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Epic has announced that it will be removing Fortnite's recently implemented, and highly divisive, glider re-deploy mechanic from all default game modes.

Killmonday Games, the developer behind 2015's wonderfully macabre point-and-click adventure Fran Bow, has unveiled the first trailer for its upcoming Little Misfortune, due to launch on PC next year.

Five years after it was first announced, Dreamfall Chapters developer Red Thread Games has released a new trailer for its single-player psychological mystery, Draugen.

Developer Giant Squid Studios has announced that its sumptuous underwater adventure Abzû will be splashing enthusiastically onto Switch on November 29th.

As Eurogamer reported last week, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds comes out on PlayStation 4 in December. PUBG Corp. confirmed the news today with a release date of 7th December.

Artem Moskowsky was testing a web application on the Steam developer site one day when suddenly he noticed a bug: he could generate game keys - thousands of them.

Cor, Marvel's Spider-Man is a lovely game. So many classic villains! And here comes Hammerhead in the new trailer for Turf Wars, the latest DLC mini-campaign that arrives on the 20th of November. Hammerhead has a metal skull! Sadly, I don't know if he has those prongs around the back for pulling out nails.

Is it the product of a horrible mistake at the Lego factory? No, this dragon is in fact a screenshot from Spyro: Reignited Trilogy, and the product of several rounds of experimentation conducted by me. But how on earth did this... wonder... happen?

Fallout 76 was supposed to go live at midnight tonight - but it's online now.

An Arizona couple have been ordered to pay Nintendo a whopping $12.23m (£9.5m) in damages for running a pair of sites which offered pirated ROMs.

There's a secret stage in the wonderful Tetris Effect - and it's pure nostalgia fuel.

Diablo 3 launched on Switch last week, marking developer Blizzard's first foray onto Nintendo's handheld machine, and the first time a Blizzard game has been on a Nintendo platform in 15 years.

Developer Texel Raptor has announced that its superb theme park management sim, Parkitect, will finally be leaving Early Access, and launching for real, on November 29th.

It's 9 o'clock on a Sunday evening, and after what feels like hours of grinding, I'm seconds from throwing down my controller in absolute disgust. It's all due to a toad: an irritating, wretched toad that won't stop rolling around in all its remastered splendour over the TV screen - and my poor purple dragon. This, of course, is a boss fight in the remastered version of Spyro: Year of the Dragon, and like the rest of the trilogy, the aging mechanics make you suffer. But god does it look and feel wonderful.

Bethesda has outlined some of the features it's working on that are set to hit Fallout 76 post-launch.

In John Hersey's novelistic account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the nuclear blast at once divides and unifies. It's the synchronising point for six parallel lives - six total strangers joined forever at 8.15am, 6th August, 1945. The idea of the nuclear blast as a kind of photographer's flash, framing and composing its victims in a single, baleful instant of universal transformation, has since become a staple of post-nuclear fiction. 73 years later, the Bomb again performs a synchronising function in Bethesda's Fallout 76, but to rather different effect. It exists here as a weekly public "endgame" event, triggered by gathering widely dispersed launch codes and assailing a control room, its arrival time and explosive radius marked on the map screen for all to see.

The video games industry is paying tribute to comic book legend Stan Lee, who died yesterday, aged 95.

In a characteristically indirect show of political engagement, I spent much of this week's US mid-term elections wandering around Whittleton Creek, Hitman 2's idyllic slice of American suburbia. If nothing else, there's a (more coherent) parody of Donald Trump canvassing the neighbourhood in the shape of a local congressional wannabe. Speak to him, and you'll be treated to a cynical diatribe on immigrants and cleaning up politics. Strangle and dress as him, and you can spout a bit of populist invective yourself in a bid to get one of your quarries alone. A horseshoe of grand clapboard mansions presiding over snooker table lawns, the map is both a study in privilege and an opportunity for Io Interactive to play more overtly with the layers of social permissiveness that make up its brilliant stealth game. It's also, for my money, the best part of a sequel that is essentially a season's worth of DLC maps with a bow on top, padded out with tweaked legacy content from Hitman 2016 plus a fun competitive mode.

Barren wastelands. Decrepit and abandoned towns. Desolate landscapes ravaged by time and trauma. Recognisable landmarks slowly but surely reclaimed by nature after our demise. Games have consistently embraced the post-apocalyptic setting. It invites excitement, apprehension and a deep curiosity, and plays on the thought-provoking hypothetical, the 'what if?'. And when these post-apocalyptic environments and landscapes are incredibly detailed, they can result in great efficacy and power.

Developer IronOak Games has announced that its wonderful board-game-esque RPG rogue-like For the King is getting another free content update, this time focussing on the seas of Fahrul, and it'll arrive on PC on November 21st.

Scott Cawthon, creator of the phenomenally popular Five Nights at Freddy's series of horror games (and novels!) has unleashed a veritable heap of new updates on the franchise, including early details of a new "triple-A" game, further news on console ports, and more.

AMD call it Polaris refined, but to all intents and purposes, RX 570 and RX 580 are indeed upclocked versions of their predecessors. There's the same complement of 32 and 36 compute units respectively, power efficiency is diminished in the quest for higher frequencies and by extension, the emphasis this time is on increased performance. And to be frank, that's fine with us - just don't go into a 570/580 purchase thinking you're getting the new AMD Vega technology, because you're not.

Capcom has announced that the mighty Elder Dragon Lunastra will be spreading her wings and joining the fray in Monster Hunter World for PC next week, starting on Thursday November 22nd.

For years, Pokémon fans have dreamt of seeing how their favourite creatures might look in the real world - of a creepy Mr. Mime, or a cute fluffy Pikachu, or a Charizard straight out of Game of Thrones.

The new Kingdom game Two Crowns - called so because it introduces co-op - will be released 11th December for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Switch. The game will be included in December's Xbox Game Pass.

Co-op rat smasher Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is returning to its roots for Back to Ubersreik, a nostalgia-filled pack of maps fans of the series will likely remember.

SNK, the Osaka-based company that's been enjoying something of a revival in the past two years, has over time become synonymous with the Neo Geo hardware and software that was such a muscular presence throughout the 90s. Understandably so, too; so many of these games remain a high watermark for 2D action and pixel art, and they've gained a cult following ever since. Metal Slug, The King of Fighters series and The Last Blade have enjoyed re-release upon re-release (I doubt there's a modern console that isn't host to a version of Metal Slug 3, and rightly so too - it's an essential text), while I myself have an MVS unit sitting proudly in the candy cabinet I call my own.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 players were left reeling from a huge leak over the weekend that spilled Zombies Easter egg secrets.

Fortnite's next big addition is mounted turrets - and the announcement is ruffling a few feathers among fans.

Fortnite fans have stumbled upon a secret castle hidden inside the rift portal beneath Wailing Woods.