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3DS puzzler Pokémon Shuffle has been updated to offer players a greater chance at capturing its many critters.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on time spent with pre-release code of Splatoon. We'll have our full review up early next week, once we've had time with the game on fully populated servers.

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 editions of Mortal Kombat X have been further delayed until this autumn, a new report suggests.

Editor's note: Street Fighter 4 comes to PlayStation 4 in Europe today, and to mark the occasion we're reprinting this look at the first five years of Capcom's modern classic, first published last year. You can find our review of Ultra Street Fighter 4, the version which is coming to PlayStation 4, here, and Digital Foundry will be taking a full look at the port over the weekend. Oh, and a quick disclaimer - since writing this, Matt Edwards decided he loved Street Fighter so much that he now works at Capcom, where he can take lunchtime trips to Hammersmith's Pret with Ken and Ryu every day.

Codemasters' Dirt Rally was something of an unexpected treat when it came out last month, with the off-road sim extension of the long-running series hitting Steam Early Access the day it was announced. Now, true to the studio's word, the first of several free big updates has hit the game, and it's something of a doozy: the Pikes Peak hillclimb, what's widely regarded as one of motorsport's greatest challenges.

Brütal Legend and Broken Age developer Double Fine has regained the ability to self-publish its tower defense IP Iron Brigade.

UPDATE 27/5/15 8.55am: For those left in any doubt by the earlier Amazon leak, the retailer has now updated its listing for the still-unannounced Darksiders 2 re-release.

Ships are the perfect location for horror, yet they're rarely used. There's the occasional movie, a couple of games, but nine times out of ten you're likely to find yourself poking around in yet another abandoned asylum or a creepy forest.

Grand Theft Auto 5 has received a fan-made mod adding Just Cause 2's grappling hook.

Microsoft's "digital assistant", the Halo-inspired AI Cortana, will be available on iOS and Android devices in in addition to Windows Phone when Windows 10 launches this summer.

Evolve now has a new Arena Mode as part of a free update to all platforms.

UPDATE 26/05/2014 The first footage from Battlefield: Hardline's Criminal Activity expansion has been released.

Armello, the turn-based fantasy board game currently making the rounds on Early Access, is now confirmed for a September release on PS4 in addition to PC, Mac and Linux.

Action-platformer Adventures of Pip is set for a 4th June release on PC and Mac, where it can be pre-ordered for £10.99 / $14.99.

Bloodborne's new 1.04 patch is now live and brings a host of changes with it: some very big, others quite small.

Little Devil Inside, a stylish action-adventure game that merges Wind Waker's cartoony character design with Bloodborne's steampunk setting, has achieved its Kickstarter goal.

Yoshi's Woolly World will let you dress your main character in more than 40 Nintendo character skins - if you have the appropriate Amiibo figurine.

PlayStation 4-exclusive interactive horror Until Dawn will finally launch in the UK on 28th August.

Some of the people who worked on BioShock have announced a new first-person horror game in which you play a blind woman who investigates a haunted mansion.

If you've been keeping an eye on Armello, League of Geeks' lustrously beautiful digital board game, you'll know that its Early Access build got a big update last week that included all manner of tweaks and additions. You'll also know that one of the game's playable animal characters is a bear called Sana, and that Sana, well, she's the worst.

Mere weeks away from E3, developers and publishers are working flat-out behind the scenes to make this the show of their lives. There will be new game announcements, surprise reveals and eagerly anticipated re-reveals. In many cases, it'll be our first opportunity to see some of the biggest titles of this year and the next. Doubtless, we shall see some amazing software running on console and PC - but at the same time, we strongly suspect that there'll be a vast array of marketing materials that end up bearing little resemblance to final software, or at the very least misrepresent the quality of the featured game. Even with the very best intentions, it's a situation that can backfire badly, as CD Projekt Red has discovered over the last couple of weeks.

Open-world role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has scored the biggest UK release of the year so far, smashing Battlefield Hardline's week one sell through by an impressive 53 per cent.

Microsoft will hold its E3 press briefing on Monday, 15th June at 5.30pm UK time.

The idea behind Borderlands: The Handsome Collection was enticing: billed as the definitive console editions of Borderlands 2 and The Pre-Sequel, the remaster promised full HD visuals and a smooth 60fps update on both PS4 and Xbox One. Unfortunately, the launch code felt distinctly uneven and lacking in polish, with a wildly variable frame-rate and intrusive screen-tear. Last week, Gearbox Software released patch 1.02 to tackle these performance issues in addition to squashing a number of bugs. Weighing in at around 9GB on both consoles (around 7GB for The Pre-Sequel and 2GB for Borderlands 2 on Xbox One), the update is remarkable, a genuine game-changer. The developer has finally handed in something closely resembling the experience we were hoping for - 1080p60 gameplay on both PS4 and Xbox One.

Capcom sold more than 1m copies of the recent Resident Evil remake, so its no surprise that the developer today announced a remastered version of Resident Evil Zero.

Barely a week seems to go by without a new star-spanning 4X game appearing on Steam, claiming to either offer another variation of Civ in space, build upon the venerable foundations of Master of Orion, or to head off towards strategy's final frontier in the quest to deliver the definitive game of interstellar domination.

Right. Yes. It's a bank holiday in the UK and I should probably be using this extra time to play some more of The Witcher 3, right? That's a big ol' game and those monsters won't slay themselves. But the thing is, I've been playing a free-to-play, web browser game instead. It's called Agario and it's really quite good.

Destiny's developer Bungie has recently got into the habit of referring to last September's release and the two subsequent expansions as falling under Year One, as if they're talking up an origins story of which this much maligned, much played massively online shooter is the subject. There's certainly a neat arc there: the somewhat downbeat beginnings, with Destiny initially slumping under the weight of expectation, before it limped towards a nadir with The Dark Below's slim, far from stimulating addition. All of which sets up The House of Wolves, the final expansion before - we fully expect - a more substantial overhaul that marks the beginning of Year Two, as the third act redemption, where all of Destiny's latent potential is untapped.

There's something about playing a character whose face consists of nothing more than floating eyes and teeth that will pull you right out of your immersion. If you played Assassin's Creed Unity at launch, you'll probably know what I'm talking about, just as you'll know about highly-trained killers who like to run on the spot for no good reason and Nobles of the Robe who are apt to collapse on the floor in rubbery puddles mid-conversation, like discarded Halloween costumes. Ubisoft's swing at revolutionary Paris felt half-finished on release, less Les Miserables and more just plain miserable. I suspect a lot of Unity disks ended up as coasters as a result.

Farming Simulator 15 cropped up this week for consoles, going against the grain with a new online co-op mode for Xbox One and PS4. We had more agriculture puns but the official multiplayer tagline asks "do you play well with udders", so frankly we're done here.