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Back in 2003, I was about seven and busy running around the playground flinging mini lightsabers salvaged from cereal boxes at my friends. Chances are I also played Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy at a friend's house when it was released that year - and thanks to some upcoming re-releases, we'll soon be able to play it again on Switch and PlayStation 4. Oh, and also its predecessor Star Wars: Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, but I was probably a bit young for that.

They say puns are the lowest form of humour. And yet - if you're a long time reader of the site, you'll know we take them very seriously.

Mario often feels like poetry in motion, a cheery pinball in plumber's dungarees forever boinging around brightly-coloured environments. In 1990's Super Mario World, he is specifically on a mission of mercy, criss-crossing Dinosaur Land to save Yoshi's pals from Bowser's malicious forces. In the three decades since its release, strategy guides and walkthroughs have pored over every pixel to unlock Super Mario World's secrets. But no-one has ever written anything about it quite like If All The World And Love Were Young, the debut collection by young Stephen Sexton. This slim volume takes Yoshi's House as the unlikely embarkation point for a dizzying journey into memory, imagination and gut-punch grief.

Well, I didn't see this one coming! Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro's cult classic detective horror Deadly Premonition is getting a sequel, and it's heading to Switch next year.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has blessed us with another glimpse of idyllic island life, and a slightly closer look at some of the features we'll get to experience when it launches on 20th March next year.

If you're feeling a little fed up with real-life Britain at the moment, at least you'll be able to take solace in the lovely fictional version provided by Pokémon Sword and Shield's Galar region, which has ghostly teapot Pokémon and curries. Sounds ideal.

It's really happening. The very first announcement from Nintendo Direct has revealed Overwatch is being ported to the Switch.

Tetris 99 has been updated today with a new mode you won't be able to play unless you've reached the coveted first place spot in a previous game.

Return of the Obra Dinn, the "insurance adventure" from Papers, Please developer Lucas Pope, is making its way to Switch, Xbox One, and PS4 this autumn.

Join us tonight to watch Nintendo's latest Direct broadcast, live at 11pm UK time.

Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury will be the fourth DLC character pack for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, tonight's Nintendo Direct has confirmed. Bogard will launch in November.

Xenoblade Chronicles is getting a re-release on Nintendo Switch, under the name Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition.

Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, AKA the one with all the pirates, is headed to Nintendo Switch, alongside the enjoyable Assassin's Creed Rogue (basically Black Flag 1.5), too. They're coming together in a new package, dubbed the Assassin's Creed Rebel Collection.

Developer A44's brooding co-op action-RPG, Ashen, is plopping its (no doubt sombre) expansion hat on next week with the arrive of its Nightstorm Isle DLC, coming to Xbox One and the Epic Store on Monday, 9th September.

Developer Edmund McMillen's long-awaited Binding of Isaac prequel, The Legend of Bum-bo, finally has a release date; it'll be heading to Steam on 12th November.

Assassin's Creed Odyssey's Discovery Tour mode, offering an educational galavant around Ancient Greece, will be coming to Xbox One, PS4, and PC as a free update on 10th September.

If you're an Xbox Game Pass subscriber positively quivering with anticipation over what happens next, inner peace is about to be restored: Microsoft has revealed the full line-up of games coming to the service on PC and Xbox One in September.

Let's be honest, after all the leaks, it's probably not a surprise to hear there's a new Garden Warfare-style Plants vs Zombies. Ta-da! Here it is. It's named Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, and it contains Garden Warfare-y multiplayer modes, a quest-filled free-roaming PVE campaign you can play in single-player or co-op, and a social hub to spend time messing about in.

Blizzard team-based shooter Overwatch will launch for Nintendo Switch, and you'll see this officially announced during today's Nintendo Direct.

Someone has tweeted a screenshot from Pokémon and it's all I can think about.

The first ever post on Eurogamer was made 20 years ago today, on 4th September, 1999. To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we've picked 20 articles - well actually, 21, including that first post - one for each year we've been running.

Gears 5 grew on me as I played through its meaty, 12 hour campaign. At first it felt so Gears of War. As JD, Marcus Fenix's son, you spend a lot of time doing that Xbox 360 whack-a-mole Gears thing from behind cover, shooting up the Swarm, a new twist on the Locust horde, almost in cruise control. Accompanied by Jack, a chirpy drone-like robot whose upgradeable, RPG-like support abilities prove incredibly useful during the more challenging firefights, you soldier through acres of Destroyed Beauty; the world of Sera, which, it seems to me, looks a lot like Croydon on a Sunday morning, under threat once more.

So this feels weird, but I did an interview! I mean as an interviewee, not interviewer for once. In honour of our 20th anniversary, I chatted to Matthew Handrahan, editor of our fine sister site GamesIndustry.biz, about the changing face of games journalism over the last two decades - particularly the 11-plus years I've been here at Eurogamer.

If you've played Bloodborne, you'll remember Master Willem as the NPC that sits on a rocking chair beside Moonside Lake in Byrgenwerth. He doesn't do much but vaguely gesture in the direction of where you fight Rom, the Vacuous Spider. But originally, Rom wasn't the only boss planned in this area.

What's in the name of a genre? There's something unwieldy about the 'beat 'em-up', that most 80s of terms, that's never sat quite right with me. Maybe that's because there's no cute contraction as there is with the shoot 'em-up, the beat 'em-up's close cousin where you fight off hordes with bullets rather than your fists, which is now more commonly called the shmup. Maybe it's because of the confusion that remains between beat 'em-ups and their even closer cousin the fighting game.

Nintendo has announced it is partnering with Digital Schoolhouse (DSH), a programme run by UKIE to help inspire future generations with "play-based learning".

After more than six years of talking about it, CD Projekt Red has finally made it official: Cyberpunk 2077 will receive a multiplayer portion.

Monster Hunter World's behemoth Iceborne expansion might not be out quite yet, but Capcom is already stirring up excitement for what comes next, with news that Iceborne's first free post-launch monster will be huge, angry ape Rajang.

Acclaimed, if notoriously obtuse, Indiana-Jones-esque exploratory platformer La-Mulana and its sequel are being bundled up for a release on Xbox One, PS4, and Switch next year.

Frontier Developments has offered a closer looked Elite Dangerous' long-awaited Fleet Carriers, which are set to join the space sim this December on all platforms.