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Quantum Break has arrived on the PC and to suggest that the results are disappointing would be a massive understatement. PC gamers are left out in the cold with another high profile release failing to deliver expected levels of performance, features and customisation. As things stand, it simply isn't possible to achieve a smooth frame-rate on any PC hardware configuration and thanks to the profound limitations imposed on gamers by the Universal Windows Platform, there's no way to fix it.

It's been a month since Microsoft dropped the bombshell it would support cross-network play between Xbox One and other consoles - including, in theory, PlayStation 4. The past few weeks have also seen the console giant finally make good on its suggestion that all retail Xbox One consoles will be able to be used as developer kits

One of Fallout 4's best features has been modded into Fallout: New Vegas - and it makes the game a lot better to play.

Hello from EGX Rezzed, here in London's Tobacco Dock, which last night hosted the BAFTA Game Awards.

HTC has issued an update on Vive shipments and finally addressed the virtual reality headset's messy European launch.

PlayStation 4 users have discovered the console's latest update does more than advertised.

Game designers learn about this power early into their careers. The virtual gun remains the most useful tool in the designer's box; nothing is better suited to giving players the ability to affect objects both near and far, or with such delicious kickback of cause and effect. Click. Bang. Thud. Virtual guns make us feel powerful, both instantaneously and in illicit ways.

The official Dark Souls Twitter account has taken a page from the official Sonic the Hedgehog Twitter account and gone bananas with today's meme de jour.

The little known sci-fi first-person stealth adventure Consortium looks to be getting a sequel as the crowdfunding campaign for a follow-up has already breezed past the halfway point of its $300k Fig goal in only a day.

Earlier this week a couple of hardcore Zelda fans put up a browser-based remake of the original The Legend of Zelda made with voxels to commemorate the series' 30th anniversary. Now that fan tribute has been removed due to Nintendo issuing a copyright strike.

Koei Tecmo's Attack on Titan game now bares the subtitle Wings of Freedom and is slated for a 26th August release in Europe on PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS3 and Vita.

Resident Evil's third-person shooter spin-off Umbrella Corps is now set for a 21st June release on PS4 and PC.

Worms is one of the most instantly recognisable franchises going - not surprising, given it's been around for over 20 years. By the same token, however, it's an easy one to underestimate; if you've played one you've played them all, right?

A new Fear Effect game is set to take to Kickstarter - with Square Enix's blessing.

Creative Assembly's released 18 minutes of new gameplay footage for Total War: Warhammer, which still isn't called Total Warhammer.

One of the most popular collections of pirate World of Warcraft servers, the Nostalrius servers, are being closed. Lawyers acting on behalf of Blizzard sent cease and desist letters to hosting company OVH, ordering the servers be taken down. They will close 10th April 2016 at 23:00 server time.

Street Fighter 5 - in gameplay terms - is a wonderful fighting game. But it launched in a sorry state, missing key single-player-focused modes.

Forced Showdown has the kind of topical genre-blending that should render it a disastrous muddle: a twin-stick shooter that is also a collectible card game? In truth, though, an afternoon's play suggests that the team at BetaDwarf are onto something quite special - and surprisingly easy to get your head around, too.

Halo 5 gets a big new update today.

The Assembly, the interesting first-person interactive story built for virtual reality, comes out on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive this summer. A PlayStation 4 version launches following the release of PlayStation VR later this year.

One hot summer's day as a young teen, I casually sauntered into our local computer shop. Sat in the corner was a PC, running a copy of Wolfenstein 3D. Although I'd seen primitive 3D games before, I'd never seen anything like this, and I got stuck in. I killed Nazis. I opened doors. I reluctantly shot dogs. I'm not sure if it was the heat of the shop, motion sickness from the game or the stomach churning animal cruelty, but after about 20 minutes of play, I became gripped with nausea, and threw up all over the keyboard. Whilst it didn't exactly endear me to the shop's owner (who exclusively referred to me as 'Sick Boy' for every subsequent visit), it certainly made a strong point about the visceral power of the first person point of view. Last night, it almost happened again.

There's a new Overwatch closed beta update and it adds an all new ranked mode.

Yesterday Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear suffered a lot of backlash at launch over the game's numerous bugs and some concerns that its inclusion of a transgender character was overly politically correct. Studio Beamdog's CEO Trent Oster stood up for the company's decision and condemned the online harassment some of its staff has received.

Last month the Metal Gear Solid fan remake, Shadow Moses Project, was unceremoniously shut down, ostensibly due to legal pressure from Konami. But now the folks behind that, the Fan Legacy Team, have started a new MGS-related project with another person spurned by Konami: the original Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter.

War Thunder developer Gaijin Entertainment's upcoming free-to-play car combat game Crossout has entered closed beta.

UPDATE 06/05/2016 5.39pm: Harmonix has responded to Rock Band 4's PC crowdfunding campaign falling very short of its goal. The studio has confirmed that Rock Band 4 PC will likely not happen - at least in the near future - but it was worth the old college try.

UPDATE: Bethesda's provided us with more precise details on timings for Doom's open beta, which runs from 5am BST on April 15th to 4.59am on the 18th (which means the end of the beta falls on the 17th in the US).

Several months after arriving on PC, Dirt Rally comes to PS4 and Xbox One aiming for a 60fps experience and featuring a handling model that goes back to the series' simulation roots. The game's intricate mechanics appear more advanced than ever before, with accessibility replaced by a heavy learning curve that rewards players that really put the hours in. It's a great comeback for a series that seemed to lose its way during the last generation, with perhaps too much emphasis on arcade-like showmanship and gimmicks. But what we really appreciate here is the return to 60Hz-driven gameplay, something that we could only experience on PC during the last-gen era.

Gears of War 4, which I'm still a little miffed isn't just called Gears of 4, has been given a final release date, with The Coalition's continuation of the popular Xbox series coming on October 11th.

Rocket League's Collector's Edition, the physical version of Psyonix' modern-day classic, has finally been dated, with Xbox One and PlayStation 4 getting discs and boxes to place on your shelves on June 24th, with a North American release following on July 5th.