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I've spent a lot of time in Nuketown lately.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War got its version of the fan-favourite competitive multiplayer map this week, alongside a Nuketown 24/7 playlist, and I've jumped in each evening since to enjoy the close quarters chaos.

But there's another reason why I've set up shop in Nuketown: playing it is the only way I'm going to get anywhere with the Cold War grind.

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Surprise! The six-part Bit.Trip series arrives on Nintendo Switch next month, developer QubicGames has announced.

Originally released individually as some of the first downloadable games for Wii, Bit.Trip became a cult favourite franchise of diverse rhythm-infused puzzling and platforming.

The series will again be launched individually via the Switch eShop, albeit with the extra challenge levels added in the series' previous "Complete" Wii compilation.

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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red will no longer detail the game's forthcoming expansions ahead of its launch.

We were due to hear how and when Cyberpunk 2077 would evolve after its release, but CD Projekt will now hold off discussing its post-launch plans until Q1 next year.

It's perhaps a wise move, considering the continually-delayed release of the main game. Despite game boxes already appearing in the wild ahead of its 10th December launch, the game is still being worked on amid more talk of crunch at the studio.

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GreedFall is getting a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S version.

Spiders' plucky pirate-themed role-playing game is also getting new content, although we don't know the nature of it yet. We don't know when the next-gen version will come out, either.

GreedFall, which came out in September 2019, ended up selling over a million copies. Malindy reviewed GreedFall for Eurogamer, awarding it a recommended badge. "GreedFall has more than its fair share of faults, and its curious mix of the sweet and the sour is far from a roleplaying revelation," Malindy wrote. "But the elements that matter have been imbued with such love and care - so much so that I quickly forgave this ambitious RPG its shortcomings."

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Back when Aldi surprised us all by announcing what is surely guaranteed to be the best Nintendo Switch deal this Black Friday we expected demand would be high. Well, a few minutes after going on sale, the Switch was gone.

At one point, over 100,000 people were in the queue to view the Black Friday sale page at Aldi. At this point, the majority of the offers are now sold out. You're still able to get some of the less in-demand items such as a mediocre desktop PC or robot vacuum cleaner, but the big ones are off the menu.

That said, it doesn't mean your hopes of securing a cheap Switch are gone for the year. Right now, there are a handful of decent deals still out there - and with Black Friday now upon us, we are bound to see more flash deals pop up over the next 24 hours.

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Another week, another bucketload of next-gen console news - and so plenty for Eurogamer news editor Tom Phillips, reporter Emma Kent and me to discuss in this week's news cast.

We kick off by talking about the PS5 being the biggest console launch ever - an impressive feat during a pandemic. We then move on to Digital Foundry's analysis of some multiplatform games, which are shown to run better on PS5 than Xbox Series X - a surprise given all the talk about Microsoft's console being the world's most powerful. Microsoft has issued a statement on this, and it looks like developers are still getting to grips with the Xbox Series X, which reportedly came in quite hot.

Talking of company statements, Amazon promised to "put it right" for customers whose PS5s never turned up. But has Amazon put it right? Not exactly...

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There are some games whose first encounters with you'll always remember. For me - and I'm sure for many others - it's Ridge Racer. First contact was made the summer of 1994 in a Hastings arcade, a whole week spent pushing 20p pieces into a machine that felt like it had been transported from some shiny new future (later that same week I'd get laughed out of a seafront dance record shop when I asked if they had any copies of Shinji Hosoe's incredible soundtrack).

And then, six months later, there was the future shock of seeing this phenomenal thing running in a friend's living room on a Sony PlayStation that had been imported from Japan at great expense. The arcade had properly made it home, and it started a tradition of PlayStation hardware being christened with a sterling new racer from Namco - Ridge Racer V! Ridge Racers! Er, Ridge Racer 7 maybe? - that was sadly broken by the launch PlayStation 4, and we've been waiting for a proper new entry ever since. Oh how I miss those razor-sharp slides, those fictional sports cars that teetered on the edge of sci-fi with their outrageous designs, those thumping beats and dizzying synth lines of its turbocharged techno.

Arcade racers haven't gone anywhere - indeed, we've had something of a resurgence recently - but games as stylish and slick as Ridge Racer? That's something that's sorely missed. So too is the future shock that Ridge Racer provided at the dawn of the PlayStation generation, and for all the pizazz of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, it's something that's missing a little from both launch line-ups. And that's what made Ridge Racer so special. It wasn't just a great launch title - it felt like an entire paradigm shift.

