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343 has made Halo Infinite's next multiplayer preview available to everyone on Xbox.

Unreal had a (well deserved) reputation for poor multiplayer, thanks to hideously broken network code and under powered weapons. So it came as something of a surprise when Epic revealed they were working on a multiplayer-focused follow-up to the game...

Gosh, Quake III. The second most popular game on the Internet at the moment, and a firm favourite amongst the EuroGamer staff. But a console version? That'll never work, right? Wrong, Quake III on the Dreamcast is as close to a perfect console FPS as ever I've seen. It falls into a completely different category from games like Goldeneye and TimeSplitters, bringing us the wondrous splendour of the intense, fast-moving multiplayer shooter to the mainstream. Immediately after receiving the game I slapped it in my Dreamcast, drew the curtains and grasped the nearest controller. After switching my display to 60Hz, I sat back and watched the copyright notices flick by, including one from NexGen, for their TCP/IP technology. This bodes well, I thought. The original intro movie from Quake III is included, with Sarge pounding away with his minigun, cigar locked firmly between his teeth. Nothing too special, but suitable enough. The first thing veterans will notice is the way the menu has been simplified. The options are Single Player, Multi Player and Internet Game, Website, Setup and Load Game with MP game highlighted by default. If you sit and ignore the menu, you get a pre-recorded demo featuring a player racing around "The Forgotten Place" to the peeling sounds of soft metal music. The map design is very faithful to the original, and I didn't notice any changes in terms of weapon positioning either. The Forgotten Place wasn't one of my favourites though, so I could be wrong. However "The Longest Yard," (or Q3DM17 as it's known) was, and so I decided to jump on there with some bots and see how it faired.

Bertie: Do you remember the first time you realised magical potions weren't real? I was so surprised I had to take yesterday off work!

Quake III Arena, from which this Xbox Live Arcade port is derived, popularised many of the conventions and much of the terminology of the contemporary first-person shooter: everything from brown corridors to the term 'deathmatch'. And yet, sitting down with id Software's shooter concentrate 11 years after its debut, it's curious just how different a multiplayer experience it offers to its descendants.

Randy Pitchford is thinking of me. "I would not want to be a journalist on this one," the Gearbox studio boss told Mr Minkley in our Duke Nukem Forever launch day interview. "I would not want to be a critic. It's going to be tough."

Happy Nintendo day! Not to get your hopes up too much, but this promises to be a half decent Direct, with news on this year's big releases from Nintendo and room for a surprise or two. Join us from 5pm BST!

Twitch is reportedly preparing to introduce a range of new features designed to help tackle the increasingly prevalent phenomenon of hate raiding, including the ability for streamers to restrict chat commenting to those users whose accounts have been through phone verification.

Inscryption, the "dark and disturbing" deck-building horror game from Pony Island and The Hex developer Daniel Mullins, will be shuffling onto PC just in time for Halloween, on 19th October.

Digital Foundry Direct Weekly takes on a retro-heavy theme this week as DFR mastermind John Linneman is joined by collaborator Audi Sorlie with special guest Coury Carlson - be sure to check out his amazing retro work on the My Life in Gaming YouTube channel. While a mighty chunk of this week's offering covers off the recent Nintendo Direct, elsewhere it's all about (or closely associated with) legacy gaming and preservation.

September's big PlayStation 5 system update brought several long-awaited new features to Sony's console. But PlayStation says it's aware it has a way to go before every feature fans want is included.

Halo Infinite's latest technical preview took place over the weekend, and of course the dataminers had a field day.

When you've been waiting some 15 years for a game, I think it's probably fair to express a little bit of trepidation going in. Metroid Dread was first conceived as a Nintendo DS sequel to Metroid Fusion, back at a time when not only had the series served up a 2D offering that could stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Super Metroid, but we were also in the midst of the brilliance of the Prime series. Whatever your take on the likes of Metroid: Other M, Federation Force or Samus Returns, it's fair to say that the series has been far from its prime ever since.

Capcom classic Resident Evil 4 will be relaunched in its new VR version on 21st October.

No game pulls off the feeling of stabbing a zombie in the head quite as well as The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners. Somehow developers Skydance have managed to conjure up an incredibly real sense of impact, literally out of thin air.

I know 343 has done something right with Halo Infinite multiplayer because I was still playing at 4am this morning.

Expect to see plenty more from the world of The Witcher on Netflix in the coming years - including a mysterious family-orientated spin-off.

The second season of Netflix's The Witcher show might not have been released yet, but that hasn't stopped Netflix from announcing a third series.

It's funny how much the mind fills in. The art for Sable: you could say, hey, it's Moebius, the French artist who once made the Silver Surfer such an elegant, lonesome presence, a needle of swift, glittering will darting above the blasted canyons of Manhattan. Or you could talk of the thinness of the line, the slow-strobing pastel colours, the sparing use of shadow.

Naughty Dog has given a brief update on its upcoming multiplayer project, two years to the day since it confirmed The Last of Us Part 2's multiplayer mode was no longer part of the main game.

Naughty Dog has released the first official photo from the set of HBO's upcoming The Last of Us, showing Joel and Ellie in costume.

I'd say I sound like a broken record but at this point I may as well chuck out the record player. FIFA 22 is a game with plenty of solid improvements, but it is - once again! - let down by morally bankrupt monetisation.

Marvel's Avengers developer Crystal Dynamics has confirmed that long-awaited roster addition, Spider-Man - who will only be available on PlayStation consoles - will "for sure" have his own story mission and cutscenes.

Knockout City's third season, Hacked, will drop on 5th October, 2021, complete with hacking, motorbikes, a battle pass, and a brand new map, too.

Double Fine has revealed what happened to Ford Cruller at the end of the original Psychonauts game.

Oh look, the PS Plus free game line-up has leaked again. Rumour has it the upcoming freebies will include Hell Let Loose for PS5, and Mortal Kombat X and PGA Tour 2K21 for PS4.

Anti-cheat software BattlEye and Easy Anti-Cheat have confirmed they will support Valve's handheld Steam Deck.

Arcane, Netflix's League of Legends animated series, begins on 6th November (2am UK time on 7th November).

Hitman - Game of The Year Edition launched on GOG.com this week - and immediately sparked a row about DRM.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits from Ember Labs finally released this week, initially capturing our attention at the PlayStation 5 gameplay reveal event last year thanks to a visually fresh, appealing presentation. Based on Unreal Engine 4, Kena shines through the artistic accomplishments of the developer, backed by a solid game design and mostly solid performance. However, underlying issues with UE4 do peek through - and they're especially evident on the PC version of the game.