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The Overwatch community is infatuated with Jeff Kaplan. As Blizzard's first-person shooter has attracted a passionate fanbase from across the globe, so has its game director, thanks to his willingness to step in front of a camera, or jump into the forums to speak directly to players about the issues they care about. From sweeping hero redesigns to the removal of an overly-sexualised pose featuring Tracer's butt, Kaplan is almost always involved in the biggest conversations surrounding the game.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 3 goes into open beta later in April.

We're about to see a game inspired by Rare's Banjo-Kazooie. Later this year we'll see a game inspired by Rare's Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

A note from the editor: Jelly Deals is a deals site launched by our parent company, Gamer Network, with a mission to find the best bargains out there. Look out for the Jelly Deals roundup of reduced-price games and kit every Saturday on Eurogamer.

A big new update to Grip, the Rollcage spiritual successor, was released this week - and it adds multiplayer.

It looks like the wait for Terraria spin-off Otherworld will go on a lot longer - work has essentially started over after what sounds like a troubled development.

UPDATE 4/3/17 6:45pm: Apologies from Digital Foundry for not getting to this one sooner - the team were attending EGX Rezzed last weekend. The good news is that the performance boost with the latest Zelda patch is confirmed for Switch owners, with many frame-rate dips removed, and entire stretches of 20fps gameplay improved.

Persona 5 is out! Hurrah! Atlus' long-awaited and favourably reviewed RPG is finally in the hands of the masses. There's only one problem: the publisher is very wary of spoilers getting out. So wary, in fact, that it's threatening to remove any stream with anything even resembling a spoiler.

Nier: Automata has breached the one million mark in sales, publisher Square Enix has announced.

A The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild player has figured out a way to glide across the entire land of Hyrule in one amazing descent.

Pam Grier, the actress who famously played Jackie Brown in the 1997 Quentin Tarantino movie, is the star of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's next DLC.

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution and Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet have been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatible library.

Blizzard has emerged victorious in a long-running lawsuit against Bossland, a German company that creates cheats for online games.

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Mass Effect Andromeda has received a lot of criticism since its launch last month and BioWare has been listening. The studio just announced its plan to address the game's most damning flaws.

Capcom has published scans of a 20-year-old guide it still uses today when creating Street Fighter characters.

My coach sounds delighted. "That's it! Nice one!" he cheers. I just beat him at Street Fighter 5 by throwing out my critical art on wakeup - something he suggested just five minutes ago. It would be a surprise attack, he said. Most people don't expect it, even really good players. I think he's proud I knocked him out.

Remember Fighting Fantasy books? The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, that sort of thing? Well, there's a new video game based on them coming out later this year.

Dishonored 2 will have a free demo available beginning 6th April for PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Anyone who's spent any significant time in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild will know the pain of encountering the dreaded Lynel, a centaur-like creature that rivals any of the game's bosses as its hardest challenge.

Psychedelic horror game We Happy Few is being adapted into a feature film.

Four of Naughty Dog's Jak and Daxter games are coming to PS4 later this year as PS2 Classics.

UPDATE 03/04/2017 5.28pm: Konami has issued the following somewhat confusing statement regarding the Diego Maradona lawsuit to Kotaku:

War for the Overworld, the spiritual successor to the Dungeon Keeper series, has launched a DLC heavily inspired by one of the most popular modes from Bullfrog's famous strategy game.

Agents of Mayhem comes out on 18th August 2017, Deep Silver has announced.

As I sat down to play through a 90 minute demo of Agents of Mayhem, I found it impossible not to think of Saints Row. While Agents is being sold as a standalone game, the branding is heavily based around Saints Row's established aesthetic - the colour purple and the signature Fleur-de-lis icon, for instance.

Overcooked, the fantastic local co-op game about running a kitchen and shouting at your pals, eventually secured an age rating of 'E for Everyone' in the US, but a cheeky little bum on its logo almost had this family-friendly title slapped with a more mature recommendation.

Batman: Arkham VR sheds its PlayStation VR exclusivity soon.

Dark Souls is over. Sort of. Creator Hidetaka Miyazaki has previously said that while Dark Souls 3 may not officially close out the series that made him a star, it will provide a "turning point" for the franchise and developer From Software alike. Basically, it sounds like it's going to be a long while until we get the inevitable Dark Souls sequel, prequel, reboot, or spin-off. (Dark Souls: Andromeda perhaps?)

Yooka-Laylee will include its own version of the DK Rap - the infamous musical number from Donkey Kong 64 - which was revealed live on stage today at EGX Rezzed.