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As a dog owner, I can't say I'm hugely excited by this competition - but I've heard some people like cats, so here I am.

Last night, Pokémon Go conducted a rare rebalance of its menagerie of monsters - a sweeping stat rework designed to target some of the toughest 'mons seen most commonly in gyms.

Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser has tried to walk back comments he made about staff working 100-hour weeks on the upcoming Red Dead Redemption 2 - a statement which sparked widespread criticism throughout the video games industry yesterday.

Two decades on from Pokémon Red and Blue's arrival here in the west, we're going back to Kanto once again.

Over the past few days, several PlayStation users have been reporting a malicious console-crashing attack sent via console message. Players claimed a specific character combination had "bricked" their consoles, forced them to factory reset their PlayStations, and that "even deleting the message from the mobile app" didn't protect them. The only known way for players to protect themselves was by setting their messages to private.

Epic has announced that it's introducing Tournaments to Fortnite's Battle Royale mode as part of the game's imminent 6.10 update. Tournaments will be open to everyone, and are described as a chance for players to "compete directly alongside the pros for prizes and glory".

Defiant Development's excellent deck-building dungeon-crawler, Hand of Fate 2, has just received its second helping of paid DLC, known as The Servant and The Beast.

Capcom has announced that Monster Hunter World's Mega-Man-themed collaboration event will begin this Friday, October 19th, on PC.

Frontier Developments has announced that the fourth and final major update of Elite Dangerous' current season, Beyond, will launch in beta for all PC players on October 30th, with a full release to follow "soon" after.

Video games have recently been receiving a lot of attention from museums in the UK. Only last month, the V&A threw open the doors to its new exhibit Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt which explores the social, political and artistic dimensions of video games and their communities. The V&A exhibition is only due to last until the end of February - but don't worry: Brits will soon be able to visit another instalment all year round.

Diablo 3 is the latest Nintendo Switch game to get an official bundle and a special edition console design, available on 2nd November.

Blizzard has dashed hopes that Diablo 3: Eternal Collection will be available with cross-play.

Control, the next game from Alan Wake and Max Payne developer Remedy Entertainment, will also star Alan Wake voice Matthew Porretta and Max Payne actor James McCaffrey.

If only Kanto Airways had a loyalty scheme. I've been to Pokémon's founding region so many times, now. Red, Blue, and Yellow; back again, by wonderful surprise, in Gold, Silver, and Crystal; once more in the FireRed and LeafGreen remakes and of course all across the land in the TV series, if that counts. And then that's not to mention the perpetually-active Kanto events of Pokémon Go, if I ever missed it for just a second.

"Horrific promotion." "Very disappointed." "Cheap marketing trick." "Lies!" Just some of the responses found online to Uber Eats' offer of a free Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 copy when purchasing fish and chips last Friday.

Most Fortnite players will currently be preoccupied with Season 6's spooky Halloween theme, but retailers are already looking ahead to the next big holiday. Now, you won't be able to struggle with finding a present for young Timmy this Christmas, as one website is offering Fortnite-themed Christmas jumpers.

If you're a new Warframe player and fancy a little game-breaking fun, head on over to your nearest Archwing mission to experience a spacewalk like no other.

My favourite moment in Starlink: Battle for Atlas occured when, muddled and in the heat of a fight, I attached a weapon the wrong way around. Ubisoft's latest is a very late entry into the toys-to-life marketplace: when you play it, your controller houses a little mount upon which you slot a pilot, a star-fighter, and various weapons that then appear in the game.

Bandai Namco will be releasing a special "charity DLC" for its forthcoming narrative-driven World War I adventure 11-11: Memories Retold. Proceeds from the DLC will go to War Child UK, which aims to "protect, educate and stand up for the rights of children caught up in war."

Football commentator Peter Brackley has died aged 67, Brighton and Hove Albion have announced.

If there's one game franchise crying out for the full current-gen remastering treatment, it's Metal Gear Solid. The classic MGS titles have remained untouched since 2011's excellent Metal Gear Solid HD collection, with no sign of any Xbox One or PlayStation 4 re-releases - despite the emergence of MGS cutscenes apparently running on the Fox Engine on a Japan-only pachinko machine, of all places. However, there is some good news: the 2011 remaster is now backwards compatible on Xbox One, and as things stand, this is easily the best way to play these brilliant games on modern hardware.

Move over Zelda - there's a new princess in town.

Picking apart Call of Duty's launch sales is an annual activity - as physical sales are tallied up for the official UK chart, while publisher Activision brings out a press release designed to trumpet its own take.

Back in 2008, video games could be more than a little bit weird. Nintendo's DS had hit its stride, and before the iOS goldrush truly began, there was a brief window where, it seemed, anything went. It was a wildlands full of outlandish, often brilliant games - none more so, I think, than Square Enix's The World Ends With You.

In its on-going quest to convince you that 2018 is the perfect time for another Leisure Suit Larry game, developer CrazyBunch has released a three-part developer diary series.

A gifting system is coming to Fortnite.

A new feature documentary called The Billion Dollar Game will explore the highs - and lows - of Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto 5.

Every year, some of the best drivers in the world - champions from F1, the WEC, NASCAR and the WRC amongst other disciplines - get together to work towards the answer of that perennial motorsport fan's pint-fuelled topic: what if you could put every driver in identical machinery? What if you could strip away the technical side of the sport and find out, once and for all, who's the fastest driver of them all?

Fancy a steaming side order of cringe with your Sunday dinner? Of course you do. So here are the stars of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing trying out some of Fortnite's most iconic moves, including Groove Jam, Hype, Fresh, and Floss.

For Honor's upcoming Marching Fire expansion will include a huge graphical overhaul.