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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.

Those who pledge £100 or more to the Fable Fortune Kickstarter can play an early version of the game from tomorrow.

An image has appeared online that reveals Injustice 2.

The very best Final Fantasy game ever made - and if you think otherwise I will fight you - is getting an HD remaster, with Final Fantasy 12 coming to PlayStation 4 in 2017.

First off, the bad news: Yooka-Laylee will no longer launch this year. Instead of an October release, British developer Playtonic has rescheduled its love letter to classic Rare platformers for arrival in Q1 2017 - in other words, sometime between the beginning of January and the end of March.

Killzone developer Guerrilla Games' upcoming PS4-exclusive robot dinosaur-hunting game Horizon Zero Dawn will launch on 3rd March in the UK.

XCOM 2 comes out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 9th September.

Fallout 4's user created mods at last arrive on console - a feature rarely seen outside of PC's domain, and something of an experiment with its Xbox One debut this month. Over 800 mods are up for grabs, ranging from graphical tweaks, new sound effects, and even brand new missions - and PS4 owners are expected to receive a similar update later this month. A surprising amount of content makes the jump from PC to Xbox One too, but just how impactful are they on the game's visuals and performance?

A PlayStation 4 and Xbox One remaster of The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is rumoured to be announced at Bethesda's E3 conference this Sunday, 12th June. We'll be reporting from it live; check our E3 2016 guide for conference timings.

Nintendo's eShop first opened its digital doors five years ago this week and, to celebrate, the big N will hold a big sale.

UPDATE 7th June 2016: Bethesda has told Fallout 4 mod creators who believe their work has been stolen to file a Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown request.

There's a way of exploiting The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to earn lots and lots of money, and it involves rolling a beehive into town and then having the bees sting and kill a dwarf, obviously.

The trick to Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories is that they aren't, strictly speaking, "Sherlock Holmes stories", but stories about Sherlock Holmes, written by the esteemed Dr John Watson. Baker Street's most eminent physician might exist in a state of hapless befuddlement but without his disarming narration, these tales of mystery and conspiracy wouldn't be nearly as affecting. Holmes may do the actual detecting, but it's Watson who, as both spectator and accomplice, builds suspense throughout the case, mirrors the reader's awe at each masterstroke of deduction, and creates sympathy for the chilly, obsessive, self-destructive personality at the story's core.

The Definitive Edition of Dead Island gives the game a dramatic graphical upgrade over the 2011 original, with new effects and reworked assets providing almost a generational leap in quality. However, the switch to a new engine and use of more advanced rendering technology results in frame-rates capped at 30fps on consoles, whereas the original game is easy to run at 60fps on PC using low end GPUs and old processors. The increase in visual quality certainly transforms the look of the zombie-ravaged paradise, though the 30fps limit means that we're not seeing the game running at its best.

Persona 5 finally has a release date for the west - though unfortunately it's not arriving in the US until February 2017, some nine years after Persona 4, two years after Atlus' RPG sequel was first expected on PS4, and five months after its Japanese release. Still, it's definitely coming out (in the US at least - we're awaiting details on a European release while remaining grateful there's no region locking on the PS4).

It must have been a strange Blizzcon for the Overwatch team this year. On one hand, they'd just launched their closed beta and people seemed to be having a brilliant time with it. They had some big reveals planned for the show itself, in the form of three new heroes and the news that the game would indeed be coming to consoles. But that, really, wasn't what the community wanted to talk about.

It looks like Microsoft will unveil two undead-themed sequels at E3 this year: Dead Rising 4 and State of Decay 2.

The flood of Final Fantasy games shows no sign of slowing: Square Enix has announced a 28th October 2016 release date for World of Final Fantasy.

FIFA 17 is being built with the Frostbite game engine, EA has said.

UPDATE 2/5/15 2.30pm: Yooka-Laylee has surpassed £1m in funding in less than 24 hours.

Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before. Mirror's Edge Catalyst is a game of high ambition that is capable of awe-inspiring moments, and one that's all too often undone by a series of suspect design decisions and some truly atrocious combat. It's almost as if, in returning to the much-loved but flawed 2008 original, developer DICE chose to stick a little too closely to an original recipe that called for two parts awesome washed out by two parts awful, introducing some new, even bigger problems all of its own in this troubled open world reboot.

Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson is leaving Blizzard Entertainment after a decade with the company.

Hitman's third Elusive Target - the kind that only appear for a limited time and you can only attempt once - premieres on Wednesday, 8th June at 2pm UK time.

Videogame Nation - the only video game show currently on British TV - has been cancelled.

The Witcher 3 is a fantastic-looking game - but modders are making it look even better.

Microsoft's next major Xbox One update further blurs the lines between the console and Windows 10, and revamps the platform's store with Top Free and Top Paid categories.

EGX, the UK's largest games show, has partnered with Amazon, a retailer you may have heard of, for this year's show at the Birmingham NEC.