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One of the chief joys of Super Mario Maker isn't playing it, nor designing levels, but simply watching other, more dedicated players, tackle the fiendish challenges only the most devious of designers can concoct. The latest in this saga of sadistic stages is Jordan O'Hara's Time for a T-Break, which debuted on 2nd December and has only recently been bested by someone on YouTube.

MOBA sensation Smite is coming to PS4 later this year, just as the PEGI-listing suggested, where it will remain a free-to-play affair.

Grand Theft Auto 5 modder Joseph Delgado is working on a way to add hand-tracking to Rockstar's open-world crime game. The early results are rather shocking in how much they change the tone of the game.

I'm sat in a chair stabbing at a clacking typewriter in an attempt to get Californium's central character, sci-fi hack Elvin Green, out of a fug of cheap beer and amphetamines and over his writing block, when there's a hollow thump, thump, thump at the door. And so I stand, look out across Green's scrappy Berkeley apartment and set towards the door.

When Elite: Dangerous is good, it's really really good.

Street Fighter 5 online play appears to be working after a troubled first few days.

When hearing the worlds 'video game camera' it's hard not to imagine the free-floating, functional thing dutifully framing your character's butt as they traverse the game world. Some games, however, do things a bit differently - putting a camera into the hands of the characters themselves.

Last week I reached the ending of Jonathan Blow's latest opus, The Witness, without the aid of any outside help. For a split second, I felt like the smartest man on the planet. Then, upon watching the ending, I quickly felt like the dumbest as I had no earthly idea what the game I'd just spent a couple dozen of hours on was about.

Iranian state TV has broadcast footage it claimed was a Hezbollah sniper shooting six ISIS soldiers in just two minutes.

Freedom fighter Hideo Kojima's star turn at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas yesterday brought with it a few choice comments about the Metal Gear creator's current Konami-less situation - and his plan for the future.

Last year it emerged that Capcom had toned down Street Fighter 5 for its western release, specifically removing bubbly grappler R.Mika's butt slap and a glimpse of Cammy's crotch. The move sparked a censorship debate among the fighting game community. Some welcomed the change, some were outraged.

Assassin's Creed will not revert back to an annual cycle after its current hiatus, Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has suggested.

The latest Humble Bundle honouring Orbyt Play, a celebration of indie games streaming on YouTube this Saturday, offers players very cheap ways of acquiring good games and giving to charity.

Firewatch has received a new 1.02 patch on PS4 after many criticisms about its performance on Sony's console.

Rocket League is one of the great surprises of this console generation; a regular, high-octane evening fixture for its many PS4 and PC fans since arriving eight months ago. Built on Unreal Engine 3, this is precisely the type of arcade experience we'd have expected to play on Xbox Live last generation - and yet until yesterday, no Xbox One version was available. We're pleased to report the wait has been worthwhile though, and developer Psyonix turns in a superb rendition of the game on Microsoft's machine.

UPDATE 18/02/2015 8.47pm: Psst, just a reminder that Binary Domain, Streets of Rage 2, and Condemned: Criminal Oranges are now free on Steam.

Tales from the Borderlands is getting a disc release for PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on 22nd April in Europe.

Stealthy sci-fi adventure République is coming to PS4 on 25th March in Europe to coincide with the release of its fifth and final episode, Terminus.

Developer Thomas Brush, the one man studio behind Atmos Games, has been working on the puzzle platformer Pinstripe for three years and it shows. The eye-catching adventure looks so polished that it raised $42,494 on Kickstarter - well over its $28k goal - in only two days.

UPDATE: Epic has promised to never sell card packs in Paragon.

The latest Xbox One system update goes live tomorrow on the console and today on the Xbox App for Windows 10.

UPDATE 18/02/2015 5pm: Need for Speed's PC system requirements have been revealed as follows:

Sky Fortress is the first DLC pack from the Just Cause 3: Air, Land and Sea expansion pass, and it's out in March.

The Division is back in beta and this time everyone can take part.

UPDATE 18th February 2016: Capcom's said it'll address Street Fighter 5's rage quit problem.

Wargaming's splashed the cash on the voice cast for sci-fi 4X strategy gamep Master of Orion.

It's been 11 years and four months since the release of Half-Life 2, and eight years and five months since Valve left Gordon Freeman's tale agonisingly unfinished in Episode 2. Not that I'm counting the days or anything. Just the months. And years. But it's fair to say that, by this point, fans of what is frequently regarded as the greatest FPS ever made are fairly keen to see its story finished. You can glimpse this in how every few weeks the vaguest outline of a lambda sign leads to ringing ululations of "HL3 CONFIRMED?!?!111" rebounding across the Internet.

There's a new Sinclair ZX Spectrum in the works - this time it's a handheld console.

In moving Street Fighter into the next generation, Capcom has rejigged the famous fighting game series not just in its core combat, but in its structure - each with varying success. The match to match fighting, as you'd expect from Capcom, is brilliant. It's just a shame that features you'd expect to be included at launch are missing, and online play is marred by disconnects from the company's servers.

There's much to enjoy with Capcom's Street Fighter 5 - beautiful, stylised visuals, silky-smooth frame-rates, interesting new characters and a more refined revision of the classic fighting game engine. Users may recall the launch of its predecessor - the sense that the magic had returned to the series, that Capcom had finally figured out how best to evolve Street Fighter into the 3D gaming era. Street Fighter 5 engenders the same kind of feeling as soon as you start to play. Sure, there'll be fully justified complaints about the staggered roll-out of content and an over-reliance on online play, but the core gameplay is simply beautiful.