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I wonder: do you end up saving money in sales or spending more because things are on sale? Regardless, Steam is having a sale, a stealth-game sale, which lasts until Friday, 16th October, 6pm BST.

Multiplayer-focused Star Wars Battlefront won't have dedicated voice chat on any platform, EA has confirmed.

Bloodborne Game of the Year Edition will launch on 27th November and include the DLC story expansion The Old Hunters.

The Secret World and The Longest Journey developer Funcom's upcoming "single-player psychological horror experience" The Park is set for a 27th October release on PC.

A new Spelunky World Record has been set at $3,404,400.

P.T. spiritual successor Allison Road has cancelled its Kickstarter campaign, but only because it's been picked up by a publisher: Team 17.

The original Deus Ex just got prettier with the new mod Deus Ex Revision becoming a free download on Steam.

This is the big one for The Witcher 3. Measuring in at 15GB on console, update 1.10 arrives with an essay's worth of patch notes - easily the biggest to date from CD Projekt Red. Among its 600 plus entries, we're mostly looking at bug fixes and gameplay tune-ups, and curiously no performance boosts are noted at all for PlayStation 4 or Xbox One. But with each update comes a huge expectation that console frame-rates will - at last - see improvement. And after so many false dawns, we can safely say patch 1.10 is finally the one to deliver - for PS4, at least.

UPDATE 6.10PM Bungie has now revealed the pricing for Silver - Destiny's new real-world money currency.

At Kent, after travelling through countryside untouched by progress, the train hits the English Channel and plunges into the freezing waters. We are somewhat put out by this, perhaps, but we sense that the master is not. Fogg is truly masterful - in the original, imperious sense of the word. He is also "untouched by place or circumstance", which is handy really, since his wager will take him around the world and in a terrible hurry. We hide our fear as the water races past, and maybe this is why our relationship strengthens slightly as a result. Perhaps it's not this, of course. Perhaps it's something else. Perhaps it's nothing at all.

Home Free, the stray dog sim we covered earlier this month, is now confirmed for a PS4 release.

Because I am an old fart who likes retro games, today's live stream is of a little known indie offering called Bedlam which has just been released on PS4 and Xbox One (it's been on Steam for a while now in Early Access).

How big is Star Wars Battlefront going to be this November/Christmas? If the beta is anything to go by: big (although the beta does not cost £40-50).

One of the most-requested features comes to Batman: Arkham Knight today.

How do you craft the world's most well-known sandbox game into a single-player narrative? Like everything in Minecraft, you start off with a recipe.

The people behind Homeworld: Shipbreakers released a video that shows off new gameplay. It's the first we've seen of the game in a while.

UPDATE 13TH OCTOBER: You've got until 4pm today, UK time, to play the beta. EA announced on Twitter that servers will close at 4pm BST / 5PM CEST / 8AM PST.

Gabe Newell Simulator looks set to launch on Steam as an Early Access title later today.

It's hardly surprising but here it is anyway: Star Wars Battlefront has a Season Pass. It buys four planned, upcoming expansion packs "filled with new content that will take you to new locations across a galaxy far, far away", says the Battlefront website. Season Passers also get a two-week head start on expansion content as well as an exclusive 'Shoot First' emote.

Editor's note: Since this article was published, a hotfix for the buggy diplomacy system has been released. We will examine it in detail soon.

Rising Tide, the first expansion for Civilization: Beyond Earth, launched last week with an impressively far-ranging set of changes and new features - but also a rather serious bug, as Christian Donlan found when playing the game for review. The bug meant that AI civilizations allied with the player might not automatically join them in declaring war on others - which, according to the new diplomacy rules introduced by Rising Tide, they should do.

Back to the Future's iconic DeLorean will soon be available to drive on the futuristic pitches of Rocket League.

Firewatch will launch on 9th February 2016 for PS4, PC, Mac and Linux, developer Campo Santo has announced.

Treyarch is doing things a little differently for Call of Duty: Black Ops 3: all campaign missions are unlocked from the start.

Activision caused quite the stir when it announced the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 would not include campaign - a first for the series.

Back when The Crew launched at the tail-end of last year, I felt like we were pretty much alone in enjoying the open world online racer, but it turns out we weren't the only ones turned on by the Test Drive Unlimited spiritual successor. Some 3 million people have played it, apparently, and it's done well enough not only for Ubisoft to acquire developer Ivory Tower, but also for a significant expansion to be prepped for release this November.

If there's one thing Laserlife can't be accused of it's a lack of ambition. Where most rhythm games are content to let their artfully weaved beat matches do the talking, this game wants to say something grander. The story begins with a long-dead astronaut floating through space until it encounters you, an alien intelligence with the means to reconstruct the lost memories of the fallen explorer. Through the unravelling of the traveller's past, we remember what it means to be a human - or so the pitch goes.

There is only one attack that's able to puncture Megatron's shield, which throbs rather un-menacingly in fetching pink. First Bumblebee must transform into a car (not the testosterone-ripped Chevrolet Camaro of Michael Bay's brash trio of scrapyard-assault films, but rather a cutesy Choro-Q-esque love bug). Then, by driving in tight circles, you must find top speed. Once the necessary momentum has been gained, aim at Megatron and, milliseconds before you crash into his shield, transform back into your mecha form, animating into a farcical uppercut as you do so. The shield shatters into pink shards and Megatron is knocked into the air.

Halo fans beware - story spoilers for the upcoming Halo 5: Guardians campaign are being posted online.

On paper, the GTX 950 doesn't look like a hugely enticing proposition - it's a cut-down version of an existing product and it's clearly aimed at the more value-conscious gamer, with performance to match. Indeed, it seems to exist mostly to nullify a tiny niche occupied by AMD's new R7 370. And yet, we rather like assessing the budget cards like this. Reviewing the latest and greatest is all about seeing how fast they are, but at the lower end of the spectrum, it's all about experimenting, tweaking settings, seeing just how much you can get away with in pursuit of great visuals and decent performance. In this respect, the GTX 950 doesn't disappoint.