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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.

Players won't get to vote on which multiplayer maps are played next, or veto ones they don't like, in Halo 5 Guardians. That's the word from 343 Industries studio head Josh Holmes, responding to a fan question on Twitter.

Having completed its metamorphosis into Dota 2 Reborn, Valve's hit free-to-play MOBA has become the first game to run completely on the new Source 2 engine.

Yacht Club Games has dug up a release date for Plague of Shadows, the completely free expansion to its critically acclaimed retro platformer, Shovel Knight. Plague of Shadows will be available for every format of the game from 17 September.

Ubisoft has launched Art of Siege, a new "online training platform" designed to get players up to speed on the sort of strategies needed to survive in upcoming tactical shooter Rainbow Six: Siege.

Did Minecraft need a story? Or course not. Building blocks are fun because they present you with a blank canvas to craft your own creations, and your own tale. But, well, Lego never needed a story, and that didn't stop Warner Bros. from constructing a damn fine story out of vaguely themed bits and blocks for The Lego Movie. Telltale Games - the veteran storytelling studio behind The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones - is following suit by creating its own fourth wall-breaking yarn within the confines of the ill-defined Minecraft universe.

Konami UK has announced that Akira Yamaoka will undertake a five date tour of the UK in October and November, performing music from the Silent Hill series with a live band.

Terrifyingly hilarious physics toolbox Garry's Mod is getting a sequel. Probably. Eventually.

The Pokémon Company, Nintendo and Niantic Labs are collaborating on a new mobile game that will allow players to find and catch Pokémon in the real world, using location tracking data.

Farewell, then, to the oft-mocked and rarely promoted Xbox Live Indie Games service. Microsoft has announced that as of yesterday, 9 September, no new sign ups will be accepted and it is beginning "the sunsetting process" for indie self-publishing on Xbox 360.

The just-announced new Apple TV has a new remote that doubles as a Wii-esque motion controller.

Mojang has released an update to Minecraft that lets Windows 10 and Pocket Edition players play together.

Bethesda has said the Fallout 4 Season Pass will cost $30 (around £20) and those who buy it will get all of the Fallout 4 DLC the developer ever creates.

UPDATE 9/9/15 12.40pm Emails have begun arriving with customers advising them of GAME's next steps in returning money to customers who were over-charged for Super Mario Maker pre-orders. "On Monday we became aware of an issue with some isolated orders," reads the note from GAME's head of customer services. "This has impacted a number of customers who pre-ordered the Wii U exclusive, Super Mario Maker. We have been working through crediting any pending transactions with our banking partners as a top priority. You should see these appear on your account over the next couple of days as we resolve everything ready for the product release on Friday."

Ubisoft has kindly given us 5000 Rainbow Six Siege closed beta keys to give away. The beta kicks off on the first day of EGX, Thursday 24th September, with no end date announced.

Last month Max: The Curse of Brotherhood developer Press Play let people vote on which game it would make next. The results are in: it's making Project: Knoxville.

Star Wars Battlefront has a King of the Hill-style mode that can be played on planets such as Tatooine, Hoth, Sullust and Endor.

Destiny's big update 2.0 is now live.

I have always been perfectly awful at stealth games. Even as a child playing hide and seek, in fact; I was the kid who instantly needed a wee as soon as they found their hiding spot. Now that I'm a grown man, little has changed - except maybe my bladder capacity. I'm not sure. It's been a while since I last played hide and seek.

Konami has issued an urgent warning to Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain players after the discovery of a bug that is corrupting save files.

As Sony's last-gen library slowly but surely makes its way to the PlayStation 4 in remastered form, award-winning Vita curiosity Tearaway was surely the least likely candidate for the port treatment.

Capcom has announced a PC port of action role-playing game Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

Like wisps of steam signalling the approach of a locomotive, Train Simulator 2015 fans have sent up smoke signals that something is amiss.

The Witcher 3 expansion Hearts of Stone will be released 13th October, CD Projekt Red has announced. This is the first of two planned expansions; the second, Blood & Wine, arrives Q1 2016.

Former developers of Darksiders have launched a $500,000 Kickstarter for a JRPG-style game.

Nintendo has just announced its line-up for EGX 2015, the event run by Eurogamer's parent company Gamer Network thanks for asking, and it's some 30 titles strong, headed up by the likes of Star Fox Zero, Xenoblade Chronicles X and The Legend of Zelda: Triforce Heroes.

Monkey Island and The Cave creator Ron Gilbert has detailed the potential problems and possibilities of developing a game on an indie budget.