I'd love to play one dedicated to the act of Getting The Airship, or a demo compilation of Sleepy Starting Villages. Micro-JRPGs are often funny or parodic - there's a certain, baked-in whimsy to the thought of a role-playing game you can polish off in an evening - but they can also be earnest and melancholy. Facets from Far Away Times, for example, is a series of boss dungeons that form a harrowing story about erasing somebody's personality.

Proper weather implementation is something of a holy grail for racing games - it's why the feature bounces in and out of various series in the genre, why it's entirely absent in most and why we've been waiting for almost 14 years for it to make its debut in iRacing (can we really honestly get it this year please?)

With just over a month to go until its full release, Sony's latest State of Play unveiled a fresh batch of details on Polyphony Digital's PlayStation exclusive Gran Turismo 7 - including some surprising new modes, a look at the vastly improved customisation options as well as a more detailed look at its new weather system.

Following a smattering of leaks over the past few weeks, Evil Within developer Tango Gameworks' action-horror title Ghostwire: Tokyo has finally been given an official release date, and will be making its way to PlayStation 5 on 25th March.

Warner Bros has reportedly delayed developer Rocksteady's video game take on DC Comics' Suicide Squad series, with the game now expected to launch some time in 2023.

Developer Techland has a reputation for delivering exceptional visuals via its own in-house technology - the C-Engine, taking centre-stage in Dying Light 2. With a focus of straddling the console generations while utilising cutting-edge visuals on the latest hardware, the studio promises us a rich density in detail, seamless streaming, upgraded physics, animation and AI. Our first impression? Dying Light 2 can look astonishing - but it's no secret that it's exceptionally heavy on the GPU.

Valheim developer Iron Gate Studios has shared a first look at its early access Viking survival game running on Steam Deck - saying it's hopping to get it "running smoothly" on Valve's platform for launch - as part of a look ahead at its plans for 2022 and beyond.

UPDATE 2/2/21: Dying Light 2 developer Techland has detailed some of what will arrive in the game's day one patch, after earlier advising players with early copies to hold off and wait.

In light of the intense criticism following yesterday's news that Team17 was launching an "environmentally friendly" Worms NFT project, the publisher has announced it will no longer be going ahead with its plans.

The Pokémon Company has released the Pokémon DP Sound Library.