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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?

Everything about expansion two for Bungie's "shared world shooter" Destiny makes sense to me. The changes to the competitive multiplayer portion of the game we reported on last week give PvP, for the first time, a proper endgame. The new upgrade system means any Legendary or Exotic weapon and armour piece can be made level 34 - without it losing progression. And the new Prison of Elders arena mode, revealed by Bungie today, is a cool twist on wave-based fighting and a lot of fun for three-player Fireteams.

UPDATE 06/05/2015: Yesterday's live Witcher 3 gameplay session focused on combat and how different character builds approach it. It gave a real, in-depth look at the game's different sets of perks and how you can customise your Geralt hero to suit your style.

Destiny's major September update will be named The Taken King, a new Bungie trademark spotted by NeoGAF user "Kifimbo" suggests.

It started, fittingly, with the nemesis system, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor's most interesting design feature, which, perhaps for the first time, brought emergent storytelling to the forefront of a mainstream blockbuster video game. "We were just a tiny skunk-works team to begin with," explains Michael de Plater, design director at Monolith, who joined the studio in December 2010 around the same time the first prototype emerged. "Because we were small we knew that we had to take a systems based approach to the design; we were just not going to be able to compete with other open-world games in terms of scale."

More than 30m user accounts have been created in Blizzard's collectible card battler Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

P.T., Kojima Productions' playable teaser for its now defunct Silent Hills project, is no longer available to re-download in the US, even if you had it in your library.

Hit mobile puzzler Threes was removed from Google Play last night for listing the game 2048, widely seen as Threes clone, as a search keyword.

Disney Infinity 3.0 launches later this year with three Star Wars sets, each based around a different era of the galactic film series.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece, based on a few days' play with Project Cars. We'll be posting our final review in the coming days, once we've tested the game on fully populated online servers.

Game developer Skaldic Games, i.e. Randall Herman, has made a game so offensive its page was removed from Steam Greenlight in a matter of hours. It was so offensive, in fact, that many of the game's voice actors have distanced themselves from the project and claimed they were misled about the context of their dialogue.

Mirror's Edge 2 will launch in the first quarter of 2016, EA noted in its latest earnings call.

Grim Fandango Remastered is out today on iOS and Android devices, possibly in honour of Cinco de Mayo, the Mexican holiday celebrating the nation's victory over the French in 1862.

Quasi roguelike action-platformer Rogue Legacy is coming to Xbox One on 27th May, developer Cellar Door Games has announced.

Last year someone sued Sony for $5M in a class-action lawsuit claiming that it falsely advertised Killzone: Shadow Fall by stating that it ran in "native 1080p" when in fact its multiplayer ran in "960x1080 with a high quality temporal upscale", according to Digital Foundry. Though the case proceeded to go to court, it has recently been dismissed.

Netflix for games? It's been tried before, and it failed - badly. OnLive finally shut down its servers last week, but the cloud gaming dream is far from over. Sony's PlayStation Now follows the same principle, albeit with much-improved tech: games are hosted on remote servers, streamed over the Internet to your screen - but this time, there's a twist. Instead of PC-based technology and games, Sony has created bespoke cloud servers based on PlayStation 3 hardware, capable of running any game on the console's extensive library.

Passage and The Castle Doctrine developer Jason Rohrer's bizarre betting-for-real-money game, Cordial Minuet, is out now for PC, Mac and Linux.

The long-awaited Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 5 has just been revealed in the latest issue of GameInformer.

The long-awaited and Valve sanctioned Half-Life 1 re-envisioning Black Mesa has been released on Steam Early Access for £14.99.

Far Cry 4 will be getting the Complete Edition treatment as a retail release in the UK come 19th June on PS4 and PC.

UPDATE 2.45PM BST: One fan has recorded a video from the Black Emporium, showing the some of the shop's crafting stock. There don't appear to be any new schematics, but - handily - the game's entire range seems to be contained there. Via the BioWare forum.

If I had a spare afternoon and a drone craft with a camera then I'd almost certainly spend it recreating Grand Theft Auto 2. It's the retro connoisseur's choice.

GOG Galaxy, the client that's a little bit like Steam, has entered open beta for all to try.

Nvidia is bundling The Witcher 3 and Batman: Arkham Knight with its GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards.

Portal's world and characters will soon appear in Zen Studios' pinball games.

MachineGames' standalone shooter DLC Wolfenstein: The Old Blood is hot off the press but we've already spotted a few eye-catching Easter Eggs.

Chess has always been a pretty violent game, but the really nasty stuff would generally play out in your mind, the splatter erupting beyond the board and far removed from its cold, almost polite, tactical clarity. Warhammer 40,000: Regicide is pretty violent full-stop. It's still cold and tactile, if not particularly polite, but when you make a good move here you know about it, because your enemy has turned into a red mist, raining giblets down on the barren earth.