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You open the door and immediately throw an empty bottle at a goon SMASH before turning your attention to another running around the corner. With a flurry of punches and a final kick BAM BAM POW you send him hurtling to a fighting pit below. More punches THWACK SMACK and the enemies are downed, the screen splashes a sudden scarlet and you move on in your relentless pursuit.

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector is getting the Necrons as DLC.

A free DLC expansion is available now for Lonely Mountains: Downhill.

Publisher Slitherine has revealed gameplay of Stargate: Timekeepers.

Nintendo will hold its next indie-game focused presentation today, 15th December 2021, at 5pm UK time. (That's 9am Pacific, or 12pm Eastern.)

Editor's note: Hello! Over the next few days we're running a "Games That Got Away" series, where we finally get round to reviewing games that released at some point in 2021 but, for various reasons, we couldn't quite manage to cover at the time.

There's a Terminator real-time strategy game in the works.

Twitch has implemented a new feature that allows streamers to see the reasons why viewers have unsubscribed from their channel.

A report has suggested Twitch's new paid boost feature has no real impact on viewer numbers.

Last week, Myth of Empires was booted off Steam after allegations it had copied source code from Ark: Survival Evolved.

343 has tweaked Halo Infinite's challenges system for multiplayer again.

Today's supporter-only episode of The New Eurogamer Podcast is bitter-sweet. Sweet in the sense it's about someone at the very heart of Eurogamer - someone who has worked here for a colossal 14 years, shaping the website and leading it - but bitter because they are now leaving. Sniff. They are, of course, Oli Welsh.

As part of its fascinating Power On documentary series released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Xbox, Microsoft has discussed the time it rejected Rockstar's pitch to put Grand Theft Auto 3 on the original Xbox back in 2001 - a decision that would ultimately lead to the multi-million-selling phenomenon being snapped up by Sony as a timed exclusive.

Cult Japanese horror Ringu will make its way to Dead by Daylight in a new chapter next year.

If you're in the market for a thoroughly delightful distraction to help occupy those cold winter nights over the festive period (and who wouldn't be?), you might like to point your face in the direction of Ubisoft Connect, where the excellent Rayman Oranges is currently free on PC.

A rough beast indeed, Hunt: Showdown, slouching toward the daylight after a couple of years in Early Access. A genre chimera, blurring survival horror with boss rush shooter and battle royale, not quite one thing, not quite another.

"Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie," the original Doom's programmer John Carmack once wrote. "It's expected to be there, but it's not that important." A connoisseur of sleaze might object that story often makes for sexier porn - after all, story tends to involve chemistry, atmosphere, suspense and all the other emotions that distinguish intimacy from the act of banging together genitals to spark a human being. Still, if we're going to liken games to pornography, and assuming it's the more kinetic kind of pornography you're after, I heartily recommend Doom Eternal: a looping video compilation of oversized guns and fists plunging into squelchy orifices, spurting along at 60 frames a second.

I stumbled into Tasomachi: Behind the Twilight after 30 more-or-less consecutive hours of Outriders, a game of ceaseless killing and looting. Mopping the guts from my face and shaking flattened bullets from my coat, I peered woozily at the opening shot of an airship trundling down the seashore and all but burst into tears.

If you're curious about PlayStation Plus but haven't yet become a member - or have no intention of ever becoming a member, but have a sudden urge to play some online multiplayer games all the same - Sony is giving players two days to trial the subscription service this weekend.

If been wondering where Nightdive Studios' long-in-the-works System Shock remake has got to - given that it's previously announced "late summer" 2021 release window has very much been and gone - the developer says the project is now due to arrive some time next year. It'll be published by Koch Media's Prime Matter division and there are a selection of new screenshots to tide people over until more solid release date news comes their way.

Welcome to the latest Digital Foundry Direct Weekly, the regular unscripted show where the DF team sit down of a morning to discuss the latest gaming and technology news. We shot this one last Friday and obviously the big topic is The Game Awards, or 'The Geoffs' as they are colloquially known. Owing to timescales and time differences, we couldn't actually watch the show (perhaps something Geoff should think about) but we did watch a compilation of all of the trailers, which included the phenomenal The Matrix Awakens. We've discussed this demo in depth already but couldn't help but think that its achievements were somewhat muted when surrounded by the usual wave of impossible CG trailers. Not only that, we'd suggest that it also has a detrimental effect on 'honest' presentations like Forspoken - a handsome game but one that simply couldn't have the same impact juxtaposed against fantastical presentations elsewhere.

Sega's original Sonic the Hedgehog game will soon become playable via Tesla in-car screens.

It's with a heavy heart I update this article to say Fahmi has passed away. He left our world in March '22, only a few months after we recorded this podcast. He was 32 years old.

Windjammers 2 is due out across consoles and PC next year, a sequel to the 1994 Neo Geo original.

UPDATE 14/12/21: Among Us will also be out on Xbox Game Pass via the cloud on 16th December, as well as Metroidvania game Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth on console, PC and cloud.

A newly-discovered hacking exploit has opened up the PlayStation 4 and Pro, and may work on a PS5 too.

Video channel People Make Games has run an investigation into the developer of Roblox with some concerning revelations about child safety.

I have an update for a story I published a while back. It was a self-indulgent story, and it's a self-indulgent update. Apologies very much in advance.

Ubisoft has lifted the lid on Assassin's Creed Valhalla's big second year of additions, which will include Assassin's Creed Odyssey crossover DLC starring fan-favourite Kassandra plus a massive 35-hour mythological expansion.

Final Fantasy kart racing game Chocobo GP now has a release date of 10th March 2022, exclusively on Nintendo Switch.