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Minecraft: Story Mode Episode 4, A Block and a Hard Place, will premier on 22nd December, developer Telltale has announced.

Badland 2, the sequel to Apple's 2013 iPad Game of the Year, is out now on iOS.

A further selection of Xbox 360 titles have been added to the Xbox One back compatibility list today, including Halo: Reach, Fable 3 and Portal: Still Alive.

Of all the games I expected to hear being referenced as an inspiration behind Garden Warfare 2, it wouldn't have been Destiny. And yet, as we sat down to play PopCap's latest, I must have heard the developer describe their new direction via comparisons with Bungie's gigantic shared-world shooter, perhaps three or four times.

Over the next few weeks, you're likely to receive a number of cards that will be rifled through for gifts of currency and then unceremoniously tossed aside. This year, we've decided to buck the trend by giving the gift of cards that you'll actually use.

UPDATE 3.20PM GMT: A second video has surfaced that shows Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts flying a spaceship from space down onto a planet.

A tarted-up version of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories is out on iOS that runs in 60 frames-per-second if you have an iPhone 6s/6s Plus or an iPad Pro. If you have an iPhone 5/5s it runs normally, presumably in 30fps, and if you have an iPhone 4/4s it won't run at all.

UPDATE 17/11/5 2:35pm: Digital Foundry has taken a look at patch 1.02 for Just Cause 3 and records that loading times - on respawns, at least - are indeed "significantly improved". However, those looking for performance boosts may be disappointed.

Is the new generation of console hardware holding back creators from fully realising their visions for next generation visuals? It's a question we've been pondering recently with the release of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. There's no doubt that it's an accomplished title, but stacked up against last year's Unity running fully maxed on PC, there's a sense that it feels like a backward step from a technological perspective.

80 Days developer Inkle has dished out the first details of its next, still untitled project.

Mojang and 4J Studios are set to launch a huge new update to Minecraft's various console versions.

European Rock Band 4 users on PS4 finally have the ability to export the on-disc Rock Band 3 tracks into Harmonix's latest rhythm game.

Hideo Kojima has confirmed that Metal Gear Solid artist Yoji Shinkawa and producer Ken Imaizumi are joining him at the new Kojima Productions.

UPDATE #2: In a since deleted Q&A session on Medium, PlayStation EU's community manager confirmed that Kojima Productions' upcoming title is "planned to become available on PC (after PS4)."

Wintry survival sim The Long Dark will premiere its long-awaited Story Mode in the spring and run through an episodic season throughout the remainder of 2016 on PC and Xbox One, developer Hinterland has announced.

There's a lot of interest around no-fantasy medieval role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance. It looks great, it has one of the most realistic sword-fighting systems I've seen in a game and it's rooted in actual history.

There have likely been better ideas in the history of the human race than this. You're strapped tightly into a Lancia Stratos, some 240BHP being channelled through its rear axle, and ahead of you lay a thin gravel road that winds through thick Finnish forest. As another sharp rise in the road sends you flying, pine leaves and birch branches tickling the airborne undercarriage, you start to question the sanity of it all.

Following a beta test in October, Hardware: Rivals now has a final PS4 release date: 5th January 2016. It won't be free-to-play but will cost €20.99, which seems quite high.

It's that magical time of year once again - the day on which I don the Santa outfit I bought from Poundland and give away a sackload of free games to the viewers of our Christmas live stream.

UPDATE 16/12/15 1.50pm: Surprise! Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is available today on PlayStation 4 in Europe.

Darrell Gallagher, boss of Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, has quit the company.

You can currently download 2.5D platformer Max: The Curse of Brotherhood for free on Xbox One.

UPDATE 8.20am: You can now rewatch all of last night's Super Smash Bros. livestream, which unveiled the final DLC characters that will be added to the game's roster: Corrin and Bayonetta.

UPDATE 26/06/2015 11.17pm: Xbox Live director of programming Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has partaken in Dying Light's #DrinkForDLC promotion, as one can see in the following Vine:

Some fantastic games came out in 2015. Unfortunately, quite a few (hopefully) fantastic games didn't come out in 2015. With the likes of The Legend of Zelda Wii U, Tom Clancy's the Division and Uncharted 4 all pushed back into 2016, I decided to take a look at some of the upcoming games we really ought to own by now.

Multiplayer survival game DayZ has a big year ahead of it in 2016. That's when it will leave Steam Early Access, and that's when it plans on hitting the Xbox One Preview programme (DayZ has also been announced for PS4 but there is no timeline for release).

Elite Dangerous: Horizons, Frontier's next set of expansions for its deep space pilot sim, will roll out today from 6pm UK time.

Crytek is creating a mountaineering title named The Climb - and you can watch its first trailer below.

You can now pay £24.99 to boost a character to level 25 in Destiny.

Sony's love of all things indie might be a relatively new outlook, but its love of all things quirky goes back a little longer. When Linger in Shadows came out on the PlayStation Store seven long years ago, it was an outright oddity; a surreal, semi-interactive doodle with its roots in the demoscene, the sort of experiment you might stumble upon in the corner of a boutique East End gallery and most definitely not the kind of thing you'd expect to find on a console with first-party backing.