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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.

The console versions of Gone Home have been delayed in Europe - on the day they were supposed to come out.

Fallout 4 has been out for a few months now, but players brave enough to suffer through the unintuitive base-building continue to create impressive settlements. Now, a dedicated Fallout 4 tinkerer has put the flying city of Columbia in the skies above the Commonwealth.

Not a Hero, the newest game by OlliOlli maker Roll7, releases 2nd February on PlayStation 4. It costs £9.99/€12.99/$12.99.

Ex-Rare developer Kevin Bayliss has joined Playtonic Games as Character Artist. Bayliss is best known for his work on Killer Instinct, Diddy Kong Racing and Perfect Dark Zero, but will now be working on Playtonic's upcoming platformer Yooka-Laylee.

Cult classic PS2 platformer Psychonauts launches on PlayStation 4 this spring.

UK theme park Alton Towers has announced a new rollercoaster passengers ride while wearing virtual reality headsets.

Homefront: The Revolution comes out on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 20th May 2016, publisher Deep Silver has announced.

Digital Cybercherries, the team behind last year's VR arcade simulator NewRetroArcade has announced their first official title, Hypercharge.

Editor's note: This is an impressions piece on Assassin's Creed Chronicles: India, the second of a three part series. In accordance with our review policy, we'll be posting a full review once all episodes are out.

Double Fine boss Tim Schafer has divulged story details for his studio's freshly-funded Psychonauts sequel.

Changes to Valve's uber-popular Steam sale format have been a resounding success, the company has reported.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance running on Android using mobile hardware? This we had to check out. Platinum Games' brilliant Metal Gear spin-off has been promoted for some months on Nvidia's Shield portal, with no indication of when it may actually be released. Now, it's finally available - but unlike many of Nvidia's ports that scale across Tegra hardware, only the Shield Android TV micro-console can run this one, and perhaps not surprisingly, a gaming controller is mandatory.

Ratchet & Clank for PlayStation 4 launches 20th April 2016, Sony has announced.

Remember DC Universe Online, the PlayStation and PC superhero MMO made by the developer formerly known as Sony Online Entertainment? It's coming to Xbox One.

Provided you had 40GB of space going spare, the World of Tanks beta went live on PS4 last weekend, offering a trial of its 15v15 tank action. Technically, its engine shares an obvious common ground with the Xbox One version of last year. Both consoles use a revamped lighting model with high dynamic range, delivering a very different look to the PC original. PS4 also matches Xbox One for its nighttime battles and weather effects, which again, are not seen on the basic PC game.

Bungie has teased its next in-game Destiny event and - just maybe - hinted at where its sci-fi shooter series may head next: to the planet Mercury.

You can't save him. If your idea of a video game is a world to be conquered or a puzzle to be solved, then That Dragon, Cancer, the autobiographical game from Ryan and Amy Green about their terminally ill child Joel, can come as a melancholy shock. It's not something that can be won or, in that particularly crass term, beaten; it is instead a tour through the lives of a family touched by the shadow of cancer that can be testing and trying in a way unlike many other video games before it.

AMD has announced that the price of its innovative R9 Nano small-form factor graphics card has dropped from its $649 launch price down to $499. UK prices have shifted in line to match, dropping from an initial £510 to something closer to £400 (at the time of writing, Scan has a Sapphire model for £395 plus delivery). At a stroke, AMD is now offering GTX 980-level performance at a similar ballpark price - but with increased power-efficiency, quiet operation and a minuscule six-inch form-factor.

Video producer Ian Higton will be hopping aboard the Ecliptic Express and cracking into the Resident Evil Zero HD remake live on our YouTube channel later on today. When I offered to save him some time and write this blog for him, Ian requested that I let you all know that he has never played Resident Evil Zero before in his life. I think that's a fair shout, and an important piece of info to pass on, because as someone who has played Resi Zero many times before, I'm very much looking forward to seeing how confused he gets.

There's an impressive new Watch Dogs mod for Grand Theft Auto 5 which replicates the technology-tampering gameplay from Ubisoft's open world hackathon - and surpasses it.

The latest Awesome Games Done Quick - the wonderful video game speedrunning charity event - finished over the weekend, raising a whopping $1.2m.

Oslo's City Hall has begun chiming the theme tune from Super Mario Bros.

Music legend David Bowie has died aged 69 after a battle with cancer. He only released his latest album Blackstar on his birthday on Friday.

Was Edward Snowden morally justified in leaking secret documents that revealed, with the help of phone and internet companies, the British and US governments had spied on its citizens without their knowledge or consent? It is a question yet to be legally resolved. Snowden remains holed up in an undisclosed location in Russia, the country to which he fled in 2013. He refuses to return to the US where he is wanted on three charges (two counts of espionage, and one of theft of government property). While thumb-twiddles under assumed names in bleak hotels, the world continues to reel in the aftershocks of his revelations. Was Snowden justified in his actions? Come to think of it: would you have helped him?