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Pokkén Tournament, Bandai Namco's Tekken-like Pokémon fighting spin-off, is slated for an 18th March release in Europe exclusively on Wii U.

The late great David Bowie once played a principal role in a video game, Omikron: The Nomad Soul, developed by Quantic Dream (of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls fame). Now, David Cage's 1999 sci-fi adventure has been made free for a week to commemorate the passing of the legendary glam rock star who fell to earth.

Tom Clancy's The Division feels like it's been in development for a long time, mainly due to the fact it has been in development for a long time. With just two months until publication, Martin spent some time with The Division to see how it holds up (and work out what you actually do).

Since Ubisoft revealed The Division back at E3 in 2013, there have been plenty of questions whizzing around it - and when we first set eyes on it, we weren't quite sure whether the ambitious open-world shooter with MMO tendencies would be subscription-based or a boxed release.

UPDATE 15/1/16 4:00pm: We took a look at the Xbox One version of the Resident Evil Zero HD remaster and initial impressions suggest we're looking at platform parity here. Here's a short comparison video. We'll be bringing PC into the mix next week when the game launches and offering our final verdict then.

Cobalt, the 2D platform shooter published by Minecraft maker Mojang, will launch via Steam, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on 2nd February.

As the days pass, we draw closer to a potentially seismic change in the PC gaming space - the arrival of Virtual Reality experiences, brought to life via the Oculus Rift and HTC's Vive. And for many, one key question needs to be comprehensively addressed - whether their existing gaming PCs can handle the strenuous requirements of the VR experience. And if they don't, what hardware will need an upgrade.

Surprise! Found footage monster movie Cloverfield will get a sequel directed by Dan Trachtenberg, the amateur filmmaker behind excellent Portal fan tribute No Escape.

Square Enix and Io Interactive's upcoming Hitman game is now fully episodic.

Since 2012 "Multitasker" has been trying to finish all the Steam games. He knows he'll never complete his mission, but he's soldiering on regardless.

The Division's beta will run from 28th-31st January on Xbox One, Ubisoft has announced.

The family of Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi have filed a €1m lawsuit against Activision over his portrayal in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

You might know developer Inkle for BAFTA-nominated game 80 Days, but it also has another series - one that existed before and will exist after - called Sorcery!.

I've spent the week visiting Riot Games, trying to get a feel for what goes into creating and maintaining arguably the biggest video game in the world. League of Legends attracts something like 67 million players every month (I'm told these numbers are actually out-of-date and the latest figures are "significantly" higher than that), which is bonkers and somewhere close to the entire population of the United Kingdom. Video game journalists, like me, have generally been pretty bad at understanding the culture that brings them all together. More on that next week!

Massively multiplayer online war game World of Tanks will roll out on PlayStation 4 next Tuesday, 19th January.

Nintendo has created a new dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD - but you'll need the game's Wolf Link Amiibo to access it.

Elite Dangerous has sold over 1.4m copies, developer Frontier has revealed.

Five Nights at Freddy's role-playing game spin-off Five Nights at Freddy's World will launch via Steam on 19th February, creator Scott Cawthon has said.

YouTube star Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg has been snapped up by Disney to lead Revelmode, a new network of YouTube channels.

Video game heroes and heroines don't die - they're forgotten. For every conquering protagonist there's a handful of leads who never made it to the credits roll, never weighed a civilisation's fate in the scales. Instead, these characters are left to languish on a save file for months and years as feckless players drift to other releases, their skill trees mere sprouts in the dirt, unfinished plot arcs jutting over a wilderness of backstory. Like ghosts in need of exorcism, they haunt the dreams of their owners. No, Shepard, no! I never meant to abandon you on the Moon. It was Cerberus, I swear. Cerberus put that complete Dawn of War collection in my hands. Cerberus hid the controller charger under the sofa.

Leslie Benzies, a key figure in the development of the Grand Theft Auto series, has departed Rockstar Games.

I've never tried free running because I have short legs and I'm not very good with heights, but of one thing I am certain: it looks very, very tiring.

Late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata will receive this year's Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2016 DICE Awards.

Fallout 4's day / night cycle sees the Commonwealth go from night to bright and back again, but the Wasteland itself remains constant.

UPDATE 13TH JANUARY: The patch is rolling out now in Europe on PC, PS4 and Xbox One. Full console patch notes and PC patch notes are available.

Payday 2 will kick off its 2016 DLC schedule with a $6.99 Goat Simulator add-on.

UPDATE 13/1/16 8.45am: Here's yesterday's leaked trailer, now in officially published Ubisoft-o-vision:

Chris Bratt and I played a game of Jenga in the office the other day. Have you played it recently? It's amazing. The tension, the social aspects, even the spectator side of things is brilliant. As we played, everybody walking past stopped to watch, to cause trouble, to offer Jenga advice.

EA has announced - and launched - Origin Access for PC. It costs £3.99 a month.

The actor behind Grand Theft Auto 5 character Franklin has got the game's fanbase salivating for a single-player expansion all over again.