The newest PlayStation VR headset bundle is released today, compatible with both the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, sold along with separate games to make the most of this cutting edge new tech.

Those games include Astro Bot: Rescue Mission, Everybody's Golf VR, Moss, Blood & Truth and PlayStation VR Worlds. It's a very solid starting pack, not to mention that it includes the new camera adapter that'll enable the whole thing to be PS5-friendly.

No, it's not been discounted for Black Friday, but that's probably not too surprising, considering it came out only hours ago. If you're planning on getting VR in the future, now might be the time. After all, PSVR is considered one of the better headsets on the market, it's got a decent library of games that's growing constantly, and though there's no Black Friday deal attached to it right now, this is still a decent price for the whole bundle.

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Flight Simulator has only just released its latest World Update, this one giving the USA's most iconic landscapes some much-needed attention, but already developer Asobo is talking about its next round of planetary enhancements, confirming it'll be upgrading the UK in January.

In a similar fashion to earlier geographical spruce-ups for the USA and Japan, Asobo's third World Update will aim to create a more accurate rendition of the UK using "awesome" new data and aerial images for England, Scotland and Wales, and with a host of new landmarks.

In total, as revealed in Asobo's latest livestream, the studio is aiming to introduce 50-60 new points of interest, new procedural buildings (including churches), and improvements for a range of existing airports, such as Land's End, Liverpool EGGP, and Manchester Barton. Additionally, players can expect to see new landing challenges and a new flight.

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Unto The End, developer 2 Ton Studios' striking, combat-focussed "cinematic platformer", will be coming to PlayStation 4, PC, Xbox One, Game Pass, and Stadia on 9th December. A Switch release will arrive a little later, on 17th December.

Unto The End casts players as an extravagantly bearded warrior on a desperate struggle to return to his family - a journey that takes him from cavernous underground ruins to stark mountain peaks, and pits him against deadly traps and "intelligent, worthy opponents, all with their own motivations and place in the world".

2 Ton Studios notes the protagonist's abilities are all available from the outset, meaning the challenge comes through mastery of those skills, and through improvisation and observation during sword and ranged combat.

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Black Friday is almost here and PC games are going on sale everywhere. Steam's own sale went live not too long ago and shortly after, the Epic Games Store launched their own Black Friday offers. Sporting some questionable promotional art, there's a good selection of deals here.

Whilst Epic are advertising savings of 75 per cent, some games have been spotted going as high as 90 per cent off, like Super Meat Boy. There's a few bargains to be found here and we've rounded up our top recommendations:

If console gaming is more for you, check out our hub page for the latest PS4 Black Friday Deals, alongside offers for Nintendo Switch and Xbox. We've also scouted offers on headsets, monitors, laptops and desktops if you're looking to improve your PC gaming experience. Make sure you follow the Jelly Deals Twitter too, as we keep you updated on the latest offers and discounts.

The best ultra-wide gaming monitor deal we've found so far this Black Friday is this 34-inch Alienware AW3420DW for £747, reduced from a launch price of £1304 earlier this year - and still £83 cheaper than the £830 Amazon and Currys are charging for the same model. That price is after a double discount from Dell's Black Friday deals and code DELLMONER12.

The AW3420DW is a 3440x1440 display with a native refresh rate of 120Hz. As a recent release, it comes with a fast IPS panel with 2ms GtG response times and impressive 98 per cent DCI P3 coverage - making this monitor an ideal choice for content creation. Expect wide viewing angles, great colour accuracy and reasonable contrast too, at 1000:1.

For Americans (🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸): the US Dell store has also discounted this monitor to $830 - versus $1000 on Amazon.

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The world of Assassin's Creed Valhalla is filled with varied and extravagant hairstyles - unless you're Eivor, in which case most of these are off limits. Valhalla gives you a fairly small selection of Viking-approved haircuts which you can unlock and purchase by expanding your settlement, and even if you want to try out some Anglo-Saxon styles 'dos inspired by your time in England, you're normally stuck with your Nordic hairstyles. Until now, that is, as the inevitable customisation mod has arrived.

