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Let's cut to the chase here. Uncharted: the Nathan Drake Collection is a colossal undertaking on the part of Sony and its chosen developer, Bluepoint Games. Each of the games in the pack receives a sublime level of care and attention, making each title worthy of detailed analysis. With that in mind, we've decided to produce in-depth coverage for every game in the package, beginning with the most dramatically improved game in the remastered trilogy: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

DICE will release a free DLC pack for all Battlefield 4 players this autumn.

WipEout launched in the UK alongside the PS1 20 years ago this week - and for the first time one of its creators has published its design document.

Warner plans to put the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight back on sale at the end of October.

Famitsu has leaked a brand new playable character for fighting game Street Fighter 5.

Destiny's two big player versus player modes are set to return soon and slightly different.

In 2014, four years after its original release, Skate 3, the third and most chaotic entry in EA's series of skateboarding video games, was reprinted. The game had become an unexpected hit on YouTube. A bevy of bugs and glitches made it the ideal text for let's players and streamers, those presenters who typically seek games that elicit reactions of laughter or fear on camera, those extremes of emotion that most appeal to audiences in this newly minted medium. One early compilation of ragdoll pratfalls and gravity-shanking stunts led the charge. It now has close to 5 million views. Sales rose, skaters collapsed and EA found itself an improbable pioneer as the publisher of a game whose success was founded upon failure.

Trackmania Turbo has been delayed until early 2016.

I can't think of a game in which it's more enjoyable to lose than Blood Bowl. When you're 3-0 down inside the second half, the dice are forever against you and the chance of a consolatory touchdown seems increasingly slim, there is always a strategy you can turn to that will rekindle your appreciation for the Orwellian sporting spirit: violent conduct. Not the whiney-bitey nonsense we've seen from the likes of Suarez and Costa, more the kind of full-blooded assault demonstrated by Harald Schumacher (no relation) in the 1982 World Cup semi-final, after which the unrepentant West German goalkeeper, since dubbed the Butcher of Seville, briefly beat Hitler into second place as the most hated man in France.

Frictional's latest sci-fi horror game Soma has shifted 92k copies since it launched last week on PS4 and PC, the developer announced.

We all had a sneaky feeling that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 was going to be a disappointment, but I don't think anyone could have guessed it would turn out quite as bad as it has. If our glitch compilation wasn't enough to convince you to keep your wallet firmly closed, why not check out my live stream at 5pm today where I'll be playing 90 minutes worth of the game so that you don't have to.

I had to see the crash before I understood it in its entirety. All afternoon I had been watching a game that seemed made of fascinating bits and pieces. An MMO about exploration rather than levelling. An homage to The Wind Waker and Skies of Arcadia in which you race around floating islands utilising Icarus wings and a grappling hook. A survival game about crafting and salvage in which every part of harvesting and construction is tangible, in which trees are sliced into individual logs that start to roll away from you the moment they hit the ground. As the ideas piled up, as the logs rolled, and as one of the developers I was sat with took the controls of a huge airship and showed me how you could use the craft's in-game control panel to steer it through the clouds, right down to navigating via the artificial horizon sat snug in its brass orb, I pretty much gave up. I caved and asked what Worlds Adrift is actually about. He couldn't really give me an answer.

Russian wrestler Zangief is playable in fighting game Street Fighter 5.

Square Enix has cancelled Deus Ex: Mankind Divided's "augmented pre-orders" program.

I was a very serious player of driving games just before the PlayStation 1 came out 20 years ago. It's debatable whether I played racing games or not, even - these were things to be studied, analysed and perfected. A friend gave me a copy of Geoff Crammond's Formula One Grand Prix, after trying to convince me how much fun it was to play the idiot, switching the invincibility on, turning 180 degrees and eliminating every car on the field before turning back around and claiming the win. I wasn't much good at hiding my disgust. This, I assured him with all the pomposity of a teenager, was most definitely not what it was all about.

GamesAid is an umbrella charity we care about because it belongs to and is propelled by everyone working in the UK games industry. We direct our fundraising and support towards GamesAid which then divides the money across a selection of charities focused on helping disadvantaged and disabled young people.

Spy movies have understood asymmetrical co-operation for ages. That's a complicated way of saying that they have found the beauty, the thrill, in one person opening a door remotely so that another may move through it.

Ubisoft made a song for Just Dance 2016 and it's a bit mad.

Dirt Rally's latest monthly update might be its most significant yet, introducing the Finnish rally alongside a couple of iconic cars from the turn of the century.

If everything had gone according to plan with Geometry Wars Retro Evolved, it would have ended up a shadow of its final glory. For all the myriad spawn patterns the game draws upon, each enemy type can be relied upon to provide a fleeting moment of transparency on arrival, during which time the player can make contact and survive the encounter. Every enemy type except the snakes, that is. They appear fully formed and deadly, and the most delicate of dances is required to escape from within their collective clutches.

Armikrog, the claymation point-and-click adventure by The Neverhood and Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel, is out now on Steam.

UPDATE 30/09/2015 6.10pm: The PS4's new 3.0 features are now live and you can watch our very own Ian Higton walk us through them in the video below.

Twisted Pixel - developer of 'Splosion Man, Comic Jumper, The Gunstringer and Lococycle - has parted ways with Microsoft, who acquired the studio in October 2011.

Sony has revealed its free PlayStation Plus offerings for October in the ever evolving Instant Games Collection.

Do you all want another Divinity: Original Sin game? That's the question developer Larian asked, via Kickstarter, cap sort of in hand.

Super Mario Maker has sold 1m units, Nintendo has announced.

Need for Speed No Limits, the mobile game we first covered back in November 2014, is out today.

The Game Boy is 25 years old in Europe this week, and by this point, they're pretty much everywhere. Or rather, they were pretty much everywhere. Now they're often in attics, I imagine, or in sheds, or in crates slid under beds. Nintendo made over 100 million Game Boys, which isn't bad, but today I don't want to think about that. I want to think back to a period - a period that probably didn't exist the way I see it - where there is just one of them. Just one Game Boy. The first. And somebody is road-testing it.

There were a bunch of interesting games tucked away in the Rezzed area at this year's EGX, but one I really wanted to play was Vermintide (Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide, to give its full name). Now I run the risk of gaining a reputation for only talking about games involving Warhammer, but if it helps, this one isn't part of the strategy genre!

Prison Architect, the game that saved Introversion, did so in spectacular style: to date it has earned more than $19m from over 1.25m sales.