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EA has officially announced the next Battlefield game as the World War 1-based Battlefield 1.

UPDATE 06/05/2016 9.10pm: EA has officially announced the next Battlefield game as the World War 1-based Battlefield 1.

Battleborn's in for a rough ride, and it has nothing to do with Gearbox's rapid decline in public approval. No, unfortunately for this curious and ambitious hybrid of bombastic FPS and tactically astute MOBA, it has a little game called Overwatch gatecrashing every party it tries to throw. Battleborn beta time? Here's Overwatch. Battleborn release day? Try the Overwatch open beta. Capitalism isn't pretty, even when it's masquerading as interactive Saturday morning cartoons.

Microsoft's incessant notifications telling you to upgrade to Windows 10 will soon be a thing of the past.

West Ham has signed an official esports player - making it the first team in the Premiership to do so.

The action roguelike has quickly become among my favourite video game genres. It started with Mossmouth's delectable action platformer Spelunky and has quickly expanded into other polished procedurally-generated adventures like The Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, Downwell, Enter the Gungeon, and Galak-Z. There's something simultaneously bite-sized and epic about growing from a scrappy wayfarer to a veteran hero with a Gandalfian bag of tricks up your sleeve.

Alright folks, buckle in. It's time for some serious games journalism, courtesy of eurogamer dot net.

Battlefield 5 will be unveiled tonight at 9pm UK time, via a trailer posted online.

UPDATE 6TH MAY: There won't be any major changes to Overwatch from open beta to launch. "The version you are playing now is what will go live at launch," wrote game director Jeff Kaplan on the game's official forum. The open beta is live now (try it if you haven't) and runs until Monday, 9th May. The full game launches 24th May - argh, what a wait!

Quantum Break was left in a bit of state at the PC version's launch, but this week we have update 1.7 - a whopping 27GB patch - to potentially address its issues. Ranging from stuttering frame-rates owing to a 50fps cap on 60Hz displays, a 30fps mode with severe frame-pacing issues, and also driver crashes on Nvidia cards - it all left a bad taste in the mouths of those who'd spent so much on the game at launch. The good news is that with Remedy's latest patch things are looking brighter, and while there are still some major issues, it is indeed possible to play the game at a straight 1080p60.

Last night, Activision Blizzard posted its quarterly financial results and - no surprise, really - it is doing just fine.

UPDATE 06/05/2016 12.08am: Activision has responded to the criticism over its Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare trailer.

I'll begin with this, so as to establish my position. I am a terrible capitalist.

Killer 7 and No More Heroes director Suda 51's first game at the studio he founded, Grasshopper Manufacture, was a little known PlayStation One visual novel called The Silver Case. Never released outside of Japan, it's only now, 17 years later, getting a western release with an all new remake set to arrive this autumn on PC via Steam, Playism and other online markets.

For nearly a year Windows 10 has been a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and up, but that promotion is coming to an end on 29th July.

Publisher Devolver Digital is offering huge discounts on its various titles this weekend on Steam with several games being up to 90 per cent off.

Persona 5 will launch in Japan on 15th September for PS4 and PS3.

Trine developer Frozenbyte will launch its upcoming stealth adventure Shadwen on 17th May for PS4, PC, Mac and Linux.

There's a new Uncharted mobile game where you can unlock exclusive rewards for your Uncharted 4 multiplayer profile.

Alien Hunters, the second DLC pack for XCOM 2, will be available from 12th May.

Total War: Warhammer will launch with official modding tools and Steam Workshop support, as well as a number of mods which are being prepared for day one.

I was reflecting the other day on the fact that leadership is hard. This wasn't, thankfully, because anybody had put me in charge of anything. I had simply glanced at my phone screen during an idle moment to see two crowns glancing back at me from different app icons, and I realised that neither app made me feel particularly kingly. The apps are Reigns, a sort of monarchy simulator that is also, almost inevitably, a sort of monarchy satire, and Clash Royale, a top-down CCG, tower defence thing that is so astonishingly popular on mobile that a bunch of lesser apps have sprung up around it like eager courtiers. Both of these games, I think, are saying that leadership is hard.

Nintendo will host a day-long live-stream of The Legend of Zelda for Wii U at E3 this year.

Dark Souls 3 players who have reached the game's second half will no doubt remember Pontiff Sulyvahn, the dual-wielding cleric with an obnoxious habit of duplicating himself. But there's a way to slaughter this sadistic boss in only one hit, though it requires a witch's brew of buffs.

The upcoming Shadow of the Beast remake will include an emulated version of the 1989 original Amiga adventure.

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth's Afterbirth DLC is coming to PS4 on 10th May.

Titanfall developer Respawn is making a third-person Star Wars game.

UPDATE 4th May 2016: Survival Mode comes to the console versions of Fallout 4 this Friday, 6th May.

Here's our best look yet at upcoming Fallout 4 expansion Far Harbor, which will arrive later this month on 19th May for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens' top talent have recorded new dialogue for the film's Lego game adaptation.