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Pokémon Go has been teasing a curious raid egg, which is set to hatch later tonight.

The game's social media accounts began trailing the development on Saturday, with the first of four videos (to date) teasing a pink egg with a six-hour countdown. Fans excitedly waited six hours, to be greeted by a new video, now with a 44-hour countdown.

Immediately, fan speculation went into overdrive, and some lofty suggestions were made. Could it be Zygarde, the Gen 6 Legendary made up of many individual cells? Perhaps Niantic was introducing it cell by cell?!

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Doom Eternal hits Nintendo Switch on 8th December, Bethesda has announced.

It's a digital download-only release. There is no physical disc version.

The Switch port of id Software's first-person shooter was handled by Panic Button, the studio behind the Switch versions of 2016's Doom, Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, and Wolfenstein: Youngblood.

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Retro game enthusiasts are showing off the performance of many old PlayStation 2 games running on Microsoft's new generation of console hardware.

The video below, from Modern Vintage Gamer, shows several Sony classics running on the Xbox Series S, via the console's developer mode.

How does this work? Well, once in developer mode, Xbox hardware can run UWP (Universal Windows Platform) apps such as open-source retro emulation software RetroArch (thanks, VG247).

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There's a lot to like about this 1920s gangster sim. It's an intricately detailed game about a romanticised time. And as you would expect, it has gangsters in fedoras and fur coats and flapper gear, and Tommy guns and knuckle dusters and baseball bats. Those curvy old cars and delivery trucks rumble down the cobbled, often rain-slicked streets. And behind the mundane facades of everyday life - the grocery stores and laundry houses - the illicit industries roar. Speakeasies jump with music and laughter while breweries bubble in an effort to keep up. And you can see it all in gorgeous detail, right down to the fug from the cigar smoke and the glow from the lanterns.

Perhaps more importantly, you can get right up close to the people you control, which breathes personality into the game. You can get to know the gangsters you employ, like Big Fat Gibby Willard (that's his name!), who runs around in trousers and braces but no top, exposing his flabby upper half. He was great until a police officer strayed into a rumble we were having and he died. And now - yes - he's dead for good.

But there are loads of other gangsters I can hire, not that I can afford them all. And they all have their own stories, own ridiculous names, own traits, own capabilities. Some love each other, some hate each other. Some are better drunk than sober. Some are courageous and others timid. They all have their pros and cons. Some can even work against you as a mole, though you'll never know for sure. And you'll come to know those you hire like family.

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Online retailer Zavvi has unleashed - or maybe just hatched - a new range of Pokemon clothes, with t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies featuring various beloved Pokemon (all from the first generation right now).

There's some pretty good options out there. Our personal favorites include a green Bulbasaur jumper, a rather intense Psyduck hoodie, and a Margikarp t-shirt that's likely to cause a splash. Have we done enough Pokemon puns yet? Maybe time to give it a Nosepass.

Regardless, you can find the best examples of their collection just below, or check out the full collection here.

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There was sad news this past weekend for Star Wars fans, as David Prowse - known for physically portraying Darth Vader in the original film trilogy - passed away on 28th November, aged 85. Yet a number of Star Wars: The Old Republic players decided to mark the occasion in a rather wholesome way, by gathering in-game to hold a minute's silence for the actor.

As you can see in the video below, dozens of players flocked to Sith capital Dromund Kaas last night to remember Prowse, with many making their characters kneel while paying their respects. It seems the vast majority were able to hold the silence (aside from one guild recruiter, as ever), and the minute ended with a round of applause. "Thank you very much. No one is ever really gone," said player Jemorri as they brought the minute's silence to a close.

Once the solemn service was over, however, things got a little more raucous, with players letting off fireworks, bringing out their lightsabers, and having a boogie. With a fair helping of Sith lightning, of course.

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Universal Studios Japan will open its new Super Nintendo World attraction on 4th February.

That date was announced this morning alongside the first official photos from inside the area, which includes Mario Kart and Bowser's Castle-themed rides.

An early February date feels an ambitious target for the attraction, which has stood mothballed since the summer as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Though Black Friday 2020 might be over, Cyber Monday is here, and that's reason enough for Sony to keep the sale on its digital store ticking over for just a few more hours. Those who download select games for their PS4 or PS5 can get discounts of up to 80% on major games.

