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You may not have heard much about Double Fine's turn-based strategy game, Massive Chalice. Unlike the studio's famous Broken Age, it didn't earn record-breaking sums on Kickstarter or have its development split in two and dragged out for an extra two years. Unlike Space Base DF9, it didn't launch in Early Access only to be abandoned without many of its promised features, leaving fans bitter.

In many ways Splatoon offers the third-person multiplayer shooter a fresh coat of paint with its focus on territory control over killing. But there's one peculiar flaw players have unearthed in Nintendo's fastest-selling new Wii U franchise: its ties are won arbitrarily.

Dragon Age: Inquisition creative director Mike Laidlaw has confirmed that the latest BioWare fantasy RPG will receive future story content.

SpaceChem and Infinifactory developer Zachtronics has released its latest project, an "open-ended programming game" called TIS-100, on Steam Early Access.

UPDATE 01/06/2015 7.15pm: Here's a new trailer of Exo Zombies' Carrier episode, featuring loads of playable Bruce Campbell.

Depending on your playstyle and experience, Bloodborne may seem easier or harder than its "Souls" predecessors. But even those who found it easier than From Software's previous offerings would still agree that it's a challenging title. But Souls fans are a dedicated bunch, so it's in the community's nature to only make things harder for themselves. Some insist on tackling every boss solo, others resist the temptation to ever level up, and others limit their weapon selection.

UPDATE June 1, 6:00pm: We've had some requests to test performance in The Witcher 3 in a number of stress points, including the swamps. We tested Crookback Bog and can confirm that there are still serious issues here, especially on PlayStation 4 - though Xbox One remains affected to a lesser degree. You'll find that video at the end of the article.

UPDATE: Hours later and Lego has indeed announced its own Minecraft-style sandbox game, Lego Worlds. It's available now via Steam Early Access.

Dying Light developer Techland has assured me dark fantasy action game Hellraid has not been cancelled. Development has been "frozen" but may be thawed as soon as third quarter this calendar year.

UPDATE 1/6/16 3.40pm: Nintendo has now confirmed that all three of its newly-announced titles will launch in the UK.

One of only 200 first-generation Apple computers has been discovered dumped at a recycling centre in California.

Five years ago, 20-something Mancunian Daniel Burke set out to retranslate Final Fantasy 7.

Microsoft will launch the full version of Windows 10 on 29th July 2015.

Polyphony is still plugging away at Gran Turismo 6, and the latest addition is one of the finest since the game came out at the tail-end of 2013: Nissan's all-new challenger for this year's Le Mans, the batcrap-crazy GTR-LM.

Splatoon is the Wii U's fastest-selling new franchise to date in the UK, overtaking undead Ubisoft launch title ZombiU.

Nintendo has shown off a first glimpse of Project Treasure, the mysterious Wii U multiplayer game in development at Bandai Namco.

DriveClub's servers will this morning be upgraded as developer Evo continues to work towards the launch of the PS Plus Edition of the game - although there's still no release date.

UPDATE 01/06/15: The organisers of Evo, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, have decided to go with the Xbox 360 version of Ultra Street Fighter 4 instead of the embattled PlayStation 4 version.

Few games have understood magic - the wizardly, fantasy, fetch-me-some-sparrow-entrails kind of magic - quite as perfectly as Magicka did. Magicka grasped that real magic should be creative, rigorous, elemental, and only barely controlled. It should shudder beneath your feet and leave you drained. It should require a perfect balance of dexterity and imagination and an understanding of the strange, unshakable laws that underpin the whole thing. Inevitably, Magicka's innate brilliance has been both a blessing and a curse.

Monster Hunter X - or Monster Hunter Cross as it's sometimes written - has been announced as the next major entry in the popular dinosaur hunting series.

Greetings Eurogamers, and please kindly accept our offering of three videos, mostly on the subject of video games. They were all out of sacrificial goats at the shop. Sorry.

It was far from an auspicious start. Before Nintendo Land was debuted in the Nokia Theater at 2012's E3 conference, there was a small momentum gathering behind the Wii U: this was the console that would take the company back to its core audience after its mainstream dalliance with the Wii, the homecoming that would see it take the fight to Microsoft and Sony as it moved away from mini-game compilations and returned to the more traditional, hard-edged propositions that had forged its reputation.

At the end of April, elderly gamers felt a brief flutter of excitement across their desiccated loins. Over 2500 games from the Internet Archive's Software Library could now not only be played using browser emulation, but could be embedded and played in tweets.

UPDATE 30/5/15 2.30pm Microsoft has now begun issuing free Halo 3: ODST download codes to early adopters of The Master Chief Collection, as a make-nice offer for that game's shonky launch.

It's the end of May already which, frankly, is terrifying. E3 lurks menacingly round the corner like a big, exciting criminal who wants to take our wallets and maybe punch us in the face a bit. Only, in a good way.

Each spaceship holds a friend, and you're orbiting round a planet together in a gang, showing off your rides. Custom paint jobs. Some dude in a giant red lorry of a ship. Last minute gear checks, discussion of loadout and then your team all turns perfectly together and sideslips down to the planet's surface. A moment of black and you're in control of your avatar and everything kicks off. Or it's PvP and you teleport down to the planet's surface and are shown posed like you're in a Saturday morning TV show for a beat before the flag rolls out. A second to breathe and then you're being hunted. Destiny is full of these tiny moments that show you're with your tribe.

Some tremendous steps toward LGBTI equality have been taken of late - the gay marriage referendum in Ireland being one particularly inspiring example. There's still a ways to go, of course, but overall it's encouraging to see acceptance growing in the public consciousness.

Lords of the Fallen 2 won't be released until 2017, and German developer Deck 13 - co-developer of the original - will not be involved.

Soma, the upcoming survival horror from Amnesia: The Dark Descent developer Frictional Games, launches on 22nd September.

Much has changed since Carmageddon first crashed onto the scene in the spring of 1997. Back then, damage modelling in your typical racing game involved slapping a few scuffs on the paintwork and maybe a crack in the windshield, while the idea of aiming your car at helpless screaming bystanders and having their viscera sprayed at the screen in exchange for added time was seemingly - if the brief period of tabloid hysteria was anything to go by - beyond all common decency.