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If you go to the Museo Del Prado in Madrid, you can look at a painting that seems to know you are there. It's called Las Meninas, or The Maids of Honour, and it's the greatest masterpiece produced by Diego Velazquez, a 17th century artist who only really seemed to deal in masterpieces.

Telltale Game's upcoming Batman series will debut this summer, the studio announced at a SXSW panel today.

It's taken just over a week, but someone has already maxed out their character in The Division, hitting the level caps in both the main game and the Dark Zone. Step forward, Chaos 3SK, and know those 130 hours weren't spent in vain.

We've still got a few weeks before Hitman's second Italy-bound chapter drops in April, but IO Interactive has kept good on its word of supplying further content for its already existing stages.

It's been just over a week since The Division's launch, and it's been a successful start for Ubisoft's online RPG so far - week one sales for the game saw it topple Destiny as the biggest new IP launch, with it taking in some $330 million in just five days. With around 50 hours on the clock, I'm still having fun rolling around an abandoned New York, too, mopping up side missions while dipping in and out of the dailies in a slow and steady effort to build a load-out of shiny yellow high-end gear in preparation for the incoming Incursions, The Division's take on MMO raids.

It is a period of civil war. Star Wars followers finally have EA's new Battlefront to play, but other fans still long for something else: the cancelled Battlefront project once in development at British studio Free Radical Design.

Unlike Street Fighter 5, Wii U fighting game Pokkén Tournament punishes rage quitters.

Julian Gollop, the creator of the original XCOM, has announced a new game.

Blizzard has added a new hero to Hearthstone - but you have to play World of Warcraft to unlock her.

Bayonetta is an awesome game, but it didn't come as a shock when Johnny admitted he'd never played it before. I remember being unsure of it myself when it first launched; it looked like a frantic and somewhat pandering mix of gunplay, gore, and a hell of a lot of crotch shots.

Doubtless you've already heard that Microsoft is opening up Xbox Live to cross-network play - leaving it up to developers to decide whether or not they're interested in the idea.

This week Valve launched the Custom Game Pass system for its hugely popular MOBA, Dota 2.

Hyrule Warriors may be 18 months old, but it's still set to get fresh DLC - Nintendo just announced a new Season Pass full of the stuff.

This week, Sony finally revealed details of its upcoming PlayStation VR headset - which will launch in October with the eye-catching price of £349.

Sheltered has turned me into a child slaver. Sort of.. I mean, my children are regularly fed and watered. They get sleep whenever they need it and opportunities to use the restroom, even shower when we've had a proper rain. The only thing I ask of them in this post-apocalyptic survival simulation is that they build furniture, fix utilities, and only occasionally put on radiation suits to venture into the wilderness for the good of the family. So, I'm not really that evil.

This week Oculus revealed a virtual reality version of racing game Project Cars. It's due out alongside the Rift headset later this month.

A modder has turned Street Fighter 5's M. Bison into fan favourite Q.

Bungie has finally begun teasing its next Destiny update, which has been dated for release on 12th April.

Oh, hey there. Chris Bratt and I have been in sunny San Francisco this week for the Game Developers Conference, which is why the podcast is later in the week than usual. Sorry! But we can hopefully make it up to you with a special edition recorded at the conference. You can hear some authentic game developer hubbub in the background. Feel the ambience!

Cliff Bleszinski's upcoming gravity-manipulating first-person arena shooter LawBreakers is no longer going to be a free-to-play title.

Serious Sam developer Croteam has released the source code for the Serious Engine, the backbone of both Serious Sam Classic: The First Encounter and The Second Encounter.

UPDATE 17/03/206 7.21pm: Star Wars: Battlefront's upcoming Outer Rim expansion has been dated for 22nd March with a Season Pass. Those without one will have to wait an additional two weeks, so you're looking at 5th April.

Nearly four years have passed since the release of Hitman: Absolution, but if you ask enthusiasts of the series, a full ten have lapsed since the last traditional Hitman experience: 2006's Blood Money. This year's reboot is a something of return to that style - a more level-headed assassination simulator that puts a focus on navigating bustling, open-ended areas, where spectacle is mainly found in its supreme AI count. It's IO Interactive's first PlayStation 4 and Xbox One title too, while PC release takes precedent for its early support for DirectX 12. But how do they each stack up

Zero Time Dilemma - the third entry in the Zero Escape series after 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Virtue's Last Reward - will launch on Vita and 3DS on 28th June in both Europe and North America.

Xbox 360 fan favourite Alan Wake is now available to download and play on Xbox One.

Revolution: the 25th Anniversary Collection was supposed to come out last Friday, but it didn't due to pesky production issues. Instead, it's coming out this Friday, 18th March.

Total War Battles: Kingdom - the free-to-play Total War game - comes out on 24th March.

Lego Marvel's Avengers is getting a cinematic universe-full of extras, which publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has now detailed.

Since getting some hands-on time with the latest build earlier this week, I've spent a fair amount of time telling my friends about Enter the Gungeon. More often than not, this leads to the erroneous assumption I'm prattling on about a game filled with colourful buckets of slime. I'm not. Gungeon = gun dungeon. Not gunge dungeon. What's Dave Benson Phillips is up to these days, anyway?

Nintendo has also revealed the first set of rewards available via its new customer loyalty programme, My Nintendo.