Speaking of which, don't worry - if you're planning on getting the next generation of consoles soon, the vast majority of PS4 games you buy and link to your account should be playable on the PS5, assuming you link your account and download them there too. We've listed some of the best options below for you to check out. Be quick - they won't be around after today!

Not only that, but there's another big discount going on, as online retailer ShopTo is doing a big sale that includes all their PSN wallet top-ups. That essentially means you can get £40 of PSN credit for £35 and so on, equating to discounts on… well, everything. We've listed some of those below, though you can find all the offers at the deals page here.

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Black Friday may be pretty much vanquished, but it's ready to morph into its final boss form: Cyber Monday, armed to the teeth with even more deals for bargain-hungry shoppers.

Traditionally, Black Friday involves larger, big-ticket goods that see the most reductions, with Cyber Monday's discounts featuring smaller products such as games or films.

This year, however, we've seen big savings across the board, and with a year like this one, boy have we needed them.

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We knew a sequel to the Sonic the Hedgehog movie was coming, but Paramount Pictures has now shared more information about the upcoming movie, including a tentative release date of 8th April, 2022.

As reported by Comic Book , the sequel - which is reportedly codenamed "Emerald Hill" - will go into production in mid-March 2021, and plans to wrap up by 10th May, 2021.

It's unknown if James Marsden, Jim Carrey, and Sonic voice-actor Ben Schwartz are scheduled to return for the sequel, too, and the source website Comic Book linked to - Creative BC Film Commission - no longer lists the information, so make of that what you will.

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Uri Geller has finally U-turned on his decision to prevent Nintendo from using Pokémon Kadabra, saying he continues to get "tremendous volumes of emails" about it and is "truly sorry" for the dispute that flared up 20 years ago.

The Pokémon - which translates as "Yungerer" or "Yungeller" in Japanese and famously touted a spoon - disappeared in the early 2000s after Geller mounted a legal battle after he alleged the Pokémon used his likeness. He particularly took issue that the Pokémon was an "evil, occult Pokémon character" (thanks, VG247) and fought to prevent Nintendo from using it.

Now, however, it seems the illusionist has had a change of heart.

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Thursday's 1.0.4 patch for Assassin's Creed Valhalla is the first big update for Ubisoft's latest massive open worlder - and a crucial one, delivering a vast array of gameplay improvements and bug fixes, but of course, the Digital Foundry focus is more on technical validation for what has been the most contentious of the next generation launch line-up. For all of its spec advantages, Xbox Series X ran with a performance penalty against PlayStation 5, while Xbox Series S launched without the signature next-gen 60fps support. The 1.0.4 patch aims to address of all of this - and indeed, it does - and also adds a 4K30 quality mode too.

First of all though, we need to tackle an interesting wrinkle that has emerged from the arrival of the new patch. While there's broad consensus that the performance situation is much improved on Xbox Series X, another narrative has emerged suggesting that the PlayStation 5 version now runs worse than it did. To clear this one up straight away, we could only find one example of this actually being the case - the introductory cutscene takes an occasional, small drop to frame-rate we didn't see in our first test. In every other stress test we have, PlayStation 5 runs at the same frame-rate with the same dynamic resolution result as it did previously.

Apex Legends players have lifted the lid on which are our favourite characters in its battle royale, Apex Legends, and while the top spot is unlikely to shock you, I can't pretend I wasn't surprised by some of the other entries on the list.

Earlier this week, Apex Legends News asked players to select which Legends boasted the highest pick rate, and rank them from 1-5. Though it promised to respond "in 1 hour" it actually took a full day for the team to return to Twitter, where it confirmed that - yep, you guessed it - Wraith continues to be the game's most popular character.

Bloodhound clocked in at second place - which is pretty good given they're not a character that has a particularly impressive win rate - with newbie Horizon taking the bronze (thanks DBLTAP).

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Forza Horizon 5 might not have been announced yet, but one journalist has gone on record to say we might get it ahead of the recently revealed Forza Motorsport, possibly as early as 2021.

