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This is more like it. The Witcher 3's second expansion, Blood & Wine, is a treat - as welcome a return to the adventures of monster hunter Geralt as you could ask for. It's even bigger than we've been led to believe. More than 30 hours of content - not 20 as we've been previously told - in a new region the size of No Man's Land, but at very different ends of the visual spectrum.

Stellaris, the latest massive strategy game from Paradox Interactive, has broken the publisher's record for day one revenue.

CD Projekt Red has officially announced the release date for the second, and final, Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine. It is 31st May, a day later than was rumoured yesterday.

Postal Redux, the remake of 1997's infamous mass murdering game Postal, will arrive for PC via Steam on 20th May.

Ghost Games has announced it's working on a new Need for Speed game that's due for release next year, while it's also winding down work on last year's reboot of EA's long-running racing franchise.

Microsoft has announced upgrades for the Universal Windows Platform, allowing for v-sync control, unlocked frame-rates and G-Sync/FreeSync support. The upgrade is due to roll out today, but there's a small sting in the tail - developers need to revisit their existing UWP games and patch in support.

The Pokémon Company has revealed new details on Pokémon Sun & Moon, the latest instalments in the phenomenally successful RPG series, showing off the starter Pokémon players will be setting out their adventures with and announcing both games are set to release in Europe on November 23rd - some five days after they're out in North America.

In discussing a World of Warcraft: Legion spider mount that costs a whopping 2m gold, assistant game director Ion Hazzikostas gave a glimpse behind the curtain at what it takes to keep millions of players happy.

Well, the wait is finally over. Wise-cracking, jet-setting, henley shirt-wearing mass-murderer Nathan Drake is back in his latest and last adventure, A Thief's End.

Blizzard has extended the Overwatch open beta by a day.

In honour of the Panama Papers leak, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory director Clint Hocking has recorded a Let's Play of what's regarded as the best level in the entire stealth series - the Panamanian Bank.

Last week EA unveiled Battlefield 1, DICE's new first-person shooter, with an explosive new trailer. It takes the series to World War 1, a war that saw the old clash with the new. So, from the muddy, mustard gas filled trenches we'll see sword fights and bayonet charges and horse combat alongside tank battles, swooping biplanes and warships.

Homefront: The Revolution may not be out until next Friday but, thanks to a guy on the inside, I've got my hands on the PC version a bit early. Join me as I play through the first hour of PC gameplay in the Let's Play video below.

Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD Remaster comes out on PC on 12th May, according to the game's Steam store page,

Dark Souls 3 modder googl4 has created a mod that makes From Software's latest action-RPG look an awful lot like Limbo with a completely colourless palette.

Cult animatronic horror series Five Nights at Freddy's is planned for consoles, according to developer Scott Cawthon.

Dead Island: Definitive Edition will include an all new 16-bit beat-'em-up mini-game entitled Dead Island Retro Revenge.

Space is quiet, for a little while. Unlike Paradox's other grand strategy games, Stellaris doesn't tell you everything from the start. You're not ready for that yet. If you're a bit of a space romantic, you might look out at the great expanse and get a sense that something's happening out there in the darkness. It has to be, surely? But right now, your concerns are much smaller than that. Before you can think about colonising distant worlds or subjugating alien races, you first need to understand your own solar system. This takes time, as you send a scientist, aboard their own ship, to scan each of the planets and determine whether there's anything useful to research, or mine. Whilst you're doing that, you might want to think about improving the infrastructure on your home planet, or spending some influence to increase the amount of food being produced. This is how the very early game plays out. You're not a galactic powerhouse, not for the time being. You're a single planet that's just getting to grips with spaceflight.

It's finally happened: Super Mario is (officially) in Minecraft. Minecraft: Wii U Edition, that is.

The second, bigger Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine may be released 30th May.

The Donkey Kong world record high score has changed hands multiple times over the years. But perhaps the to-ing and fro-ing is about to end.

Street Fighter 5 has sold 1.4m copies, Capcom has announced.

You might look at Galak-Z and wonder what needs adding. Here is procedural deep-space dogfighting with roguelike elements, lurid acid-belching foes, gorgeous hand-drawn explosions, and the ability, when things get tough, to transform yourself from a nimble little starfighter and into a giant mech clutching a laser katana. With The Void DLC, though, 17-Bit returns to its Saturday-cartoon universe with a precision retooling in mind. It's come to add an endless mode and, with it, a daily run.

Just how much graphics power do you need to get a great virtual reality experience? Oculus released a series of recommended specs which - by and large - work well on its launch line-up, but the bottom line is that you'll need more power to really get the job done across the whole range of VR titles. If you want sustained performance in Project Cars, the recommended R9 290 and GTX 970 isn't really going to cut it. You're going to need more horsepower, and right now the GTX 980 Ti seems like the best bet.

The next generation of PC graphics technology is finally starting to gear up. There's innovation incoming from all angles, with the arrival of DirectX 12, plus mass production of new graphics cards using cutting-edge architectures paired with state-of-the-art production processes. We've already discussed the possibilities open to Nvidia, coming pretty close in predicting the technical make-up of the final products. Now it's time to turn our focus towards AMD: we know its new Polaris technology is arriving soon, and now we know what form the initial products will take. While Nvidia is aiming for the more affluent, top-end enthusiast with its initial offerings, AMD is targeting the more mainstream user instead.

Eve: Valkyrie drops you into the cockpit of a starship, but when I first loaded it up, it dropped me into the cockpit geometry itself. The Rift I was wearing seemed to think I was a giant, and I was left peering at the majesty of the universe through parts of a control panel. And so, my first act as a hot-shot space pilot was to lower my office chair as I eased myself down into position. It was a little thing - and an error, really - but it felt amazing. I suddenly heard myself giggling. VR is weird. Even the mistakes can give you a memorable experience. I think I love it.

Nvidia has officially revealed the GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070, based on its new Pascal architecture, offering an astonishing leap in performance and power efficiency over its existing 900-series Maxwell cards. According to Nvidia, the GTX 1080 is faster than two GTX 980s in SLI, shipping to users on May 27th at $599. Meanwhile, the GTX 1070 offers Titan X level performance for just over one third of the price - $379 - and is set to launch on June 10th.

Id Software's Doom reboot comes out next Friday, 13th May, and publisher Bethesda Softworks has revealed the PC system specs as well as the exact times you'll be able to start playing.

A couple of days ago, Activision announced that Modern Warfare Remastered would only be available to those who bought the Legacy Editions of Infinite Warfare.

Quit while you're ahead, they say. Nonsense. What if Mo Farah had realised he was in the lead at 9,995 meters, and had a sit down? What if Alan Sugar had been satisfied with the CPC 464, and retired? What if Churchill had received the telegram about Hitler's defeat at Stalingrad, and gone down the Wethers? How different history would have been, most notably due to the absence of the Amstrad email phone.