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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".

Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro's Deadly Premonition follow-up, D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, is heading to PC on 5th June for $14.99 (about £10), the developer announced on Twitter.

Grand Theft Auto 5 developer Rockstar has clarified its position on mods to the community following several reports of people being banned for them. As it turns out, Rockstar's mod policy hasn't changed since Grand Theft Auto 4. Single-player mods are still totally acceptable to the developer, but those affecting the game's balance in multiplayer are a different story.

A trio of classic Star Trek games by Interplay have made their digital-distribution premieres on GOG.

Of all the games to be tarted up for a next-gen release I didn't expect one to be Piranha Bytes' largely glossed over role-playing game Risen 3. But it is, this August, and only for PlayStation 4.

Batgirl in upcoming action game Batman: Arkham Knight is Barbara Gordon, developer Rocksteady has confirmed.

Nintendo will release a demo for Wii U shooter Splatoon. You can download it now from the Nintendo eShop. Surprise!

This new Witcher 3 trailer - any one sense a launch coming up? - may as well be titled "The One That Reminds You How Gory The Game Is".

Invisible, Inc. is now just days away from its full release, which brings with it a whole list of new goodies to play with. Expect new agents, items, voiceover, opening cinematics and importantly, a story driven final mission. Loads of NICE STUFF.

Bethesda has put out a new trailer for massively multiplayer online RPG The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, and it does a decent job of running through the game's various systems ahead of the looming launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Wasteland 2 Game of the Year Edition is a free upgrade to all owners of the game on PC, Mac and Linux, developer inXile has announced.

If you have prime beachfront property in Pacific City, I have some very bad news: your house is essentially a ramp. If you spend any time in that house, you must know this. You must hear us up there, the distant revving, the overhead thump, the squeal of those thick, juicy SUV tires as they roar past your head.

Minecraft maker Mojang has launched three new skin packs for Xbox One to celebrate its third birthday on Microsoft's range of systems.

Capcom has released rare PSone game The Misadventures of Tron Bonne on the PlayStation Store for PlayStation 3, PSP and PS Vita - in North America.

The number of people who subscribe to massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft fell to 7.1 million, Blizzard said - but the success of Hearthstone and Diablo is helping make up for it.

Nintendo has returned to annual profit for the first time in four years.

Xbox account credit received during the Microsoft Points switchover expires at the end of the month, Microsoft has warned.

Star Wars Battlefront does not feature aim-down-ironsights, developer DICE has said.

Nintendo characters and worlds will soon be available to visit at Universal theme parks.

Eventually, Kerbal Space Program becomes a game about triumph. Getting into space. Landing on the moon. Mastering physics to leave the ground behind and blasting into the history books on a rocket of your own creation. When it finally happens, it's one of the most satisfying moments in the history of gaming. What makes Kerbal a classic, though, is what happens before that point. As a great Kerbal once probably said, we do not choose to go to the Mun because it is easy, but because... well, why not? Look at it, hanging up there in the sky like a great big smug thing. Don't you just want to wipe the smile off its poxy moon face?

Destiny and Hearthstone have made a combined total of nearly $1bn in revenue life-to-date, Activision announced in its latest earnings report.

Farmville and Words with Friends publisher Zynga is laying off approximately 18 per cent of its work force, the mobile giant revealed in its latest earning report.

As cool as it is to don a VR headset and look into a new world, our bodies are stuck in cluttered environments, full of things to bump into and trip over. VR company The Void can't turn your apartment into an expansive forest, but it can build specific centers tailored to deliver physical experiences that work in tandem with the virtual ones manifested by your hardware.

UPDATE 06/05/2015 10.57pm: High Voltage have released a fixed version of the Jason patch that won't wipe players' progress, the developer announced in a Steam community update.

The developer behind Nokia's mobile Snake game, Taneli Armanto, is making a sequel to the arcade classic.

Earlier this year The Binding of Isaac programmer Florian Himsl said he would add more difficult "eternal" versions of bosses to the original game. As it turns out, he went one step further and added an entire optional hard mode in an update that recently went live to those who own the Wrath of the Lamb DLC on PC.

The finishing line is in sight. Only a day remains until Project Cars becomes a finished article on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, an accomplished racer with beautifully detailed cars, plus an impressive real-time weather dynamic. There's a sense Slightly Mad Studios is pushing each platform as hard as it can while still angling for 60fps, though to cut to the chase, neither PS4 or Xbox One gets a perfect lock on this figure. But given its suite of options, which race setups give us the best frame-rate, and where is the engine at its most fragile?