In the podcast The Xbox Empire, GameBeat's Jeff Grubb revealed that he suspects we "might get the next Forza Horizon game first" even though Playground Games has yet to confirm the game is in development.

"We saw Forza Motorsport get teased a few months ago [but] I think we might get the next Forza Horizon game first and I think that might be coming this coming year," Grubb said (thanks, VGC). "They're in a weird situation where for some reason Playground says it does seem like they may be ready to go first. I think I know the setting, but I'm going to let them announce it."

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Wheelchairs are now available as C.A.M.P. decorations in Fallout 76 after a Bethesda employee spotted a request on the game's subreddit.

In a message entitled "Please sweet Beth, give me a wheelchair", Kel Leunen reached out to the development team, stating: "I'm disabled irl and I would really REALLY love a wheelchair I can place in my C.A.M.P. It would make me so happy to have that little piece of me in my creations. And I think a lot of other people would enjoy it too (maybe for when you recreate a hospital/medbay)".

After the usual back and forth in the comments, Kel later updated their message to say: "Another edit: for people playing 'devil's advocate'; I'm asking for a furniture item which model already exists in game. I'm not asking for my character to turn disabled, I'm asking for a chair I can place in my camp, we already have loads of chair models.

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Bluepoint Games' reimagining of Demon's Souls is the highest-rated launch game on PS5, and understandably so. The Austin studio has done a fantastic job of bringing its interpretation of Demon's Souls to Sony's brand-new console, furnishing its remake of a cult classic with mod-cons like a fully-featured photo mode, two different graphical options - and, of course, graphics to die for. Still, it's fascinating to note some of the things Bluepoint had creative license to change when remaking Demon's Souls - and to ask whether some elements of the original design have been lost in translation.

Demon's Souls had a rocky start. Initially pitched as an 'Oblivion' competitor, it struggled in its early stages of development. This is where Armored Core 4 and For Answer Director, Hidetaka Miyazaki was brought on to steer the ship, and make sure that Demon's Souls made it all the way to a final release. After an initial showing, EX-SIE President Shuhei Yoshida recalled calling it 'unbelievably bad'. Sony never published the original release of Demon's Souls outside of Asia.

Details from its developers are still scarce 10 years on, with only a few snippets of interviews with key staff being the only information we have about the conditions in which Demon's Souls was developed. But there's a clear narrative of strife, and struggling to meet internal expectations with Sony Japan. That struggle can be seen by way of what we're presented with in the game itself. The broken Archstone, full of cut content, frustrating swamps and "cheap" boss fights like the Dragon God, which was probably envisioned as more of a set piece than a quick, easy boss. But, the conditions and resources allocated to the game also reflected the world that From Software was trying to portray.

An amateur video game developer has remade CD-i games Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon.

Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon are two action-adventure video games developed by Animation Magic and published by Philips Interactive Media for the CD-i on 10th October 1993 in North America and 25th December 1993 in Europe.

Both games are based on The Legend of Zelda franchise, but aren't considered part of the official series, and were precursors to the infamous CD-i game Zelda's Adventure. The three Zelda CD-i games are considered among the worse in The Legend of Zelda franchise.

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Bandai Namco has revealed Hwang as the final SoulCalibur 6 Season Pass 2 DLC character.

Hwang arrives in SoulCalibur 6 on 2nd December alongside a free content update that adds a new stage called Motien Pass Ruins, Seong Mi-Na's classic costume parts, more Tekken CAS parts, and new Mitsurugi and Nightmare episodes.

The trailer for Hwang was shown at the end of today's EU West tournament of the SoulCalibur 6 Online Challenge (catch up on Twitch). The trailer is below:

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Dell is an absolutely solid brand in the world of PC gaming, with a huge range of high-spec gaming PCs, laptops and monitors for the discerning keyboard and mouse warrior.

This year, Dell's Black Friday event does thrifty shoppers proud once again, with heavy discounts of up to 52% slashed off their Alienware range.

Even though it isn't the cheapest name around, Dell's latest machines boast phenomenal power for churning out those sublime ray tracing effects and millions of polygons. Their Alienware boxes feature either AMD Ryzen or 10th gen Intel Core processors, with graphics courtesy of NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.

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Final Fantasy 14's next major patch comes out 8th December, Square Enix has announced.

