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Grumblings of Just Cause 3's uneven PlayStation 4 and Xbox One performance has circulated since its late 2015 launch - a subject broached in our original Face-Off comparison. The recently released patch 1.05 gives us a chance to fully reassess the console experience, with a look at further-flung locales and a focus on the more riotous, gun-toting gameplay it offers. For a little perspective, all of our new tests also compare it to the previous patch 1.04, to see if there's been any real improvement.

Pull up a chair, PC players, the open beta for Elder Scrolls: Legends is now available to download.

A pair of Ohio residents are today hoping for a return to normality after a bruising experience in the internet spotlight.

Gearbox's hero shooter Battleborn flopped upon its May launch. Its low player numbers on the likes of Steam made that perfectly clear.

Last weekend, Pokémon Go's much-maligned update removed the game's broken tracking feature and killed off support for third-party apps such as Pokévision.

There are few video game developers who are treated with as much skepticism as The War Z executive producer Sergey Titov.

id Software has revealed the first gameplay footage of Quake Champions.

Overwatch has accumulated 15m players globally since its launch on 24th May.

UPDATE 04/08/2016 11.11pm: The first gameplay from the Prey reboot has been revealed in the following trailer from QuakeCon:

Doom's Unto the Evil multiplayer expansion is out now, one day early.

XCOM 2 was set to hit PS4 and Xbox One on 9th September, but it's just been delayed until 30th September.

PlayStation 2 interactive movie/game Fahrenheit comes out on PlayStation 4 next week, on 10th August.

PC role-playing game Torment: Tides of Numenera will also be released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The Witcher 3 now has a collection of fine art prints.

I think it's fair to say the special summer games loot boxes available for the next three weeks in Overwatch have proved pretty divisive. Personally I can see both sides of the argument. I also happen to have very poor impulse control, so ended up buying 24 of the things in one go.

Back in the mid '90s, amid the glory days of the Super Nintendo and the Mega Drive, there were some cracking platformers based on Disney movies doing the rounds.

I've been playing as Balrog in Street Fighter 5 for a month now - pretty much ever since he was released as a downloadable character - and despite my best efforts, I just can't get on with him at all.

The media room deep inside the west stand of the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona has hosted all manner of announcements and unveilings over the course of the famous stadium's 59-year history but not many, you suspect, quite like this.

Remember Sudden Strike? It's back.

Sega has quietly become one of the world's best strategy PC game companies.

UPDATE 03/08/16 6.54pm: Niantic are removing legendary Pokémon from people's accounts.

We're used to cool Easter eggs in video game software, but rarely do we see them in video game hardware.

UPDATE 4th August 2016: Telltale's released a patch for the PC version of its new Batman series that should go some way to improving performance.

Salt and Sanctuary developer Ska Studios has issued a plea for people to stop chastising the team for the game's Vita port not being out or having a solid release date.

Turn-based role-player Darkest Dungeon launches for PlayStation 4 and Vita on 27th September.

I've been playing a bit of The Elder Scrolls Legends this week and I have to say I quite like it. I'm hardly the best at it - I'm still prone to making some pretty basic errors - but I am at least reassured that Legends is a card game with a decent amount of potential.

PlayStation players had to wait a year for Limbo, the first game from talented indie studio Playdead.

According to EA, millions of people are still playing online shooter Star Wars: Battlefront.

The developer of dinosaur survival hit Ark has folded free-to-play spin-off Survival of the Fittest back into the main game, Survival Evolved.

A remaster that came out of nowhere, Marvel Ultimate Alliance and its sequel arrive on current-gen consoles (with a PC port of the sequel) but it's fair to say that the experience falls well short. The extent of the disappointment is as variable as the quality of the ports themselves and indeed the platform you choose to play them on. Uneven frame-rates and some horrific bugs show up the lack of polish embellished on these conversions and to be frank, we deserved so much more.