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I really like Elite: Dangerous, even if it does go out of its way to make you feel unimportant.

ACE Team (Zeno Clash, Abyss Odyssey, Rock of Ages) is releasing its upcoming isometric action game The Deadly Tower of Monsters on 19th January for PS4 and PC.

UPDATE 02/12/2015 10.50pm: Indivisible has achieved its $1.5m crowdfunding goal.

Two years ago NASA announced a plan to deliver a container filled with seeds to the moon. It will be the first in a range of experiments to test the viability of humans colonising nearby moons and planets when we're finally done ruining this one. It's a gallant goal and yet, if the seeds do take root and flower, it will take a visionary chef to cook a sustaining meal from the harvest: a fistful of herbs and clutch of turnips. As the world thaws around us, NASA's vision for a lunar garden is something of a beautiful lie, an ecological lullaby sung above deck to soothe souls while our Titanic planet tilts and glugs. Truth be told, if we have to depart terra firma in a hurry, the question of whether we have enough basil to garnish our turnips will be, you might say, of secondary concern.

11 bit's civilian-based war sim This War of Mine is coming to PS4 and Xbox One on 29th January as This War of Mine: The Little Ones, publisher Deep Silver has announced.

Vita infographic-based puzzle-platformer Metrico is getting a complete remake on PS4 with Metrico+, developer Digital Dreams has announced.

Kickstarted rhythm revival Amplitude will arrive for PlayStation 4 on 5th January 2016, priced $19.99 (UK price still TBA).

The Uncharted 4 multiplayer will arrive a day early and begin tomorrow, 3rd December, at 5pm GMT. We'd previously expected it on Thursday, 4th December. The end date - 13th December - hasn't changed.

GOG.com has launched its annual winter sale, which is set to feature new discounts each day until 13th December.

How many hours in your life have you sat watching loading screens? Two? Twenty? Two hundred? Enough, right? Wouldn't it have been nicer to be entertained with a mini-game while you wait?

Hidetaka Miyazaki and From Software have an outstanding approach to narrative design, creating worlds where the systems and lore are intertwined from first principles. These are not games with simple stories, easy answers, or even good and bad - which is why fans find their heady brew of fact, myth, and suggestion so intoxicating.

Love it or hate it, Black Friday isn't going anywhere. Console and games sales were even bigger this year than in 2014.

BioWare's kung fu role-playing game Jade Empire is free on Origin today. Apparently it's in celebration of the game turning 10 years old - 10 years old!

UPDATE 2/12/15 9:00am: We're still working on our Face-Off coverage for Just Cause 3, but in the meantime we've updated the article with how the game runs on PC - specifically our budget computer, featuring a Core i3 4130, 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3 plus an Nvidia GTX 750 Ti.

Fallout 4 modder Cosmic Contrarian likes to create ridiculously epic NPC battles pitting thousands of characters against one another. The modder previously pitted 10k ghouls against 300 Super Mutants and 2k Mirelurks against 100 Minutemen. Now he's created his most gargantuan battle yet with 100 Brotherhood of Steel Soldiers facing off against a wave of 30k Deathclaws storming their homebase at the Cambridge Police Station.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is now available on PS3 for £10.99 / $14.99.

Crossovers are intrinsically tasty ideas. There's just something about sandwiching two popular worlds, slicing off the crust of logic, and taking a bite out of the ensuing chaos. Superman and Aliens? Awesome. Futurama and Simpsons? Fantastic! Mario and Paper Mario? Like peanut butter and chocolate, swirled together on a wholemeal bed.

Sony's XDev Studio Europe is releasing the music festival sim BigFest tomorrow on Vita.

King's Quest's second episode, Rubble Without a Cause, is set for a 16th December release on PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC, publisher Sierra has announced.

Sony's next gaming press conference, the keynote for the PlayStation Experience in San Francisco, will occur this Saturday 5th December at 6pm UK time.

Just in case you own both platforms (are you mad?) and are wondering which one to buy it on: Chivalry Medieval Warfare runs at 60 frames-per-second on PlayStation 4 but only 30 frames-per-second on Xbox One. Developer Torn Banner confirmed the frame-rates to me on Twitter, following an interview with WCCF Tech from last week.

It's been seven long years since we last had a Rainbow Six game, and the multiplayer-focussed Siege could well have been worth the wait. I've been ploughing through it across both PC and PS4, and while it's not without its problems, when it all clicks into place it's absolutely fantastic.

Star Wars Battlefront has been patched and Barrage, the rank 24 Star Card ability that lets you fire a volley of three grenades with a short fuse, appears to have been nerfed (weakened).

Turn-based strategy game SteamWorld Heist will become available to loot from the 3DS eShop next Thursday, 10th December.

In a previous episode of Late to the Party, Chris Bratt embarrassed himself by not being very good at Ocarina of Time, a game he'd barely played before that I can pretty much recite step by step from memory. He launched himself headfirst into a Deku Baba, got thrown around by a Skulltula, and defied the Great Deku Tree's orders at every possible opportunity - it was a disaster. So bad was he that an anonymous commenter declared that the video was ruining the game for everyone else on YouTube, but since when does anyone listen to what anonymous YouTube commenters have to say?

Released earlier this year in Japan, Xenoblade Chronicles X is now set for release in the West imminently - and it's a game we've kept an eye on for a while now as its scope and sheer technological ambition exceeds expectations. When looking at open world games on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and even the Wii U itself, there are scant few that offer a truly stable frame-rate - but that's exactly what we have here. There are certainly sacrifices that had to be made to get there but the end result is nothing short of spectacular for the platform, with a sublime balance between visual ambition and overall performance.

Destiny's toughest challenge just got tougher - and it was beaten in minutes by players streaming on Twitch.

Just Cause 3 starts as it means to go on. Following a winking credits sequence soundtracked by a crooning cover version of The Prodigy's Firestarter, you're dropped into the game standing atop a speeding plane, using a rocket launcher to take out ground targets as flak explodes all around you.

A Christmas PlayStation Store sale begins with a bang today by offering Metal Gear Solid 5 half-price, which means £30 on PS4, £20 on PS3 - markedly cheaper than in most shops. Catch is, the deal only lasts until tomorrow (Wednesday 2nd) at midnight, as it's the first of 12 Deals of Christmas.

Nintendo has begun rolling out its new account service, catchily named Nintendo Account, beginning in Japan.