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The infamous Honorbuddy bot plaguing World of Warcraft appears to have been beaten.

All games are ultimately in the business of a selling a fantasy. The best ones conjure up a combination of presentation and mechanics that lets you imagine, for a few fleeting hours, what it would be like to live a different life: a criminal, a superhero, a racing driver, a soldier. OK, most of the time it's a soldier.

Eagle-eyed Assassin's Creed fans have found a little historical inaccuracy in Syndicate.

Formula Fusion is an in-development racing game that looks a lot like a spiritual successor to WipEout.

Divinity: Original Sin, "hands down the best classic-style role-playing game in years", is coming to PS4 and Xbox One. What's more, it's been overhauled for the occasion, transformed into an Enhanced Edition that will launch at the end of the year.

Windows 10 comes with Candy Crush Saga automatically installed, Microsoft has announced.

Microsoft has taken action against those who leaked the Gears of War Xbox One remaster.

Every Friday - we call it Xur Day - a special non-player vendor character arrives in the Tower, Destiny's social space. The mysterious merchant, eyes burning white, tendrils reaching out from within a face cloaked in shadow, sells Exotic weapons and armour, but there's no way to predict which ones. Xur, Agent of the Nine, is a law unto himself.

The Witcher games are synonymous with lavish CGI trailers and the newly released A Night to Remember Witcher 3 video tops the lot.

The Bozak Horde downloadable content for zombie kill 'em up Dying Light launches 26th May, developer Techland announced.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege launches on Tuesday, 13th October for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The console version of The Elder Scrolls Online will not require a CD key to play, publisher Bethesda has explained, just hours after initially claiming the opposite was true.

Was Assassin's Creed Unity simply too ambitious for its own good? Revolutionary Paris - densely populated, rich in detail - looked beautiful on a high-end PC, but the experience didn't translate well to less capable hardware, including PS4 and Xbox One. Riddled with bugs at launch and suffering from severe frame-rate problems, our sense is that Unity's heart was in the right place, but its execution was brand-damaging stuff. From what we've seen of its successor, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, perhaps Ubisoft is executing a course correction that could see tangible improvements in stability, but the question is whether it comes at the expense of the raw ambition behind the core technology.

UPDATE 14/5/15 14.05pm Surprise! Nintendo has announced that the new free-to-try Pullblox game - now with a new English title of Fullblox - is available to download today from the 3DS eShop.

Lego Jurassic World will be released 12th June on PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, 3DS and Vita.

Broken Age and Costume Quest developer Double Fine has announced a 1.0 release for Massive Chalice, its second Kickstarted game.

Video games often aim to take you away from the real world, but sometimes developers include something that breaks the fantasy and reminds you that there is life outside the monitor. From the humorous to the incredibly touching, I take a look at a few examples of games that bring you back to reality.

Construction and survival sandbox Minecraft is now officially the most-uploaded game of all time on YouTube.

Early footage of Microsoft's heavily-rumoured Xbox One Gears of War remake has been spotted online.

Hi-Rez is a developer with panache. Tribes: Ascend was brilliant. Now there's a new game called Smite, a zoomed in, third-person battle arena. A MOBA with a different perspective, and the sort of thing that would work well on a console.

Telltale will not launch a third season of its The Walking Dead game this year, the developer has confirmed.

An indie developer was left devastated after a troll ruined its Kickstarter - right at the death.

UPDATE 14/5/15 8.15am Sony has pushed back the release of its Ratchet and Clank movie - and Insomniac Games' PS4 reimagining of the series first game - all the way to early 2016.

"If we'd done it all internally, I don't know if we would have ever realised that we shouldn't do a dungeon crawler," explains designer James Lantz with a laugh. We are on Skype, and we're talking about Invisible Inc, the game that he's been working on for the last few years - and the game that, since last August, has had a new influx of design consultants.

NaturalMotion, the UK game company behind the likes of CSR Racing and Clumsy Ninja, is making staff redundant at its Oxford-based quality assurance department as part of huge layoffs at parent company Zynga.

Nintendo will hold its annual E3 presentation on Tuesday, 16th June at 9am Pacific Time (5pm UK).

Spiders weren't always an issue for modder Cory Ferrier. Before the age of seven, they hadn't bothered him whatsoever, until an unfortunate encounter at the zoo kickstarted his condition. He's now in his late teens and although not something he'd consider 'crippling', his fear extends to similar insects like crickets and cockroaches. As he suggests, the onset of his phobia has negatively impacted his enjoyment of video games - particularly against the increasingly realistic depictions modern technology throws at him. Role-playing games are playgrounds of constant torment.

The new PC and console version of Badland, Apple's 2013 iPad Game of the Year, will launch for PC and consoles in two weeks' time.

Life is Strange's third episode, Chaos Theory, will launch next Tuesday, 19th May.

Puzzle exploration game The Magic Circle has launched on Steam Early Access priced £14.99 (there's a 10 per cent discount until 20th May).