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Microsoft announced the results for the third quarter of its 2021 financial year - and gaming is booming.

Confirmed with surprising openness to be running at a straight 720p resolution at 30fps, Dead Rising 3 has much to prove to early Xbox One buyers. While many will be looking for evidence of a generational shift in terms of graphics and performance - ideally both - it's clear that development of this game has perhaps not been been as smooth as Capcom Vancouver would have preferred, appearing as it did with copious pop-in, tearing and serious frame-rate issues at Microsoft's 2013 E3 booth. But, raising its head once again at a London event, we're given an unfiltered hands-on with the title to see whether the extra months of development have given it a much-needed turnaround.

With the release of Metro: Last Light, developer 4A Games brings to the table the most technically dazzling game since Crysis 3 first graced our screens three months ago. Building on its in-house 4A Engine that debuted with cult hit Metro 2033, it's something of a technological wonder, with DirectX 11 features like tessellation, cutting-edge lighting effects and advanced PhysX realising its barren, Pripyat-inspired environments.

Striking at the opportune moment, Naughty Dog's award-winning The Last of Us is now available to PlayStation 4 owners in remastered form - giving both newcomers and double-dippers alike a chance to play the game in lush 1080p at 60 frames per second. For impressions of how the adventure holds up on next-gen hardware when played from a fresh perspective, be sure to check out our earlier tech analysis from Digital Foundry chief Richard Leadbetter. In this article however, we'll be addressing the returning crowd; indeed for those who loved the PlayStation 3 original, is there enough here to make the game's campaign worth another play-through? Is there more to it than just a resolution and frame-rate bump?

As launches go, Outriders' was a doozy.

My grandmother had a chimney in her house, and all the rituals that went with it. All week she would set aside time for the making of spills - little concertinas of newspaper that were good for getting fires going. She would keep an eye on the log pile, and if any of us had an orange, we would save the peel for her to toss into the flames when the fire was lit. This last part I remember so strongly that I still find myself holding onto orange peel for a few seconds whenever I'm eating an orange, before I remember that my grandmother died in 1991. Anyway, the rituals extended to the fire itself. She would stare into the flames and, in fact, through the flames. The sooty back wall of the fireplace would become home to little orange embers that would advance up and down as the fire progressed and she liked to watch them.

Hauling DNA samples and pizza through the desolate America of Death Stranding, I found myself thinking of the paths that wander in amongst the hills of my birthplace in Yorkshire. The best-known of these is the Dales Way, an 80-mile stretch of moor and meadow that follows the River Wharfe up past its headspring to the shores of Lake Windermere. The Way was officially added to British maps in 1969, following the establishing of our National Parks, but the path's origins go back a lot further. It is formed from a multitude of much older paths, trodden into the resonant, well-rooted soils and glaciated rock of the Yorkshire Dales by generations of travellers. Walking down the valley between Dent and Ribblehead, you can feel all those aggregated footfalls echoing in your very bones. Ancient artisans bearing flaked greenstone from the Neolithic axe factories in Langdale. Monks journeying to and from Bolton Abbey, and mourners from outlying villages carrying loved ones to the cemetery. Wanderers and the lost. Deliverers of one kind or another.

If you're the kind of person who likes to see how the sausage is made - and by sausage I mean stellar Half-Life remake Black Mesa - then there's a bit of a treat in store. Developer Crowbar Collective has just launched the Xen Museum, gathering a host of playable levels and other assorted material from all across Black Mesa's development.

Developer The Wandering Band's striking skybound city builder Airborne Kingdom - which Eurogamer quite enjoyed when it launched last year - is giving players the perfect excuse to return to the clouds in the form of a New Game+ mode, available now on PC and Mac.

If you've been eyeing up Miitopia for Switch - Nintendo's spruce-up of its 2016 Mii-themed 3DS RPG - you can now explore its curious innards courtesy of a newly released demo on the eShop.

Step back Planet Zoo, pipe down Zoo Tycoon; finally someone's made a game for those budding zoologist that love animals so much they just wanted to smush them all together - until more, weirder animals pop out the other side. It's called Let's Build a Zoo and it's coming to PC this summer, with Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation versions also on the way.

Rockstar's elusive Midnight Club Los Angeles: Complete Edition has been relisted on the Xbox Marketplace.

Fallout 76's big Locked & Loaded update goes live today.

Xerneas and Yveltal, the two Legendary creatures which graced the box covers of Pokémon X and Y, will arrive in Pokémon Go next month.

The eagerly anticipated first major update for Monster Hunter Rise has been detailed, sneaking in before the end of the month as it arrives on April 28th - just one day after the update was detailed in Capcom's digital event. It brings a suite of new challenges and monsters - plus one unwelcome tweak as in-depth character editing is now locked behind a paywall.

Retro game collection Capcom Arcade Stadium will sell an invincibility cheat for $0.99 when the compilation launches for PC via Steam, PlayStation and Xbox on 25th May.

Brands will now be able to float a hot air balloon filled with in-game items (and advertising) to you in Pokémon Go.

In-person parties have been somewhat difficult over the last year, so it's just as well that Nintendo is rolling out a free update for Super Mario Party that significantly expands the game's online offering.

A vigilante Call of Duty: Warzone player has taken it upon themselves to crack down on under-the-map cheaters.

Fortnite's monthly Crew subscription isn't a bad deal on the months when a new battle pass launches. For a couple of quid extra, you'll get a fancy exclusive skin and a generous dollop of in-game currency, as well as the new battle pass.

Apple has finally added official support for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S controllers, without the need for any workarounds.

Today's update for Assassin's Creed Valhalla adds a smattering of new skills, another slew of bug fixes, and the handy ability to switch off cinematic finishers.

Knockout City launches straight into Xbox Game Pass and EA Play, EA has announced.

In 2015, so many of us mourned the passing of Satoru Iwata at the all-to-young age of 55 as if we'd lost the closest of friends despite never having met. The impact of Nintendo's most charming leader is beautifully illustrated in Ask Iwata, a collection extracted from interviews conducted with friend and frequent collaborator Shigesato Itoi as well as from Iwata's own celebrated interviews with his developers.

One of the great unspoken truths about video games, beyond all the intrigue and drama and the cold hard face of all that technology, is that they are made by mere humans. People like you and me, who face some of the same challenges, make the same mistakes, the same compromises, and experience some of the same triumphs and failures. Itchy, Tasty, a new look at the birth of the Resident Evil series from Alex Aniel, is as fine an illustration of all that as you'll ever see - indeed, perhaps its greatest achievement is how it goes beyond the legend that is Capcom's survival horror series and looks at some of the human stories behind it all.

Street Fighter figurehead Yoshinori Ono leaves Capcom at the end of April after nearly 30 years at the company.

May is almost upon us and, in the world of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, that means another batch of returning seasonal events - albeit, this time, with the promise of "new twists".

Following its well-received Switch launch, Ghosts 'N Goblins Resurrection - Capcom's striking reboot of the classic 80s platform series - is coming to Xbox, PlayStation, and PC on 1st June.

Planet Coaster: Console Edition players on Xbox and PlayStation can soon bring a touch of movie magic to their parks with the arrival of two more DLC expansions - Ghostbusters and the Studios Pack - on 29th April.

EA has denied it's "pushing" FIFA players to spend money on loot boxes after a "gaming insider" leaked marketing documents to a mainstream publication.