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The Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red has spent the weekend taking down leaked gameplay footage from early copies of the role-playing game threequel.

Lego has published official images of its Portal 2, Doctor Who and The Simpsons level packs for the upcoming Lego Dimensions.

Four years on and I'm still carrying around my 3DS. It sits in my bag each day as I walk to the office and it travels with me when I journey elsewhere. True, the amount of time I spend on Nintendo's dinky dual-screen has dropped over time, despite the introduction of its beefier XL and shinier New 3DS models. But it's still my go-to place for bite-sized gaming sessions.

Frontier will give a Steam key to anyone who has bought or buys Elite: Dangerous from its online shop, as well as those who backed the game's Kickstarter campaign.

Years on from its inception as a devoted PC project, Slightly Mad Studio's shift to current-gen consoles involves some cutbacks, though Project Cars is still very much intact as a technically accomplished racing sim. Both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One use a hybrid of PC presets, with insights from the rendering team suggesting that a bulk of these waver around its medium setting (with aspects of high). But given this is two steps below the PC's top-end ultra setting, is this enough to truly drive home the quality of the game's visuals on console - or are the differences minor in practice?

In the 1990s, Mortal Kombat became a global phenomenon, spawning movies, albums of confrontational techno and even a live action tour. Lots of games therefore tried to hop on the bandwagon and grab some of that blood-soaked cash for themselves.

For something to be extraordinary, it must emerge from the ordinary. Magicians know this, which is why they work their greatest tricks with coins and playing cards and the linty jumble of everyday things that their marks - both their audiences and, in a manner of speaking, their victims - tend to keep in their pockets. Magic perks you up, because it reminds you that there is strange pleasure to be found where you least expect it to be lurking. Magicians make the world new, and to do this, maybe the world must first seem a little old and tatty.

I was left to my own devices this week and things get a little out of hand.

I live in Nottingham. Ten years ago, that would have felt like a pointless confession. A statement that I'm neither rugged, sexy and friendly enough to be a Northerner, nor repulsive and pampered enough to be a cosseted, soggy Southerner. Just Nottingham: the bit of the Midlands that isn't defined by its accent. Until recently, it's never really felt defined by anything else, either. Nottingham. I mean, what even is it?

Abyss Odyssey, the surreal action-roguelike from Zeno Clash and Rock of Ages developer ACE Team, is getting an enhanced 1080p PS4 version.

The next game in the Assassin's Creed series will be subtitled Syndicate.

Sim City, The Sims and Spore creator Will Wright has launched a new free photo app for iOS called Thred.

The Humble Bundle has kicked off its Spring Sale with huge discounts on numerous games between now and 22nd May at 6pm UK time.

UPDATE 08/05/2015: The Gabe Newell boss, Gaben, is out now via Crawl's latest update.

Sega is planning to remove several of its mobile games from its back catalogue, the publisher announced today.

Since it was revealed that Project Cars would be coming to consoles as well as PC, it's been touted by both the press and its developer Slightly Mad Studios as an upstart competitor to the big beasts of the console racing game scene, Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport. In truth, it's something better than that: it's a genuine alternative.

Dark Souls 2's weapon durability glitch, that caused weapons to break at an accelerated rate, has been fixed on PC.

Hands up if you haven't played Half-Life before. Embarrassingly, that's me. One of the all time greats and I missed it. It's been available to play on Steam for ages, but I find it hard to muster the enthusiasm to play a game from 1998 when I'm already behind with games from 2015. This week, though, I'm thrown a bone by Black Mesa, a total remake of Half-Life 1.

UPDATE 08/05/2015: Konami has unveiled its Metal Gear Solid 1984 collection of clothes via the Insert Coin website.

Nintendo has detailed a somewhat cautious roll-out of its plans to release games for smartphones: five will launch before the end of March 2017.

One Guild Wars 2 player who played outside of the rules has had a very public - and quite medieval - comeuppance.

EA's running a solid sale on Origin, its PC platform.

As Konami continues its attempt to erase Hideo Kojima from history, one developer has stepped into the breach.

It's ironic that one of the first publishers to earn gamers' ire for ropey DLC is now one of the few publishers to be doing expansions properly. Bethesda was rightly notorious for its decorative horse armour, sold separately for players of The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, but it's now making amends with add-ons that are not only substantial, but robust and distinctive.

Yoshimitsu, Tekken's perennial bonkers cyber ninja, is in the next game in the series. That's no surprise. But his design is.

A new Spelunky speedrunning world record has been set by YouTuber Pibonacci, who breezed through Mossmouth's epic action-roguelike in one minute and 55 seconds (and 353 milliseconds).

Last July speedrunner Pibonacci dashed through Spelunky in a record-breaking 1:55.353 (that's one minute, 55 seconds and 353 milliseconds). Now, YouTuber Spelunky God has bested that by over eight seconds with a new world record of 1:47.182.

The Myst TV series announced last autumn will be coming to Hulu, according to Deadline.

Classic 1997 shooter Turok: Dinosaur Hunter looks like it will be getting a re-release on PC.

UPDATE 07/05/2015 8pm: Green Man Gaming has ended its Witcher 3 pre-order promotion, though it noted that it will "reinvigorate the offer in the run up to launch".