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The Overwatch launch appears to have been a phenomenal success. With more than seven million players having registered since launch, across three different platforms, Blizzard's first multiplayer shooter is already one of the largest in the world. But for this game to truly achieve its ambitions, it's going to need to hold on to that playerbase in the months and years to come. Blizzard has reached its payload, but there's a ways to go yet.

One of the most exciting powers of VR is the power to make developers see things afresh. Edge of Nowhere is hardly an enormously experimental title - Insomniac's first Oculus outing is a traditional action-horror game about an expedition to the South Pole that goes terribly awry - but I'm not sure the team would have handled the cut-scenes, say, in quite the same manner if they weren't counting on tech that put players right inside the moment. In third-person VR, the player is a camera, and that often means that you feel like an un-named lurker within the game, viewing proceedings from a physical vantage point. Edge of Nowhere opens with something very bad happening in a jungle, yet Insomniac chooses to place you behind a clump of bushes for much of the action. In VR, this strange conceit works beautifully, as it creates a real tension. Something ghastly is unfolding, but the view is blocked. Or is it?

Valve has released a new piece of software. No, it's not Half-Life 3. Sorry. But it is a tool that allows folks to create VR environments.

Bungie formally unveiled this year's big Destiny expansion, Rise of Iron, this evening. It costs £24.99 and launches on 20th September.

Ubisoft has shifted its policy towards cheating in The Division and will now issue permanent bans to anyone caught cheating, even if it's a first offense.

Bungie will officially announce its new Destiny expansion Rise of Iron tonight during a livestream at 6pm UK time, but its trailer has now leaked.

Three new PlayStation VR games have been announced.

Tada! There's a new HTC Vive Business Edition and it's more expensive but no different.

Street Fighter 5's new story mode, due out at the end of June as part of a free update, lets you play as all six DLC characters, Capcom has said.

This whole Nostalrius business has been remarkable. Who would have thought a team behind a private/pirate World of Warcraft server - depending on how you look at it - would one day be invited to Blizzard for a meeting that included Mike Morhaime (CEO), J. Allen Brack (WOW executive producer), Tom Chilton (game director), Ion Hazzikostas (assistant game director) and Marco Koegler (technical director)?

UPDATE 2.10pm A whopping 16 new franchises are joining Lego Dimensions for its second year, Warner Bros. has now confirmed.

The Duncan Jones Warcraft movie may be on course to flop in America (where it opens 10th June) but in China it's bigger than Star Wars: The Force Awakens - it's massive! Perhaps we'll see sequels after all.

So, just to clear things up, and flying against Betteridge's law of headlines, the answer is yes. I have played APB Reloaded on Xbox One, and while I can't claim to have tried out everything else on the console I can say with some confidence this is as bad as it gets on Microsoft's machine, for now at least.

Footballing car favourite Rocket League will be free to download and play on Xbox One this weekend.

Doom's campaign was a wonderful surprise, and a progressive and worthy follow-up to a true classic. The multiplayer? Not so much. Sure, it's fun enough, and as Jon Denton said the other day, it features some smart design. But few would argue that Doom's multiplayer holds a candle to its campaign, despite it being a major focus in promotion on the run-up to release.

CD Projekt plans to release Gwent, the card game that's a part of The Witcher 3, as a standalone game.

With the switch to Frostbite 3 for this reboot, Mirror's Edge Catalyst targets a 60fps update over the 30fps of the original's last-gen debut. On sampling the beta a few weeks ago, the upgrade in smoothness and controller response was immediately apparent, where gameplay felt far more refined as a result. However, frame-rates were far from stable, and while PlayStation 4 handed in a decent level of consistency, Xbox One often struggled to hit 60fps for long stretches of play. But DICE prides itself on its optimisation skills, and the good news is that the final game offers a substantial performance improvement over the beta.

Saints Row developer Volition Games has announced a new single-player only open-world action game entitled Agents of Mayhem.

Earlier this year Frozen Synapse developer Mode 7 revealed its first game as a publisher with SMAC Games' isometric action-stealth-platformer Tokyo 42. Now we have a 12-minute video of Mode 7 co-founder Paul Kilduff-Taylor walking us through the game's alpha demo.

Reckless cat simulator Catlateral Damage will arrive on European PS4s this Monday, 13th June.

Destiny's next expansion, Rise of Iron, will leave behind PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 players when it launches this autumn.

Last summer Microsoft announced that the Xbox One would receive a feature this year allowing folks to record live TV for free... if you have an external hard drive attached. Unfortunately, that feature has been put "on hold" indefinitely.

After all the leaks, Watch Dogs 2 is now officially out in the open.

Apple will allow video game developers to offer titles as a subscription service starting this autumn.

Mike Bithelll's stealthy cyberpunk adventure Volume is getting a free PlayStation VR expansion called Coda.

Eidos Montreal's follow-up to 2011's Deus Ex: Human Revolution is to introduce an all-new challenge mode, featuring self-contained levels, leaderboards and booster packs which can be bought via microtransactions.

Max Payne and Quantum Break developer Remedy Entertainment is working on two news games, but neither of them will be related to Alan Wake.

Square Enix Montreal is extending its Go series to the Deus Ex universe, with Deus Ex Go due to hit mobile platforms later this year.

You've probably seen the leaks. Watch Dogs 2 is set in San Francisco and features a new main character. It's also coming this year, on 11th November.

Today Activision announced the return of Call of Duty XP, the big Call of Duty event. It's set to take place 2nd to 4th September in Los Angeles.