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People who have powered their way to the centre of No Man's Sky's universe have some advice: keep your Atlas Stones - don't sell them despite their high sale price.

No Man's Sky has a huge exploit which is letting users farm the game's rarest items.

Five years in the making by indie developer Hello Games, No Man's Sky is a game of incredible scale from a relatively small team. Built on an in-house engine, the final product weighs in at a meagre 5GB on your hard drive - a tiny amount compared to any typical AAA release. This is far from ordinary, and with the game relying heavily on procedural generation, very little of the game's visual make-up uses pre-made textures or assets. Instead, the star of the show is the set of algorithms at its core - lines of code capable of generating terrain, plants and even unique wildlife on-the-fly.

UPDATE 11/8/16 9.00am: A new Pokémon Sun and Moon trailer has showcased the fresh Alolan form of Raichu, Pikachu's evolved form.

Since its inception in 2004, Telltale Games has continued to release narrative-driven adventure games focused on choice and consequence. Before you even begin playing, however, you're asked to make one of the most important choices - which version to play. With upwards of nine unique ports available for many of its games, this is no small task. Telltale Games has a troubling history of releasing games with serious bugs and performance problems, and picking the wrong platform can lead to a subpar experience. Now, with the arrival of Batman - The Telltale Series, we might finally have reached the point where the best choice is not to play at all until the developer comprehensively addresses some serious issues.

Earlier this year Deadlight developer Tequila Works reacquired the rights to its stylish upcoming fantasy adventure Rime. Now it has a new publisher.

Just Cause 3's third DLC expansion, Bavarium Sea Heist, adds a "rocket boat" to its roster of sandbox wonders.

The Witcher 3's virtual card game spin-off Gwent has been delayed. Originally it was slated to enter closed beta on PC and Xbox One in September, but now it's been pushed back until 25th October.

Remedy's time-stopping action adventure Quantum Break will get a Steam release on 14th September, Microsoft has announced.

The Silver Case, the first game peculiar Japanese auteur Suda 51 made at his studio Grasshopper Manufacture, is getting a remake for PC this autumn where it will make its western debut. And now it has a free demo on Steam.

I think it's safe to say that No Man's Sky has successfully captured my attention. This isn't overly surprising as I'm a big fan of Elite: Dangerous, a game which scratches many of the same itches as Hello Games' colourful new release. Coming to No Man's Sky as an Elite player, however, I had one question on my mind - not 'what do you do in No Man's Sky', but 'how hard have you got to grind to do it?'

The excellent Rayman Oranges will be free to download for a month, starting next week.

There's a brand new Worms game out in a couple of weeks, which - if my maths serves me right - is around the four thousandth Worms game to have been released. OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration, but there have definitely been more Worms games than I can count on both hands.

Ahead of this month's Legion expansion launch, World of Warcraft is being hit by a huge demon invasion.

Blizzard has banned a widely-disliked Hearthstone card from the game's pay-to-enter arena mode - before the card in question has even been released.

The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones and Minecraft: Story Mode developer Telltale Games has teased a new project surrounding hit TV show Mr. Robot.

Remember that old trailer for Prey 2 - the one from E3 2011 that cast the player as a super cool Alien Bounty Hunter? Of course you do, that game looked brilliant. Pity it got cancelled then.

PlayStation has roped in British comedian Bill Bailey to promote No Man's Sky here in the UK.

PlayStation 4K will finally be unveiled on 7th September at a special event in New York.

The sixth Resident Evil film will take the series back to its Raccoon City roots, as evidenced in the below trailer.

With AMD's focus elsewhere in the graphics market, Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1080 has held an iron grip on the GPU top-end, offering a phenomenal level of performance, in exchange for a hefty price-premium. The new Titan X Pascal ups the ante still further: even more power, and an even higher price of entry. The bottom line is clear - the new Titan offers often staggering levels of performance, but we are looking at a 2x increase in price over GTX 1080 for a maximum boost of around 30-33 per cent in frame-rates.

UPDATE 8.40am: No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray has hinted there is more to players meeting in the game - although servers are currently too busy for this to show up.

For one summer in the mid-2000s, a not insignificant portion of the game designer Robin Hunicke's day involved placing a Nintendo Wii disc into an envelope and posting it to Stephen Spielberg's boat. Spielberg was on holiday at the time, taking a break with his family from sweltering Los Angeles and production work on the film adaptation of Herge's TinTin. There was no time to break from Hunicke's game BoomBlox, however, whose deadline was approaching. Besides, Spielberg's original idea for the game - a kind of anti-Jenga involving knocking down towers of blocks - came about because he wanted a non-violent game to play with his children. He was happy to receive builds through the mail while on holiday, where his kids could pitch in with the feedback.

Acclaimed anthropomorphic animal strategy game Armello is making its way to Xbox One on 30th August.

Experimental first-person shooter Superhot is getting a card game spin-off.

UPDATE 09/08/2016 6.40pm: Read Only Memories' PS4 and Vita release has been delayed at least a month.

The three Dead Rising games from the former console generation are all getting remastered and now we know when to expect them and how much they'll cost.

Persona 5 has been set for a 14th February release in Europe, publisher Deep Silver has announced.

There's a brand new tracking mechanic in Pokémon Go - but only a small handful of players can try it out.

Contrary to popular belief, our jobs rarely consist of playing games all day. Mostly it's just a rushed 10 minutes or so here and there before we slink off back to our desks to write another thousand words of copy. I'm happy to report, however, that today we'll be bucking that trend with a mammoth No Man's Sky livestream that may well last the length of the working day and beyond. Will there be mammoths? You never know.