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God of War 4 has a Norse mythology setting and series star Kratos wears a beard, according to a huge leak of assets.

Steam success Stardew Valley has been updated with further improvements for your married life.

Role-playing games changed forever when Ultima Underworld launched in 1992. Here was a first-person adventure set in a fully 3D simulated world - an experience like possibly no other before. Skyrim takes all the glory today but The Elder Scrolls series was still two years from appearing on shelves back then. And it's not just Bethesda's games that were inspired by Underworld: prolific and celebrated designers such as Ken Levine, Warren Spector and Richard Garriott all highly regard it - and the man in charge of Underworld, Paul Neurath, worked with most of them. Now all of a sudden he's back - and so is Underworld.

Underworld Ascendant has revealed a new look designed to replicate the feel of playing with tabletop miniatures.

The Last of Us and Uncharted's film adaptations are both stuck in development hell.

UPDATE 11.16pm 4th April 2016: As predicted, the ad in question has now been removed from Donald Trump's Twitter account due to a copyright strike.

Earlier this month head of Xbox Phil Spencer suggested that Microsoft would release upgraded versions of the Xbox One throughout its lifecycle. This was oft interpreted to mean Microsoft was brewing up an "Xbox One and a half", the way Nintendo did with New 3DS or Sony is allegedly doing with the unannounced PS4k. But now it looks like Spencer's statement may have been more hypothetical than literal as he's now saying he doesn't like the idea of a slightly more powerful 8th generation Xbox.

Those who subscribe to EA Access - the Xbox One service granting access to several EA games for £3.99 a month - will now be able to play Dead Space.

April's Games with Gold - i.e. free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers - has one of the service's best offering's yet.

A couple of hardcore Zelda fans have created a browser-based remake of the original Legend of Zelda with voxels as a way of celebrating its 30th anniversary.

Back in 2014 retro hardware boutique manufacturer, Analogue Interactive announced a $499 1080p variant of the NES called the Analogue Nt. Before that it manufactured a £400 / $649 wooden SNK Neo Geo CMVS. Now it's releasing its priciest, most ostentatious offering yet with the $4999 24k gold-plated Analogue Nt. Bless 'em.

UPDATE 02/02/2016 6.33pm: Square Enix Europe has offered the following translated tweets from the Final Fantasy 15 director Hajime Tabata, wherein he says that scalpers "will be dealt with severely".

New Dark Souls 3 speedruns have emerged shattering the previous record.

Rhythm-based tower-defense game Loud on Planet X is due on 19th April for PS4 and Steam.

Team Ninja's upcoming PS4-exclusive hack-and-slash affair Nioh will be getting an alpha demo later this month.

Well, this is new. We're crouched in one of the rustling pockets of tall grass that's flecked across the plains of Madagascar, pushing Nathan Drake slowly towards a tower that's riddled with enemies - snipers near the top send out laser sights that probe all that parched greenery. From afar, Drake's able to mark out each enemy - get too close and a tasteful indictor above a soldier's head begins to quickly fill (in an inadvertent bit of cross-brand synergy, it looks like the floating obelisk from the cover of No Man's Sky), letting us know whether Drake's about to be spotted or not.

The fifth main Star Ocean game - the one with the bizarre subtitle Integrity and Faithlessness - will come to European PlayStation 4s 1st July 2016, Square Enix has announced.

There have been hiccups processing some orders for virtual reality headsets Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

Pseudo-British Overwatch hero, Tracer will be playable in Heroes of the Storm a whole two weeks prior to the launch of Overwatch's open beta.

Six years ago, Helsinki-based independent Remedy Entertainment came in for criticism that, with the long-awaited Alan Wake, it sometimes seemed more interested in making a film than it did a video game. Its follow-up feels like a typically Finnish stroke of dour, deadpan humour: with Xbox One and Windows exclusive Quantum Break, it's gone in wholeheartedly and made a full live-action movie.

Popular PC sandbox role-playing game Starbound is finally close to leaving Steam Early Access and launching as a full release.

After a decade of on-and-off development, the end is in sight for Final Fantasy 15. Across multiple setbacks, changes in production personnel, and one name change, Square Enix now lays down the gauntlet with a firm September 30th launch date, and a brand new 'Platinum' demo for public perusal. This surreal 20-minute taster is entirely separate to the main game, but handily guides us through the technology of the final product - with the Luminous Studio engine in its latest form - where change is afoot on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

We've seen plenty of Overwatch on the PC - thanks to the ongoing beta - but Blizzard's class-based shooter is also set to launch on both the PS4 and Xbox One in just under two months. So how exactly do those console versions compare?

Overwatch's second animated short is all about Widowmaker, the game's cold-hearted assassin lady. She's french and well into spiders.

Destiny's long-term exclusive content deal with PlayStation isn't just limited to big expansions - the game's April update has stuff just for Sony fans too.

The free Mediah Expansion has landed for Black Desert Online. It's a 2GB download and contains a significant amount of new content. Simultaneously the game's Korean developer, Pearl Abyss, held a press conference and detailed future plans for the game.

So I'm not sure if any of you have noticed, but Blizzard is pretty okay at this cinematic business. You know, I think they should probably make a movie or something.

PlayStation 4 fan Peter Byrne, who has cerebral palsy, has received a specially-made controller to help him play.

Gearbox's Aliens: Colonial Marines wasn't great. Now, a modder has fixed it.

Harassment, hoaxes, mob justice, public shaming, doxing, citizen journalism, disinformation, snuff, celebrity breakdowns, racist chat-bots, joke plagiarism and an endless stream of delectable cat gifs. The effects of the rise of social media on humanity are myriad, varied and - let's give them the benefit of the doubt - unforeseen by the creators of these ubiquitous platforms. What a time for Nintendo to launch its own variant, when the company's American office is embroiled in a publicity storm that is playing out, principally, on Twitter.