Made by hypermorphic, who previously created a similar mod for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Eivor Customiser is a PC mod that gives you access to a wide range of NPC haircuts from Valhalla. There are even a couple of haircuts from Odyssey in there, should you wish to run around as a Viking version of Kassandra.

You can also mess around with a range of hair colours and hairstyle variations. And yes, an immersion-shattering pink is available should you want it. Stranger things do happen in Valhalla.

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The developer of MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries has delayed the launch of the game on Steam to avoid getting trampled on by the behemoth that is Cyberpunk 2077.

Piranha Games said the recent delay of Cyberpunk to 10th December 2020 forced it to reconsider its plan to release MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries on Steam and GoG, as well as its Heroes of the Inner Sphere DLC, on the same day.

"Any developer wants their titles to get as much attention as possible, and obviously sharing a release date with Cyberpunk was less than optimal," Piranha said.

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It's Black Friday! Razer's celebrating at their own store too with their own 'Cyber Weekend' where you can find discounts of up to 50% off a range of their accessories, from headsets to keyboards, and even their uber-expensive laptops. But if you're looking for a greater range of discounts on their products then you'll find plenty more at Amazon.

For the best prices on all the best Razer accessories, we've gone and rounded them up here, where you'll also find discounts for Digital Foundry's highest rated headset of the year as well a couple other recommended mice.

Here are quick links to each category, in case you're just interested in one item:

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Amazon says it will no longer work with a courier who drove off with at least one of the company's many missing PlayStation 5 consoles.

The unnamed driver was captured on CCTV by Oxfordshire mum Jenni Walker, who had bought a PS5 as a birthday gift for her son.

Speaking to Eurogamer this afternoon, Walker said her son - who turned 16 the day PS5 launched in the UK - had not wanted the driver to get into any trouble.

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This year for Black Friday, many are choosing to get their most significant deals on gaming and tech from Argos, which staunchly remains one of the biggest retailers out there. We've listed some of the best deals you can get from Argos, and we'll be updating this page as we go forward.

Argos are pretty good when it comes to gaming deals on what's dependable - consoles, accessories and AAA titles. You won't get a huge amount of variety or anything too niche (they're not solely a gaming outlet, after all), but if you're looking for anything nicely predictable, they should have you covered.

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Featuring a beautifully rendered open world recreating one of the world's most iconic cities, while leaning heavily into hardware accelerated ray tracing, Watch Dogs: Legion is one of the most technically ambitious games for the current cross generation period. The cross-platform comparison between the next generation machines isn't the most interesting head-to-head we've seen so far - PS5 and Xbox Series X are very, very close - but it's great to see ray traced reflections appear on Xbox Series S. Yes, we're getting hardware RT on a £250/$250 console.

But to address the most burning question, I can confirm right away that Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 do indeed run with practically identical visual settings - an almost complete match for the details locked away in the PC version's configuration files (which don't just include PC settings, but every single version). This is most readily evident in side-by-side ray tracing comparisons - the RT effect is identical, but crucially, the cut-off for objects not in the reflection is also the same, meaning matched fidelity in the effect itself, but also identical compromises and optimisations.

Series S also has the same settings for its ray traced reflections, but with one crucial difference. The premium consoles target a dynamic 4K rendering resolution for the majority of the presentation, but reflections run at checkerboarded 1080p instead. For Series S with its much lower 1080p target pixel-count, RT reflection resolution drops in step - reflections here are rendered internally at 720p instead, with the same reconstruction technique.

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Microsoft has acknowledged performance issues with some Xbox Series X and S games that were found to run better on PlayStation 5.

In contrast to Microsoft's marketing message that the Xbox Series X is the world's most powerful console, Digital Foundry's analysis of games such as Devil May Cry 5, Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and Dirt 5 show deficiencies on next-gen Xbox consoles compared to PS5.

Here's Digital Foundry on Devil May Cry 5: "In terms of correlating on-paper specs to the actual experience on-screen, PS5 is either punching above its weight, or Xbox Series X isn't delivering on the full potential promised by a bigger silicon investment and a much more substantial memory interface."

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Ubisoft will today release its first post-launch patch for Assassin's Creed Valhalla, bringing the game to version 1.0.4.

It includes bug fixes, quality of life updates and, perhaps most importantly, options to manually choose between performance and visuals on Sony and Microsoft's new consoles.

