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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.

This year's EGX, the UK games festival formerly known as the Eurogamer Expo (and run by our parent company Gamer Network, disclosure fans), will be the first opportunity to play Star Wars Battlefront, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Need for Speed and Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2. FIFA 16 will be playable on the Xbox booth, too.

UPDATE 8th September 2015: The FIFA 16 demo is out now on PlayStation 4 and PS3. You can download the PS4 demo now from the PlayStation Store, where it weighs in at 4.6GB. The PS3 demo is also available from the PlayStation Store, at 1.6GB.

20 weeks after its Kickstarter campaign ended, PVP MMO Crowfall is playable courtesy of a Hunger Dome elimination deathmatch module. And as there's no NDA (non-disclosure agreement) in place, videos and screenshots of the action are, and will increasingly be, available.

Indie hit The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth receives its hefty Afterbirth expansion via Steam on 30th October.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on a weekend playing the single-player mode of Forza Motorsport 6. We'll have a full review once we've been able to spend more time with the campaign and properly assess Forza 6's multiplayer component.

Pikmin 4 is in development and "very close to completion", Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has exclusively confirmed to Eurogamer.

I'm just going to come straight out and say it; I'm not very good at driving games. A bit of Mario Kart I can handle, but games where you actually need to use the brake? Not so much.

There are three Football Manager games due out this year: Football Manager 2016, Football Manager Touch and Football Manager Mobile.

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken of the "opportunity" for a new Super Mario Galaxy game as the company's "hardware technology gets better and advances".

Never meet your heroes, they say (and our own John Bedford has a rum story about bumping into Nigel Havers one Christmas that's testament to this), so it's always an absolute pleasure when that well-worn adage is proven totally wrong. Like anyone who's been in thrall to Nintendo, and to Mario, I've always wanted to meet Shigeru Miyamoto, and yet I've kind of always wanted not to. How can this conjurer of so much joy, this man who's been so fundamental to the modern language of video games, live up to expectations? And what exactly do you say to someone who's surely been asked every question there is in his long, illustrious career?

UPDATE 7/9/15 2.30pm: The Swindle publisher Curve Digital has finally announced a Wii U release date for British crime caper The Swindle: this Thursday, 10th September.

Ubisoft has announced plans to open a theme park in Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia, in 2020.

Ex-Bungie composer Marty O'Donnell has won a substantial settlement from his former employer after claiming that he had been fired "without cause" back in April 2014.

The fascinating community project to recreate beloved Elder Scrolls game Morrowind in Skyrim's engine has progress to share.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has launched to higher UK sales than any other game in the series so far.

The popular Just Cause 2 Multiplayer mod has received a significant update, overhauling the main menu, adding Steam Achievements and a lot more.

D.B. Cooper: not his real name. Not even his real fake name, which was Dan Cooper up until the point that the news media mangled it. Cooper's claim to fame - and it is not inconsiderable - is that in 1971 he boarded a commercial jet bound for Seattle, told the cabin crew he had a bomb in his briefcase, and successfully extorted $200,000 from the airline. That's over a million in today's money. Landing at Seattle he collected the cash and four parachutes he had asked for, let the passengers go, and asked the pilots to spin the engines up again and point the plane back the way it came. Half an hour later, he jumped out and has never being heard from since.

The king is sick with rot, the fantasy kingdom of Armello's most feared disease, which drags its host deeper into madness with each passing day. One ruler's misfortune is another woodland animal's opportunity. Rather than seeking an antidote, the leaders of Armello's various furry clans - hunchback bears, lithe wolves, weaponised-parasol bearing rabbits - have instead chosen this moment to make their move for the throne. As the palace falls into disarray while the king's advisors stoically continue to implement their commander's increasingly bizarre policies, you and three other rival clan leaders engage in a complicated tussle for power, which must be resolved, one way or another, before the king's looming death.

Hello again Eurogamers. By now you're probably aware that Metal Gear Solid V is something very special indeed, but spare a thought for all those other games that are being crushed beneath the wheels of Kojima's masterpiece.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it's also the quickest way to a copyright strike if you're not careful. It's only natural that when someone's inspired by a creative work that they'll want to create something similar. As such, fan art honouring video games has become an entertaining hobby, a great way for aspiring artists to get their name out, and fine social tool to meet likeminded folks. What it isn't, however, is a smart way to make money. Video game publishers are often shrewd kingpins of copyright law and while Nintendo may be charmed by the millions of Zelda artworks its inspired, the minute you start asking for money for that stuff it's a different story.

Completing the quintet, Kojima Productions ensures a feature-rich PC version of Metal Gear Solid 5 launches on cue - taking pride of place next to well-optimised PlayStation 4 and Xbox One editions. The Fox Engine is let loose here, with PC opening the gates to a very high preset in the graphics menu, while adding 'support' for 4K gameplay. But what tangible benefit do these enhancements bring over console, and what hardware do you need to get the best out of them?

If you're reading this then you're probably not playing Metal Gear Solid 5 right now, which honestly feels like quite an achievement this week. Snake's swan song seems to be absolutely everywhere, so we appreciate you giving us your time and attention.

Mad Max takes Avalanche Studios in a new direction: focusing strongly on vehicular combat and exploration of a vast post-apocalyptic wasteland, the developers successfully translate the bleak and unrelenting vision of George Miller's iconic series into a challenging action title. From a technological perspective, Mad Max also impresses with the studio's use of complex lighting and extensive post-processing to bring the wasteland to life. Physically-based lighting and clustered shading allow for a large number of simultaneous light sources without heavily impacting on performance, while materials such as sand, metals, and fabrics are accurately rendered with a suitably run-down aesthetic.

If you play enough first-person shooters, something really weird can set in from time to time - something strangely off-putting. In certain games the depth of the environment can drop away after a while, the world steadily losing its tangibility, and you start to realise that, underneath everything - or maybe somehow above everything - you're just a reticule scudding over the screen, roving and hovering and blasting.