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The meeting rooms at Paradox Studios are all named after paradoxes. It's a bit cute, sure, but I do like how it means you keep saying things like "let's go to Buridan's bridge - Schrodinger's cat and the problem of evil are busy." And it's a nice reminder of where you are. This is a studio that makes games about history, and science, and building and managing societies. Its next major game is Crusader Kings 3, a follow-up to a huge hit with a cult following, and it has to juggle expanding that audience while appeasing an especially ardent old one. It's also a game releasing at a different sort of time to Crusader Kings 2, with a different moment in history waiting for it. It would help if there were some very clever people walking around the studio - and if that means the office humour's a bit professor-at-a-dinner-party, so be it.

Sony has decided not to sell Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on the PlayStation Store in Russia, Activision has said.

Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, developer Maze Theory's "cinematic, feature-length" VR game, now has a release date. It'll be vworping onto PSVR, Oculus, and Vive on 12th November.

Following the announcement of Doom Eternal and Doom 64's release being pushed back to next year, id Software has revealed Doom 64 is a pre-order bonus on Xbox, PlayStation 4 and PC.

It's been a big week for Riot Games - and one that finally means that "s" makes sense. Celebrating its 10th anniversary on Wednesday, Riot announced a slew of completely new games, and projects ranging from an animated series to a full port of League of Legends onto mobile.

Paradox Interactive's acclaimed 4X sci-fi strategy game Stellaris is expanding once more, this time with the new diplomacy themed Federations DLC, out later this year on PC.

Games are not good with nothing. They take nothing and they have to fill it, with guns and targets, sure, but also with XP and challenges and Jimmy Lightning popping in to tell you how brilliant you are. But nothing can be nice. Nothing can be soothing. Nothing can be a game with the wisdom to leave you alone with your own thoughts, a game that simultaneously encourages your thoughts to flock and scatter the way they normally don't.

The children's commissioner for England has called for tighter laws around gambling and gaming to protect children worried about how much time and money they're spending in online games - and has called on the Government to regulate loot boxes as gambling.

Steam's previously reported Remote Play Together feature, which makes it possible for friends to play local multiplayer games together online, is now available in beta.

Prison building and management sim Prison Architect is finally bringing its previously console-exclusive Psych Ward DLC to PC and Mac next month, on 21st November, in the form of the enhanced Psych Ward: Warden's Edition.

You can pop Hitman 2 on the ever-growing list of games getting into the spirit of the spooky season, thanks to a special new Halloween-themed Escalation Contract, coming tomorrow, 22nd October, on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4.

Developer Ice-Pick Lodge is enriching the world of its bleak, punishing plague horror Pathologic 2 next week, with the arrival of The Marble Nest - a not-entirely-new dollop of story DLC.

Five of the Best is a weekly series about the bits of games we overlook, those poor old things. I'm talking about crowds, potions, mountains, hands - things we barely notice at the time but can recall years later because they're so important to the overall memory of the game.

Every now and then I check back in. To see if anybody's still playing, of course, but also to see if the thing really exists, if there really is a game as ingenious and quirky as Atomega. This is multiplayer battling by the same team at Ubisoft that made Grow Home. With that lineage it was never going to be bad. But it didn't have to be this good, either. Atomega is wonderful.

Fortnite Chapter 2 has come under fire from fans unhappy with its redesigned XP and levelling system - which, they say, will require far longer to unlock all 100 levels of its Battle Pass.

Here's hoping you've been saving your pennies, as three of Steam's upcoming sale dates have leaked via Twitter.

Overwatch on Switch is available to buy right now. It works, it's attractive, it's playable - but the limits of the Tegra X1 mobile chipset shape an experience that cuts into the core enjoyment of the game. All other versions of Blizzard's celebrated first-person competitive shooter operate at 60fps - but the Switch port opts for a 30fps cap instead. It still ranks as a technical feat in the sense that a port is possible at all, especially in handheld mode, but there are definite plus and minus points to Iron Galaxy's port - and perhaps a few too many of the latter.

Last year, I wrote one of my favourite articles of all time: a news piece on speedrunner tomatoanus, who'd set a particularly unusual record. He'd managed to set a "sex%" world record in the Fallout series - an unofficial speedrunning category involving having sex in each of the main games as fast as possible. (He's also done an equally impressive Fallout series world record speedrun).

Apple Arcade's been busy since its launch, with a bunch of new games. Oddly, the one that's made the most impact for me is by Gameloft, of all companies. It's a wonderfully pared-back version of a beloved sport. It's Ballistic Baseball!

I tell myself that I don't really believe in the idea of the perfect game. That makes Monaco more of an ideal game, by which I mean ideal for me. Everything I like is in this game somewhere, but I've never felt like I've been able to get across adequately just why I love it so much. Now it's headed to Switch and I've been playing through its many campaigns all over again. I still love it! I still can't adequately tell you why.

The next Tetris 99 event will be a Halloween crossover with Luigi's Mansion 3.

Failbetter Games has announced its enhanced version of Sunless Skies will hit consoles in the first half of 2020.

Since the launch of Fortnite Chapter 2, players have known a Mythic Goldfish item existed somewhere within the game. You just needed a lot of luck while fishing to reel it in.

First, an apology. Sega Week has been and gone, and you could probably do without another few hundred words on a classic that's been dissected countless times before. So I'm very sorry, because I'm about to do it all again: OutRun is on the show floor at this year's EGX, and it's still absolutely peerless when it comes to recreating the bliss of speeding out to the horizon and beyond. This game is as good as it's ever been. In fact, it's the best I've ever played it.

It's EGX 2019 weekend! Over the next few days we'll be bringing you quickfire impressions of some of the highlights from the show floor here at London's ExCel centre. You'll find them all here - and if there's anything out there you want to bring to our attention let us know!

Be very careful when you hide in a dumpster, Fortnite friends - a new bug is turning players "into a dementor", sending them rocketing skyward before dropping to the ground again so quickly, it unceremoniously kills them.

A new The Sims 4 expansion pack has popped up online ahead of a formal announcement.

It's EGX 2019 weekend! Over the next few days we'll be bringing you quickfire impressions of some of the highlights from the show floor here at London's ExCel centre. You'll find them all here - and if there's anything out there you want to bring to our attention let us know!

If you've yet to finish up your PC playthrough of Resident Evil 2 because you've been too distracted by the antics of a certain renegade goose, I have wonderful, if a tad unsettling, news. A PC mod now replaces Resident Evil 2's terrifying Mr. X with an even scarier sight: the goose from Untitled Goose Game.

It's only been out a few weeks, but already NBA 2K20 is the US' biggest-selling game of the year to date.