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The Kickstarter for fantasy role-playing game Divinity: Original Sin 2 was funded in under 12 hours.

A game can be a mediocrity but, when it is developed by talent, that can seem like tragedy. The history of Devil's Third always suggested a difficult project, the most painful stats being six years and three different engines. The debut of Valhalla Game Studios, founded in 2009 by Tomonobu Itagaki and other members of Team Ninja, has been so delayed it may well double as a wake.

I love video games. I also suffer from depression and anxiety. Written down like that, there doesn't seem seem to be much linking those two statements; however, as is this case for a lot of people worldwide, video games play a fairly significant part in how I perceive and process my own mental health difficulties.

Blanchimont is not a corner to be taken lightly; a small kink as it appears on the map of the circuit Spa-Francorchamps, it all gets a little more serious when attacked at fast approaching 200mph. Which made Max Verstappen's overtake around the outside of Felipe Nasr at the high-speed corner at last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix all the more impressive. Get it wrong, as happened in Saturday's GP2 race, and the consequences can be quite painful.

Just how does one tackle remaking one of the most visually influential games of the last decade? It's a difficult question and one that developer The Coalition - along with partner Splash Damage - seeks to answer with the release of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Xbox One. The original Gears of War had a tremendous impact on the industry as a whole both in terms of the development process and its game design. Visually, as Epic's first outing with Unreal Engine 3, Gears was a landmark release for real-time rendering. Re-envisioning such a game on new hardware is no small task - so just how successful is this latest effort?

Proteus designer Ed Key has revealed the next game at his studio Twisted Tree Games as Forest of Sleep, "an experimental storytelling/adventure game inspired by Russian fairytales."

The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen has detailed the upcoming Greed mode coming to the to-be-dated Afterbirth expansion.

CD Projekt has announced that The Witcher 3 sold 6m copies in six weeks.

Hyper Light Drifter, the neon action adventure that made nearly 24 times its $27k goal on Kickstarter, has been delayed until "spring 2016".

Amazon is giving away over $10k in apps and in-app purchases as part of a new service entitled Amazon Underground.

WayForward Technologies has shocked us all by not only revealing the next chapter of its Mighty Switch Force series, but putting it up for sale on Steam Early Access.

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Assassin's Creed Syndicate's PC version is due on 19th November, four weeks after the PS4 and Xbox One versions' release on 23rd October.

Cult classic Jurassic shooters Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Turok 2: Seeds of Evil are being brought back to life for a PC re-release.

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.