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UPDATE 30/06/2015 6.48pm: Arkham Knight's PS4 leaderboards are back!

When BioWare finished work on Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003) and second Neverwinter Nights expansion Hordes of the Underdark (2003), two separate teams began work on two separate new games. One was a science fiction game that would become Mass Effect, and one was a fantasy game that would become Dragon Age.

All of Minecraft's console version will receive a new update tomorrow.

Nintendo's inky drip-drip-drip of new content for Splatoon continues, with an all-new mode coming on July 2nd ahead of the first ever Splatfest in Europe, which kicks off this weekend.

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has seemingly confirmed a September release date for Nuclear Throne on PlayStation 4.

UPDATE 30/6/15 9.55am: The Last of Us lead actor Troy Baker has said he knows nothing of a sequel to the game, despite word today from Uncharted lead Nolan North that The Last of Us 2 would be made.

Obtuse and overwhelming, PlanetSide 2's gargantuan free-to-play MMOFPS arrives on PlayStation 4 virtually undiminished from its PC incarnation. This is still a game that makes few concessions for new players, bombarding you with icons, mission updates and map markers but pretty much leaving you to figure things out for yourself.

Aerial dogfighting Strike Vector is coming to consoles as Strike Vector EX and developer Ragequit Corporation has outlined the new features that it's adding to this PS4 and Xbox One version due this autumn.

Earlier this month Sniper Elite and AvP developer Rebellion announced that it's remaking the old Atari Battlezone tank game into a VR shooter for PS4 (via Morpheus) and PC (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive). As it turns out, Rebellion is making not one, but two Battlezone games, with the other one being a remaster of the 1998 edition for PC.

Prior to Microsoft announcing its augmented-reality headset HoloLens as a potential Minecraft peripheral, NASA was already using it to help remote teams across earth and space better communicate. This weekend NASA was to ship a couple of units of the spiffy under development headset to the International Space Station. There was only one problem: The shuttle supplying the tech blew up.

Universal Studios Japan is getting another Resident Evil attraction.

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Square Enix's cult classic modern RPG The World Ends With You has returned to the iOS App Store after a four month absence.

Subscription service PlayStation Plus is five years old. As an anniversary present, and a thank you, Sony will send a gift to people who subscribed from the beginning - from 29th June 2010.

UPDATE 29/6/15 4.55pm: Zenimax Online Studios has now confirmed Paul Sage's departure, but reassured fans that the game was still in "great hands":

UPDATE 29TH JUNE: Major UK retailer GAME has priced the 1TB PS4 from £349.99, which will shock nobody. Chuck in a copy of The Order, or LittleBigPlanet 3, or DriveClub, and it's £369.99.

Free-to-play 3DS puzzler Pokémon Shuffle is headed to iPhone and Android mobiles.

Editor's note: Our review is very light on narrative details, but if you want to head into Her Story with completely fresh eyes be warned there are very mild spoilers below.

Fabula and syuzhet are two words that won't net you any sweet esults if you type them into Her Story's antiquated database, but together they're the smoking gun regardless, and a big part of the reason that this audacious caper works as well as it does. They're entertaining words in their own right, of course, fun to say and fun to deploy in text, but when paired they unlock a lot of the magical potential of narrative itself - magic that Her Story relies upon to construct its wayward tale.

The secretive Star Wars game Amy Hennig is directing for EA Visceral has been described as "Star Wars in the style of Uncharted", and "along the same lines" as gritty and glitzy third-person action adventure Star Wars 1313, which was canned.

Europe's PlayStation Plus offering of free games will now be refreshed on the first Tuesday of every month.

It's difficult to talk about a thing like Her Story without edging into spoiler territory. This is a game that relies so heavily on the player making their own discoveries and we don't want to spoil that. Just imagine the comments section.

Super-sized smartphones, such as the iPhone 6 Plus, are too big for the wearable plastic Pip-Boy that comes with the £99.99 Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition.

Do not expect Batman: Arkham Knight on PC to be fixed soon. Publisher Warner has said "the work is significant" and "it will take some time".

Lose an in-game item in a Steam trade scam and you could previously ask Valve to get it back. But that's no longer the case.

We're halfway through Capcom's 'Year of the Remaster' - Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition is the third of five revisitations of older titles due this year, with Resident Evil Zero and the Mega Man Legacy Collection still to come. As one of the earlier games created using Capcom's MT Framework engine, the original DMC4 was quite a looker back in early 2008. Now, more than seven years later, do those once cutting-edge visuals still make the grade on newer hardware and have any new issues appeared in the transition? Given Capcom's somewhat spotty remaster track record, we tackled this latest release with some trepidation.

Batman: Arkham Knight is the UK's new all-formats chart number one, with launch week sales that are the highest for any game in the Batman series.

N64 classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time will launch on the Wii U eShop this Thursday.

The latest Mario games for Wii U have seen Nintendo's famous mascot finally make the leap into HD, but still - you've never seen him like this before.

There are plenty of skiing games on iOS, and they all, I am sure, benefit in a quiet way from the fact that skiing is famously the most entertaining of words to look at when it is written down, what with that wacky double I right in the middle, invoking, if you are open to it, the twin tracks you leave in your frosty wake. Sure, all of this is true, but there is only one Skiing Yeti Mountain, and in a selfish way, I am very glad of that. Featherweight's game strikes me as the kind of thing that has probably done rather well for itself, and yet when I settle down on the bus to play it on the way back from work, it still feels like a secret, a rarity, beloved by a lucky few initiates. Join us!