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Sci-fi thriller Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma has appeared on Steam, a mere two days after its Vita and 3DS launch earlier this week.

Classic sci-fi horror adventure System Shock is getting a reboot by Nightdive Studios. Though it's currently in its embryonic pre-alpha phase and still raising money on Kickstarter, there's a demo of the remake available so we decided to give it a spin and see how it compares to the Enhanced Edition of the original adventure (which was also spruced up by Nightdive Studios).

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is being adapted into a short film by animation studio Ember Lab and the teaser is very pretty indeed.

Yeah alright, cards on the table. We couldn't find anyone in the office who hadn't played the original Bioshock. Which is hardly surprising when you're talking about a group of games journalists (incidentally, what would the collective noun for that be? A thinkpiece? A scribble? An ornery of games journos? Anyway.) The problem with that is it kind of scuppered my plans for recording a spectacularly well-timed episode of Late to the Party, to celebrate the shocking-but-not-really announcement that Bioshock: The Collection, a remastered edition of Bioshock, Bioshock 2 and Bioshock: Infinite, is heading to Xbox One, PC and PS4.

Hey, there's a new Katamari game out today in the UK! But...

The new Doom did a great job of rekindling the feel of old Doom, but one thing that it lacked from its predecessors was that classic weapon pose. You know, the one that sees your weapon pop up from the bottom centre of your screen.

We have to talk about the opening level. It's a slight spoiler - if you believe in spoilers for a Lego adaptation of a film you've already seen - so forgive me, or skip the rest of this paragraph if you must. But, here's the thing - Lego's take on The Force Awakens begins long before the film does, 30 years before, in an extended prologue which showcases every front from Return of the Jedi's Battle of Endor. It sees you stomping across Endor's moon in AT-STs, forming a band of Ewoks, fighting Darth Vader, defeating the Emperor, piloting the Millennium Falcon and blowing up the Second Death Star. Not only is it a complete surprise opening, it is an amazing first half hour.

A brand new Arma game has been released but it's an iOS and Android game called Arma Mobile Ops.

You might not have heard of Darren Cox, but you've likely come across some of the projects he helped foster. In his tenure at the head of Nissan's motorsports division he oversaw ambitious, often outlandish ventures such as the DeltaWing, a beautiful dart of a car that's still campaigned in the US, and the ill-fated GT-R LM P1, a front-wheel drive car intended for Le Mans that turned racing conventions on their head.

Street Fighter 5 gets a huge update today, one that adds a raft of new content as well as the long-awaited cinematic story mode.

Wreck-It Ralph, Disney's take on the secret life of video game arcades, is getting a sequel.

At long last, 2K Games has officially announced BioShock: The Collection.

It's been a while, New York. About three months in fact. Three months since Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment surprised an audience turned cynical by Watch Dogs, The Crew, Assassin's Creed Syndicate and anything else with a watchtower to climb. The Swedish studio delivered a coherent and compelling 'shared world shooter; a game that matched Ubi's obsession with map-littering busy work with an infectious loot grind and deceptively complex character building. Not to mention the genuinely innovative combination of PVE and PVP, The Dark Zone.

EGX, the big UK gaming event put on by Gamer Network, which also runs this website, has announced that submissions are open to all comers for this year's Leftfield Collection indie showcase.

A successful Kickstarter campaign for a NES game artbook has been shut down by Nintendo lawyers.

Last week we reported on Steam game Hadean Lands, which released a PDF certificate as £27 DLC.

Remaking a classic video game is an intimidating prospect. Stick too close to the original and you run the risk of releasing an archaic project that maybe doesn't hold up as well in modern times as it did in its day (see Doom 3: BFG Edition). Change too much, however, and purists will complain that the feel or tone is too far afield from what they remember (see Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes). Heck, even the best remakes still fall shy of their source material in at least some minor way. Wind Waker HD is a more vibrant spectacle than its 2003 GameCube forbear, but its new bloom lighting occasionally robs Link of some of his charm. Likewise, Resident Evil's remake (and ReRemake) are easy on the eyes, but the "better" voice acting is bad in a generic, boring way, whereas it used to be indescribably bad in a hilarious way.

Two-and-a-half years after launch, Xbox One will finally get background music support on 2nd August, Microsoft has announced.

The developer behind Orion: Prelude, the game Activision reportedly had pulled from Steam over allegedly stolen guns from Call of Duty, has admitted "blatant rips were made".

If you absolutely had to go, you could go out with less flair than this: dropping down from the radioactive vacuum and into the furious embrace of VY Canis Majoris, a star so big as to be a little bit implausible, really. As deaths go, it would be a touch ostentatious, but who cares? VY Canis Majoris is a touch ostentatious. I would give you the stats and the measurements, but they wouldn't really mean anything. You know our sun? It's quite big, isn't it? VY Canis Majoris makes our sun look very, very small.

Hitman's fifth Elusive Contract goes live tomorrow, 1st July, at 1pm UK time, and it will remain available for 72 hours.

Scorn is billed as a game "where even changing weapons makes you feel a bit sick" and looking at its new trailer below, that sounds pretty accurate.

UPDATE: An Atlus rep has told Eurogamer the company is looking into getting Dragon's Crown back on PSN, but doesn't have any kind of timeline yet.

XCOM 2's third DLC expansion, Shen's Last Gift, just had a surprise launch tonight.

Editor's note: To mark the announcement of the BioShock Collection - okay, the confirmation of the BioShock Collection after more leaks than even the tattiest corner of Rapture - we're returning to Richard Cobbett's brilliant retrospective on BioShock 2, first published in April 2013.

Mobile game Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is out now on the App Store and Google Play.

Back in March, we reported on 3DNes - a new NES emulator that can display retro games in 3D.

CSR Racing 2, the sequel to the phenomenally successful mobile racer, is out on iOS and Android devices today.

Twitch has launched a new Social Eating category, and invited streamers to share their breakfasts, lunches and dinners in front of the camera.

UPDATE 30th June 2016: The Figueroa Hotel has noticed its mistake and replaced the screenshot of Grand Theft Auto 5 LA with an actual picture of LA.