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Super Mario Maker fanatic and sadistic level designer PangaeaPanga is infamous for crafting nigh impossible challenges. His Bomb Voyage stage took over 11k attempts to complete, while his follow-up Pit of Panga: P-Break was touted as the hardest Super Mario Maker level ever until it was bested by a Japanese streamer only a few days after it was released. Last week PangaeaPanga released a new challenge for only the most masochistic of Mario players with: Cape Escape.

UPDATE 28/01/2016 9.05pm: Multiplayer murder mystery game The Ship: Murder Party is also free the weekend on Steam, should you crave more nautical mayhem.

Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac Games has revealed its previously teased title as the underwater metroidvania adventure Song of the Deep.

The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited's upcoming DLC pack, the Thieves Guild, is due on the public test servers next week and launches on 7th March for PC, 22nd March for Xbox One and 23rd March for PS4.

We've told you what you're supposed to do in The Division.

Bandai Namco has released nearly a dozen new screenshots of Dark Souls 3 ahead of its 12th April launch in the western world.

The Division will offer three expansion packs as part of its Season Pass, Ubisoft has announced. Each will include new gear and types of gameplay.

Funcom is making an open-world multiplayer survival Conan game. It's called Conan Exiles and it's coming to Early Access on PC this summer, then PC and consoles in full after that.

Here I am, Mr Smartarse, thinking I know all about role-playing games and what the boundaries are - the lines developers will cross and won't. And then I play Torment: Tides of Numenera and in the first two minutes I am stunned.

Game download shop GOG has launched an early access programme that notably features a "no questions asked" 14-day refund policy.

EA's Instagram is about a lot of things you'd expect: EA games already out such as Madden and FIFA, and EA games coming out soon, such as Unravel.

Ever since Life is Strange Season One ended a few months ago, we still occasionally bring it up in the office and mull over the many unanswered questions left hanging by the game's multiple endings and open-ended story threads. I'm still confused as to the relationship between Nathan Prescott and Mark Jefferson. Tom is curious as to what would have happened to Max and Chloe had they left town together to start a new life. Johnny just really wants to know why Frank loves beans so much.

UPDATE 28/1/16 1.55pm: Pre-orders for The Division no longer grant access to the game's closed beta.

Released to critical acclaim this past November, Rise of the Tomb Raider is now locked and loaded for release on the PC courtesy of always reliable Dutch development house Nixxes Software. The Xbox One version is already a great-looking game but with the vastly increased power of a high-end PC, Crystal Dynamics' latest has never looked or played better.

I'll start this off with an important fact: Bravely Second lets you play as a Cat Mancer. It's almost exactly what you're thinking. You get feline ears of a variety and also a hat designed to resemble a gargantuan cat head. All your attacks involve evoking a tabby of some variety. It's cute. Really cute. Tooth-achingly cute.

Long-dormant shooter Tribes: Ascend will dust itself off from hypersleep today via a wide-ranging PC patch.

Sony is trying - and, it seems, failing - to trademark the term "Let's Play".

Bungie president Harold Ryan has exited the company.

Tron Run/r, a third-person running game set in Disney's neon cyberspace, is due on 16th February, Disney has announced.

A dedicated Fallout: New Vegas fan is making a mod to turn Obsidian's beloved open-world action-RPG into a multiplayer game.

Last month we covered the very stylish upcoming deer-based adventure game Way To the Woods, which is inexplicably being created by a 16-year-old boy. Now that boy, Anthony Tan, has signed on with experienced publisher Team17 (of Worms fame, also publishing Yooka-Laylee).

Shadow Warrior developer Flying Wild Hog is bringing its formerly PC-exclusive first-person shooter Hard Reset to PS4, Xbox One and PC as Hard Reset Redux.

Microsoft is offering Hand of Fate and Styx: Master of Shadows as its Xbox One freebies for Gold subscribers in February as part of its Game with Gold promotion.

Sony has detailed February's line-up of PlayStation Plus games, which is headlined by top-down shooter Helldivers on PlayStation 4, PS3 and Vita.

The people behind an upcoming game bundle want to give Bryan Henderson, the winner of Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube?, $10,000.

Revolution, the developer of adventure games Broken Sword and Beneath a Steel Sky, is celebrating its 25th birthday with the release of an anniversary box set.

What are you doing for the next, say, half-an-hour? Nothing? Oh that's good because I've got a video for you to settle into.

Ubisoft and Malmo-based developer Massive's ambitious, MMO-ish The Division is finally going to be in our hands in the coming days thanks to a closed beta that's running throughout the weekend on Xbox One, PS4 and PC. That glitzy reveal at E3 2013 seems so long ago, and as you prep yourself to play here's all you need to know to get up and running.

Evo, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, has set the cat among the pigeons by dropping Street Fighter 4 from this year's event.

Well, it looks like The Angry Birds Movie is still happening.