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This is it, the Analogue Pocket, the closest we've come yet to the definitive retro portable, capable of playing a wide range of handheld cartridge games including the entire Game Boy Catalogue and Sega's Game Gear. It's a beautifully crafted device with a huge screen, based on an FPGA processor. Think of this as a chip that can be reprogrammed to match the actual logic of the original hardware, giving nigh-on perfect simulation of how those old consoles worked. So that's the theory but does the Analogue Pocket deliver? For this review, Analogue sent us a black review unit along with the dock and associated accessories to find out.

Ever since it was first announced under the guise of Project Athia, there's been some intrigue about Forspoken - unsurprisingly, really, given it's being made from many of the same team behind Final Fantasy 15, matched with an all-star writing team featuring the likes of Amy Hennig and Gary Whitta.

The $359 Ryzen 7 5700G APU is an interesting prospect - essentially an AMD Renoir laptop processor given more power and thermal headroom in its new guise as a desktop CPU. It costs a hair less than the entry-level Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor and also adds integrated graphics support, so how does it compare in games to other AMD and Intel desktop CPUs once a discrete GPU is in play? And how good are its integrated graphics anyway? Those are the questions we aim to answer in the Digital Foundry review of AMD's top APU.

Mercury Steam has released a remaster of its first ever game, Scrapland.

Sony will release a new line of coloured accessories for the PS5 next year, including controllers and console covers.

Dr Dre has released a snippet of a song he's produced for GTA Online, along with Eminem.

Microsoft has acknowledged its closure of Lionhead Studios was one of its "biggest missteps".

Superman and The Witcher actor Henry Cavill has said he'd "love" to discuss being in the forthcoming Mass Effect TV series.

Hello! This week, we're playing a bit of overdue catch-up. You've heard this a million times by now, but the past year has been a weird one for games, with a landslide of indies and off-beat gems filling the triple-A void. At times it's been tough to keep up, and because of that we've missed a few that deserved our attention at the time.

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.

One of my favourite paintings in the world isn't very good. It's not actively bad, and it's far better than anything I could do, it's just not very good. It's a long way from great, comfortably non-brilliant. The gallery that owns it doesn't even have it on display most of the time. For most of its life on Earth I suspect it will be filed somewhere in the quiet dark.

Indie JRPG Edge of Eternity is on its way to consoles next year.

Final Fantasy 14 director and producer Naoki Yoshida has once again apologised for congestion since the launch of Endwalker.

Microsoft has urged all Minecraft Java owners to update their game now to avoid a nasty security vulnerability.

More than three years after departing BioWare and later founding his own studio, Aaryn Flynn's next project has finally been announced. The former BioWare boss turned up on stage at last week's Game Awards to show off Nightingale, a "shared-world survival crafting game" - the first project from Inflexion Games.

Square Enix fantasy adventure Forspoken is now available to pre-purchase, following the announcement of its 24th May release date at The Game Awards last night.

While we already knew that Final Fantasy 7 Remake Intergrade is coming to PC via Epic Games Store next week, 16th December, we now have a price: £65 in the UK, $70 in the US, and €80 in Europe.

A Slayer playlist is "officially locked and loaded" for Halo Infinite's update next week.

It looks like things will be getting seriously cold for Serious Sam 4.

A creepy Santa Claus is making the rounds following Phasmophobia's new Cursed Possessions update.

Virtual Reality is often seen as a solo experience and indeed, a lot of VR games on the market right now are just that.

Atlus has teamed up with iam8bit to create a $400/£300 25th anniversary of Persona vinyl boxset.

The opportunity to replay campaign modes in Halo Infinite is "coming later", according to 343 Industries associate creative director, Paul Crocker.

For Digital Foundry, the highlight of The Game Awards wasn't actually an award as such or even a massive triple-A reveal but rather the debut of The Matrix Awakens: An Unreal Engine 5 Experience. Sandwiched between CG trailers, its impact may not have been appreciated during the event, but once downloaded onto your console, it's clear that this is a genuinely important moment in real-time rendering. What Epic Games and partnering studios including The Coalition have achieved is the closest we've seen to an interactive motion picture, delivering new levels of fidelity in character realisation, environmental rendering, lighting quality and post-processing. If you own a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series console, you owe it to yourself to check this out - particularly if you're feeling the effects of cross-gen fatigue.

At some point later this afternoon in Abu Dhabi, history will be made. Whether Lewis Hamilton clinches his eighth title and pulls clear of the record seven crowns claimed by Michael Schumacher or Max Verstappen takes his first remains to be seen, but whatever the result we're about to witness the end of an era. With a new ruleset designed to bunch the pack up and slow them down - temporarily, at least - we're about to say farewell to the fastest racing cars to have ever graced the planet.

Details about Assassin's Creed Valhalla's next expansion, widely thought to be called Dawn of Ragnarok, have leaked via a Chinese web site.

Persona 3 Portable may be getting a "multiplatform" remaster.

The Pokémon Center UK is now open.

Scorn - an "atmospheric first-person horror adventure" - will now release in October 2022.

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons has apologised after a report alleged multiple instances of sexism and workplace toxicity at the studio.