These options, available on PlayStation 5 plus Xbox Series X and S, will "adapt the resolution and graphics settings to maintain 60FPS" for Performance mode, or "enable the game to run maximum resolution and graphic settings while maintaining 30FPS" for Quality mode.

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A long-running secret within Mortal Kombat 11 has finally been solved.

A year ago, Mortal Kombat 11 players noticed a mysterious meteor coursing across the sky within the Towers of Time mode. Players realised it turned up at 10 minutes past the hour, and suspected some sort of input was required to trigger a reward. But nobody knew the combination - until this week.

Here's NetherRealm boss Ed Boon doing his Twitter tease thing earlier this week:

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The best storage deal of Black Friday has arrived. Right now Amazon is selling the WD Black 5TB Game Drive for £88 in the UK and $95 in the US, a historic low price in both countries by a significant margin and a genuinely great deal for owners of next-gen consoles.

These portable 2.5-inch external hard drives give you a ton of storage for games and media, and can be used with games consoles like the PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One. Of course, they're also a great shout for PCs, Macs and Linux computers as well. You're not even paying extra for the armoured design and gamer branding either - these are currently the cheapest 5TB hard drives on Amazon of any variety!

As has been the case for the whole year, it's looking difficult to get hold of a Nintendo Switch. If you're looking for the more affordable Switch Lite on the other hand, supplies aren't just in greater availability, Nintendo has officially released a bundle with Animal Crossing just in time for Black Friday.

The bundle includes a digital code for Animal Crossing: New Horizons as well a three-month Nintendo Switch Online subscription, which you'll need for online multiplayer such as visiting friends' islands, while also providing access to a huge library of NES and SNES games. Amazon has these bundles available for just £209.99!

We should note these bundles are only available in the above colours - perhaps a subtle but old-fashioned attempt of buying a gift based on gender. You can however opt for Amazon's own bundles that comes in the full array of Switch Lite colours that comes with a physical copy of the game. And if Animal Crossing isn't your thing, you have other games to choose from too.

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If all the current Black Friday deals already flooding the internet weren't enough, the Steam Autumn Sale is now here, with hundreds of deals on PC games and software.

This year the sale lasts until December 1st, 18:00PM GMT, and as usual the main Steam storefront has been redesigned to promote the new deals, with sections for genre, for major franchises, for users' wishlists and featured deals, among others. We've outlined some of the best offers we've seen here, and there's a good chance that there'll be other offers cropping up as we go through the week.

This also marks the start of nominations for this year's Steam Awards, the site-wide ceremony where users can nominate and vote for various games in various entries - game of the year, best VR game, soundtrack, story and so on. Nominations start now and voting will occur during the Winter sale later (presumably landing in the Christmas period).

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'Any last words?' they demand.

'RIP,' she responds. 'RIP me.'

Who said that? Was it Joan of Arc? Mary Antoinette beneath the guillotine? No. It was congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, shortly before she was punted into space during the first round of her Among Us livestream in September. The mainstream press was quick to praise Cortez for her media savvy, but little attention was paid to the game itself (the Guardian called it faddish). This strikes me as a serious oversight. While it looks like something spawned on the pages of Newgrounds circa 2005, Among Us is the perfect game for today - and quite possibly tomorrow, too.

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Have you been taking your time before getting on Persona 5 Royal? Then you're in luck as the excellent expanded edition of JRPG - and still the highest rated game on Metacritic in 2020 - is less than half price for Black Friday.

Head over to ShopTo and you can get your hands on Persona 5 Royal for £20.85. This is the standard version that doesn't include the limited edition steelbook case and a downloadable dynamic theme for your PS4. For the steelbook, you'll have to head to Amazon where it's £24.99.

If you're just after a digital version, you're in luck too as the game is part of the PlayStation Store's Black Friday offers where it's also 50% off. You can get either the standard edition for £24.99 or the ultimate edition for £42.49, the latter including costume, battle and persona packs. Whichever you opt for, you're guaranteed one of this generation's best JRPGs with hours of additional content, from new characters, storylines and places to hang out, not to mention plenty of welcome quality-of-life improvements to make a phantom thief's life even smoother.

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From Duck Hunt to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nintendo is the undisputed king of the launch game. Two of its console debuts, Super Mario World and Super Mario 64, can lay claim to being among the greatest games ever made; Wii Sports is the fourth best-selling game of all time. So it is a delicious irony that the best launch game for the GameCube was made not by Nintendo but by its old arch-rival Sega - indeed, it was one of Sega's first releases as a third-party publisher. Revenge? Truce? Either way it was poignant.

