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I wasn't the biggest fan of Ghost Recon: Wildlands - you might say I thought it was a ghastly neoliberal wargasm joined at the hip to an unimaginative open world action game - but I am, oddly enough, rather fond of guiding people through it, chaperoning squadmates to waypoints and doing my best to keep everybody upright in the face of inevitable idiocy. This probably says more about me than it does the game itself. Perhaps it's just that I'm in my early 30s and secretly want to be a dad, a yearning unproductively manifest as an over-protective attitude towards sweary randos who dress like a Halloween edition of Guns 'n' Ammo. But there's something about Wildlands - its blend of rigour and scale, cold-blooded Clancycore ruthlessness and spec ops fancy dress competition - that creates a kind of squad play I'm not entirely sure the game's developers intended.

When the developers of Dwarf Fortress, one of the most ambitious simulation games ever made, die its source code will be donated to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Last night Blizzard made StarCraft and its expansion Brood War free to download, but it also released the game's first patch in over eight years.

Nintendo appears to have removed Mario Kart 8's sneaky fire hopping technique for the game's upcoming Nintendo Switch re-release.

When it comes to the finer details of Star Wars Battlefront 2, developer EA is so secretive that even Bor Gullet, the mind-reading octopus from Rogue One, would have trouble getting any more info out of the studio. A little Star Wars in-joke to get you warmed up, there.

Titanfall 2's latest free expansion, A Glitch in the Frontier, is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on 25th April.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a massive game. It length is variable, as its open-ended nature means you can make a beeline for its final boss after a brief tutorial section, but it's not unusual to spend well over 100 hours sussing out its secrets. Nintendo's latest flagship adventure is so saturated with content that speedrunning a 100 per cent run still took world record holder Xalikah a whopping 49 hours, nine minutes and 41 seconds.

If you played Street Fighter 2 back in the day, you'll know the Thailand stage well. I spent countless hours suffering defeat after defeat at the hands of end boss M. Bison, who called the Thailand Stage home despite being head of the nebulous Shadaloo. Sagat, the third of the original game's four bosses, I could deal with. Cheating bastard Bison, however, could do one.

Let's talk about Persona 5's menus, because they're great. Ostentatious, audaciously intricate, the spectacle of their existence defies common wisdom. Traditional design sensibilities suggests that menus should be austere, informative, but Persona 5 has transformed its own into a gallery of kinetic art pieces so visually distinctive they're almost the star attraction.

The original StarCraft and its expansion Brood War have been made free by developer Blizzard Entertainment in preparation for the real-time strategy game's remaster due this summer.

Upcoming isometric Reservoir Dogs riff, Reservoir Dogs: Bloody Days, is slated to arrive on Steam 18th May, publisher Lionsgate has announced.

Hey! Pikmin, the series' upcoming 3DS spin-off, is not being developed by Nintendo.

The first significant Torment: Tides of Numenera update addressing annoying performance issues has been rolled out on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Nintendo has pulled the plug on its much-loved, much-wanted miniature NES microconsole in Europe, as well as in North America and Japan.

Somewhere in an alternate universe, Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap is mentioned in the same breath as Mega Man 2 and The Legend of Zelda as one of the great classics of the 8-bit console era. In our reality, however, it settles for more of a cult status. Originally released in 1989 for the Sega Master System by Japanese developer Westone, The Dragon's Trap was the second entry in the action-adventure series Monster World, itself a spin-off of the action game Wonder Boy, first released in arcades in 1986.

Halo Wars: Definitive Edition comes out this week as a standalone game on Steam as well as Windows 10 and Xbox One.

Namco will bring a selection of its 80s arcade game back catalogue to Nintendo Switch, in the form of a fresh compilation: Namco Museum.

Editor's note: The first episode of Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy is out today on PS4, Xbox One, PC and mobile. We'll be looking to give you a full review once all five episodes have been released but for now here's our take on the series' opening.

Android has long played second fiddle in the mobile game department with the more mainstream Apple courting the development market, but Android device owners are catching a break with the latest Android-exclusive Humble Bundle, which offers many of the greatest adventure games in years for an extraordinarily low price.

Anyone remember how much it cost to buy a bicycle back in Pokémon Red?

Shiny Pokémon have arrived at last in Pokémon Go.

What is the best 4K screen for gaming? In terms of performance for the price, the Samsung KS7000 and KS8000 are difficult to beat, but as good as they are, there are compromises. Meanwhile, in the background, LG's phenomenal B6 OLED TV has gradually dropped in price, while boosting its gaming credentials with a low latency game mode update. It still costs a lot more than the Samsung, but it is - in our opinion - the new price vs performance king, to the point where all the Digital Foundry team members who've upgraded to a 4K screen at home have opted for this particular model. John and Rich have indeed put their money where their mouths on with this one.

Grand Theft Auto 5 is being used as a simulation to test the AI of driverless cars.

Resogun and Super Stardust developer Housemarque has revealed a few of the key features from its upcoming twin-stick shooter Nex Machina.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild contains a lot of score-attack challenges and given the game's open-ended design, people are finding endlessly creative ways to cheat the system.

Editor's note: This one is for the hardcore. We've already covered Project Scorpio's hardware specs in broader detail, and posted critical analysis of everything we've seen so far, but for those of you hungry for more detail, who want to know absolutely everything shared with us, this is the place to be. We'll be running a similar deep dive on the construction of the retail console tomorrow.

The big surprise of my first Project Scorpio tech briefing? That's obvious: the fact that Microsoft has managed to push GPU frequencies all the way up to 1172MHz - far higher than anything we've seen from any current-gen console. When the silicon architects first revealed this spec point, I wondered how the hardware team had managed to achieve desktop PC-level GPU clocks in a console-sized form factor. "You've not seen the form-factor yet," replied Microsoft's Kevin Gammill wryly.

It's a Thursday evening in Kentish Town and the upstairs function room at The Grafton pub is absolutely heaving. In front of me, a crowd of men, each with their arms folded, are peering intently at a projector - tutting, cheering and grumbling at the proceedings on the screen.

We all know how bank holidays are best spent: on the sofa, in your pyjamas, shoving fistfuls of chocolate and/or cheese into your mouth and watching cartoons that don't require a whole lot of brain power. But you know what would take that scenario to a whole new level?

Close on the trail of Heroes of the Storm's progression-overhauling 2.0 update, Overwatch's enduringly popular cyborg ninja is the latest new hero to join the roster of Blizzard's allstar MOBA.