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Ubisoft's wonderful Wii U launch title ZombiU is coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC on 18th August with a minor name change removing the superfluous U from its title.

Smash hit Rocket League will be getting a mix of both paid and free DLC.

Update, 4.40pm: In the video below, Oli Welsh and Chris Bratt get together for an additional round of the speculation that Blizzard obsessives so enjoy. Why has the announcement of this expansion been brought forward from its traditional, biennial BlizzCon slot? Are Blizzard looking to release smaller expansions more frequently? If it's not going to be WOW, what might Blizzard's big reveal at its November fan convention be? Oli and Bratterz don't know, but they have fun guessing!

Creative Assembly has released a trailer that offers a close look at a battle in its strategy game Total War: Warhammer.

Adventure game Broken Sword 5 comes out on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 4th September 2015.

First-person philosophical puzzle trip The Talos Principle comes out on PlayStation 4 on 13th October.

Dictator sim Tropico 5 launches on Xbox One spring 2016, Kalypso has announced.

A conversation about video gaming's greatest gunsmiths wouldn't be complete without mention of Guerrilla Games. The Amsterdam studio's Killzone series has always been anchored by the intense physicality of its weapons: their solid handling, their booming audio, the deliberate smack with which every bullet lands. They are true craftsmen, no doubt, though perhaps not the artists and inventors you find elsewhere in this subset of game design - the minds who cooked up the gravity and portal guns, the BFG and railgun, Titanfall's smart pistol, or the eccentric, asymmetric balance of the first Halo's weapon set. Those were guns that could change the world around you, or the way you interacted with it, or both.

Final Fantasy Explorers, Square Enix's action role-playing Final Fantasy spin-off for Nintendo 3DS, launches in North America and Europe in 2016.

It seems Capcom has taken notice of the Resident Evil 2 fan remake.

Prison Architect launches October 2015, Introversion has announced.

Development of Keiji Inafune's Red Ash - billed as a spiritual successor to the Mega Man Legends series - has been secured after a Chinese company swooped in to fund the project.

Memorabilia-crafting company Loot Crate has teamed up with Bethesda to create a Limited Edition goodies collection based around Fallout 4.

Max Verstappen, one of the most promising young talents in the F1 field, has just signed up with one of the most prominent sim racing teams, joining Team Redline. It all feels a bit like GT Academy, the Sony initiative that gets players into race seats, played out in reverse.

Plenty of games take advantage of players being a little too greedy, but I've been especially impressed by the way in which The Swindle and Invisible, Inc. manage it. Both of these games feature an ominous countdown, warning of a challenging final mission on the horizon, and it's these countdowns that get inside your head.

PlayStation 4 continues to make huge amounts of money for Sony.

Do you remember the New Yankee Workshop? It was a TV series hosted by Norm Abram, and each episode Norm would make something out of wood. A table, perhaps, or a chest of drawers, or maybe even some serving trays. When I first got Sky TV in the late 90s I became obsessed with the New Yankee Workshop, I would watch it daily despite having absolutely no intention of even picking up a saw. It was oddly comforting, probably for the same reason cookery shows are still amongst the most popular things on TV: people enjoy watching other people make things. Video game creation may not be as visceral as wood or food, but as the recently concluded Double Fine Adventure series proves, it's just as compelling.

Vlambeer's still in development top-down roguelike shooter Nuclear Throne has shifted over 100,000 units, developer Vlambeer's Rami Ismail revealed on Twitter.

Toy Soldiers: War Chest, the third game in Signal Studios' tower defense/action hybrid series, will arrive on 11th August for Xbox One and PC. PS4 players will receive it the following day.

The Witcher is getting a pen-and-paper role-playing game spin-off, developer CD Projekt Red has announced.

Shadowrun Returns developer Harebrained Schemes will be rebooting the beloved turn-based tactics series BattleTech.

The Five Nights At Freddy's movie ostensibly has a director with Gil Kenan (Monster House, City of Ember, Poltergeist remake) at the helm.

Northern Ireland's government, in an attempt to simultaneously seem hip and educational, has recreated its region in Minecraft.

Just Dance 2016's demo is out now for PS4, Xbox One and Wii U. This is the first Just Dance title that lets you play by using your phone as a controller.

From 4th August there will be a new batch of free games for members of PlayStation Plus. The biggest are God of War: Ascension for PS3 and Limbo for PS4.

How clever of Sony to start the PlayStation Summer Sale when the weather outside is s***. Even the promo-man pictured on the PlayStation blog wears a rain snorkel.

Knights Of The Old Republic 2 is a game I'd love to see the pitch for. Did Obsidian actually say that the plan was to systematically tear down, subvert and scornfully rip great chunks of flesh out of the Star Wars universe and George Lucas' shallow sense of morality and storytelling? or was it more on the lines of "So, we're thinking three bladed lightsabres this time," with Chris Avellone accidentally left locked in the car?

On 14th July it was announced that German developer Yager would no longer be working on Dead Island 2. On 22nd July Yager Productions - a sub-division created to make Dead Island 2 - filed for insolvency.

Nintendo has posted an encouraging profit (8.3bn yen / £43m) for the months April, May and June. Last year it was in the red (-9.9bn yen / -£51m).

Has any film opening topped the excitement of Raiders of the Lost Ark? The initial approach of our fedora-sporting hero plunging through jungle ruins (braving copious quantities of tarantulas in the process) is ominous, but nothing our hero can't handle. A runaway boulder presents a greater challenge, but even this is all in a days work for Dr. Jones. Then a tribe starts spitting venomous darts at Indy and by this point all bets are off. Start the damn plane!