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If you've been keeping up with our weekly cooking series Chiodini's Kitchen, you'll know I've been stuck in a bit of a Breath of the Wild rut recently - there's something about the way Link cooks in his new open world adventure that's really exciting. While I feel like I could explore the ins and outs of Hyrulian cuisine forever, I'm aware there are plenty of other games worthy of coverage in the kitchen.

Rock Band 4 is getting a couple of peculiar licensed cameos from Sterling Archer and the Mass Effect series.

The Gambling Commission has warned parents about gambling websites, calling them "parasites feeding off popular video games".

Last week's opening race of the Eurogamer Assetto Corsa Championship at Imola was pretty entertaining, despite two botched starts due to big pileups. The ensuing race was a cool display of skill from many drivers, in particular Hany Alsabti for his dominant win for the Thrustmaster Black team. Very solid, also, were Jackub Charkot of the Polish Ragnar Feeder Simulator team, who placed second, and Kamil Franzack's third place in the only Thrustmaster White car, subbing for the absent David Greco. (The Italian driver will be back at the wheel tonight.)

On the eve of Mass Effect Andromeda's EA/Origin Access trial and just a week out from the game's launch, we decided it was time to refresh our memories of gaming's greatest sci-fi trilogy.

Hardware generations come and go, graphics processing techniques tumble into and out of fashion, but the allure of so-called "isometric visuals" refuses to wane. Last year saw the release of Gareth Noyce's Lumo, a tidy little 450-room throwback puzzler starring a chubby wizard, that harkens back to the fixed vantage points and tile-based environments of 8-bit classics like Head over Heels. This spring has already given us Torment: Tides of Numenera, InXile's tribute to the pick of Infinity Engine RPGs. And later this year you'll get to play Tokyo 42, an open world assassination game which unfolds on an airborne, plastic city of exhilaratingly jammed-together architectural styles, rendered in 3D but with a zoomed-out, semi-manual camera that calls to mind the original Syndicate.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has an astonishing 900 Korok seed collectibles hidden throughout its vast world.

Space Hulk: Deathwing came out in December 2016 and while I enjoyed it, it was pretty rough around the edges, with a number of technical issues and a lack of variation hindering what was on the whole a solid effort at bringing the Space Hulk tabletop to life in video game form.

There's a new twin-stick shooter coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One early next year, but before you go running at the prospect of another twin-stick shooter it's worth knowing that this one's a little different.

Dreamcast enthusiasts have made playable an unreleased racing game found on a devkit.

The second coming of VR has been built around magic moments. Come meet the dinosaur on Oculus Dreamdeck! Hang out with the shark in VR Worlds! Experience the virtual k-hole that is Rez Infinite! The novelty might be wearing a little thin after 12 months on the shelves and in our living rooms, but this is still a medium that has the capacity to delight and surprise. At GDC a couple of weeks ago I was witness to another magic moment that convinced me there might be something to this VR lark after all.

This month marks the 10 year anniversary of Xbox Live, Microsoft's ground-breaking online console gaming service - but that's not the only Xbox exclusive that turned 10 in 2012.

Remember Primal Rage? Atari's 1994 fighting game caught attention for its stop-motion animation visuals and its fantastical beast characters.

Well done, because with your help, charity War Child has raised more than £100,000 to help children caught up in wars.

Dishonored 2 begins by throwing you in a locked office against your will, trapped and unarmed. An open window across the room teases the possibility of escape, so - once you're done rifling through the room, reading discarded notes and idly spinning a globe - you climb onto the ledge outside. There, you are teased with a vista of smokestacks and gothic spires. You can taste freedom, but a huge pipe blocks your path. You head back inside, and it's only then that you realise there's another window, closed, just across the room. Open it up and slip outside, and that promise of freedom is fulfilled.

They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it looks like as beautiful as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is, there are some who are more enamoured by a broken Switch with a Triforce carved into it. At least the only one of these in existence sold for nearly double the price of a working console.

System Shock 3 now has a new publisher with Starbreeze (The Darkness, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons) investing $12m into the upcoming sci-fi horror adventure.

UPDATE 14/03/2017 11.03pm: The videos that were mysteriously removed by Nintendo earlier are now back up. Enjoy!

David OReilly's impending PS4 project Everything comes second only to No Man's Sky in level of ambition. Where Hello Games boasted about its sci-fi opus' 18 quintillion planets, Everything hosts "one million+ years of gameplay." It's going to be hell on your backlog.

PaRappa the Rapper Remastered is now slated for a 4th April release on PS4.

Tim Schafer's 1996 biker-based point-and-kick adventure Full Throttle is finally getting its long-awaited HD remaster on 18th April for PC, PS4 and Vita.

UPDATE 14/03/2017 8.42pm: The Vita and Wii U versions of Rain World are still on the docket, albeit on the backburner since PS4 and Steam are the developer's main priorities.

Housemarque's highly anticipated twin-stick shooter Nex Machina is coming to PC later this year.

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.

BioWare has released a detailed look at Mass Effect Andromeda's four-player co-operative multiplayer mode.

Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs doesn't exactly scream video game adaptation. The tale of a botched heist where someone is a mole is a splendid whodunnit where a ragtag crew of codenamed goons question how everything went pear-shaped. Set almost entirely in a single location, Reservoir Dogs is a very talky film. There's violence, sure, but nothing in the way of a typical action sequence. Nothing that could easily be translated into a video game.

Mass Effect Andromeda is an enormous game, and while we're not yet ready to share our final opinions, we can now get talking about its opening missions. Starting this Thursday, these will be playable to anyone with an EA or Origin Access subscription on PC or Xbox One.

Yesterday I posted a couple of videos showcasing Battlefield 1's first DLC drop, They Shall Not Pass.

The gulf in raw rendering power between Switch and PlayStation 4 means that Nintendo's hardware is unlikely to be receiving the latest current-gen triple-A blockbusters. However, less technologically ambitious titles still have much to offer - and these games are a closer for match for Switch's capabilities. On top of that, the new Nintendo machine's ability to double up as both home console and handheld can help to offset compromises in technology elsewhere: what you lose in terms of sheer processing power is mitigated by the ability to play whenever you want, wherever you want. Square-Enix's I am Setsuna is a fascinating example of what Switch can offer on multi-platform titles.

Earlier this month, Ubisoft warned the For Honor community it was ready to take action against AFK farmers.