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I am, dear reader, a big fan of Nurgle. It's an odd thing to be a fan of. The putrid Chaos faction is quite possibly the most disgusting thing in all of fantasy, but when it comes to Warhammer, disgusting can be cool. Sort of.

Kirby, Nintendo's pink ball mascot, may be about to suck up a win at the Grammy Awards.

Back in 1999, before the original Xbox, Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo. It didn't go so well.

To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pokémon, a new themed Converse collection has been created.

Maxis will be sharing information in January next year on its progress adding pronouns to The Sims.

Plans for a Mass Effect TV series on Amazon Prime Video are "nearing a deal".

Matt Goldman, senior creative director of the next Dragon Age game, has left developer BioWare.

Street Fighter 5's final character, Luke, is a "major" part of the next Street Fighter game, Capcom has said.

A former PlayStation worker has filed a lawsuit against Sony Interactive Entertainment in California, claiming it "cultivates a work environment that discriminates against female employees", and suing it for "gender discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination".

Men of War 2, the sequel to the original cult RTS Men of War, has been announced. It's coming in 2022, and being developed by Ukrainian studio Best Way, the same studio behind the originals in the series: Men of War, which came out in 2009, and the proper first game in the series, 2004's Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2.

Harmonix, the developer behind the likes of Rock Band and last year's music mixing title Fuser, has been acquired by Epic Games to "create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite."

Developer Mediatonic is in a bit of a celebratory mood, and will be giving its knockabout battle royale game Fall Guys a festival-themed makeover (with a bit of circus and carnival flavour thrown in for good measure) when its sixth season arrives next Tuesday, 30th November.

Online electricals retailer AO World has issued a stock shortage warning for this Christmas, pointing to a lack of availability of electrical products such as the new consoles.

Nintendo of America boss Doug Bowser has become the latest to condemn Activision Blizzard in a leaked internal email, following last week's bombshell report which detailed allegations of sexual assault, harassment and misconduct at the company.

The quartet of titles coming to Xbox Live Games with Gold this December have been revealed.

Xbox's 20th anniversary celebrations continue today with the arrival of a virtual museum from Microsoft.

Terminator: Resistance is getting a four-hour narrative DLC campaign on PC and PlayStation 5-only.

The developer of Cricket 22 was forced to delay the game after the Australia Test captain stepped down over historical investigation into texts sent to a colleague.

I'm not normally one for anniversaries - there's already enough to remind me how old I'm getting every time I look in the mirror, thank you very much - but this one hit hard. Rez, originally the work of Sega's United Games Artists that first launched on PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast back in the winter of 2001, has turned 20 years old. Old enough, it turns out, to spend a night on the tiles chewing its face off to some sweet tunes.

Chris Meledandri, producer of the Super Mario film, has defended the decision to cast Chris Pratt.

Sega continues to update Sonic Colours: Ultimate with patch 2.6.

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, is now worth $9bn (£6.7bn) following a new $300m investment (thanks Techcrunch).

Mortal Kombat fans have for years hoped for Neo from The Matrix and / or John Wick from the John Wick movies to pop up as playable characters in a Mortal Kombat game. It hasn't happened yet - and actor Keanu Reeves himself doesn't sound keen on the idea.

Late last night, Activision Blizzard announced plans to form a new Workplace Responsibility Committee as a response to last week's devastating report into sexual assault, harassment and misconduct at the company.

Age of Empires 3: Definitive Edition gets the Mexico civilisation as DLC next week.

Amazon has announced the free PC games available for Prime members in December.

Jurassic World Evolution 2 sales aren't great and Elite Dangerous: Odyssey under-performed, developer Frontier has said.

A new update for Skyrim Anniversary Edition fixes an issue with black screens.

When time grew close, I discovered time. Which is to say, I guess, that I emerged from the first lockdown tending a new fascination with mechanical wristwatches. It's shameful in a way - wrongly, I had always associated watches and the people who love them with a certain kind of sneering conservatism. Watches the size of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups glinting and twitching on huge wrists. But I had read an essay by William Gibson about his own discovery of watches at the same time that he discovered very early eBay back in the nineties. I was hooked by the magic of the watch word horde: escapement, movement, complication. I was hooked too by something he refers to as the "Tamagotchi gesture". This is the fact that a mechanical watch needs its owner. It needs caring - to wind, to reset the time, to spin the day date window through its lazy cycles.

Fresh off its Wyoming adventure, developer SCS Software has announced that American Truck Simulator is already plotting a course for a brand-new destination, and will be plugging a gap at the top of the map to deliver Montana as its tenth state expansion.