The game was a port of a relatively obscure arcade title that you played with a banana joystick. It was also the creation of Toshihiro Nagoshi: a proponent of Sega's ecstatic, day-glo arcade aesthetic in the likes of Daytona USA before he remade himself as the inscrutable lounge-lizard behind the seedy and sentimental Yakuza series. The game was 2001's Super Monkey Ball.

In Super Monkey Ball, you guide a cartoon monkey in a ball - two-toned and slightly opaque, like a toy capsule - to a goal. The levels are abstract assemblages of platforms floating in space. There is one control: the analogue stick. The key thing to understand about Super Monkey Ball is that you do not control the monkey - or the ball - you control the level. You tilt the world this way and that to guide the monkey where you want it to go. It's like a surreal ball maze, or an inverted Marble Madness. There are banana pick-ups which increase your score, as does your completion time. There are difficult-to-reach warp gates that skip you forward several levels. And that is all there is to it.

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This year marks the tenth anniversary of Metro 2033's release, and developer 4A Games has celebrated the occasion in a wide-ranging new blogpost touching on its future plans - including a new IP, a new multiplayer experience in the Metro universe, and a free next-gen update for Metro Exodus.

The next-gen update will be available to owners of the existing Xbox One and PS4 digital and physical editions of Metro Exodus some time next year, and introduces significant enhancements on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, including ray tracing, faster frame rates, increased resolution, and reduced loading.

Beyond Metro Exodus, 4A has re-confirmed that a new Metro game is in development for next-gen consoles and PC at the studio. And while it says it's not yet ready to share more details, it teases that it's working on a complete overhaul of its engine and renderer "to take advantage of the new power, storage, and hardware supported ray tracing afforded by the new consoles."

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Developer Texel Raptor's superb theme park management sim Parkitect is set to receive its most ambitious update yet, introducing 8-player co-operative multiplayer on 8th December.

Parkitect is already a gloriously designed thing, successfully managing to deliver a soothing nostalgia fix for Rollercoaster Tycoon fans, while still introducing some wonderfully impactful innovations at the same time - including powerful construction tools and smart gameplay additions such as a focus on intra-park delivery infrastructure - that breathe new life into the classic building and management formula.

Texel Raptor's latest addition, however - which follows on from two paid DLC expansions - is the game's most significant endeavour yet, offering the kind of collaborative multiplayer building experience that's frequently requested by fans but rarely seen in the genre.

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Studio MDHR has announced another delay for Cuphead's long-in-the-works Delicious Last Course DLC, this time into 2021, citing challenges "amid the global pandemic".

The Delicious Last Course - which sees Cuphead and Mugman joining forces with Ms. Chalice on a brand-new island for more classic-cartoon-inspired adventuring - was initially announced in June 2018, with a projected release of the following year.

However, as July 2019 rolled around, Studio MDHR revealed it had made the decision to push The Delicious Last Course's launch into 2020 so the DLC would meet "the meticulous level of care and quality we always strive for" and to ensure the developer could continue to "make things in a way that's healthy and sustainable for our team".

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Watch Dogs: Legion will no longer be getting its multiplayer modes next week as originally planned, with Ubisoft announcing it's delaying all online features into next year while it concentrates its efforts on addressing the game's various technical issues.

Ubisoft had initially intended to release Legion's multiplayer modes - offering co-operative free-roaming and mission-doing for 2-4 players, alongside various PvP challenges - in a post-launch update on 3rd December. Unfortunately, the game's arrival was mired by bugs, some relatively minor, others considerably more serious, and Ubisoft has now pledged to focus its efforts on squashing those before moving onto other endeavours.

"Since the launch of Watch Dogs: Legion," the publisher wrote, "some of you continue to have technical issues preventing you from enjoying the game. The dev team is committed to fixing these issues and will not stop until everyone can experience the game as intended."

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Paul W.S. Anderson's Monster Hunter movie is, somewhat unbelievably, out next week, and to celebrate its whatever-the-opposite-of highly-anticipated-is arrival, Capcom is shoving its presence into Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, with a special crossover event.

