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In July 2010, Lara Croft Way opened in Derby. The name for part of a new ring road was chosen from a shortlist by public vote, with a whopping 89 per cent opting for the character devised by local studio Core Design. As the likes of the BBC reported at the grand opening, a councillor said Derby was "proud of its place in a vibrant creative industry" and that Lara Croft Way was "a fantastic way to celebrate that".

The Witcher 3 comes out on Tuesday, 19th May, and so we've hauled an exciting Witcher-related article out of the Eurogamer archive for you to read again or enjoy for the first time if you missed it. Here, Robert Purchese reveals the story of Witcher developer CD Projekt in an article first published in November 2013.

Considering John Wick is an assassin, he's not doing a very good job of keeping his upcoming arrival in Fortnite hidden. After an astute Reddit user noticed his house had appeared at Paradise Palms, leaker FortTory discovered a special Wick's Bounty LTM (complete with challenges) would be arriving in the game.

The Walking Dead has a mixed history when it comes to video game adaptations. For every season of Telltale's usually great episodic series, there's another game which is a bloody mess.

This is Birdo.

Gato Roboto is science fiction but it's also fantasy. It's science fiction because if focuses on a spaceman who crashlands on a strange planet. Stuck in his spaceship, he asks his cat to explore the landscape and find the means to rescue him. It's fantasy because the cat does what it's asked.

Developer Beat Games has announced that its VR rhythm phenomenon Beat Saber will officially leave early access on PC next week, 21st May.

It barely seems like a few days ago that Eurogamer was bemoaning Ubisoft's continued reluctance to properly resurrect its much loved Splinter Cell series. And now, in an entirely unexpected turn events, Ubisoft creative director Julian Gerighty appears to have rather cavalierly revealed that a new series entry is indeed in the works - although Ubisoft itself is claiming it's all jokes.

Developer Image & Form's acclaimed RPG card-battler SteamWorld Quest will, after its successful launch on Switch last month, be heading to Steam on 31st May.

Developer Polyarc has revealed that its delightful VR fantasy adventure Moss will be getting a free DLC episode, titled Twilight Garden, starting next week.

World of Warcraft Classic will be released on 27th August, Blizzard has announced, and a closed beta will begin tomorrow, 15th May.

There's a brand new Nintendo Direct broadcast this week - and it's all about Super Mario Maker 2 for Nintendo Switch.

There are two different ways to look at the Switch port of Saints Row: The Third'. From a glass half full perspective, what you're getting an exceptionally close conversion of the PS3 original, closer still if you play in handheld mode. But viewed in a glass half empty way, all of the failings of the last-gen console versions remain in full effect on this new release: let's make no bones about it, performance is poor and the controls have severe input lag issues.

There's a game called Fantastic Fetus on itch.io right now and it's a Tamagotchi-style pregnancy simulator.

If the excitement surrounding Borderlands 3's announcement hadn't already shown you the scale of the hype behind this game, look no further than past entries in the Borderlands series. Despite Borderlands 2 having been released all the way back in 2012, the game still has a surprisingly large player base - with over a million unique users playing the game every month.

One of the greatest tricks of the tube map is to take something elbowy and dark, a place of body heat and sudden gusts and narrow channels and sudden crowds, and render it airy, spacious, clean and elegant. I can hold these two realities in my head whenever I descend: Victoria is both a place of visible overhead cabling and those cream tiles, many pulled away to reveal stylised whitecaps of grouting beneath, and a perfect white bead threaded onto a blue line. The map and the territory are happy to coexist here.

FIFA 19 now has a unique War Child FC kit in-game.

This piece was originally published in November 2012.

At 6am on 7th May 2004, Axel Gembe awoke in the small German town of Schönau im Schwarzwald to find his bed surrounded by police officers. Automatic weapons were pointing at his head and the words, "Get out of bed. Do not touch the keyboard," were ringing in his ears.

Editor's note: This week sees the re-release of L.A. Noire on PS4, Xbox One and Switch, and to mark the occasion we thought we'd return to Chris Donlan's piece on playing through the game - still one of the very best things ever published on Eurogamer, he'll hate me for saying - which first went live back in 2012. Enjoy!

Red Dead Redemption 2 launched at midnight last night and, right now, millions of people around the world are playing. It's been a long wait - a friend told me recently they'd placed their pre-order over two years ago. The reviews, as expected, are positive. I can't wait to play it.

At Starbreeze's 2016 Christmas meeting, held in a cinema close by to the studio's Stockholm headquarters, CEO Bo Andersson told staff the company was in rude health. Payday 2, a co-op first-person shooter Steam hit, was still making money, virtual reality investments were about getting ahead of the game, and in-development titles, such as Raid: World War 2 and Overkill's The Walking Dead, were on course for success. Starbreeze's top brass even announced a new staff bonus system. The message was loud and clear: Starbreeze had evolved from the plucky developer of Payday into a big, important, successful entertainment company.

Starbreeze has sold its Indian subsidiary to Rockstar as its battle for survival continues.

It looks like developer Terminal Reality's fab 2009 Ghostbusters video game might be getting the remaster treatment - if a new listing from the Taiwanese ratings board is to be believed, at least.

We're back with your weekly dose of Dreams goodness - and this time it's a big one, as a player is using the creator to remake Metal Gear Solid. All of it.

Minecraft is ten years old this year, and Microsoft is going big on the birthday celebrations - as is only right for one of gaming's most enduring titles. As part of those festivities, it's released a wonderful new map, featuring a huge interactive museum themed around the game's first decade.

Shakedown: Hawaii is the latest game from Brian Provinciano, whose previous work, Retro City Rampage, de-made GTA for the era of 8-bit consoles and then loaded its open-world with topical memespeak gags and labour-of-love gimmicks. Shakedown: Hawaii is more of the same - more open-world crime, with 16-bit graphics this time, as a trio of characters rebuild a decrepit business empire using deeply questionable tactics. But as well as being a game about stealing cars, running people down, and shooting everyone you meet to pieces, it's also a bit of a clicker.

In October 2008, Microsoft released Lionhead's Fable 2 to critical and commercial acclaim. At a launch party an emotional Peter Molyneux held aloft glowing reviews and praised the exhausted team of developers who had spent the previous four years pouring everything they had into the game. Fable 2 would go on to win a BAFTA and become the best-selling role-playing game for the Xbox 360. Lionhead was on top of the world.

"Today, there are more slaves on planet Earth than there ever were in world history combined..."

Captain Toad is one of my favourite Nintendo characters, and the meteoric rise of this mycelial mascot - from a side-character in Super Mario Galaxy to the star of his own game, Treasure Tracker - has been a joy to see.