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Writer Drew Karpyshyn has returned to BioWare. He left in 2012 - I interviewed him after his departure - to concentrate on his Chaos Born trilogy of fantasy books and, now that they're complete, he's decided to return.

Age of Mythology is getting a new expansion 13 years after the game came out.

"I eat you then I poop you out."

It's not easy living day to day in a toxic wasteland that's short on hope and long on angry supermutants. For some survivors, banding together and fashioning a bizarre new cult out of the rubble of civilisation is just their way of coping with the chaos, so it's not for us to judge these people for being deranged and weird and wrong. Except we're going to do just that, right now.

The most used piece of PC software in the world isn't Word, that blank slate on which countless novels, school projects, hot-takes and clipart collages have been tapped out across the years. It's not Excel, with its stretching and compressing cells, into which the world's companies daily deposit their vital statistics and forecasts. It's not even Steam, the portal that leads to millions of other virtual universes.

Before it was a rocket launcher with target tracking and devastating cluster rounds, Gjallarhorn - from the Old Norse "yelling horn" - was the instrument sounded by the herald god, Heimdall, to signal Ragnorok. The noise of Gjallarhorn, in other words, meant the end of the world - which, in a way, is just as true of its deadly, wolf-headed descendant in Destiny, a gun which proved so powerful it called down an armageddon on itself.

One of the highlight's of this week's Tokyo Game Show was most definitely the reveal of The Old Hunters, From Software's expansion for the PlayStation 4 exclusive Bloodborne. We shared the full details yesterday, and now's your chance to see us fumble through it while going into a little more detail about what to expect, and why it's so bloody exciting.

Originally conceived as a last-gen game, Until Dawn's revival on PlayStation 4 brings it to the very cutting edge of today's rendering and motion capture technologies. The Killzone Shadow Fall engine is at the heart of its delivery, and UK developer Supermassive Games doesn't hold back on using its strong feature-set to produce an atmospheric, beautifully-lit horror tale of many tangents. With some eye-catching facial capture tech in play too, the only caveat is Until Dawn's high visual standard is paid for - it's fair to say - in performance.

When I was a young kid first discovering video games in the early 1980s, I used to go to the huge Wythenshawe library in Greater Manchester, where I could rent Commodore 64 titles for 10p a week. Usually, I went home with piles of fighting games and shoot-'em-ups like Yie Ar Kung Fu, Green Beret and 1942. But one day, when someone had been in before me and grabbed all the popular stuff, I glumly picked up all that was left: a copy of Deus Ex Machina, the bizarre multimedia art game by Mel Croucher about the birth of a living organism within a vast computer. I was 12. I wanted to shoot stuff, I did not want to watch a fetus gestate in a databank while Jon Pertwee narrated a story about a mouse poo. But I played it anyway.

PS4 owners who want to get an early look at Dark Souls 3 may have an opportunity to do so as registration for its upcoming network stress test is now live.

Monster Hunter X (pronounced "Cross") will let you play as a cat.

Rocket League is getting another DLC pack, developer Psyonix has announced.

Ubisoft has announced a set of Assassin's Creed: Syndicate missions starring Dickens and Darwin, available if you pre-order the game.

UPDATE 11.00am: Ubisoft has now detailed the Assassin's Creed: Syndicate season pass, which will include the just-announced Jack the Ripper pack.

Konami has ceased all triple-A console game production on everything but Pro Evolution Soccer and there are currently no plans for a big new Metal Gear game, while worldwide technology director Julien Merceron has left the company. That's according to a pair of reports on French site Gameblog. Eurogamer understands both reports to be true.

Nintendo has patented a new controller design that features scroll wheels on its top two shoulders.

The award-winning drama series Downton Abbey begins its final season of episodes this weekend. To celebrate, ITV has launched its own free-to-play mobile game.

Wii U exclusive Star Fox Zero has been delayed into 2016, following an eleventh hour decision by top designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

In some ways, I imagine writing about football games is a bit like writing about wine. Make a quick judgement, pluck arbitrarily from the glossary of established terms and - as long as you express yourself with conviction - most readers will be happy to follow your lead.

The Witness, Jonathan Blow's long-awaited follow-up to Braid, will be out on 26th January for PS4 and PC, the developer has announced.

Single-screen retro platformer Penarium is coming to PS4 and Steam on 22nd September with the Xbox One version following on the 23rd.

Last month Tecmo Koei announced that Dynasty Warriors developer Omega Force would be making a game based on the popular manga and anime series Attack on Titan. The sci-fi fantasy series is set in a world where humanity is at war with giant naked people called Titans, so this video game adaptation was bound to be bonkers.

Amazon is releasing a new model of its Android-based Fire TV micro-console that will offer 75 per cent more processing power than the previous model.

Last month Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune announced that his Blue Bomber spiritual successor Mighty No. 9 would be delayed until 2016. Originally it was set to come out tomorrow. To make up for this, Inafune revealed that an exclusive three stage demo would be coming to all Kickstarter backers on 15th September. Well, it looks like that's been delayed as well.

The Uncharted 4 beta will launch on 4th December and run through 13th December, Naughty Dog has announced.

Destiny: The Taken King was the most-downloaded day-one game in PlayStation history, Activision has announced.

A hollow bursting through a barrel, or a knight waiting poised around a stonewall corner; Dark Souls has excelled at surprises just as much as it has its sense of rich, clotted enigma. How dispiriting, then, to be faced with a sequel that, from first impressions, felt so familiar. More Dark Souls will always be a welcome thing, of course, but could this sequel that's been fired off in quick succession after sequel expansion Scholar of the First Sin and spiritual partner Bloodborne be the proof that you can have too much of a good thing?

Persona 5 has been delayed to summer 2016 in Japan.

If you have read or watched yesterday's preview of Total War: Warhammer, you may have heard me moaning about the lack of video footage we were sent following our first hands-on with the game. Taking this criticism on board (or, more likely, as a result of a rigid marketing plan), developer Creative Assembly has today released a full playthrough of the demo, which you can watch below.

Rebel Galaxy, the cool-looking space game Christian Donlan previewed back in May, comes out on PC on 20th October 2015.