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I was really moved this week to see how a small number of people have powered a profound change in games. I'm a bit embarrassed to say I often overlook accessibility in games, which isn't to say I don't benefit from it. And I assumed the range of accessibility options in modern games was simply improving because someone somewhere decided it should. But of course that's not what happened. Behind the celebrated and ground-breaking accessibility tools in a game like The Last of Us Part 2, for example, is the tireless work of a community campaigning for the opportunity to play and enjoy games too.

Earlier this week, the internet was abuzz after a developer revealed a fully playable version of TimeSplitters 2 had been squirrelled away in Homefront: The Revolution. The only snag was the code required to unlock the easter egg had been lost to time - or so it was thought, until now.

Hello Games' charming narrative puzzler The Last Campfire is getting a free new update today on all platforms, adding new puzzles, performance improvements, and more.

If you're a regular over on the Eurogamer YouTube channel you might have noticed that Aoife, Ian and Zoe tend to stream console games a lot there - and often only the more basic PC titles, like Among Us. If you guessed this was because their PCs were getting a little long in the tooth, you'd be right. We were just thinking about speccing out upgrades when Intel handily offered to supply the team with brand new, cutting-edge builds based around their 11th generation CPUs.

Naughty Dog is working on a The Last of Us remake, according to a new report.

Taiko Pop Tap, as it appears on my phone's home screen, is pure joy. If you've played the earlier games in the drumming series you will already know this. And I suspect, if you've played the earlier games in the drumming series, Taiko Pop Tap was your first download from the new drop of Apple Arcade games.

Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we've found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: Halo, traffic lights, and more Halo.

Like a lot of people, my day begins with Joel Fagliano and his Mini crossword in the New York Times. Then, I am sad to note, my day often goes downhill. Whole hours pass in which I do not have to solve clues so I can put letters in little boxes. It's not right. Fagliano manages to make one of his Minis every day - it seems wrong to ask for more than that. Yet the day is long and the Mini is mini.

Neo: The World Ends With You arrives for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on 27th July, and later in the summer for PC via the Epic Games Store.

Netflix has signed a streaming licensing deal for Sony's upcoming films, including Uncharted.

Grinding Gear Games has shown off 19 minutes of new Path of Exile 2 gameplay.

Second Sight, the cult classic psychokinetic thriller from TimeSplitters developer Free Radical Design, has re-appeared on Steam after an eight-year absence.

THQ Nordic is bringing the high-gloss extraterrestrial terrorising of last year's Destroy All Humans remake to Switch this summer, with the game set to arrive on 29th June.

Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX, developer Jankenteam's remake of the much-loved Sega Master System classic, will be making its way to PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch on 24th June.

Elite Dangerous players in the Odyssey alpha can finally wave a less-than-fond farewell to the expansion's tortuous space taxis as Frontier embarks on Phase Two of its pre-release testing today, 8th April, giving Commanders access to their own ships for the first time.

Square Enix and People Can Fly are preparing an "appreciate package" for launch window players to make up for server issues.

There's a special elegance to subway maps. Much of it is just in the looks: the minimalism and the weirdly playful colours. I look at London's tube map and see a kind of Scandi children's toy. You know the sort - made of wood, a bit tactile, and always passively educational, the kind designed by friendly faces in white coats that do want you to have fun, but also develop very specific parts of your brain while you're doing it. This is also the real elegance of it. Compared to every other kind of public transport map, a tube map is as simple to look at - but it has to have been made by a genius.

Bethesda's PC and PlayStation 5 console exclusive Deathloop has been further delayed, and will now launch on 14th September 2021.

Capcom has pulled the RE:Verse open beta offline just seven hours after launch.

Last month, Intel demoed a beta version of Bleep, its in-development AI technology that will "detect and redact audio based on user preferences".

13 years after it came out, Halo 3 has a new map.

Streets of Rage 4's Mr. X Nightmare premium DLC adds three new playable characters.

Star Trek: Legends is one of those games I didn't know I needed in my life until I saw it; captains and crew from every generation of the show coming together in a turn-based role-playing game. Dr. Phlox does Final Fantasy, Dukat's Dragon Quest - you get the picture - essentially, an idea I'm astonished I didn't dream up sooner.

Oddworld: Soulstorm, which yesterday launched on PC, PS4 and on PS5 via PlayStation Plus, has today been updated to version 1.05.

Capcom has dated its next Resident Evil showcase event for next Thursday, 15th April at 11pm UK time (that's 6pm Eastern, or 3pm Pacific).

After a huge drop of games on Apple Arcade, we're going to spend some of this week picking through the new stuff. First up, it's a PlayStation favourite with a new home...

Fantasian is a game from Mistwalker, the studio founded in 2006 by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy. It is, by its nature, a game with history behind it, vested interests and storied careers, and if you're particularly fond of that history then I'm sure you'll love it: it has turn-based battles and timid, oddly-dressed, techno-magical characters; it has small parochial towns with chatty villagers; it has a fantastical story, something about malevolent gods and machines taking over nature; and it has music from Nobuo Uematsu. Sakaguchi, for what it's worth, has suggested this one might be his last.

A prominent Muslim advocacy organisation has called for PlayStation, Xbox and Valve to drop controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah.

Death Stranding's PC version made £20m last year, its publisher has revealed.

Square Enix has shown off Final Fantasy 14 running on a PlayStation 5 for the first time.