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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.

UPDATE 9TH MARCH: The writing appears to be on the wall for the Coleco Chameleon. Coleco, the brand, has pulled out of the project, taking its name - and the best chance the console had at finding a foothold - with it.

Side-scrolling Souls-like Salt & Sanctuary, the latest game by Ska Studios (The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, Charlie Murder), is coming to PS4 on 15th March.

Turn-based strategy infiltration game Invisible, Inc. is coming to PS4 on 19th April, developer Klei Entertainment has announced.

IO Interactive's popular Hitman franchise was adapted into a big budget real-life interactive experience.

Amazon Japan now ships games overseas.

Free-to-play fighting game Rising Thunder, the in-development title by former Capcom "special combat advisor" and the face of Street Fight Seth Killian, is being shuttered on 18th March as developer Radiant Entertainment has been acquired by League of Legends studio Riot Games.

In 2014 game developer and special effects wizard David OReilly created a mountain simulator and for his next trick he's letting you inject consciousness into all sorts of inanimate objects with the upcoming PS4 game Everything.

Ubisoft has snuck one of its own development studios in the midst of midtown Manhattan in its latest post-apocalyptic adventure The Division.

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is set for a 22nd March release on PS4, Vita and PC.

UPDATE 07/03/2016 5.10pm: Blizzard has confirmed Overwatch's release date as 24th May for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

The battle lines are drawn. 2016 is the year in which the big players of the virtual reality space - HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and PlayStation VR - finally make a move on a compelling but still uncertain market. A lot is at stake for each to make a great first impression to buyers; from the quality of the games being shown, to the hardware being used, and in particular the notion of using a headset at all. Of all three contenders though, it's Sony that is perhaps best placed to bring virtual reality to genuine mainstream success.

Gears of War 4 is set 25 years after the events of Gears of War 3 and features three new playable characters, one of whom is Marcus Fenix's son.

The future of Ruffian's Hollowpoint looks troubled as the studio's partnership with publisher Paradox has fallen apart.

Valkyria Chronicles Remastered comes out on PlayStation 4 on 17th May, Sega has announced.

Alienation, the twin-stick sci-fi shooter from Resogun developer Housemarque, comes out on PlayStation 4 on 26th April.

Total War: Warhammer has been delayed by a month. It's now due out 24th May.

The Division players have already found a way to grief other people. You can block people's progress in The Division by standing in a doorway.

UPDATE 8th March 2016: It turns out EA is working to remove Adam Johnson from FIFA 16.

UPDATE: Fable Legends ends at 3pm on Wednesday, 13th April 2016, Lionhead has said.

Frogwares, the developer of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments, has revealed The Sinking City, which it describes as an open-world investigation Lovecraftian game.

The Division is now officially available to buy in shops, and as such the game's microtransaction packs are also live.

Children are inherently monstrous.

Rock Band 4 developer Harmonix is now working with video game peripheral creator PDP as its new co-publisher. Previously the music game studio was collaborating with Mad Catz.

BioWare senior editor Cameron Harris is departing from Mass Effect: Andromeda and the video game industry at large come mid-April.

The Assassin's Creed movie won't be out until 21st December, but it's reportedly already greenlit a sequel.