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The next-gen consoles are out! The Xbox Series X and S came out on Tuesday, 10th November, and the PlayStation 5 launched in the US and Japan on Thursday, 12th November. Sony's machine doesn't launch on our shores until Thursday 19th November, but the floodgates are very much open.

What a week! We've just had two big embargoes lifted: the PlayStation 5 review embargo, and the Xbox Series X and S review embargo. Oh yeah, and we've got review embargoes for Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Astro's Playroom. Finally, the gloves are off and we can talk freely about the next-generation!

Wow. Now that was a week, wasn't it? We had a last-minute delay to Cyberpunk, more controversy over CD Projekt and crunch, a last-minute delay to Destruction AllStars, embargo lifts for the unboxing of the Xbox Series X, S and PlayStation 5, the exit of the director of Halo Infinite from the troubled project, and for the first time a clear idea of how big third party games will run on the next-gen consoles.

As we inch ever closer to the release of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, more news emerges about how the consoles work - and in some cases don't work. And so, your Eurogamer next-gen news cast team is here with another video to review the week that was. As always, there is lots to talk about!

You may have noticed a change to the title of our news cast this week. We've dropped the "next-gen" part for a few reasons. One, the next-gen consoles aren't next-gen any more. We're firmly in the current-gen now! Two, we always end up talking about all sorts of games - PC games, mobile games, and even Nintendo games. Which brings me on to number three: this week's Nintendo Direct!

Next-gen consoles eh? Lots of news, lots to discuss, and a lot of questions to answer. So, we thought, why not start a regular next-gen consoles video chat... thing in which the lovely Eurogamer news team do all that and more? Well, that's what this is, in the video below. Let's call it the Eurogamer next-gen news cast. For now, at least.

Xenomorph and Ripley from the Alien franchise are coming to Fortnite.

CD Projekt yesterday announced that the next update for Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed until March, following a severe cyber attack that held source code and internal documents to ransom. A new report by Bloomberg's Jason Schreier has now detailed exactly how disruptive the attack was, leaving employees locked out of their workstations for two weeks and scrambling to freeze personal accounts.

The Pokémon Company has announced a 20-minute presentation to be broadcast tomorrow, at 3pm UK time.

Sometimes, there's nothing quite so reassuring as a good old JRPG. This is a comfort blanket of a genre for players of a certain age, games that happily consume entire lazy afternoons curled up on a sofa as you slowly push numbers ever upwards. They don't come much more comforting than those producer Tomoya Asano and his team have made an art of in recent years; dipping into Square Enix's remarkable history of evocative greats, they've given us modern takes on the classic JRPG formula such as 2018's Octopath Traveler and 2012's Bravely Default.

Well, we knew a new PUBG title for console and PC would be launching soon, but back in January we also heard something about a new mobile title set in the PUBG universe - and it seems Krafton has decided to unveil the latter first.

Halo's long-awaited TV series will finally debut in Q1 2022. In the US, it'll debut on Paramount+.

Niantic has issued a rare update on its efforts to combat cheating in Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and Ingress.

Skullgirls 2nd Encore is introducing new fighter Annie of the Stars to its roster this March, developer Hidden Variable has confirmed, and three additional DLC characters will follow.

Henry Cavill - he of The Witcher, Superman, and muscular PC-building hijinks fame - has teased a new "secret project" that very much appears to be Mass Effect related.

You don't have a body in Sunlight. I checked. You have a presence - the grass crunches as you move forward, the flowers you pluck are collected on-screen in a growing bunch and you can even get stuck on trees a bit. But no body as it were. Which is weird because Sunlight is really all about embodiment.

Development on beleaguered multiplayer shooter Anthem's major overhaul - variously known as "Anthem Next" and "Anthem 2.0" - has officially ceased, according to BioWare, and the studio will now focus its efforts on the next Dragon Age and Mass Effect games.

THQ Nordic's Destroy All Humans! remake is currently 50% off on Steam, which, in itself, is only mildly worthy of note. However, a newly released trailer promoting the mid-week discount is considerably more interesting, seemingly teasing the imminent arrival - or at least imminent announcement - of a remaster for Destroy All Humans! 2.

Paradox Interactive is priming the next major update for its superb medieval grand strategy game Crusader Kings 3, and the studio is now ready to begin sharing details on some of the new features it'll bring - starting with winter.

UPDATE 24/2/21: Stadia has now issued a fix for the bug which caused the game to crash upon loading. Information on this patch has now been posted to reddit by Stadia community manager GraceFromGoogle.

Fresh from the announcement that Days Gone's arrival on PC heralds a new wave of PlayStation exclusives on the platform, Sony Bend's adventure now has a Steam page with a spring 2021 release window.

Much-loved tactical shooter Star Wars Republic Commando is coming to Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 on 6th April 2021, developer Aspyr has announced. The game was leaked earlier in February as coming to Nintendo Switch. Now it's confirmed.

Things seem to keep going from bad to worse for CD Projekt, as after a disastrous Cyberpunk 2077 launch that saw the game removed from the PlayStation Store, the company was hit by a major cyber attack - and this has now resulted in a month-long delay for the game's promised February patch.

Valheim just can't seem to stop reaching massive milestones, as after achieving a peak of 500k Steam users, it's now sold over 4m copies. And it's only been out for three weeks.

Manor Lords is a just-announced medieval strategy game for PC that's part city builder, part real-time strategy battle game.

One of Capcom's most celebrated and beloved franchises, Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection for Switch is something of a treat, modernising a classic game with Nintendo's console hybrid technology, while at the same time honoring some of its most iconic moments. It's also one of the first Switch games built using Capcom's excellent RE Engine - the other being Monster Hunter Rise. While a very different sort of game, Ghost 'n Goblins showcases just how flexible the tools and technology truly can be and while this release has proven divisive to fandom, I think it's an excellent effort overall.

Zombies are confirmed coming to Call of Duty: Warzone.

"Alright warrior," Valheim's raven narrator Hugin told me when I first booted up the game. "Odin's counting on you to slay a bunch of horrible creatures then ascend to Valhalla. It's a perilous journey and you'll need to arm yourself properly to defeat the Forsaken. Are you up for the task?"

Not for the first time, a US politician is seeking a ban on violent video games - and on this occasion it's coming from a Democrat in Chicago.

Narita Boy comes out 30th March on PC, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One. The game is playable on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S via backwards compatibility.