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Baldur's Gate is 20-years-old. The influential role-playing game came out on 21st December 1998.

You'd imagine there's not much left for people to do with Super Mario 64 at this point, but it's the game that just keeps on giving.

G2A has come under fire for charging users for not logging in to their accounts.

In the winter of 1984 my dad saved me from a fate worse than death - and by that I mean he refused to buy an Oric Atmos home computer. Let me explain. The 8-bit era was rolling on and as a family, we had exhausted the possibilities of our ZX81 - in other words we had played 3D Monster Maze and Chess. Now, we were on the lookout for an exciting new computerised machine on which we could, as my father explained it to my mother, "do homework and, um, accounts, yes that's it". I was with my dad in Stockport town centre that fateful day, and as we passed the local branch of Tandy, I saw in the window the aforementioned Oric, a now utterly forgotten 48k machine by the reliable-sounding Tangerine Computer Systems (You can almost hear them naming the company: "Apple is taken, so is Apricot... what's left? Oh god, Banana? No? What then?!") - and it was being sold with four free games. "Let's get that one, it has FOUR free games," I yelled at my dad like the easily led consumer I was. Dad looked down at me with a mixture of disappointment and quiet poise. "No, son," he said. "My friend at work says we should get a Commodore 64". I never did find out who that friend was, but boy do I owe him.

When Fortnite first appeared on iPhone, we were quick to laud a genuine technological achievement - a visually cut-down version of the full game that was still recognisably Fortnite, that played the same way, that run the same code and allowed users to buddy up with their friends running on console and PC. Recently, Epic took the mobile version of Fortnite to the next level; the latest iOS devices run the game smoothly at 60 frames per second, just like their console equivalents - and the story of how that became possible is absolutely fascinating.

Blizzard has moved to reassure its European players that its customer support will not be impacted by the exit of over 100 staff by the end of 2018.

Valve has U-turned on Artifact card balance after complaints from the game's community called for tweaks.

The developers of Darksiders 3 have patched the game to make it feel more like previous Darksiders games.

My very first wheel, I guess, would have been the old Fisher Price one stuck to the back of the passenger's seat in an old MG Maestro, so that I could drive along on our frequent jaunts up and down the A40. After that, things got a little more serious: a Jocgon bought alongside Ridge Racer Type 4 in an attempt to divine some of the magic of Namco's over-sized arcade machines in front of the 14-inch TV in my kitchen at home, and then a cheap Microsoft number cabled up to a wheezing PC that was doing its best to run Grand Prix Legends.

Big news in the world of Star Citizen: the developers have said they're targeting a mid-2020 beta for Squadron 42, the single-player campaign portion of the space sim, and 10 per cent of Cloud Imperium Games has been sold to investors.

Skybound has done a deal with Epic to bring Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season on PC to the Epic Games Store.

The world of Assassin's Creed collides with For Honor from today.

Ever heard of a game called Geneshift? No of course you haven't. It was barely a speck on the gaming radar until yesterday when, out of nowhere, it became one of the most played games on Steam ever.

Microsoft has announced January's Xbox Live Games with Gold titles.

The rollercoaster ride that is Sony's attempt to get an Uncharted movie made has hit a new trough after its director left the project.

Spider-Man on PlayStation 4 gets the "Sam Raimi" suit as free DLC today.

"No one knew what was happening; there was no warning. When we got the news, people cried, hugged, or stared blankly ahead. In the aftermath, people wondered what they would do without health insurance, what would happen with their work visas, what to tell their families. For me, it was a day of mind-numbing shock. The full weight of what had happened and what it meant going forward - not being in that office, not working with my team, not being on a project I'd spent over a year on - took weeks to sink in."

Destiny has always had a love / hate relationship with story, but following the launch of the Destiny 2 expansion Forsaken, lore fans are finding a lot to sink their teeth into - and this week a new story revelation certainly set the cat among the pigeons.

A brand new Lemmings game has just been released on mobile, and was announced on the PlayStation blog. Hang on - the PlayStation blog? Isn't that a place Sony talks about PlayStation games?

I love Blackout in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, but it's clear the developers at Treyarch are having trouble working out a sweet spot for perhaps its most troublesome feature: armour.

Fallout 76 will get a new mode designed to let people play with and against each other without PvP restrictions.

Quite a few people had an Amiga 3000 back in the early 90s - but there's only one Amiga 3000 like this.

That's it for Minecraft updates on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Vita and Wii U. The final update - the Nightmare Before Christmas Mash-Up pack - has been released.

Street Fighter 5 got a surprise new character earlier this week - and combo masters are already doing incredible things with him.

Across several reviews, I've praised Playground Games' wonderful Forza Horizon series of open-world racing games for their free-spirited generosity. But this is getting ridiculous now.

Treyarch has nerfed Zero, the new specialist added to Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 just last week.

If you've ever played an online match of FIFA, you'll know it can be a frustratingly unresponsive because of lag.

For Honor is still trucking along - Ubisoft just announced a raft of updates coming to the melee combat game during its third year.

Home is a curious concept. Generally, we use the term to suggest a snuggly place that feels like ours. Where we can feel comfortable and secure. In many ways, it's as emotive a word as love. People use it sparingly. It truly means something to use it to describe a location. Understandably, if your parents' home doesn't feel like your home any more, you're liable to call it something different than you may have as a child. And yet, often, at Christmas, people with their own homes will still describe themselves as 'going home for Christmas' when they explain they're staying with their parents for a few days.

The Nintendo Switch is the fastest-selling video game system in the US this generation, according to data-counter NPD. From launch in March 2017, through to November 2018, Nintendo's hybrid console sold more than 8.7 million units.