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In Superhot, time only moves when you move. That's one hell of a sentence and it's the reason why this game currently sits so comfy in the number one spot on Steam's top sellers list. Here's a first-person shooter in which you, as Christian put it in yesterday's review, "do the slow stuff fast, and the fast stuff slow".

Learning the river used to be a big deal. It's most of what a pilot did, I think, although pilot may be the wrong word in a trade that had a lot of idiosyncratic terminologies. Regardless: you learned the river, and a lot of what you learned about was underwater and invisible. With lines and weights and poles, the riverboat crew came to understand every inch of the stuff that lay beneath the surface - branches they could snag themselves on, rocks that would be their undoing or that might snarl up the currents in problematic ways. The river was always changing, too: every few months, you had to learn it all over again. The river was alive, and you had to remember that it was alive, because it could kill you using all of its hidden tricks and arcana.

Ubisoft is one of the world's biggest gaming companies, so the idea it could be targeted by a hostile takeover feels like an odd one.

There's been a lot of talk about Firewatch and its sub-par performance on PlayStation 4 over the past few weeks and with the recent release of patch 1.02, we felt it was time to take a closer look. Frame-rate issues may not seem like a big deal for a narrative-driven adventure, but with a title based so much on traversing the environment, a wildly variable refresh and intrusive stutter definitely marred the experience. A patch was needed sooner, rather than later, and last week, developer Campo Santo delivered.

Factorio, from indie outfit Wube, is a game ostensibly about designing, building and maintaining factories, but there's a whole lot more to it.

Happy Friday! Here's two parkour people jumping around in Mario costumes.

Last week Activision tried something a little new and released a multiplayer-only edition of Call of Duty: Black Op 3 on Steam. Now this Multiplayer Starter Pack is free to try out this weekend from now until Sunday, 28th February at 9pm UK time.

If you've ever played a Dark Souls game and found your hollowware not quite hollow enough to fit the mood of From Software's darkly romantic RPG series, you may be in luck as strategy guide developer Prima Game will be shipping actual estus flasks with its luxurious Dark Souls 3 Estus Flask Edition guide.

Nippon Ichi's cult classic strategy RPG Disgaea has arrived on Steam, but many are calling it a lacking port.

Capcom's announced PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ports of Resident Evil 4, 5 and 6.

Harebrained Schemes' upcoming action-roguelike Necropolis was slated for a March release on PC, but that's just been delayed until summer. That's the bad news. The good is that it will feature a simultaneous release on PS4 and Xbox One via a new publishing arrangement with Bandai Namco.

Honestly, who expected Nien Nunb? Who even is Nien Nunb? He's the "jowled, mouse-eyed native of Sullust" as Wikipedia puts it, who flew with Lando on the Millennium Falcon in the Battle of Endor in Return of the Jedi.

Off-road driving simulation Spintires has had a rough ride. It was one of Eurogamer's favourite games of 2014, the year it took Steam by storm. But then development stalled and Spintires fell off the radar when British publisher Oovee and Russian programmer Pavel Zagrebelnyy had a bust up.

The good news is that from a technical perspective, Far Cry Primal retains everything that impressed us so much about its predecessor: expansive environments, beautifully long draw distances, a solid lighting model and a rock-solid level of performance. The bad news is that in terms of both graphics and gameplay, perhaps not quite enough has changed - any enhancements are a subtle evolution, as opposed to the visual overhaul you'd expect from a second generation title for the latest wave of consoles.

Turns out there is a killer trick to creating hyper-violent entertainment: do the slow stuff fast, and the fast stuff slow.

UPDATE 2.52pm: No, Tom. Ninlendo of America is not a reputable source. Until tomorrow, this is back to being strictly just a report. We've preserved the below update for posterity, and because Ninlendo will probably enjoy it. You got us!

To mark the 30th anniversary of the Zelda series, an occasion that passed this Sunday, we asked you to let us know your favourite Zelda games, in order that we could impose some arbitrary hierarchy on an expansive series and have a nice clean list at the end of it all. Thanks so much for taking part - it's been a delight picking through your memories and arguments for and against the highlights of this most grandiose of series. We'll be having our own say on what we think are the greatest entries in the series in due course, but first here's your take on the very best The Legend of Zelda has had to offer. Thank you so much for taking part!

Prison Architect's new console version is due to launch on PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One during the first half of this year.

Football vehicle game Rocket League will soon get the new Batmobile.

Held at gunpoint and shoved into the boot of his own car, programmer Francesco Cavallari was forced to consider his options.

Halo 5 Grifball is up and running, and it's a lot of fun. But the Halo community has already flagged a few issues, one of which has to do with betrayal.

Former US State Senator Leland Yee has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of corruption and weapon smuggling.

Quantum Break and Alan Wake developer Remedy has rekindled fan hopes of a sequel by registering the "Alan Wake's Return" trademark.

There's no arguing, Black Desert Online has one of the finest character creation screens of any genre. It's powerful enough to have been made its own download, a world away from just putting Head One onto Body One, or Boobs Two in the case of half the characters in most MMOs. Tweak face vertices. Make the perfect eyes. Apply make-up. Dye the tips of your hair. Make the character of your dreams, as long as they can more or less fit into an anime style Korean RPG.

In January 2016 Halo player Adam Bartels - aka thecrzedspartan - lost his two teenage daughters, Trinity, 15, and Lena, 12, in an electrical fire at the family home in Wauzeka, a village in Wisconsin, United States.

UPDATE 24/02/2015 8.44pm: Naughty Dog has admitted its used Assassin's Creed artwork in its new Uncharted 4 trailer, and explained it was all an honest mistake.

Back in 2008 a series of logos for cancelled Star Wars games were revealed in the book Rogue Leaders: The Story of LucasArts. Yesterday it came to light that one of these titles, Star Wars Episode 7: Shadows of the Sith, would have starred Luke Skywalker's son facing off against an evil Solo offspring.

Streets of Rage 2's soundtrack is getting a vinyl release from London-based record label Data Discs.

Halo 5 will receive the co-op survival challenge mode Warzone Firefight later this year, developer 343 Industries teased in its latest trailer.

Dark Souls 3 has received a new trailer ahead of its 12th April western launch for PS4, Xbox One and PC.