Patch 5.4, titled Futures Rewritten, starts a new chapter in the story following the finale of the Shadowbringers main scenario questline.

Of note: the patch introduces the PC and PlayStation MMO's own take on the Emerald Weapon from Final Fantasy 7. Fans of that game will remember Emerald Weapon as a superboss who roamed around the bottom of the sea in the legendary JRPG. Hands-up if you couldn't resist the temptation to pilot the submarine into the thing the first time you saw it, triggering a fight, and then died? Just me?

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Square Enix has announced a remaster of SaGa Frontier.

SaGa Frontier is a Squaresoft role-playing game that came out for the PSone in Japan in 1997 and then in North America in 1998, but was never released in Europe.

Square Enix said the remaster has updated graphics, events, cutscenes and a new protagonist called Fuse.

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Did you know the PlayStation 5 records your microphone audio as it captures your Trophy gameplay? One first-time Demon's Souls player didn't - and only found out via a wonderful video that includes a rousing cheer.

Redditor helloiamjack uploaded the moment they defeated the rock hard Tower Knight boss in the Demon's Souls remake as captured by their PS5 - and the clip includes a fantastic "yes!" followed by the kind of chuckle anyone who's finally defeated a boss after multiple attempts will relate to.

"I was getting so frustrated haha," helloiamjack said. "The last attempt I actually realised how much easier it was if I just charged basically through his legs rather than trying to run a wide berth around him and then get behind. So much satisfaction when finished though!"

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eBay has issued a warning to scammers who are selling photos of a PlayStation 5.

Since the PS5 went on sale, people have flooded auction sites such as eBay with misleading listings - and one of the more prominent of these involves the sale of a photo of the console masquerading as the console itself.

One eBay user contacted Eurogamer to say they had talked to eBay customer support to flag the issue of people bidding on photos of a PS5 thinking they were bidding on the console, after nearly falling for the scam themselves.

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PlayStation 5 owners are exploiting a loophole to sell the PlayStation Plus Collection to PlayStation 4 owners, it has emerged.

PS Plus subscribers who own a PS5 get the eye-catching PS Plus Collection as a bonus. It's a new curated series of 20 PS4 games that are available for digital download. The list includes some big hitters, such as Bloodborne, Days Gone, God of War and Uncharted 4.

As VGC reports, it didn't take long for PS5 owners to discover and exploit a loophole that lets them log into a PS4 owner's account on their PS5, which in turn unlocks the Collection games for use on the PS4.

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"[Geralt] caught sight of Regis looking at him intently. 'Is that a fresh injury?'

"'Not really. But it's tormenting me. Do you have any herbs capable of soothing the pain?'"

- Baptism of Fire by A. Sapkowski, pp.128

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With digital retailers like GOG, Steam and the Epic Store launching their own Black Friday sales this week, it should come as no surprise that the folks over at Oculus have gone live with a few discounts of their own.

Cheap VR hardware bundles have been hard to come by this year, but if you're already lucky enough to own an Oculus Quest or Rift you can expect to save 50% or more on games like SuperHot, Lone Echo and Moss. We'll be listing the games separately by console, but you can check out the complete list of cross-buy titles here.

With that in mind, here's our picks for the best VR games on sale on the Oculus Store:

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Alternate history RTS Iron Harvest will be expanding its campaign on 17th December with the launch of its new Rusviet Revolution DLC on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Store.

Iron Harvest, which has been available on PC since September, unfolds in the alternate reality of 1920+, Polish artist Jakub Różalski's war-ravaged world of picturesque European hamlets and smog-cloaked towns, where huge dieselpunk death-mechs dominate the skyline.

The game's alternate history take on the much-loved Company of Heroes RTS formula has been generally well-received, and developer King Arts Games' Rusviet Revolution DLC will expand its solo component (the base game also includes multiplayer) with four new single-player-focussed, but co-op-enabled, maps centred on the Rusviet people's uprising against the Tsar.

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Today is finally the day. Black Friday 2020 has arrived and as you've no doubt seen, there's been a ton of deals going across the board. Across PC and consoles, we've witnessed thousands of different gaming discounts that have covered consoles, hardware, individual games, accessories, and more.

