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The new Mass Effect ride, in California's Great America park, is open for business.

When a game partners with a console you don't own, does that put you off the game?

When Doom's multiplayer launched in open beta form, it suffered at the hands on Steam user reviews.

Blizzard has pledged to investigate a pilot programme that will crack down on abuse in Twitch's live chat.

EA's giving away Battlefield 4 DLC for free.

Xbox Live Gold subscribers get free entry to EA Access from 12th-22nd June.

EA's development chief initially rejected the World War 1 setting for the next Battlefield because he thought it wouldn't be fun.

UPDATE 3.55pm: Details and video of The Elder Scrolls Travels: Oblivion have only been online a short while but Bethesda parent company Zenimax has already lawyered up and pulled down the footage.

EA decided there would be no campaign in Star Wars Battlefront to make sure it could be released at the same time as Episode 7: The Force Awakens.

Created by small development team of seven people over a three year period, there are immediate parallels between the new Shadow of the Beast remake on PS4 and the Amiga original released in 1989 - both games were produced by modest studios looking to take advantage of the latest visual technology available, while showcasing their creative spark.

Valkyria Chronicles has found its way to PS4 this week via a remaster of the 2008 original. Digital Foundry will be along to assess the merits of the new version shortly, but before then here's Paul Dean on what makes Sega's strategy game so special, in a piece originally published in 2012.

Roughly two-thirds of the upcoming Assassin's Creed movie will be set in modern times.

UPDATE 17/05/2016 10.13pm: CEO of Japanese video game consultancy firm Kantan Games, Serkan Toto, believes that Resident Evil 7 is in development and that it will return to the series' "horror roots".

When Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima started his new Kojima Productions studio after leaving Konami late last year, he released a logo of a skull in a what looked like a mix between a knight's helm and an astronaut's helmet.

Ska Studios (The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Charlie Murder) has released its 2D Dark Souls-like Salt and Sanctuary on Steam today.

The previously rumoured Tetris movie is in the works and it's estimated to cost $80m with the plan being for it to be the first film in a trilogy.

Electronic Arts has announced that it has signed a new deal to make another project with Unravel developer Coldwood Interactive.

The Division's second of two free content updates, Conflict, will arrive on 24th May for PS4, Xbox One and PC and developer Ubisoft has outlined exactly what it entails.

UPDATE 17/05/2016 5pm: James Brady's Silent Hill stage is now available to download. Here's a link.

Paradox always has big plans for its grand strategy games in the months and years following their release. Take the excellent Crusader Kings 2, for example, which received its latest major expansion in February, almost two years after launch.

Five more 3DS games are joining the Nintendo Selects range next month, including The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.

Revolutions are precarious things. They're frequently characterised by an intoxicating underdog narrative; one which charts the glorious rise of the oppressed masses to topple their cruel overseers. By the same token, however, that surge of momentum can be a very dangerous thing - one that causes people to lose track of their moral compass. Many terrible things have been done in the name of revolution, something that Homefront: The Revolution proves all too well - whether by design or otherwise.

Sony will hold its annual E3 press conference at 6pm Pacific on Monday 13th June.

Few video games have been as well served by their box art as the Commodore Amiga's Shadow of the Beast. Roger Dean's airbrushed panorama is both prehistoric and futuristic. It shows a thicket of rangy trees, each one blasted with red leaves, while, in the middle distance, two gleaming Jurassic contraptions pass one another, oblivious of us onlookers. The game's title, rendered in a scythe-like font, completes the alien, prog-rock aesthetic (Dean also drew covers for albums by Yes and Asia).

Last month, we learned of a cool Easter egg in Homefront: The Revolution. Now, we can show it in action.

Microsoft will be making nearly 1m expired Xbox Live Gamertags available again as of Wednesday, 18th May.

UPDATE 16/05/2016 10pm: The Dark Souls board game Kickstarter campaign has ended with a final tally of $5,342,789.

A Dark Souls 3 fan has made a mod that lets you play From Software's latest action-RPG from a first-person perspective.

In the UK, politicians, film stars and CEOs are currently under the spotlight for squirrelling away cash in an attempt to avoid tax.

Flying Wild Hog's 2013 remake of 3D Realms' campy 1997 first-person shooter Shadow Warrior was so successful that the Polish developer has more than tripled in size in the last three years. This swift evolution from a niche team of around 30 to a triple-A developer roughly 100 strong is clear upon spending even a few minutes with its impending sequel, Shadow Warrior 2.