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Civilization 6: Gathering Storm adds a new civ that's got a pretty powerful starting advantage: it begins the game at sea.

The UK Gambling Commission is currently in talks with Twitch after a Eurogamer investigation confirmed two sites played by streamers were unlicensed.

I've been playing some of my old games recently, handling scratched and aging discs with great care. What I've found is that, for me at least, the best games to revisit years after they first came out tend to be those with the unique art style known as cel-shading. This look is sometimes referred to as toon-shading because of the flat, high-contrast colours which are employed along with black outlines around characters and objects, giving everything the appearance of a cartoon. As I remember it, cel-shaded games burst into the public consciousness with Jet Set Radio all the way back in 2000. At the time it was so jolting, so attention-grabbing, it felt like it might be a gimmick - but it doesn't feel like that anymore. In fact, cel-shading now seems to have a rather timeless quality to it.

UPDATE 4/12/19, 11pm: DICE has announced that it's now resolved the "issue" found in Battlefield 5's first free post-launch DLC update, which resulted in a delay to its originally intended launch of today.

The Darkness, Duke Nukem Forever, and XCOM Declassified are the latest Xbox 360 titles to gain Xbox One backward-compatibility support, which will be available from today.

Resident Evil's best character? Maybe you believe it's Leon Kennedy, the floppy-haired fop, or perhaps you think it could be enigmatic badass Ada Wong. Well, I'm afraid you're entirely wrong. The best character from throughout Resident Evil's history is, without a single doubt, the Raccoon City Police Station.

Epic has announced plans to take on Steam with a PC games store of its own.

Pokémon Go's next big evolution is Trainer Battles, fast-paced Poké punch-ups possible with friends and passers by - and there's more to the feature than it first appears.

Developer Thunder Lotus has announced that its wonderful Lovecraft-inspired Metroidvania, Sundered, is coming to Xbox One and Switch on December 21st, with a host of new features including co-op.

If you've been anywhere near the internet in the past few days, you're likely to have seen the backlash to Fallout 76 "bag-gate", or as I like to call it, "the kerduffel". After players complained Bethesda had replaced a canvas bag with a cheap nylon version in the £179.99 Power Armour Edition of the game, the company tried to smooth things over by offering customers 500 Atoms of in-game currency, worth about £3.99. It was a gesture that obviously did not go down well.

Milestone's a funny little developer, hovering indefinitely somewhere above or just below adequacy as it churns out game after game. Ride 3 is its fifth title this year (fifth!) and the latest instalment in a series that started as recently as 2015. Back then it was a noble if limited attempt to give bike enthusiasts their own Gran Turismo; a spirited run through some of the most storied machinery on two wheels that made a few too many compromises along the way. I liked it a fair amount back then, though clearly there was still some work to be done for Milestone to make good on the premise.

The seemingly insatiable THQ Nordic has announced the acquisition of yet another beloved, but regrettably dormant gaming IP. This time around, it's classic (and notorious) vehicular smash-'em-up Carmageddon's turn to join the publisher's rapidly swelling ranks.

Between the shambling monsters, meandering cubes, and inter-dimensional butterflies from beyond time and space, Fortnite's sixth season has certainly been memorable. All good things must come to an end however, and Epic has now confirmed that Season 6 only has only three days left to go. On a happier note, it's also shared the very first tease for Season 7.

Remember back in October, when US megastore Target accidentally leaked images of those snazzy upcoming Overwatch Lego sets? Well, good news! They'll be hitting stores in early January, in the new year.

Starbreeze is desperately trying to save itself from going out of business after a string of high-profile flops.

Frontier Developments has announced that the fourth and final instalment in Elite Dangerous' current season of free updates will launch on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 next week, on December 11th.

No, it's not Call of Duty's zombies mode - what you're looking at here is the teaser for what appears to be a Resident Evil 2 remake crossover event in PUBG Mobile. Yes, I'm just as surprised as you.

Pokémon Go does not often launch a new Pokémon - and when it does, it'll usually arrive alongside a wave of others, or at the start of a new month's raiding cycle.

If it's not clear already, Legacy of the First Blade is one for the fans. It's the story of Darius, the first to wield the legendary Hidden Blade, and the one to use it on the preening Persian ruler Xerxes. But it's also another saga for your Assassin's Creed Odyssey main character (AKA, Kassandra), who meets Darius as he arrives in the main game's Greek region.

Bandai Namco has announced all the remaining characters coming to Tekken 7 as part of its second season pass.

Eevee for Smash? Not quite - but the true star of Pokémon Let's Go is due to make some sort of debut in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Darksiders 3 has failed to make an impact upon its launch in the UK. It turned up 32nd in this week's UK physical sales chart, with around a quarter of the boxed sales earned by this year's Farming Simulator.

Stardew Valley developer Eric Barone has split from his publishing partner, Chucklefish.

With its remarkable, varied game library, the original PlayStation stands as one of the best console platforms in gaming history. For Sony as a corporate entity, the PlayStation brand remains a key part of its lineup and one that has arguably saved the company at points during its long history. For gamers though, the original grey box represents an era of discovery and wonderful memories - a time when previously niche genres were given the chance to thrive the world over and well-worn genres were given new life in the transition to 3D.

Virtual Reality is brilliant, but it's rarely relaxing. Stick on a VR headset and in a couple of minutes you can be shooting zombies in the face, crawling through claustrophobic air ducts on a mutant infested spaceship or even getting properly, physically sweaty as you swing lightsabers at coloured blocks to the thumping base of hardcore dance tracks.

I don't know of many perfect video games, but Gunstar Heroes is surely one of them. 25 years on from its initial release, it's every bit as intoxicating now as it was back then. Maybe even more so, in fact; it's rare to come across something so utterly pure.

Bethesda's troubles continue today as fans unhappy at the quality of Fallout 76's Power Armour Edition bags have now discovered that canvas bags were given out, for free, to influencers.

The original creator of the Leisure Suit Larry games, Al Lowe, has listed his entire source code collection on eBay.

On October 1st 2018, Google revealed the existence of Project Stream, an early demo "pushing the limits of streaming technology". Many in the industry - including Microsoft - believe that streaming gameplay over the internet is a key part of the future of gaming, and Google has shared some of its vision with a select few beta testers, including Digital Foundry. The demo itself is a collaboration with Ubisoft, with Assassin's Creed Odyssey taking centrestage as the game of choice.

Campo Santo's Firewatch is coming to Nintendo Switch later this month.