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UPDATE: Don't want to read words? Well here's Chris Bratt to save the day with an overview of Overwatch's recently announced progression system in video form. Look at the pretty pictures. Listen to his dulcet tones.

Screencheat - the experimental splitscreen first-person shooter where everyone is invisible and you have to gauge your opponents' location by looking at their quadrant of the screen - is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on 1st March, developer Samurai Punk has announced.

Rocket League is coming to Xbox One on 17th February, Microsoft has announced.

Hitman's closed beta is going live next week on PC for pre-order customers and publisher Square-Enix has revealed the system specs on Steam. They are as follows:

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on 27th May, publisher Bigben Interactive has announced.

UPDATE 09/02/2015 7.50pm: Beamdog CEO Trent Oster offered the following statement about Gaider's recent employment at the studio:

It's safe to say that we've been highly impressed with Intel's Skylake line of processors - architectural advantages along with higher memory bandwidth are producing big gains over established processors. There's just one problem. The best Skylake chips - the overclockable Core i5 6600K and Core i7 6700K - have availability issues, meaning that prices have skyrocketed. However, that may change now that every Skylake chip is overclockable on select motherboards, and the results can be extraordinary. Is this an actual Christmas miracle?

Ubisoft will throw The Division's doors open for everyone to try later this month.

UPDATE 9/2/16 4.05pm: PlayStation 4 and Xbox One owners can now finally download Fallout 4's 1.3 update.

Nintendo has postponed its plans to enter the Quality of Life technology market via the release of a sleep and fatigue sensor.

Wool, wool, wool. What do we have here? I'm not going to string you along, I'll be playing 90 minutes worth of Unravel for you all, live at 3:30pm.

The original Dying Light was so much fun. Fun in a scrappy, upside-down way. The game hid many of its best qualities behind a skill-tree system that made its headline parkour a shin-grazing drag for hours - until, essentially, you unlocked the skill of 'not being rubbish at parkour'. Because the game dished out XP for every act of mediocre acrobatics - double at night - it gave rise to a compulsive kind of midnight grind, hopping back and forth over a waist-high fence until sunrise. Morning! Halfway to having bendable knees already.

You wait ages for a new Lumines game and then, like buses, two turn up in the same year.

You wake up in a basement with no memory to speak of, and a single word written on your arm: KLAUS.

Online retail giant Amazon has announced its own free game engine, Lumberyard, which is based on CryEngine.

Cookie Clicker, the browser-based production game parody, has just relaunched in its official version 2.0.

Anyone picking up a copy of Yakuza Kiwami, the remake of the series' PS2 debut, also receives a code to download the demo of the forthcoming Yakuza 6. As the first entry in the series designed from the ground up for PlayStation 4, we were eager to see what Ryu ga Gotoku Studio could bring to the table. Keeping in mind that this is still an early pre-release demo, there is a lot to like here but there are some issues we hope to see addressed before the game is released.

Firewatch's Steam version offers one exclusive feature missing from its console counterparts: the ability to order physical copies of your in-game photos.

Someone has created a functional replica of Bloodborne's iconic Saw Cleaver (the weapon from the cover) in real-life.

An ingenious Super Mario Maker fan has constructed a working calculator from Nintendo's level-building creation kit.

Nostalgic coming-of-age adventure Night in the Woods is now slated for an autumn release on PS4, PC, Mac and Linux, developer Infinite Fall confirmed on Twitter.

The latest Dark Souls 3 trailer appears to be the intro for the highly anticipated third entry in From Software's beloved sadistic series.

Her first question is: what's wrong with you? That's Delilah, Henry's new boss, talking to him over the radio as he takes in his surroundings.

Three generations of Nintendo home console, one game. The story of Zelda: Twilight Princess' development is now a fabled one, starting as a flirting snippet in a GameCube demo showreel, and finally appearing fully-formed at an electric E3 2004 reveal. However, the game that eventually arrived came much too late for its intended format, forcing a hybrid release on GameCube and Wii. Ten years later, a far more ambitious HD remaster now arrives on Wii U - a machine that shares a core IBM-based architecture with its two predecessors, but uses improved CPU speeds and superior GPU power to achieve full 1080p resolution and a host of other visual upgrades.

Look at that screenshot up there, the one of the lake. It looks bloody lovely, doesn't it? The rest of Firewatch is just as pretty - find out for yourself when I kick off our live stream at 3:30pm.

A promising but, in the end, disposable cousin of Media Molecule's LittleBigPlanet, Unravel is built around the idea that love is literally a thread - a spool of shimmering red yarn that usefully doubles as a grappling line. Your task as the game's adorable (if vaguely demonic-looking) doll protagonist is to save a lonely old woman from despair by effectively stitching her memories back together - dragging that thread from one side of each level to the other, while searching for tiny knitted emblems that symbolise catharsis and acceptance.

The intriguing new Hitman game will get a beta/demo in February. It will arrive first on PlayStation 4 on 12th February, then on PC a week later on 19th February. There will not be an Xbox One beta. The PS4 and PC beta will be available to those who pre-ordered the game.

Unsung Story, the Kickstarted role-playing game with Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics creator Yasumi Matsuno's name attached, is no longer in active development.

Handheld Pokémon spin-offs Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue & Red Rescue Team will be available to download on Wii U Virtual Console this Thursday.

It feels weird to say this, but Assassin's Creed Chronicles: Russia - third and final instalment in the Chronicles series - is probably the biggest Assassin's Creed game we'll see this year. With Ubisoft taking a year off after the surprisingly enjoyable Syndicate, it falls to the stealth platforming miniseries to carry the franchise in 2016.