There's a lot to sift through and of course, we don't all have the time to go deal hunting this Black Friday. For that reason, we've now compiled our top 10 offers that we've seen so far, bringing you the best of the best in gaming picks

Covering a bit of everything, here's our recommendations throughout this entire Black Friday sale:

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Wading through the piles and piles of TV deals during Black Friday can be one heck of a confusing and overwhelming exercise. To try and make the whole experience a great deal less stressful, we've put together a simple list of the four best Black Friday TV deals you can buy right now.

With these picks, we've mostly focused on their capabilities as gaming TVs, so there are some terrific options if you're looking to pair them with last-gen or current-gen consoles. This has been judged by our good pals Digital Foundry in their roundup of the best TVs for gaming.

Of course, they'll still excel as TVs for regular viewing so you aren't necessarily sacrificing features in other areas. Don't worry, we've added a couple of cheaper options too - for the more budget-conscious out there!

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The best Black Friday gaming laptop deal we've spotted under £1000 is on the Lenovo Legion 5. Right now you can pick up this fully kitted-out laptop with a high-performance Ryzen 4800H processor and fast RTX 2060 graphics card for £950, which is £150 less than its usual price. Finding Ryzen 4000-series laptops has been tough after the word got out that they were significantly faster and more power-efficient than their Intel counterparts, so this is a particularly good find!

Let's have a look at the rest of the specs - it's all pretty impressive. You have 16GB of RAM, 512GB of high-speed NVMe SSD storage and a 15-inch 144Hz display. Normally corners are cut to get an RTX-equipped laptop under the £1000 mark, but this is all really good.

The screen is an IPS model, so it only gets moderately bright but offers excellent colour reproduction and wide viewing angles - this could be a laptop you use for colour-sensitive professional work if you wanted to!

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We've already witnessed plenty of deals in the run up to Black Friday but now it's in full swing, even more are coming through fast. Adding their name to the list is Elgato, who've just confirmed that several of their capture cards are now on offer.

Deals have gone live across Amazon and Currys PC World, offering discounts as high as £60 off. We've found a few of the best deals going, some of which are linked twice with different retailers in case stock runs out, so here's our main highlights:

Looking for more PC accessories? We've listed the best deals going for headsets and monitors, with further hubs for laptops and desktops if you're after some new hardware. If console gaming is what you're looking to capture, we've also compiled the best PS4 Black Friday Deals, Nintendo Switch deals and Xbox deals too. Keep an eye on the Jelly Deals Twitter too, where we'll post the latest top offers.

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The Zlatan Ibrahimovic versus EA Sports war over image rights is rumbling on, with the superstar footballer's superagent saying "it's all about money".

In a spicy radio interview with TalkSport, Mino Raiola was quizzed by former owner of Crystal Palace Simon Jordan over his threat to take EA Sports to court over the use of Ibrahimovic's likeness in the FIFA games.

Jordan asked Raiola why he hadn't slapped EA Sports with an injunction and a cease and desist to block the company from using Ibrahimovic in FIFA 21.

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Earlier this week, mid-way through one of my Valhalla sessions, I got a bit of a shock when one of my daily assassination targets popped up right next to me in Ravensthorpe. My blood ran cold. A dangerous thief in the settlement? Right here, next to the frolicking children? Things could be about to get messy.

I peeked out of the longhouse - expecting an armoured contingent of soldiers to be wreaking havoc - and instead spied a lone figure, which the game told me was the Duke of Burgundy. I summoned all my powers of stealth, and shot the target down from a distance.

It was at this point I realised my assassination target was actually a training dummy.

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Black Friday is finally here and there's no end to the PC games on offer. Both Steam and Epic Games Store's offers went live recently and now, GOG is getting in on the action too.

Running until 1st December, there are over 2600 games on offer, with discounts going up to 90 per cent off. Some of these are flash deals and those will change daily, so keep an eye out for them, but other prices are likely to remain consistent throughout.

There's plenty of excellent deals to be found and here are some of our favourite picks:

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The crown prince of Saudi Arabia's flagship charity has bought a third of Japanese game company SNK - and it's shooting for more.

