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Halo 3 has a new skull - and it's one of the best Halo skulls ever.

If you went anywhere near Twitter last night, chances are you saw the chaotic aftermath of a massive security breach in which several celebrity accounts and cryptocurrency companies were hacked to tweet a bitcoin scam. Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and Kanye West were among the compromised accounts, all of them tweeting a very similar message. "I'm feeling generous because of Covid-19," the compromised Elon Musk account tweeted. "I'll double any BTC payment sent to my BTC address for the next hour."

Ancestors Legacy is one of those games it might be relatively easy to pick apart. It's an RTS on a console, which always means you're up against the sheer flexibility of a mouse and keyboard. It's a modern RTS squashed onto Switch, which means the visuals take a hit and the multiplayer heart of most RTS games is absent. It can be a bit tricky to make out what's going on in handheld mode at times and the screen furniture is very busy. Fine. Rough edges and missing features. But a few hours in and I am really enjoying it.

As you many know, Eurogamer has some sister gaming events - EGX and and EGX Rezzed - which won't be taking place this year for obvious and sad reasons. We're also owned by ReedPop, a company which runs all sorts of pop culture events worldwide, including PAX and New York Comic Con.

What is The Red Door? It's popped up on the Microsoft Store - that bastion of video game leaks - and current speculation is it refers to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.

It always feels a little weird writing about games that you've followed for a long time. Rebecca Cordingley and Ben Wasser, who together make the indie studio Glumberland, have been working on Ooblets since 2016. In that time, they've documented that process in detail on their website, and I've seen features being implemented, funding opportunities come and go, and I've met a lot of ooblets, too. Now Ooblets is available in Early Access via the Epic Game Store, a decision that was initially met with a striking amount of harassment. Apart from a few bugs here and there, it feels pretty finished, and if you've also been waiting for the game for a while, you can dig in without hesitation.

Fans of superheroes going thwack! and apostrophes will no doubt be thrilled to learn that developer Crystal Dynamics' Marvel's Avengers' beta season now has a start date, and will be getting underway from Friday, 7th August.

UPDATE: Eurogamer understands that filming itself has not yet started, despite Tom Holland's "day one" post. A Sony representative said preparations were still underway and the team is "hoping to start soon".

Fancy getting a physical copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator instead of the digital version? Then expect it to come on 10 discs.

Xbox Game Pass subscribers on console and PC have a busy few weeks to look forward to in the second half of July, with Microsoft now having set arrival dates for the likes of Yakuza Kiwami 2, Grounded, Carrion, Forager, and more.

Nintendo Switch exclusive Paper Mario: The Origami King is already playable on PC via emulator, days before the game's official launch.

There's always been something unique in Paper Mario's wafer thin worlds: a sense of place and personality, an ability to linger and explore, a chance to stop and befriend. In its cardboard castles and papercraft dioramas, Paper Mario's mix of adventuring and role-playing has always managed to showcase Mario's surroundings as more than just background scenery, spotlight sidekicks or rivals and make them more than just one-dimensional, and be that rarest of things for video games - frequently very funny. Within its creases and corrugated backdrops, Paper Mario has consistently shaped the Mushroom Kingdom and its inhabitants into something more textured and weighty than its materials might ever suggest. Happily, you'll find much of the same heart, humour and character once again in The Origami King.

Konami has called off its expected plan to launch a full version of PES 2021, to focus on a full next-gen version due next year.

PlayStation 5 production has been dramatically scaled up, according to multiple reports.

Dom is now in Gears 5.

The Dragon's Dogma Netflix anime launches 17th September 2020.

Not to brag but I am probably one of the three best washer-uppers in the world. First proper job at a fancy creperie in my early teens. Just me and a WinterHalter 2000 keeping the kitchen in business. I would work ludicrous shifts and then go home soaked, like I had survived something. Really it was the kitchen that had survived something - it had survived me. One of the three best washer-uppers in the world.

Civilization 6's second slice of DLC for the recently launched New Frontier expansion pass - titled the Ethiopia Pack - will be coming to PC and consoles next Thursday, 23rd July.

The Sims 4 is about to get a little woolier, courtesy of its latest paid DLC expansion, the Nifty Knitting Stuff Pack, which comes to PC, Mac, Xbox One, and PS4 on 28th July.

Babylon's Fall, the long-awaited and still relatively mysterious new offering from Bayonetta and Nier: Automata studio Platinum Games, is "continuing to progress well" according to the developer, but it doesn't sound like the previously promised "full look" is due any time soon.

Infinity Ward has renamed a controversial soldier skin in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Warzone after it was accused of glorifying the police.

Blizzard has announced Hearthstone's next expansion, Scholomance Academy.

Summer Games Done Quick organisers have unveiled the full speedrun schedule for this year's online-only charity event, which gets underway in just over a month's time.

UK developer Splash Damage is making a Google Stadia exclusive, it's announced.

Google has announced 16 new games coming to streaming service Stadia, including five exclusives.

Portal 2 speedrunning isn't just about who can get around fastest: another category exists that focuses entirely on getting around using as few portals as possible.

UPDATE 14/7/20: Lego has made its NES console set official, and given it a UK price of £209.99.

It's been over three years since PUBG first popped up on Steam, and while that's a relatively short time on paper, it somehow feels much longer. Perhaps it's because the wider gaming landscape around PUBG has changed so much: no longer the only battle royale on the block, PUBG now finds itself sharing that market space with several competitors, with a new contender appearing practically every few months.

There was a time when the chances of key PlayStation exclusives arriving on PC seemed slight - but the situation has changed and the arrival of Death Stranding for PC does a phenomenal job of liberating a stunning game from the confines of its host platform. In the process, the game runs at 60 frames per second (and indeed beyond) - Kojima Productions' original design target. But just how scalable is Death Stranding and what happens for 4K gamers when the PS4 Pro's checkerboard rendering is stripped out in favour of native rendering and other solutions?

Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro, director and writer of Deadly Premonition 2, has taken to Twitter to apologise for the handling of a transgender character in the game.