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

The Battle Rifle from Halo 2 is now in Halo 5.

Star Wars Battlefront has been patched and there are nerfs - that is, certain things have been reduced in power, and most of the main offenders have been addressed.

Sunless Sea developer Failbetter Games has revealed the first footage of its upcoming Zubmariner expansion.

Lego Marvel's Avengers has only been released for a day in the US, but fans are already speculating on what will come next.

Last week, Sony for the first time failed to include the prices of games as part of the weekly PlayStation Store update on the European PlayStation Blog - much to the annoyance of regular readers.

The octopus is my favourite. Angular yet organic, stylised and yet immediately recognisable, with those stern, strangely ancient eyes that octopuses - octopode? - tend to have. She is warm to touch, with tacky paint and a gentle grain beneath it. You would think this was wood, if it were not for the lack of heft. The octopus is made of plastic, and fresh - relatively fresh - out of a 3D printer.

Monument Valley is getting a fancy double vinyl soundtrack.

Minimalist action-roguelike Downwell will arrive on Android around 8pm UK time Wednesday, 27th January, developer Moppin has announced. Depending on your time zone, that's probably today, technically.

Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac Games has teased a new game set to be revealed on Thursday at 2.30pm UK time.

One of Life is Strange's best subplots involves player character Max Caulfield entering a student photo contest called Everyday Heroes. The object was to take a picture capturing an ordinary person's inner hero. Now, publisher Square Enix is replicating that contest in real life with the grand prize being a $10k scholarship for the winner.

A long time ago, before Disney's acquisition of Star Wars, LucasArts spent two years developing a "hardcore" strategy simulation for PC and mobile devices. And then it quietly cancelled the project, four weeks from completion.

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, the MMO third-person shooter by Wet and Naughty Bear developer Behaviour, is now slated for a summer release on PC, PS4 and Xbox One via newly revealed publisher Bandai Namco.

Resident Evil's shooter spin-off Umbrella Corps is now slated for a PS4 and PC digital release in May for £24.99 / €29.99 / $29.99, Capcom has announced.

Ubisoft Montreal takes Far Cry Primal to the next, natural step: a foggy, Mesolithic land of raw survival, set 12,000 years in humanity's past. As delivered by the team's Dunia 2 technology, it plants us in an era of sabretooth tigers, looming mammoths, and tribal warfare - all bolstered by new animations and upgraded volumetric lighting. The pre-release PlayStation 4 code in analysis here is a step forward from Far Cry 4 in several aspects, but with so much of the template also remaining as-is from last year's entry, is it evolution enough?

There's a Death Star map coming to Star Wars Battlefront! And Jabba the Hutt's palace (will it have a rancor?), and the Cloud City of Bespin. They belong to the quartet of paid content drops covered in the £40 Season Pass.

It's a close category every year, but Far Cry Primal looks set to be the best video game in which you can beat someone's brain out with a stone club in 2016. Ian Higton loves stone clubs so, when a recent hands-on opportunity with Far Cry Primal came up, he jumped at the chance.

UPDATE 26/1/16 4.00pm John Smedley has pulled the plug on his company's new Kickstarter game after just one week.

Three Fields Entertainment, the studio founded by the creators of Burnout, has announced its first game: Dangerous Golf.

Nintendo has officially unveiled Detective Pikachu: Birth of a New Combination, a 3DS game starring a crime-solving Pikachu who wears a Sherlock Holmes-style hat.

"That's the last we'll see of the Norks today."

Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier has released a new developer diary for Planet Coaster, the promising-looking PC theme park sim.

Divinity: Original Sin was a wonderful success, for crowdfunding, for old, deep, role-playing games, and for Belgian developer Larian. With relish, we now await a sequel. And I'm happy to share news that Larian will be presenting Divinity: Original Sin 2 at EGX Rezzed in London in early April.

Bungie has said it will reverse the controversial matchmaking changes it recently introduced to Destiny.

Sony has merged Sony Computer Entertainment - the long-running PlayStation business - with Sony Network Entertainment to form a new company called Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC.

Activision has - finally - lifted the lid on Platinum's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and it looks as great as you'd expect a game from perhaps the best action developer in the business to look.

Dragon's Dogma finally comes to PC three years after the game first hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, and arguably Capcom needs to deliver more than a straightforward port to justify such a late release. Previously, we've seen high some high profile Japanese titles poorly converted over to PC, with resolutions capped below 720p and frame-rates limited to 30fps - an experience well below the standard expected for a PC release. Thankfully, none of these issues are present with Dragon Dogma: Dark Arisen and Capcom delivers a largely excellent conversion that fits the bill as a full-on HD remaster.

Former US secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld has taken to game development by releasing a new version of Solitaire on the App Store.

Update:

Five Nights at Freddy's World (or FNaF World for short) has been removed from sale on Steam after a flurry of complaints that the game wasn't up to snuff - a sentiment our own Johnny Chiodini would agree with.