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21 years on from the series' debut on Panasonic's 3DO, billing this latest Need for Speed as a reboot feels somewhat gratuitous. These are games that have always relied on reinventing themselves with each iteration, and just as Final Fantasy is a broad church held together by airships and chocobos, so Need for Speed is a loose collection of games only ever defined by the act of pushing fast cars to their extremes.

The Binding of Isaac's latest patch for its new DLC, Afterbirth, has nerfed a few of the game's items in a way the developer hadn't intended.

Here's a video game cross-brand promotion we didn't expect: Fallout cars in Forza.

Given how frequently video game characters take damage, you'd think most developers would be medical experts by now. Sadly, that couldn't be farther from the truth; you only need glance at some of the healing methods in video games to know that something is rotten in the hospitals of Denmark.

Halo 5 is "the biggest Halo launch in history", Microsoft has trumpeted. But there are a few unanswered questions, chief among them: how many copies has it sold?

While a third Darksiders instalment has yet to be confirmed, the franchise's new custodian - Nordic Games - appears to be testing the waters for a sequel with a remastered Darksiders 2 on PS4 and Xbox One, 'hilariously' dubbed the Deathinitive Edition. The conversion is in good hands too, with developers Gunfire Games consisting of many ex-Vigil Games staff, who previously worked on the two existing Darksiders releases. And there is the sense that this remaster is perhaps laying the groundwork for some kind of new sequel: rather than just convert the existing title, the team delivers a substantially improved lighting model fit for the current-gen platforms, along with higher resolution textures and remodelled geometry.

It's a question that has dogged the football car game ever since its inception - who is driving Rocket League's cars?

Last week we reported on the plight of players of the PlayStation 4 version of Rock Band 4, who at the time had been waiting for thousands of DLC tracks already available on Xbox One and the North American PlayStation Store to be released on the European PlayStation Store - three weeks after the game came out.

Though far from perfect, the original Overlord and its 2009 sequel had one very important thing going for them: they were different.

There are many novels written about video games (I own a few) but few like The Fountain War project that's raising money on Kickstarter right now. Whereas other books are stories imagined by game companies, this book will be about actual player events in Eve Online - sci-fi non-fiction.

Six characters will be released as downloadable content for fighting game Street Fighter 5, Capcom has said. What it hasn't said is who they are. Data-miners, though, reckon they've found out.

PlayStation 4 users can now purchase a new avatar via the PSN Store.

Stupid as it is, this article still contains genuine spoilers regarding the final two episodes of Life is Strange. You have been warned.

Hearthstone players will be able to buddy up and take on a common foe together for the first time this week.

Age of Empires 2 HD Edition's new expansion is out this week.

World of Warcraft subscriber numbers have been falling for years. The online game's real high-point was 12 million subscribers as third expansion Cataclysm launched in the autumn of 2010 - five years ago - and since then numbers have steadily fallen.

An early version of Splatoon was designed to allow travel via urinals.

Nearly 12 million people are still playing Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

UPDATE 4th November 2015: Konami has confirmed it's closed its LA studio responsible for Metal Gear Online.

I don't know how we got here. A sense of expectation as thick as fog hangs in the air of this hot, dark room. Not for the first time, I wonder how this is happening. How it is I am here, shoulder to shoulder, with my people, waiting, watching a cyclical stream of digital faces - faces I feel I know better than my own - flickering across the screen.

Bethesda has released over 60 Fallout-themed emoji in a new free app for iOS and Android called Fallout C.H.A.T. (Short for Communications Hub and Transmitter.)

Sony's announced an official PlayStation 4 In-ear Stereo Headset due December for £78/€90. It's out from 4th December in the UK and Ireland, and from 9th December across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Middle East and Africa.

Jackbox Games has partnered with Telltale to release retail editions of The Jackbox Party Pack, a collection including You Don't Know Jack 2015, Fibbage XL, Drawful, Word Spud and Lie Swatter.

Star Wars: Battlefront has revealed its first footage of Jakku, i.e. that desert planet with the crashed Star Destroyer from the second trailer for The Force Awakens.

Epic Games has revealed a new PC game called Paragon.

UPDATE 3/11/15 5.00pm Here's a quick glimpse at the trailer, due Friday. Behold, 15 seconds of Warcraft movie footage plus analysis from our Blizzard buff Chris Bratt:

It's been four months from the initial release of the nightmarish PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight - an outsourced port so bad that the publisher felt it had no choice but to remove the game from sale. An interim patch was pushed out for existing owners last month, but a new 2.3GB update was unveiled on Wednesday, alongside a re-release of the game. Yes, Batman Arkham Knight is available for sale once more but the question is, are the major issues surrounding the title resolved? Is it actually worthy of purchase?

During last week's Sony conference at Paris Games Week, we were finally given a release window (though not a specific release date) for No Man's Sky. While still exciting, it was hard to shake the feeling that the announcement was somewhat muted compared to the game's previous conference appearances.

Toys-to-life adventure game Lego Dimensions has added a new Hire A Hero feature that allows you to play as characters you don't own yourself.

Knights of The Fallen Empire, Star Wars: The Old Republic's newly released story-focussed expansion, isn't quite BioWare throwing its hands up in the air and finally giving us Knights of The Old Republic 3, but it's close. Very close. Even factoring in the rise of personal quests in the last few years, this is about nine hours of new content (with more to come) that completely sidelines the MMO side to the point that the very occasional shared area comes as less a surprise than a shock. Hello, fellow meatbag! What are you doing in my personal war to save the galaxy?