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It took me a long time to work out how to deal with doors. And with corridors that had a kink in them. And with the elevator that lets me out on each floor, beckoning me to slaughter with a cheery ding. Bunker Punks looks and moves a lot like Doom, and it turns out that you have to remember what that means: you have to remember the Doom Jitterbug that sees you through, always dancing to the left, to the right, always aware that bullets so slow-moving you can actually back away from them can still do you in real nice.

To understand rally and, by association, Dirt Rally, a British video game that conjures all of the long-form drama and complexity of the sport with unmatched brilliance, you must first disavow yourself of the notion that it's simply a case of reaching the finish line first. That's like saying a war is won merely by defeating the enemy -- a technical truth, but one that implies nothing of the tapestry of skirmishes, manoeuvres and machinations that comprise a final victory. No, to truly understand Dirt Rally, you must understand that this is a challenge broken into ten thousand discrete, interrelated trials, the stakes of which build into a glorious crescendo.

Rocket League launched in the summer of 2015 and seemed to be everywhere at once. If you owned a PlayStation 4 and enjoyed having a nice time, you were likely one of six million players who downloaded the game within its first month on PlayStation Plus. Or perhaps you purchased a PC copy instead, in which case, you actually kept the whole thing afloat, whether you realised it or not. It turns out running a successful online multiplayer game is an expensive process.

Twitch is finally available as a standalone app on PlayStation 4 in the UK.

Spicy Horse, the Shanghai-based studio founded by American McGee, has cut its staff down to a core team.

An EA marketing survey detailing Mass Effect: Andromeda has leaked online.

Ryuichi 'Woshige' Shigeno had been waiting for more than a decade to fight Ken-ichi 'Ogawazato' Ogawa on a tournament stage when he heard that he'd drawn, as he puts it today, the "match of his dreams." When he was 13-years-old, Shigeno played in his first Japanese national video game competition. Since then, he'd risen to become one of the world's top-ranked players of Guilty Gear, Arc System Works' hyperactive, heavy metal-spruced fighting game series. This was to be, nevertheless, a challenging match-up. Ogawa, a part-time chef from Tokyo, is the world number one. As each player sat down to fight for a spot in the finals at EVO 2015, the largest fighting game tournament in the world, held that year at a Paris-themed hotel, complete with miniature Eiffel Tower, in glittering Las Vegas, more than a hundred thousand people logged on to watch the fight.

Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor 2 seems like it's a thing that's happening as the title was leaked via a stuntwoman's curriculum vitae.

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and its sequel, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, will see their remastered editions coming to Xbox One, the developer of the restoration has announced.

Fallout 4's extra hard Survival Mode enters beta today on Steam and Bethesda has provided a full breakdown of everything this new challenge mode changes.

Years after its release, I thought I'd seen everything you could do in SNES classic Super Mario World.

Valve has shut down an exploit which allowed games to be released on Steam without any kind of verification.

Killer Instinct is a fighting game that requires expert timing and split second reactions to succeed online. Oh and sight. You need to see what's going on on your screen to win. Right?

The next Call of Duty will feature a radical departure for the series - it's set in space.

Yesterday Capcom released an update for fighting game Street fighter 5 that paves the way for tomorrow's addition of new character Alex and the opening of the in-game shop.

Nintendo has confirmed the Link's Awakening character playable in Hyrule Warriors: it's Marin.

As expected, Capcom's patched out Chun-Li's ridiculous boob physics from Street Fighter 5.

It's pretty rare that the moment an entire video game genre was conceived can be pinpointed to the second. But David Brevik, lead programmer, designer and co-creator of Diablo, did just that during an anecdote-packed postmortem session at the Game Developers Conference earlier this month.

Blizzard will replace the 'over-the-shoulder' victory pose for Overwatch hero Tracer in response to a fan who complained it "undermines" much of the good work the game has done to promote a roster of diverse, strong female characters.

Sony has floated the possibility of PlayStation VR coming to PC. Masayasu Ito, Sony executive vice president, PlayStation project division manager and software design department head revealed in a Nikkei interview that the firm is looking to expand in a variety of areas.

What if Alan Wake's pulpy main character and shlocky story were a 1980s LucasArts adventure game?

First time out I was a clumsy ritualist, able to conjure gravity wells and teleport dashes without a clue regarding how to really use them. I staggered around the forest as I tried to get my bearings. I picked a bad fight with a blonde wolf and I befriended a cat. I was known to be foolish. I was marked for death in three days. Stumbling towards the inevitable, I met a dancing woman in a cave. I saw another cave that smelled of blood, but I was not brave enough to enter. I died quickly, in a battle at the edge of a burning wood, and I became a constellation.

Two Worlds 3 is officially happening, series developer Reality Pump Studios has announced.

Hideo Kojima surprised many when he announced that he'd recast the voice of Metal Gear Solid protagonist Snake with Kiefer Sutherland in MGS5 after nearly two decades of David Hayter providing the role.

Simogo - developer of Year Walk, Device 6, The Sailor's Dream, and Beat Sneak Bandit - has revealed a cancelled game prototype from its archive.

UPDATE 28/03/2016 7.30pm Telltale has released a new trailer for The Walking Dead: Michonne - Give No Shelter. It looks a lot more action-packed than previous installments in the horror series, though that could just be how it's edited. We'll find out when it launches tomorrow.

The rumoured PlayStation 4.5 - or PS4K as it's been codenamed - will allegedly be revealed before the PlayStation VR's launch in October, according to the Wall Street Journal (via GameSpot).

Other indie games have had far more protracted gestations - The Witness, for one - but there's still been something drawn-out about development of Below, the dungeon-delving adventure with stylish miniaturised graphics from Capybara. First revealed at E3 2013 as an Xbox One exclusive, the game has only just been confirmed for a release - on PC as well - this summer. And though we've had a few intriguing glimpses of it over those three years, we haven't really learned a lot more about it in that time.

Arguably the most appealing aspect of point-and-click adventures is not solving the puzzles themselves - though they're often a joy - but that moment something whirs into life. Where you're tinkering around with a mechanical puzzle and a new animation triggers. Progress! It's a strange genre that way, in which the smallest victory can feel earth-shattering. "You're about to see something new!" these games signal to you the moment you've thought your way out of a rut. And who better to whisk you off to a new realm than Amanita Design, the visually arresting game design and animation studio behind Machinarium and Botanicula?

Hyrule Warriors arrived on Nintendo 3DS this week, around 18 months after its Wii debut - and it's something of a rare breed of title. It's one of the few 3DS titles that exercises the additional power of the New 3DS, which in turn represents something in the way of unfinished business for Digital Foundry. We know that Nintendo's refreshed handheld boasts a significant increase in power compared to the launch model, but just how much more capable is it?