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Codemasters has picked up Evolution Studios - and in the process turned the once PlayStation-exclusive developer multiplatform.

Bang! I'm woken up from a deep sleep in the middle of my first night at Witcher School by the sound of explosions in the castle courtyard below. Witcher masters yell as they stamp up the stairs and open the heavy wooden doors to our dormitory tower to wake us. I find my uniform - rough tanned trousers and shirt, padded brown gambeson fastened over the top - and throw it on. It is freezing.

A Texan manufacturer has come under fire for making a Nintendo Entertainment System-themed handgun.

Gears of War 4 has a release date - 11th October - and now it has a teaser trailer that sets the scene.

Ports from Xbox One to PC are rapidly moving forward as Microsoft aims to converge the two platforms into one. Cross-system play, transferable save data and a unified online player base are the key highlights in this approach. Killer Instinct seems like a natural fit for this system, and for the most part the translation over to PC has gone fairly smoothly, though not without a few minor issues. UWP troubles still crop up with download errors and occasional crashes during gameplay, but thankfully not to the extent that we saw with Gears of War Ultimate Edition.

Sadly absent on Nintendo's last console, the high-achieving Platinum Games revives a much-loved franchise on Wii U this month. After many delays to get its controls just right, Star Fox Zero makes smart use of the GamePad's oft-neglected second display and gyro controls, now letting us move and shoot in different directions. As integral as it may be to piloting the Arwing, it's clear this dual-screen dynamic demands a lot from the Wii U - but how does the final experience stack up overall?

So what do we know about the rumoured PlayStation 4.5? In the wake of last week's post-GDC outing of the hardware by Kotaku, we have independently established that it's real and that Sony's R&D labs have prototype devices, and we also have more than one source referring to it as PlayStation 4K, the name we'll be using for now. And this is where things become slightly strange - because while more GPU power is being offered to developers, realistically it is nowhere near enough to provide native 4K gaming at the same quality level as current 1080p titles. The full extent of the spec is a current focus of enquiry for us, but realistically, it is simply impossible to cram the equivalent of today's top-end PC graphics hardware into a console-sized, mass-market box.

Greetings, Eurogamers, and welcome to another weekly dispatch from Outside Xbox. Here are another three videos guaranteed to give you a warm, fuzzy sense of satisfaction when you get to the end of them.

There's a common joke made about Monopoly that it destroys lives. The massively popular love-letter to capitalist greed has become notorious for its ability to ruin friendships, end relationships, and shatter family-ties like brittle glass. Whether Monopoly truly is a cardboard home-wrecker is up for debate, but what is certain is that, whatever damage Monopoly does or doesn't do, when the game is over and the emotional smoke has cleared, the board and pieces go back into the box unchanged.

Dark Souls 2 is a strange game, though its weirdness emanates from just how conventional it is - especially given it's part of a series known for forging new boundaries. Over a year ago I wrote about revisiting Demon's Souls and being delighted to find it the freshest, riskiest and most experimental title in From's recent action-RPG line-up. Dark Souls, despite technically being set in a different universe, superficially does the whole sequel thing - it adds more levels, more monsters, more spells, and more varied environments to an already winning template, but joined the dots in one glorious interconnected world.

Hello! I'm writing this post to you from one of the chilly tunnels of Tobacco Dock, home to EGX Rezzed. I'm mostly being propped up by coffee at this point, but it's been a lovely weekend.

Hello from hip East London! It's the third day of EGX Rezzed and the second day of developer sessions - but if you can't make it to the show, you can watch all the sessions live on YouTube in the embeds below.

Happy final EGX Rezzed day! It's been a good time so far, the warrens of the Tobacco Dock playing host to so many fascinating games. We've come up with a quickfire list of our own highlights, games we've discovered or become reacquainted with old favourites (hello Gang Beasts, once again), and if you're looking for somewhere to head first thing this morning you might want to check some of these out. Our best advice, though? Go somewhere you haven't been before and discover something entirely new for yourself. It's a big part of what makes this show feel special.

H.G. Wells left quite a mark. He destroyed civilisation half a dozen times. He infested Woking with Martians. He took us to the end of time and back again. He pretty much co-founded science fiction as a genre. That stuff is well-known, but I hadn't been aware that he also invented the 4X strategy game. Here he is describing its exploration phase.

One of the big strengths of Oculus Rift is its plug-and-play simplicity. Put the camera sensor on the desk, plug in the cables and one simple calibration later you're good to go. There's a certain level of simplicity to it, tempered only by the nagging feeling that the product's feature-set just isn't complete. HTC Vive is the hardcore enthusiast's choice. It's not so easy to set up - you'll be drilling holes in the walls to get the base station mounting brackets into optimal position - and there are cables to content with. Lots of cables. Oh and three power supplies. And a breakout box.

It's day three of Rezzed in East London - our parent company Gamer Network's friendly and indie-focused game show, little sister to September's big, bad (in a good way) EGX. Just like EGX, we host and stream developer sessions live at the show, this time with a little help from our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun.

Don't Starve Together will ascend out of Steam Early Access on 21st April.

Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter may have been replaced by Kiefer Sutherland, but the classic Metal Gear Solid actor is sure getting a lot of mileage out of the role as he just reprised his most well known character in a Ford commercial.

Civilization 4 lead designer Soren Johnson's upcoming economic real-time strategy game Offworld Trading Company is leaving Steam Early Access on 28th April.

Both of Alan Wake's DLC expansions are currently free on the Xbox Marketplace.

Dark Souls is getting an official board game courtesy of Steamforged Games.

Dark Souls publisher Bandai Namco has launched a clothing line promoting From Software's action-RPG series. However, it looks like this:

Nosgoth, the competitive multiplayer Legacy of Kain spin-off, has been cancelled.

There was a Beavis and Butt-Head arcade game prototype that never turned into a finished product. That arcade game has not only been uncovered, it's been restored.

Movie studios talked about the 'high concept' or the 'elevator pitch'; the ability to condense the plot or premise of a film to a two-minute sell, a breathless paragraph, a single tag line and image that will lodge in the audience's mind. If you're making a video game in 2016, sometimes you need to go one further. If you're trying to stand out on Steam amid dozens of new releases every day, and you don't necessarily have a Hollywood marketing budget to get your point across, you need to sell a game with its title alone. (As someone who runs a website in the social media age, I have some sympathy with this.)

The Unreal Engine 4 reboot of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, known as Apeiron, sounds too good to be true. BioWare's treasured 2003 role-playing game brought not only up to date visually but also mechanically, with new content on top. Yet there are pictures and videos of Apeiron and it looks great.

A modder has fused a Raspberry Pi with the Game Boy for super cool results.

With the rather memorable Ocarina of Time episode of Late to the Party, Chris Bratt proved that he's not all that comfortable when it comes to older game control schemes. Being the sadistic sort, I decided to introduce him to Silent Hill 2, which, long story short, he didn't get on with. Honestly, I've never seen him so mad.

Hello, we're at EGX Rezzed today. Are you there too? Either way, you can watch a live version of Eurogamer's once-every-other-weekly podcast at 5PM BST today.

When No Man's Sky was unveiled in 2013, one of the many things about it that caught the eye was its music. Now, the people behind the ambitious space game's soundtrack have announced it'll go on sale alongside the game this summer.