From 4pm PST next Thursday, 3rd December (that's midnight on 4th December in the UK), owners of Monster Hunter World's Iceborne expansion can access a special two-part single-player side story that casts players as Milla Jovovich's Monster Hunter movie character, Artemis. Complete with Milla Jovovich's likeness and everything.

Part one of the new side story, The New World, pits Artemis against a Black Diablos in the Wildspire Waste, granting the materials needed to craft the Artemis α+ armour set - which comes stuffed with a broad range of handy skills, including Earplugs, Health Boost, Stun Resistance, Great Luck, and Hasten Recovery.

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Marvel's Avengers is yet to earn back the money spent on its development, publisher Square Enix has conceded, after it published financial results showing a 7bn yen (£50.1m) loss for the quarter.

Sales of the big budget blockbuster were "lower than expected", company president Yosuke Matsude admitted in a newly-translated financial briefing (thanks, IGN).

Square Enix's overall loss for the quarter was caused by a mixture of low Marvel's Avengers retail sales and the amount of money splashed out on its "major advertising campaign", which the company had spent big on to drum up interest after the game's earlier delay.

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Worms Rumble, Just Cause 4, and Rocket Arena are coming to PlayStation Plus subscribers on 1st December, Sony has announced.

Team17's Worms Rumble has 32-player, cross-platform combat. Just Cause 4 is Avalanche's December 2018 blow 'em-up (Donlan called it "likeably scrappy open-world carnage" in Eurogamer's review), and Rocket Arena is EA's colourful competitive multiplayer 3v3 shooter. All the games are available to play until Monday, 4th January.

While Rocket Arena was well-received, it struggled to get any attention in the crowded team-based shooter market when it launched in July, and its premium price-point plummeted soon after launch. In September, Rocket Arena's 30-day average concurrent player count on Steam was just 71, which meant players were struggling to get games. Its release on PS Plus should give it a shot in the arm on PlayStation, though.

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Rainbow Six Siege's free next-gen update comes out on 1st December, Ubisoft has announced.

These versions for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S let you play in 4K and up to 120fps, depending on the mode you play in, Ubisoft added.

4K resolution is for PS5 and Xbox Series X, whereas Xbox Series S gets 1080p. 120fps is available on both the PS5 and the Xbox Series X. As Eurogamer has reported, enabling 120fps on PS5 requires a full native port - and that's exactly what Ubisoft has created for Rainbow Six Siege.

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Sony has said PlayStation 5 is "our biggest console launch ever" - but it failed to announce a sales figure.

So, what does "our biggest console launch ever" actually mean? It means the PS5 had the biggest console launch ever of any console because the previous record holder was the PlayStation 4.

(In early December 2013, Sony announced 2.1m PS4s had been sold globally after going on sale on 15th November that year.)

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Do you feel like it's time to move on from HDD to something faster for your PC storage but you've been put off by the high price of SSDs? Well, this Black Friday is your best chance to get a huge boost in speed and storage with the WD's Blue SN550 NVMe SSDs.

NVMe SSDs are future-proof and by far the fastest performing storage drives out there right now, with read speeds of 2400 MB per second that put it over four times the speed of SATA drives.

And thanks to Amazon's Black Friday discounts, they're also easily the best value NVMe SSDs you can get hold of.

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Last week, Amazon promised to "put it right" for every PlayStation 5 customer who did not receive the console they'd paid for, after many received alternative items or simply nothing at all.

Now, mid-week, we've checked in with some of those affected to see how things are going, and if Amazon has kept its word.

In short, no one I spoke to had seen their fortunes dramatically reversed. None of the consoles which customers believe were stolen have suddenly materialised, and there's no new PS5 stock on Amazon to try and order a replacement.

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Nintendo has just confirmed via Twitter that a big Black Friday Switch sale is going live tomorrow at 3pm CET (that's 2pm GMT), covering a number of digital titles on the eShop until December 3rd.

We've seen a few Nintendo Switch Black Friday deals pop up so far, with retailers like Currys, Amazon and Aldi getting in on the action, but we hadn't seen much pop up from Nintendo directly until now.

The sale will bring us discounts of 33 per cent on first-party games and we can expect up to 84 per cent off on 3rd party titles too. It's unclear just how many games will be discounted, but following this announcement, a subsequent press release also confirmed several highlights for this sale. We'll keep you updated as we learn more, but right now, the top highlights include:

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