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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.

UPDATE: Square Enix has clarified exactly what Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue includes.

Not to be outdone by the recently unveiled Gran Turismo Sport, Turn 10 has just announced that Forza Motorsport 6 is making its own move for eSports with a new online championship coming to the Xbox One exclusive game.

The Naughty Dog developer who drew Nathan Drake's journal entries in Uncharted 4 has picked out her 10 favourite spreads.

Doom's Ultra-Nightmare mode is so difficult that nobody at developer id Software was able to complete it. The premise is simple: Take the game's most punishing difficulty setting, Nightmare, then apply permadeath to it. One wrong move and a six-hour play session can be wiped clean in an instant.

The GOG.com summer sale has begun and for the first 48 hours you can get System Shock 2 completely free.

Warner Bros just announced Injustice 2, the next fighting game from the people behind Mortal Kombat. It's due out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2017.

Bright and colourful MMO WildStar should get a big old boost this week when it arrives, two years after launch, on Steam. The game is free-to-play but there will be various bundles available to buy.

Ubisoft has issued a warning to Rainbow Six Siege cheaters and hackers: you'll suffer a permanent ban on first offense.

The new Kick Off game has been delayed a week.

Since its April launch, the sought-after virtual reality headset HTC Vive has encountered shipping delays. But no longer. The official website has been updated to say that if you buy an HTC Vive from there it will ship in two-to-three business days.

When news of Horizon Zero Dawn's new release date broke on Monday, I noticed a couple of people in our comments saying things along the lines of "it looks cool, but I've got no idea what you do apart from killing robot dinosaurs".

Koji Igarashi, the developer behind some of the best-loved entries in the Castlevania series, has given us our best look yet at Bloodstained, the all-new side-scroller that takes its inspiration from classics of the past.

UPDATE 8th June 2016: Another Watch Dogs 2 leak - this time from Twitch.

We all know the big players, the Kojimas, the Miyamotos, the Suda51s; but the magic of video games is about more than just the front men. It's about the details, the microcosm of daily working life, and the less recognisable figures that somehow contributed to the industry at large.