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Konami has fixed the Metal Gear Solid 5 saved-game corruption bug that occurs when taking buddy Quiet on missions 29 and 42.

Legacy of the Void, the final instalment in the StarCraft 2 trilogy, will be released on 10th November.

Endings are difficult - but then, BioWare already knows this. After the mess of Mass Effect 3, the developer played things safe with the finale of Dragon Age Inquisition. That guy you were trying to stop for pretty much the whole game? Well, you stopped him. There was a boss fight, you won, you got cheered home. Everything was tied up pretty neatly - except, of course, for that post-credits stinger.

It's not where you'd expect to find a place like this. Nottingham's more famous for Robin Hood and Su Pollard than video games, but that's been changing over the past ten years thanks largely to Gamecity, a festival started by Iain Simon. Gamecity is a unique celebration of video games that takes over the city, and has one guiding ethos: everybody should be able to play, see and discover games for themselves.

The press has been speculating about it for years now, but on Wednesday we finally got to see Apple's debut game console - a not totally unexpected revamp of the Apple TV, bringing it with a radically revised interface, access to the App Store, and a Wii-inspired waggle remote. And thankfully we saw games too - a mixture of established mobile hits, more traditional console games and more tantalisingly, fully exclusive titles. But the sting in the tale is this: Apple TV is both a set-top box and a micro-console - jack-of-all-trades products that have thus far failed to enthuse the mainstream.

Two objects sit next to each other on a table. An odd couple, they couldn't be more different if they tried. On the left is a disc, opaque and crimson - made of polyvinyl chloride, grooves cut in circles. On the right, a black plastic box with a raised circular section on top on which an immortal phrase is embossed in gold: "16-BIT". A vinyl record and a video games console appear as polar opposites, emblematic of different generations; the record was invented in 1888, the Sega Mega Drive was released a hundred years later. Yet the pair are now intrinsically linked thanks to a small record label in West London.

Hello, you look nice. Come in and watch an episode of The Eurogamer Show, why don't you? Go on, you've earned it.

Hi Eurogamers, welcome to your tasting menu from the week of videos at Outside Xbox. We begin by inspecting the nightmarish bosses of Studio MDHR's upcoming run-and-gun platformer Cuphead.

It's been a while since we've run a tech interview, but when Microsoft approached us with the opportunity to quiz The Coalition about the technical work behind the recently released Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, we seized the opportunity. The original Epic release was a landmark last-gen title - a game that thrust Unreal Engine 3 into the limelight, its technology and its artistic approach helping to define the aesthetic of a vast range of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles.

What's the difference between a labyrinth and a maze? The original, primal Labyrinth - the first in human history - the one from which all others derive - is of course Jim Henson's 1986 David Bowie vehicle. That labyrinth had a thousand paths - that labyrinth was all about choices. But, confusingly, most reference works will tell you that that this is the difference between the two: a maze has choices and many paths, while a labyrinth is unicursal, with a single choiceless path to the centre.

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux, the remade version of the game released on PS4 in July, is now available on Steam as a free upgrade to the core game.

Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma will debut its first of three episodes on PS4 and PC come 22nd September, publisher Versus Evil has announced.

Epic is giving away Infinity Blade 3, the final chapter in its sword dueling saga, for free on the App Store.

It's a well known fact that most movies based on video games are rubbish. As it turns out, it's not an angry bald man with a red tie that made Hitman cool, but rather the feeling of pulling off the perfect simulated murder. It wasn't the nightmare nurses or occult story that made Silent Hill a hit, but the oppressive sense of dread as you navigated it twisted world. Doom wasn't amazing because of its demons on Mars, but rather because it let you obliterate said demons on Mars. There is one video game movie that gets this right, however, only we don't think about it as it's technically still a video game.

Play through Dragon Age Inquisition's Trespasser DLC and you may be surprised by the extent it sets up the series' future.

This year's EGX, the UK games festival formerly known as the Eurogamer Expo (and run by our parent company Gamer Network), will see Sony's Shuhei Yoshida in a developer session celebrating the 20-year anniversary of PlayStation's launch in the UK.

PC cartoon co-op shooter Tango Fiesta will be released Thursday 24th September, Eurogamer can reveal. The aim is to launch live on stage at EGX in Birmingham during the Tango Fiesta Rezzed developer session, which starts at 4.30pm BST if you're headed there. I'm afraid it isn't being streamed.

Metal Gear Solid 5 has a dedicated online component that is yet to launch, Metal Gear Online, but multiplayer is already worked through the campaign's fabric in the form of Forward Operating Bases. Every player gets one FOB that exists as part of their main save, which can be customised and is basically another Mother Base. This can be invaded by others - and so too can you shoot for theirs.

Offbeat indie specialist Devolver Digital has launched "point and click hugventure" Dropsy for PC and Mac. The crowdfunded adventure casts the player as the titular clown, seeking to clear his name after a horrific circus fire.

Our first look at Mad Max showed Avalanche Studios handing in a solid cross-platform conversion where the visually stunning open world wasteland is given the full 1080p treatment on both PS4 and Xbox One, with almost identical visual features and performance. Aside from a couple of mostly irrelevant visual anomalies, it's a great example of a cross-platform project done right - both Xbox One and PS4 owners can buy the game, knowing that they haven't been short-changed in terms of graphics or gameplay.

UPDATE: It appears that the days of updates for all versions of GTA 5 are at an end. Rockstar has told Kotaku that the reason next week's update is PS4, Xbox One and PC only is because the last gen consoles can no longer cope with the things they want to add to the game. "We always knew there might be a point where we would reach the technical capacity of what the older generation of consoles can handle as each downloadable update requires additional memory both for assets and for additional scripting," says Rockstar. "We have continued to optimize the entire game over time in order to squeeze as much memory as we possibly could out of the last-generation hardware and at some point, continuing to add content for those systems could cause the risk of instability to the game overall."

Under the sea, no one can hear you scream. More to the point, no one can tell you've wet yourself either.

Apparently concerned that the world is not nearly excited enough for its upcoming quirky indie game Fallout 4, Bethesda has launched a new web series based around the post-apocalyptic RPG's S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats system.

In what is arguably one of the weirdest Nintendo videos in a long time - and that's saying something - Shigeru Miyamoto has taken to YouTube to bust some Mario myths to celebrate the launch of Super Mario Maker.

Before I introduce the second episode of Low Batteries, our video series on games and mental health, I'd just like to take a moment to thank all those who watched the first one. The response was better than I could have possibly hoped. Thank you.

After a mere 13 years, Sony has announced a sequel to the 2002 vehicular combat game, Hardware: Online Arena. The PS2 title was one of the earliest PlayStation games designed exclusively for play over the nascent PlayStation Network.

Mobile RPG Star Wars: Uprising is out today on the App Store and Google Play. The title, from Kabam, helps to bridge the narrative gap between the end of Return of the Jedi and the events of new movie, The Force Awakens.

UPDATE: Not long after this article went live, the official Ninja Theory Twitter account posted the following message: "A vertical slice is a testbed of ideas, not part of the final game. It has been retired and we have started #Hellblade production afresh". Rather confusingly, this was followed less than an hour later by another tweet which read: "Retiring a vertical slice and moving on into full production is good news. It is not starting again, it is moving forward as expected". We'll update this story as and when Ninja Theory clarifies what it means.

Activision has confirmed that three of its titles will be available for play via the newly announced Apple TV. Guitar Hero Live, Skylanders Superchargers and Geometry Wars 3 will all be playable on the device when they launch later this autumn.

EA Sports has posted on its official blog to explain the differences between the current gen versions of FIFA 16, and the versions releasing for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.