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Battlefield 1's open beta launched yesterday, although many players have been left unable to connect to the game's servers.

Having first launched on PC in 2014, Assetto Corsa made its mark with a push for accurate car physics - a key selling point that sadly wrestles with the more CPU-restricted designs of PS4 and Xbox One. The logic here is clear: the more cars simulated on a circuit during a race, the bigger the hit to frame-rates on console. Your mileage may vary as a result of how you set your vehicle count, but it's disappointing to see the game veer so far away from its target 60fps - coupled with aggressive tearing - when set to anything between 10 and 16 cars.

EA appears to have decided against releasing a Mass Effect trilogy remaster.

The 2013 remake of Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse will no longer be available for purchase beginning this Friday, 2nd September.

Square Enix's streamlined Go series takes the publisher's sprawling action games and turns them into precision puzzlers in which movement is limited and each level has a single ingenious solution hardwired into it.

GPU manufacturer Nvidia has entered the world of game development by making its very own Fallout 4 mod.

2K Games is resurrecting an old Wii game for its first foray into virtual reality via PlayStation VR, HTC Vive and eventually Oculus Rift.

Sony's Instant Games Collection - i.e. free games given away to PlayStation Plus subscribers - have been revealed for September.

Sure it's August today, but tomorrow it's September and the start of the slow, depressing descent into the long dark and cold of winter.

Metroid Prime: Federation Force has failed to chart in the Japanese software top 20.

Internet spaceship MMO Eve Online will be free to play from this November via a new offering similar to World of Warcraft's free offering.

Battlefield 1 is back and this time it's brought horses!

Good news, boxed games fans: Hitman will launch on a disc with a barcode on it early next year, on 31st January.

September's Games with Gold has Earthlock: Festival of Magic and Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China on Xbox One.

Forza Horizon and Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse have both been added to the Xbox One's backwards compatibility library.

UK internet provider Virgin Media has announced what it says is the first broadband tier created for online gamers.

UPDATE 31/08/2016: 10:43am: The Battlefield 1 Open Beta is now available to download for all users on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Who needs Halo's Warthog? Now you can drive - well, push - around anthropomorphised Mario Hot Wheels cars.

Australia-set Forza Horizon 3 is now a month away from release, and Microsoft has detailed its final Windows 10 PC technical specifications.

New Resident Evil 7 details have emerged out of a Capcom presentation at game developer conference CEDEC, along with pictures revealing new characters.

Worms WMD is something like the 20th Worms game to have been produced by Team 17 during the past two decades, and I'd run out of fingers and toes to count on before even getting to the spin-offs (Worms Crazy Golf anyone?). Over the past two decades Team17 has tried reinvigorating the series in a variety of ways, including moving the gameplay from 2D to 3D, through to introducing different classes of Worms. Some ideas worked, some didn't, but for all that effort it seemed like Team17 was consistently missing the mark. After 20 years, the series had simply grown tired and jaded, much like the enthusiasm of its fan base.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided enters the UK chart at number one today, and rightfully so, but predecessor Human Revolution had a "much stronger" debut according to GfK Chart-Track. Then again, Human Revolution sold to a bigger audience in 2011, when PS3 and Xbox 360 had been out for several years.

Gran Turismo Sport has been delayed to 2017.

Fallout 4's final add-on Nuka World is out now for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

Fallout 4's final DLC - Nuka World - launches today, which is a bittersweet moment for Fallout fanatics like Ian Higton. Nuka World seems like a fairly substantial expansion, offering up a new area for players to explore, but there's undoubtedly sadness in the fact there'll be no more official DLC for Fallout 4 in the future.

Happy World of Warcraft: Legion expansion launch day! The race to the new level cap of 110 is - oh, over already.

The Witcher 3 has been released in a new Game of the Year edition, which includes its two expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. To mark the occasion, here's our review of this remarkable game, first published on 18th May 2015. Below you'll also find links to our reviews of the two expansions.

In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Eidos Montreal delivers its most beautiful and technically accomplished game to date. As with previous titles produced by the studio, the development team has opted to work with a new rendering engine once more, this time dubbed the Dawn Engine. Based on Io Interactive's Glacer 2 technology platform, the Dawn Engine enables artists to bring their vision of the Deus Ex universe to life with a remarkable level of detail. We've spent the last week playing the game on all three platforms in order to better understand how it stacks up on each and the results are certainly interesting.

The speed of innovation in the graphics technology spaces shows few signs of slowing down, and the recent releases of Nvidia's top-tier GTX 1080 and Titan X Pascal are highly significant - both of these cards are capable of handing in good performance at 4K resolution. However, there's still some uncertainty about just how powerful the new Titan X actually is and to what extent a locked 60fps is possible? We're into uncharted territory here: benchmarks only go so far and are highly limited in nature. What's the actual experience like?

Sierra is hosting the latest Humble Bundle, offering numerous classic games at a smidgeon of their asking price.