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There's a row brewing over whether the soundtrack to PlayStation 4 exclusive Everybody's Gone to the Rapture should be a part of the UK's official classical music chart.

Bethesda has opened up its back catalogue to sell some of its games DRM-free for the first time via GOG.com.

Divinity: Original Sin 2 is an RPG heretic. It wants you to split the party. It wants you to work against each other. It'll even force your hand, as our team of four mismatched heroes discovered when trying to get into town. Party leader Gwynne got a warm enough welcome, at least as warm as a prodigal daughter last seen being arrested as a corrupt sorceress can expect. Her dwarf companion had no such luck though, being rudely and immediately turned away at the gates by the racist guard. For him, the only way in was to find an alternate route, through a series of caves far from the gates and far from his so-called friends. All of them already questing without him.

A mad scientist is pumping music through the decaying state rooms of Buckingham Palace: William Byrd, whose distinctly English compositions effortlessly conjure a Renaissance world of precision and calm, a realm of serene order. But there's something else being carried on the air, too. Simple chords - lumpen, plodding, arrhythmic. Somewhere nearby, a zombie is playing the piano.

Rovio, the studio behind mobile phone phenomenon Angry Birds, will make redundant 260 staff in a new round of lay-offs.

Age of Conan and The Secret World developer Funcom has announced single-player PC horror game The Park.

Dirt Rally's latest update, which brings Codemasters' Early Access off-roader to v.0.7, introduces head-to-head multiplayer in its officially licensed FIA Rallycross events. It does plenty more besides, too.

Blizzard has released a big update for Diablo 3 that adds some cool new features to the game.

Until the 10th of August 2015, I had never played a game of Hearthstone. I'd made a point of never going anywhere near it, in fact - not because I wasn't interested, but because I feel like I can only commit to one card-based metagame at a time.

Yakuza 5 will include all of the DLC from the Japanese version when it arrives in Europe and North America later this year.

Earthbound's remastered vinyl soundtrack is finally making its western debut.

Dying Light developer Techland has released a 15-minute video detailing The Following, an enormous expansion to its popular first-person zombie survival game.

Space-based roguelike Galak-Z will be coming to mobile platforms in 2016 as Galak-Z: Variant Mobile.

Bungie has released the first Destiny footage showing us Nolan North's take on Ghost's voice since he replaced Peter Dinklage.

Splatoon will be getting a comprehensive 61-track soundtrack entitled Splatune.

UPDATE 25/08/2015 5.46pm: Flywrench is out now on Steam.

UPDATE 25/08/2015 5.26pm: It looks like all the Phantom Pain streams have been removed, likely due to Konami shutting them down.

PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of Grand Theft Auto 5 receive the video-crafting Rockstar Editor mode next month.

Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition will headline September's free offerings from Microsoft's Games with Gold programme.

Hideo Kojima has revealed his final trailer for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, and therefore his final trailer for the series in total.

Grand Theft Auto 5 modder Toddyftw has shown off a shiny new graphics mod for the game's PC version.

Typical, isn't it? You wait an age for a decent rally game and then two come popping and spitting over the horizon, kicking up a stinging stream of gravel in your face as they course by. The excitement that met the stealthy Early Access release of Dirt Rally earlier this year told you all you needed to know about the appetite for a hardcore, dedicated off-road sim, and even though it's still early days Codemasters has excelled itself in providing one of the most exacting takes on the hot-headed discipline since the fabled Richard Burns Rally. And now, there's another rally game that's worth keeping an eye on, though this one's slightly different.

Over-the-top sci-fi bug hunt game Earth Defence Force for the PlayStation 4 and Vita comes out in Europe later this year, publisher PQube has announced.

Will Blizzard's virtual collectible card game Hearthstone be a part of the Winter Olympics 2030?

Whether through stupidity, boredom or good old-fashioned masochism, I get a kind of perverse enjoyment from playing rubbish games. Rogue Warrior, Hour of Victory, Turning Point and the original Sniper Ghost Warrior are a few examples of the shockingly poor games I've wasted precious hours of my life playing.

2D sandbox role-playing game Starbound is getting a major update centred around the addition of colonies.

Sony will hold its annual Tokyo Games Show PlayStation press conference on Tuesday, 15th September at 4pm Tokyo time (8am UK).

Konami has moved to clarify how microtransactions in Metal Gear Solid 5 work after reports indicated the FOB online multiplayer mode was locked behind a paywall.

Last year's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare was a technical revolution for the series - a generational leap compared to the disappointing Ghosts. Taking a look at Black Ops 3's multiplayer beta on PS4, it's clear that Treyarch is building upon the solid gameplay foundations laid down by Sledgehammer in the last game. With an even more agile move-set and class-specific abilities, the series' action doesn't relent in its pace - but with all these new changes to the gameplay's core, can the new game retain the signature 60fps gameplay and extend that experience into the brand new campaign co-op mode?

Shutshimi looks like a shmup for people whose attention spans are too short to play a shmup.