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If you want a pristine copy of Super Mario Bros. 3, I hope you've been saving your coins, as a sealed version of the game has sold for auction at $156k (£117k) - earning it the title of most expensive video game ever sold at auction.

Surgeon Simulator developer Bossa has suffered a round of redundancies as its co-founders target a fresh start for the studio in 2021.

This week it seemed appropriate to look back at some of our favourite launch titles ever. And today we have a real treat.

It's been two years since Lara Croft's last video game outing - developer Eidos-Montréal's grim trilogy capper Shadow of the Tomb Raider - and now, finally, Square Enix is teasing Lara's long-overdue return in the form of next year's Tomb Raider Reloaded. You might wish to immediately temper your expectations, however, given that it's a free-to-play mobile game.

If you're the kind of person that's frequently frustrated by the fact your game-assigned Crusader Kings 3 ruler isn't, say, sufficiently beardy, minuscule, or Ugro-Permian enough to suit your own highly specific tastes, developer Paradox now has the answer in the form of its robust new Ruler Designer, which arrives tomorrow, 24th November, in the free 1.2 update.

When you need a pause from clambering over mossy hillocks and skewering things with swords, Assassin's Creed Valhalla offers up Orlog - a game of beans, bowls, and dice-chucking that's now set to make the jump into the real-world with a physical version next year.

It's a big day for The World Ends With You fans; not only has Square Enix revealed that the 14-year-old cult classic fighting-and-fashion JRPG is getting a very long-awaited sequel next year, it's confirmed that its previously announced anime adaptation is launching in April 2021.

We've all been there - a match where something's gone wrong, or you end up frustrated with your teammates. But I doubt you've ever had the power to get someone banned over a gameplay disagreement, and it seems one Valve employee was unable to restrain themselves from doing so, as Firewatch co-creator Sean Vanaman has now apologised for giving out an unwarranted manual ban.

For some reason people seem hell-bent on porting Doom to every device on the planet - there's even a Tumblr blog dedicated to keeping up with this obsession - and the latest to get the Doom treatment is the Nintendo Game & Watch. Or its re-release version, at least.

We're still several weeks out from Cyberpunk 2077's new release date of 10th December, but it seems someone has already managed to get their hands on a copy, as 20 minutes of gameplay has spilled onto the internet.

Two expansions ago, with 2016's Legion, high-level and endgame World of Warcraft underwent a big change. Legion introduced Artifact weapons for each class specialisation that could be infinitely powered up and used to further customise each specialisation's playstyle. All told, it was a net positive, dovetailing well with some of the expansion's other innovations - such as the repeatable, rotating World Quests - to open long-term endgame progression to a wider variety of players than just the raiding hardcore. WOW became a game you could pleasurably grind away at and advance your character without feeling funnelled towards more and more challenging group content in the quest for elusive loot drops. (It became a lot more like Diablo in that respect - coincidentally or not, current WOW executive producer John Hight also served as the production director on Diablo 3's excellent console version and Reaper of Souls expansion.)

It's not really in the room yet, but playing through a near-finished build of Too Human, Diablo III is certainly an elephant on the horizon. Cruising around the universe as a cyberpunk Norse myth splattering tinsel-covered robots with a big blue hammer, something Blizzard's Rob Pardo said the other weekend springs to mind: "If there were a ton of games out in the market that are the isometric action-RPG model, then we probably would have more seriously done a different approach." Too Human is trying to be something like that - a mixture of hackandslash and shooter and customisation-heavy RPG, with an isometric camera among the various automated options - but if this had come out a year ago would Blizzard have looked elsewhere for its next big reveal?

Former Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw has announced his new studio, Yellow Brick Games.

Until September 2020, the RTX 2080 Ti was the fastest consumer graphics card on the market and retailed for $1000 - often more. Now, Nvidia's new RTX 3070 is here, with Team Green promising the same level of graphics performance at $500, half the price. That's a bold yet simple proposition that will no doubt spur a lot of upgrades, so does it hold water? We've been testing the 3070's gaming performance and power efficiency for the past week to find out.

Welcome to the Red Team. That's the message that first greets you when you lift the lid on one of AMD's new Radeon 6000 series graphics cards, and it's fitting - after all, AMD's fans are some of the most die-hard in gaming, and these 'Big Navi' GPUs have been anticipated with almost messianic fervour by the community at large. Thankfully, all of that positive, memeable energy has found a worthy target in the RX 6800 and RX 6800 XT, two of the strongest creations by AMD's Radeon graphics team in some time.

UPDATE 23RD NOV 2020: Respawn appears to be sorting out Titanfall's rough launch on Steam.

Here's a cocktail as explosive as a firecracker: take three parts SRPG, one part roguelike and a final dash of spicy musou, and you've got a mix that bangs. The Last Spell, which dropped a demo on Steam earlier this month, is proof of that - it's a sparky little mess of influences that shows some serious promise.

This week it seemed appropriate to look back at some of our favourite launch titles ever. And we're starting with a classic.

HBO has greenlit the new television adaptation of The Last of Us.

Insomniac Games has just dropped an update for Marvel's Spider-Man to enable players to import their PS4 suits and saves to Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered.

Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has opened up about the risks of developing brand new IPs, calling it "very risky".

The movie adaptation of Scott Cawthon's horror series, Five Nights at Freddy's, has moved into full production.

Mediatonic has revealed the first glimpse of Fall Guys' all-new season 3.

SEGA will hold a special anniversary event to mark the 15th anniversary of the Yakuza series next month.

A new patch for Bugsnax is now live.

Have you played that YouTube game, where you scan through endless videos of the original Crystal Chronicles on GameCube, clicking and holding the TV remote buttons, dragging back and forth, trying to work out what exactly had changed in the opening level River Belle Path? It's good fun!

If you've been playing the wonderful Spider-Man: Miles Morales, you may have noticed it doesn't have the Chrysler Building, when its predecessor, and indeed the remaster of its predecessor, does. What happened?

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War's Nuketown map doesn't come out until 24th November - but it's Easter egg has already been revealed.

The number of daily average users playing a Steam game with a controller has more than doubled in the past two years, Valve has said.

F-Zero turns 30 years old today.