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Age of Mythology, the classics-based classic, sounds like it will get some attention from Microsoft in the not-too-distant future, although what kind of attention that might be is still a little vague.

Let's get straight to business, shall we? F1 2019 is the most authentic F1 game I've played. And yes, I'm old enough to have been around when Geoff Crammond was still doing his thing (Formula One Grand Prix was such an obsession back in the day I'd write a mini-fanzine reporting on each race in-between the full-length Grand Prix I'd run every Sunday), to have manhandled the Ferrari 312 around the original 8.774 mile Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Grand Prix Legends and to have pumped 20p pieces into Namco's Final Lap.

Doesn't matter if you like the Blair Witch Project or even if you've seen it - you know what it is. There was a time you couldn't escape it. The image of the girl, face half out of frame, beanie on, camera angled up her nose, crying and alone in the dark, was everywhere. People even thought the film was real, bought into the marketing hoax. There had been nothing like it before. A budget film with camcorder footage, behaving differently, scaring differently. I will never forget that ending sequence (I don't want to spoil it even now), it's one of the scariest things I've seen in a film. Blair Witch was a cultural phenomenon.

Fortnite fans are up in arms over Epic's decision to sell a new version of a previously Battle Pass-exclusive character via the in-game store.

Was there any cooler presence in the arcades of the 90s than SNK? There's always been something about the games from the Osaka outfit, matching impeccable style with deep tech and a serious amount of swagger. It's no wonder the likes of Garou: Mark of the Wolves and The Last Blade are still spoken about with a hushed reverence.

It was not a good show from the representatives from EA and Epic sent to answer questions from Parliament this week on the difficult issues with video games.

I'm delighted to announce that Lottie Lynn has joined the Eurogamer team as our new guides writer!

The term 'spiritual successor' is bandied about a lot. It's a double-edged term, really, one that not only enables a new game to piggyback onto an already-established, popular franchise but also imbues it with palpable - and occasionally unobtainable - expectation.

Ape Escape might be making a comeback.

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fuelled is the UK's third-biggest launch this year in terms of physical copies sold, behind only Days Gone and Resident Evil 2.

Not that I'm complaining, but the frequency of western releases from Sega's Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio is fast becoming hard to keep on top of. Last year we got three - by my count, at least - fully-fledged games, from the anime-themed Fist of the North Star, the handsome remake Yakuza Kiwami 2 and, in Yakuza 6, we saw Kazuma Kiryu's farewell.

Bungie has pushed back plans to nerf Destiny 2's overpowered Lord of Wolves shotgun in order to "preserve work-life balance" for the development team.

League of Legends fans in Iran and Syria have been blocked from playing the game as tensions between the two nations and the United States rise.

After a pitch-perfect, well choreographed introduction to Xbox One X way back in 2016, hopes were high that Microsoft could repeat the trick for the crucial reveal of Project Scarlett at this year's E3. New details were indeed unveiled, major claims were made - but Microsoft muddied the waters somewhat with messaging that still leaves us unclear about what the new box is actually about, how powerful it is and what the vision is that separates it from Sony's upcoming PlayStation 5, built from the same technological building blocks.

A new patch coming to survival real-time strategy game (RTS), They Are Billions, will lower the difficulty and remove some time limits following fan feedback of its newly launched campaign mode.

Unhappy NBA 2K19 players are complaining that unskippable ads have popped up via loading screens on the basketball sim across most platforms.

Many, many people have stories about how video games have impacted them. It's rarer for a series to be a continuous, changing influence on half of your life. And yet somehow Ace Attorney, a comedy game about lawyers, became bizarrely foundational to my teenage years - and then jarringly alien in my 20s. So when the original trilogy was remastered earlier this year, it felt like so much more than the chance to revisit a classic. It seemed an invitation to reflect on an influence lasting more than a decade, kicked off by a video game, that ended up nowhere near where I expected it to.

20 months after Gran Turismo Sport came out, rain is finally coming - and now we have footage of it in action.

Gears of War 5 has ditched loot boxes and the season pass, developer The Coalition has announced.

The auto chess wars have begun.

The director of Bond 25 has insisted he didn't hold up production to play Red Dead Redemption 2.

GTA Online's casino finally opens its doors later this summer, Rockstar has announced.

A fan-made Mario Royale game was swiftly turned into Infringio Royale after its creator received an apparent cease and desist from Nintendo.

GAME has agreed to a £51.9m takeover by Mike Ashley's Sports Direct.

Ramadan can be tough sometimes. No, I'm not talking about the praying, the fasting or the interrupted sleep. I'm talking about making the time to play games, and I know I speak for all of us when I mention a growing collection of games we haven't even thought of loading up for the first time.

"I like McCree's Hot Potato."

Two years ago I remember standing outside the back of the Los Angeles Convention Centre, trying out a new feature called "raiding" in Pokémon Go. It was about 30C, the 4G was wonky and the feature was still in beta. I thought, huh, this will never catch on. Now, I raid most days.

Treyarch has revealed plans to add a guaranteed way of getting a Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 weapon you don't already have to the game.

Cadence of Hyrule should not feel like Zelda. Sure, there's Link - and there's Zelda! - and there's a top-down landscape of villages, beaches and mountains. There's a wood you can get lost in and there's a boomerang you can find. But this is an offshoot of another very different RPG series: Crypt of the Necrodancer. Crypt is a rhythm-action game and a roguelite, I gather. And so in its own way is Cadence. Link moves through the world bouncing to a beat, and he must use the beat to tackle enemies who all, essentially, come with their own weaponised dances. I understand that if I dig through the menus I can procedurally scramble the map, and I can even turn on permadeath. Not very Zelda-y really.

Crash Team Racing - the original one - is my life-or-death game: the one I'd pick if some cartoon, alien villain came down to Earth and told me I had one chance to beat them in a video game to save the world, and one where I reckon I'd actually have a decent shot at pulling it off, too. I have played it quite a lot, basically - so much that I apparently can't even describe it without referencing it's race-to-save-the-world Adventure Mode - and it's probably the only game I'd say I'm actually, genuinely good at. I'm equal parts relieved and delighted, then, to say that with Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled Activision and Beenox have absolutely nailed it. This is a lavish, fantastically polished remaster.