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You'd be forgiven for missing it, but ex-Westwood Studios developers quietly announced a spiritual successor to Command & Conquer: Renegade this month.

In hindsight, and with all apologies, Spelunky is like smoking. I got into it in part because it's what all the cool kids were doing at the time. It was embarrassingly easy to get wrong at first, but quickly became a soothing, easily-consumed daily habit. This lead to an effortless-seeming fluency, internalising both the basic routines and the nuanced flourishes that come from years of increasingly instinctive repetition. And it kills me. Death is certain, usually accidental but never escaped - if you reach either of the game's endings, something it took me about three years and perhaps five hundred hours' play to be able to do more than one in every twenty tries, the final score screen lists cause of death as "old age".

I'd forgotten how funny The Witcher 3 is.

Broly (DBS) comes out as a DLC character for Dragon Ball FighterZ on 5th December, Bandai Namco has announced.

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about our thinking about it in an editor's blog.

The boss of the Atari VCS has said the console is on track for launch in March 2020 - but Indiegogo backers face yet another delay.

Alright, confession time: I have never finished a runthrough of FTL.

Ubisoft's sublime platformer Rayman Legends is currently free to download on the Epic Store.

Developer Maschinen-Mensch enormously enjoyable rogue-like exploration adventure, Curious Expedition, might be getting on a bit (it released back in 2016), but it's just received a free multiplayer mode, previously available in browser-based beta, in its latest update.

Ghost Giant, the adorably spooksome - and previously PSVR-exclusive - puzzle adventure from Stick It To the Man developer Zoink Games, is making its way to Oculus Quest in December.

Remember the summer everyone played Pokémon Go? The world seemed a nicer place, for a while. People would stop to point out Jigglypuff to strangers on street corners, then run together with others across a park for a Dragonite. I've heard genuine nostalgia for this time; a thought things might feel a little brighter if everyone still played, the world just a bit better than what we've got today.

Quake 2 is over two decades old and yet the id Software classic is one of my favourite games of this year, radically re-invented from a visual perspective thanks to the ray traced remastering from Nvidia's Lightspeed Studios (based on original work by Christophe Schied). It's one of the most impressive examples of hardware-accelerated RT and thanks to the new 1.2 patch released a few days ago, a phenomenal game now looks a whole lot better.

I suppose it's only a few polygons, but still, modders have acted with remarkable speed to put Elon Musk's latest meme vehicle in almost every conceivable game. While many of these Cybertruck mods are not yet publicly downloadable, several YouTube videos have appeared displaying demo models and early attempts - some of which, er, look better than others.

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about the thinking behind it in an editor's blog.

Veteran racing developer Codemasters has announced the acquistion of fellow British racing house Slightly Mad Studios, adding the Project Cars series to its collection of racing brands alongside Dirt, Grid and the official F1 licence.

Most sports games aren't really about playing sports, so much as they're about watching sports. Or more to the point they're about making it so the sport you're watching gets to play out exactly as you'd imagine it, as a fan at home, in your head.

There's something going on at Risky Reels. Cars are leaving Fortnite's drive-in theatre, its screen now showing a test card for... something. After the game's enormous black hole reboot in October this year it almost feels quaint. Once again, Fortnite is setting its stage for something new, shuffling parts of its world around like pieces in a chess game, in position for whatever big play comes next.

Developer Freebird Games has unveiled Impostor Factory, the third main entry in its well-received To the Moon series. It's described as a "bonkers time-loop tragicomedy murder mystery thriller" and it'll be heading to PC toward the end of next year.

Can you bin a plastic game box and not feel like you've hurt David Attenborough in the process?

Oh man, Hotline Miami. I can still feel it. What a cutting, embarrassingly necessary parable of violence. What a way to stand on the shoulders of Shadow of the Colossus, by taking that moral throughline and wrapping it, head to toe, in the trappings of its time.

Kerbal Space Program 2 was a surprise announcement at Gamescom 2019 - but it came as an even bigger surprise to the game's original creator. After leaving the first Kerbal Space Program team three years ago, Felipe "HarvesteR" Falanghe had no idea a sequel was even in development.

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about our thinking about it in an editor's blog.

EGX Rezzed - the more hipstery EGX brought to you by our parent company Gamer Network - returns to Tobacco Dock in London next year, and tickets are now on sale.

Stadia, the new streaming service from Google, has debuted in state that, to quote Digital Foundry's tech review, is far from ready.

I did a bit of gardening this morning. I didn't want to. I had been putting it off. So many memories! But then I thought: enough. I got right to it and pulled up all the weeds. It took about two seconds. And on the other side of those two seconds the landscape was transformed.

Generally speaking, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order keeps a pretty tight lock on lightsaber colours. While you start off with a choice between traditional Jedi blue and green (or orange, if you splashed out on the bougie pre-order edition), there's never an option to go full Sith - and you can't unlock further colours until much later in the game.

The lovely people at Outside Xbox and Outside Xtra have released a festive charity single - and it's currently top of the Amazon music chart.

Cult hit The Stanley Parable's much-expanded Ultra Deluxe edition - which introduces new bits, new endings, and hopefully a few new squiggly lines - has decided to eschew its original 2019 release date on PC and consoles and will now launch next year.

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about the thinking behind it in an editor's blog.

To mark the end of the 2010s, we're celebrating 30 games that defined the last 10 years. You can find all the articles as they're published in the Games of the Decade archive, and read about our thinking about it in an editor's blog.