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Konami has made a Welsh language cover of PES's Euro 2016 game because Wales is in the game and these days they're pretty good.

The Mirror's Edge Catalyst closed beta is finally out and the lucky few who managed to snag a code will soon be parkouring their way around the City of Glass; avoiding bad guys, bullets and really, really long drops.

ORIGINAL STORY 21/4/16: Rocket League's new basketball-themed mode will arrive next Tuesday on 26th April.

Five years after the great PlayStation Network hack of April 2011 - the one that saw more than 70m accounts compromised - Sony has announced plans to add two-step verification to the service.

Is VR the future? A tired old question, perhaps, but when you browse the Vive games available on Steam at the moment, VR certainly looks an awful lot like the present. You know: the glitchy, lovably half-baked present of any infant technology, in which people are chucking everything out there to see if there are glimmers of promise lurking within the fragments, in which people don't necessarily know what they've even made until they've seen all the ways that it doesn't quite work.

Lego's top-selling Minecraft range will get a big new addition in June with the arrival of an enormous £169.99 set named The Village.

With development on Planet Coaster trundling along quite nicely, anticipation for Frontier's return to the theme park genre continues to grow; especially since its main competitor, Roller Coaster Tycoon World seems to be having some serious teething problems.

Nintendo smartphone app Miitomo will next week host an array of costume items themed around Wii U paint-shooting success Splatoon.

You'll soon be able to legitimately mod Sega Mega Drive classics via Steam, the former platform has announced.

After days of exploits, The Division's raid-like Incursion activity may now have to be completed properly - Ubisoft has implemented a patch which changes how you kill the Incursion's final boss.

The MOBA craze has transitioned to first person shooters, with two titles throwing up open beta tests within weeks of each other. Blizzard's Overwatch put in a solid 60fps appearance, but Battleborn takes a slightly different approach. Borderlands developer Gearbox caps performance at 30fps, with obvious implications for the gameplay in a high-speed shooter where controls need to be sharp and precise. As expected, the experience doesn't feel quite as tight as Blizzard's offering, but Battleborn has charms of its own.

UPDATE 20/4/16 18:51: id Software's Tiago Sousa got in contact to confirm that both versions of Doom actually utilise dynamic resolution scaling, rendering at up to 1080p. Sousa also reveals that the temporal anti-aliasing component uses an impressive 8x sampling and is tied in directly to the dynamic scaler, "so transitions are relatively hard to spot".

A high-profile Smite streamer has left developer Hi-Rez Studios after making controversial comments about suicide while playing the game.

10 years and five months after its original launch, Microsoft has discontinued production of the Xbox 360.

In the 19 years since Star Fox 64 there have been a handful of new entries in the series, but full-on sequels? Not so much. Rare's Star Fox Adventures was a famously wayward appropriation of the universe, Q-Games' Command a noble and enjoyable experiment that put the series back on rails but shot a little past its station while Namco's Assault found itself grounded by miserable third-person shooter sections. Star Fox Zero, a new outing that has blossomed from a small sketch by Shigeru Miyamoto that was intended to reassert the possibilities of the Wii U's eccentric GamePad, sees developer Platinum Games sticking much closer to the original script.

UPDATE 20/04/2016 2.30pm: After a month of console exclusivity on Xbox One, Shadow Complex Remastered will launch for PlayStation 4 on 3rd May.

3DS shooter spin-off Metroid Prime: Federation Force will launch for 3DS in Europe on 2nd September, Nintendo has announced.

If you go to the Frozen Synapse website, it proudly proclaims that it is the ultimate tactical game, which is a pretty bold claim. It's also an erroneous one; with Frozen Synapse 2 on the way, that would technically make Frozen Synapse the penultimate strategy game.

Ubisoft is coming under increasing pressure from The Division players who have called on the company to tackle the game's growing list of exploits.

A keen-eyed observer might have noticed a few new icons pop up in their PES 2016 menu a few weeks back. The game's latest patch, weighing in at a hefty 3.9GB, brought with it a raft of Euro 2016 content - but Konami's been pretty quiet about the release. It's hard to imagine a more underwhelming launch for the official licensed game of an international football tournament.

Random battles in Japanese role-playing games can get really tedious, but in today's Steam release of old game Final Fantasy 9 you can turn them off! Yes that's right: turn them off!

Life-falling-apart sim Always Sometimes Monsters is getting a sequel with the confusingly titled Sometimes Always Monsters.

Moody noir adventure game Blues and Bullets will bring its first episode to PS4 on 20th April.

The Walking Dead: Michonne, Telltale's standalone spin-off of Robert Kirkman's zombie apocalypse series, will launch its final episode, What We Deserve, on 26th April for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Mac, along with iOS and Android devices.

UPDATE 19/04/2016 5.56pm Zen Studios has released a trailer showing how its Alien: Isolation table looks in action.

UPDATE 19th April 2016 9.15am: Batman: Return to Arkham now has a PEGI listing.

Bastion and Transistor developer Supergiant has announced a party-based RPG called Pyre. It looks a little something like this:

Overwatch's closed beta is coming to an end on 25th April at approximately 6pm UK time.

I love Play of the Game in Overwatch, that clip of someone doing something extraordinary during the battle you just had. I love the nervous little wait before you find out whose play has been picked. Will it be yours? Some games you know it won't because you had a stinker, but in other games - sometimes the stars align and enemies clump together like cat litter as your finger reaches for your ultimate ability. You think it's enough but has someone gone one better? Then there it is! There you are! The chosen one! Name in lights. Validation and recognition all in one smug lump.

UPDATE 19th April 2016: Capcom's just released the first trailer for downloadable Street Fighter 5 character Guile.