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Bezier, despite the French title, lifted from the Renault employee Pierre Bézier, who in the 1960s helped teach computers how to draw curves, is a quintessentially British sort of video game. It fits snugly within the tradition of eccentric psychedelic shooters - Jeff Minter's Space Giraffe, Rob Fearon's Death Ray Manta, Bizarre Creations' Geometry Wars - and combines the unusual bedfellows of austere science fiction storytelling with twin stick shooting. Eight years in the making, the game, intended to be the first in a series of nine projects by its creator, Philip Bak, is a glorious carnival of neon particle effects, subtle tips of the hat to arcade classics and enthralling, if riotous, game design.

Dead Island 2 is now being developed by British studio Sumo Digital.

The Turing Test is the next first-person puzzler from Derby-based developer Bulkhead Interactive, the studio behind Pneuma: Breath of Life.

Gears of War 4 is - currently - an Xbox One exclusive. But it sounds like that will change.

This year's BAFTA Game Awards include a whopping 10 nominations for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

Half a dozen Wii U games have been added to the Nintendo Selects budget range of releases.

The Division has sold more copies in 24 hours than any other game in Ubisoft's history.

The best games create stories as well as telling them, and when you ask people about a Lionhead game there's usually a good one. A friend told me how, when playing Black & White, he'd found his inscrutable cow-god familiar taking a dump in the village's food supply. He went to punish it, mis-clicked, and instead petted the beast. From then on the cow went out of its way to poo on food, and no amount of beatings would dissuade it. My friend persevered with his save for days before, finally, admitting defeat and starting over - left only with the memory of handing out monotonous beatings to a bewildered, unhappy, constantly-befouled creature.

Furi is one of those perfectly simple but winning premises that's so immediately easy to grasp and appealing that you can't help but fall in love with it. An action game comprised entirely of boss fights, Furi mixes the speed and colourful palette of Bayonetta with the isometric perspective of Zelda and the simplicity of Titan Souls or Punch-Out!!

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare developer Torn Banner Studios revealed several details about its recently announced multiplayer first-person shooter Mirage: Arcane Warfare.

UPDATE 09/03/2016 10.15pm: Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition has been delayed for PC, though its Xbox One version is still on track for launch this Friday.

Trippy neon rhythm game Thumper has been revealed for PS4 and Steam later this year with PlayStation VR support.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on our first two days playing The Division. We're looking to have our full review up early next week.

EVE Online has added a new mini-game that crowdsources players to assist in real world science.

Anarchy's Children, the first DLC pack for XCOM 2, comes out 17th March.

Sony has added 22 games to its PlayStation Now subscription streaming service.

The Doom closed beta runs from 31st March to 3rd April 2016, Bethesda has announced.

Kinect Sports developer Rare - the British studio Microsoft did not decide to close this week - has an update for its fans.

UPDATE #2 9TH MARCH: Introversion's chief game maker Chris Delay has told Eurogamer he was "astonished" it took the community so long to find 3D mode, because it had been in the game since version 1.0 arrived in October. He thought it would be discovered in days, he said.

Released this week on Steam Early Access, The Culling is a brand new take on the recent craze for Battle Royale / Hunger Games inspired modes in survival games.

Part-way through a new trailer montaging free Star Wars Battlefront content we're told something called Hutt Contracts are coming soon.

One of April's PlayStation Plus games has been leaked already, just nine days into March.

A free content drop has landed for Star Wars Battlefront. It's dubbed the March Update and is rolling out now on all platforms.

A nifty new emulator lets you play NES games in 3D - sort of.

Below is the first footage (non live-stream) of fan-made Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic reboot Apeiron. It shows the old 2003 role-playing game brought visually and impressively up to date in Unreal Engine 4.

A computer has just beaten the world champion of Go.

What is Star Citizen? It's so big now it seems almost incomprehensible. $100m - that's a hell of a budget, let alone raised through crowdfunding. No-one saw it coming, everything ballooned in scope and scale, and no-one seems to know what it is any more.

Sony has added a new health and safety notice to the PlayStation 4, and in the process updated its guidance for virtual reality headset use by children.

Splatoon and Mario Maker, two of Nintendo's biggest Wii U games, get shiny new updates today.

On 4th April 2013, Adam Orth, a creative director at Microsoft Game Studios, walked through the front door of his home in Seattle and turned off his mobile phone. It was, he recalls, an "entirely ordinary day". Orth was, at the time, researching uses for the second generation of the Kinect camera, which Microsoft planned, when the time came, to sell with every Xbox One unit. One experiment, for example, facilitated live polling during a Presidential debate. The camera would distinguish between multiple individuals as they watched the TV in a room and, from hand gestures, could poll reactions and collate the results across Xbox Live.