The 813m riyals (£162m) investment from a subsidiary of the Mohammed bin Salman Charitable Foundation "Misk" charity amounts to 33.3 per cent of SNK's shares, and values the company at around £490m. In a note to press, Misk said the deal stipulates it will buy another 17.7 per cent of SNK's shares, raiding its ownership to 51 per cent. That'll give it a majority shareholding.

The Misk foundation has been central to Mohammed bin Salman's drive to extend his brand overseas, and this investment is another move in that direction. But it is sure to attract criticism. The assassination of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was attributed to Salman by the CIA, and Saudi Arabia has a notoriously poor human rights record, with homosexuality still criminalised with punishments ranging from floggings to the death penalty.

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Luxury fashion range Pokémon Shirts now lets you order any Kanto creature design as a face mask.

The clothing line by Original Stitch first launched a couple of years ago and more recently began shipping to the UK.

It has become a fan favourite for its arty takes on each Pokémon design, which you can pick from and customise into shirts or polo tops, and also as virtual clothing items for your avatar in Pokémon Go.

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Pokémon Dash is one of those games that makes you say, 'Someone made that? Really? Why?' The answer is that Nintendo were releasing the Nintendo DS and they most likely wanted a Pokémon title in the launch lineup to boost sales, so Pokémon Dash was born. The game's premise is simple - you're a Pokémon, there are races, you run in said races, try to win and hopefully avoid the lava, because there are no regulations in Pokémon races.

Sounds mildly exciting, right? Well, Pokémon Dash has a few setbacks.

Firstly, aside from multiplayer, you only ever play as Pikachu. Sure Bulbasaur, Meowth, Torchic and even Munchlax, which - fun fact - makes Pokémon Dash one of the first games to include a Gen 4 Pokémon, are there, but, if none of your friends own Pokémon Dash, it's one hundred percent Pikachu, one hundred per cent of the time.

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From my perspective, no console launch is truly complete without an excellent platform game and thankfully, Sony and developer Sumo Digital deliver exactly that for PlayStation 5 with Sackboy: A Big Adventure. It's a beautiful game, and a fascinating example of how one developer aims to straddle the generational divide - while Sackboy champions the power of PlayStation 5, there's also support for PS4 and PS4 Pro too. The question is, has Sumo Digital delivered the kind of magic we expect from a platform exclusive next-gen launch title but at the same time still deliver a good experience for owners of existing PlayStation hardware?

First of all, it's worth stressing that Sackboy: A Big Adventure may well be tapping into the characters and aesthetic of the Little Big Planet titles, but game concept itself is something quite different: think of it as 3D platforming experience more along the lines of Super Mario 3D World - fun, quirky, exciting and attractive. The key point of differentiation compared to the LBP titles is that there's no creation mode. What you get instead is superb platforming, plain and simple, delivered with visuals that really put the underlying Unreal Engine 4 through its paces.

The Last of Us Part 2 looks set to dominate awards season and many end of year lists, having already sweeped this week's Golden Joystick Awards including Ultimate Game of the Year. If you've yet to play this essential, albeit controversial and divisive, masterpiece then the good news is it's down to its lowest price yet as part of this year's PS4 Black Friday deals.

For Black Friday, multiple stores are selling The Last of Us Part 2 for £24.99. You can find it at Amazon UK, Argos and Currys PC World - just to name a few.

It's, without doubt, one of the best-looking games on PS4, though if you're playing on PS5, it also has additional enhancements including use of the DualSense's adaptive triggers, adding new haptics when pulling back the string of a bow, firing a gun or even when using a motorboat.

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Red Dead Online's community had often looked for ways to amuse itself while waiting for further content updates, and the latest obsession across Reddit and YouTube is... a bridge. But this isn't just any sort of bridge, as this one can hurl you across the map - or even into Mexico and beyond.

Although it's unclear who exactly discovered the glitch (it looks like this post by user jaitom may have been the first), for the past few days the Red Dead Online subreddit has been filled with videos of players using the bridge to launch them high into the air and out of bounds. It's even become slightly competitive, with friends attempting to outdo one another's launch distances, and see who can fly the furthest. The bridge has launched some players to Mars-like landscapes, while others have taken the opportunity to explore some of the unused buildings in Mexico.