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"When you're mad, you cease to exist."

Dontnod, developer of Life is Strange and Remember Me, has debuted the first four screenshots of its upcoming project Vampyr.

Far Cry Primal has leapt to the top of the UK all-format charts in its debut week of release.

Shenmue 3 is real - it still feels slightly strange typing that - and our latest update suggests it's shaping up pretty well.

Fergus McGovern, founder of British developer and port house Probe Software, has died.

These days it's not hard to find free indie games to play. With sites like Newgrounds, Kongregate and Itch.io providing a platform for up-and-coming developers, it's never been easier for aspiring game creators to bring their experimental prototypes to the masses. This will attract an audience in the relatively isolated comfort of their own home, but if someone wants to bring their passion project to the streets, there really isn't a precedent for that outside of a festival or conference - and even these are a limited to a certain demographic of industry folks. What the Portland, Oregon-based Flint and Tinder Studios aims to do is bring the immediacy and fun of experimental indie games to lively booze-swilling mingling grounds of bars and arcades. Hence: The TinderBox.

Outside, the snow is packed in glass sheets, peppered in places with stones that offer a shoe some hope of holding its grip. Here in Tromsø, the most northerly city on planet Earth (so long as you define 'city' as a place with more than 20,000 inhabitants; those people who live farther north than this tend to be loners) every season is a different shade of winter. The ice holds. Inside too - although here in the chicly Norwegian open office complex known as Flow, it has the welcome benefit of being laced with vodka. It's quarter past nine in the evening and around a hundred programmers, artists and designers, attendees of the inaugural Splash game jam, stand around sipping alcoholic slushies and eating pizza.

If you've played Just Cause 3 you'll be familiar with hero Rico Rodriguez's wingsuit, with which he can glide and swoop gracefully around Medici. If that seems a bit sedate, you might be interested in the Just Cause 3's upcoming Sky Fortress DLC, which straps a missile-launching jet pack to Rico, transforming him into a human F-14.

Mouse and keyboard remains the interface of choice for a wealth of PC games, but the bottom line is that there are plenty of titles out there that play better using a gamepad - to the point where it has become required kit. Our aim with this guide is pretty straightforward - we'll be testing every controller we can get our hands on, updating as new joypads arrive - and seeing how well they work for PC gaming.

Good news for fans of giant space orbs and also pocket monsters - Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon for 3DS, with both games due out before the sun sets on 2016.

At the PS4's launch, the Dual Shock 4 felt like a robustly constructed unit - a well crafted pad with a number of key improvements over its predecessor. But after just a few weeks of use, it was surprising to find the rubber material of its analogue sticks starting to flake away, in some cases leading to an outright tear. Having despatched two controllers in this way, we decided enough was enough. It was time to explore upgrade options - and since this required performing surgery on the pad, why not attempt to address the controller's lacklustre battery life too?

Imagine you have just hit 'start' on a new first-person video game. You find yourself in a room facing a doorway with 'this way' written in large letters over the top. You take a very quick look around and notice a few closed chests and cupboards beside you and then a door behind you marked 'no entry'. You turn back toward the first door. Without thinking, answer the following question: what do you do now?

Valve has fired the host of its Dota2 tournament Shanghai Major after only a day and a half.

The Suffering lead designer Richard Rouse III has announced an ambitious narratively-driven stealth adventure called The Church in the Darkness.

One of Firewatch's most divisive design decisions was whether to reveal the player's location on the in-game map. This convenient waypoint system works well for most video games, but Firewatch is about feeling lost as you navigate Campo Santo's gorgeous scenery using only your compass, wits, and sense of direction. As such, many opted to disable this feature for a more immersive experience. But if you really want to immerse yourself in Firewatch's navigational challenges, Campo Santo has unveiled an even better option by releasing files for printable maps.

Earlier this week a NeoGAF poster going by Trevelyan9999 claimed to have insider knowledge that the next Zelda game would launch later this year as an NX title - or at least come to NX very shortly after a Wii U release. Rumours are a dime a dozen in this industry, so we didn't put much stock in it at the time. But it looks like they were right about something incredibly specific, giving noticeably more weight to their claim.

UCLA School of Law failed to uphold its own standard when it used trademarked Rock Band 4 images in a piece of marketing material paying tribute to one of its alumni.

The Conduit developer High Voltage is making a collectible card game for Oculus Rift called Dragon Front.

Perhaps Nintendo's notoriously bad 1989 peripheral the Power Glove was actually nearly three decades ahead of its time as Sony has recently filed three patents on its own glove controller.

Superhot's developer has teased a VR release for its super hot debut title.

UPDATE 26/02/2016 5.37pm Shadwen's upcoming launch price has dropped from $35 to $24 after only two days of this latest promotion.

Samorost 3, the upcoming adventure by Machinarium and Botanicula developer Amanita Design, is coming to PC and Mac on 24th March.

In Play is a column taking a weekly sideways look at new game releases. It's a bit like our old series Game of the Week, if you remember that.

Bryan Henderson has told the people behind a new game bundle designed to give him up to $10,000 that he wants the money to go to charity instead.

10 days after Street Fighter 5 launched, the fighting game's online portion is much improved.

Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon, which will launch for 3DS this year.

UPDATE 26/2/16 2.30pm Overcooked has now been successfully greenlit for release on Steam.

Nintendo has lowered its annual profit forecast down from 35 billion yen to 17 billion.

You've already had your say on the very best Zelda games as we celebrate the series' 30th anniversary - and you did a mighty fine job too, even if I'm fairly sure A Link to the Past belongs at the head of any list - so now it's our turn. We asked the Eurogamer editorial team to vote for their favourite Zelda games (though Wes abstained because he still doesn't know what a Nintendo is) and below you'll find the full top ten, along with some of our own musings. Can we get the games in their rightful order? Probably not...

Focus Home Interactive's MIA Call of Cthulhu game is back from the dead.