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Welcome to another week of Five of the Best, a series where we celebrate the overlooked parts of video games, like hands! And potions! And dinosaurs! And shops! They're the kinds of things etched unwittingly into memory, like an essential ingredient of a favourite dish you could never put a finger on. And I want to spark discussion, so please share memories as they flash into your mind. Today, another five. The topic...

In the aftermath of Blizzard's decision to suspend professional Hearthstone player Chung "Blitzchung" Ng Wai for expressing pro-Hong Kong beliefs, this week players started an online campaign to transform Overwatch character Mei into a symbol of democracy. It didn't take long for the idea to catch on, and she's now being used in Hong Kong protests.

If you've ever found yourself cursing the lack of detective-themed mystery games with the sharp manga lines of a visual novel and the aggressively numerical puzzles of Picross, then it's time we had words. And those words are: Murder by Numbers.

Destiny 2 players have managed to defeat a boss in Shadowkeep's Garden of Salvation raid using a cheese reminiscent of the very first raid in Destiny 1.

Cat Quest 2, the follow-up to developer The Gentlebros' delightful feline-themed action-RPG, finally has a console release date: it'll be clawing its way onto Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Switch later this month, on 24th October.

Pokémon Go maker Niantic has long struggled to maintain its database of real-world places used in all of its games - but there's a new tool which may solve all that.

Daemon X Machina, developer Marvelous' solidly entertaining mech shooter for Switch, is getting a raft of new content updates over the next few months - and the first of these, out today, introduces a brand-new competitive multiplayer mode.

UPDATE 10/10/19: Activision has updated its official system requirements for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on PC, offering an explanation as to why the shooter is listed as needing a staggering 175GB of hard-drive space.

After the success of Ubisoft's Rabbids Invasion series on Netflix, the company is developing other popular game franchises it owns into TV series. But not all of them are for the audience you'd expect.

Ahead of next week's Sea of Thieves update to bring in some spooky new Halloween content, Rare has released some interesting stats on the newly featured pets - including how many players have picked out certain popular names for their feathered or furry new companions.

Video game streaming platform Twitch has detailed its response to the attack outside a synagogue in Halle, Germany yesterday. Two people were shot dead while the perpetrator broadcast live.

As it's Sega Week on Eurogamer, we thought we'd run a bonus podcast paying homage to none other than Sonic the Hedgehog.

As is now tradition, Rocket League is poised to unleash its annual Haunted Hallows event for this most spooky of seasons. However, the four-wheeled footie game's Halloween celebrations are getting a bit of a shake-up this year, thanks to a special Stranger Things tie-in.

You might not have noticed, but late last year a small piece of Sega history quietly slipped away. The company's Ota headquarters, once immortalised as the EVIL headquarters in 1994's Virtua Cop, was where so much of the magic that forged the Sega name was conjured. It's the original blue sky factory, a modest block within earshot of Haneda airport in a modest Tokyo ward, and last September it was finally sold off. It's now scheduled for reconstruction, Sega having decamped to the bustle of Shinagawa and an imposing, impressive new headquarters.

Sony Interactive Entertainment has reportedly laid off "dozens" of European employees based in its UK offices this week, as PlayStation's North American arm continues to exert increased influence over the global business.

The Double-A Team is a newish feature series honouring the unpretentious, mid-budget, gimmicky commercial action games that no-one seems to make any more.

Mike Skupa doesn't ship games often - two in the last 16 years - but when he does, you take notice. He was the design director of undercover cop game Sleeping Dogs, and one of two principal designers on Rockstar's back-to-school classic Bully, both still loved by fans today. Seven years after Sleeping Dogs released and three years on from developer United Front Games' collapse, he's finally ready to talk about what he's been cooking up.

Steam has a wealth of excellent local multiplayer games, and soon you'll be able to play them online with your friends thanks to a brand new feature: Remote Play Together.

Nintendo Switch is having a good year here in Europe, with sales up around 30 per cent on 2018, and 40 per cent on 2017.

Microsoft has confirmed the latest batch of titles coming to Xbox Game Pass on PC - and while a few have been revealed previously, some new names, including sci-fi grand strategy game Stellaris, will also be making the leap to the subscription service before the month is through.

Mike Ybarra, corporate vice president of Microsoft's gaming division across Xbox and PC, has announced his departure from the company after almost 20 years.

Ahead of Red Dead Redemption 2's long-awaited arrival on PC next month, Rockstar has detailed some of the visual and technical enhancements, plus the system specs required to enjoy them, coming to the open-world cowboy adventure on the platform.

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just Eurogamer testing something out in Apex Legends again - except this time, rather than a game ruining issue, this one is pretty fun for everyone involved.

How do you design a gaming monitor? If you're one of the big gaming brands on the market, you rely on an internal team of designers, engineers and marketeers to devise a winning combination of specs and features wrapped up in the right marketing lingo. Finnish tech startup Eve is doing things differently with their Spectrum gaming monitor, relying on the wisdom of a few thousand tech enthusiasts in its community to decide nearly every aspect of the final creation. Now, after six months of deliberations on the feature set, design and specifications, the major decisions have been made and this crowd-designed gaming monitor looks exciting.

Bonanza Bros was the first Mega Drive game I ever played. It was the reason I was interested in the machine in the first place. Today I would put it up there with Quackshot and ToeJam & Earl as one of the handful of games that for me makes that machine so exciting. (I appreciate Gunstar Heroes belongs on this list too, but I had temporarily moved on from video games by the time that came out and I had to discover it much later.)

I waited for him on a street corner in Shibuya. It was the spring of 2000 - my first time in Japan. I was attending the Tokyo Game Show as editor of DC-UK magazine. Somehow I'd managed to score an interview with Tetsuya Mizuguchi, the impossibly cool Sega designer, once an upcoming arcade star, working on titles such as Sega Rally and Touring Car Championship, but now a wayward pioneer, leading his team at United Game Artists on Space Channel 5 and Rez.

Good Monday, good morning and a warm welcome to Sega week here on Eurogamer. It's the first of a regular series of themed weeks we'll be bringing you on a monthly basis, whereby we explore a topic from various angles across the team, and amongst our regular news, reviews and features we'll be bringing you plenty of Sega-related pieces over the next few days.

Nintendo's new Mario Kart Tour update, available now, has rotated in a fresh set of tracks, characters and kart parts to unlock via the smartphone game's gacha-style system.

It's official. Sony's 'next generation console' is now officially named PlayStation 5, it's coming at the tail-end of 2020, it has a fascinating series of controller upgrades vs the established Dual Shock 4 - and if it wasn't already clear, the bespoke solid-state storage solution is going to be a game-changer. These are the key takeaways from the latest Wired magazine exclusive, which tells us much about the new system while at the same time keeping the vast majority of its technological secrets under wraps. Look closer though and there's plenty of 'buried treasure' - small facts and asides that put a lot of the recent leaks into context.

UPDATE 9/10/19: After its announcement during Pokémon's weekend livestream, Galar Ponyta (AKA My Little Ponyta) has now been shown off via official artwork published in Japanese magazine Famitsu.