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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.

Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios has announced GoatZ, a new DayZ-inspired survival expansion.

PlayStation 4 has now sold more than 2m consoles in the UK.

It feels like I've waited half my life for this: someone has modded a gravity gun into Grand Theft Auto 5.

Shadow Jago will finally become a proper playable character in Xbox One fighting game Killer Instinct.

US retailer Walmart has listed a Portal-themed level pack for Lego Dimensions.

There's a new exploit to make your Nintendo 3DS region-free but - once again - you'll need a copy of obscure puzzle game Cubic Ninja to make it work.

Heavy metal murder on steel wings with a rack of laser-heated barrels, a die-cast ship comes screaming from a blackened fiery hue.

The Batman: Arkham Knight season pass lets you play as Batgirl, publisher Warner Bros. has revealed.

If Mario is Nintendo's McCartney, then perhaps Kirby is its Harrison, the quiet, unassuming multi-instrumentalist responsible for some of the company's more offbeat moments (I've also heard it's Kirby that may have introduced Mario and co. to the magic of mushrooms). Since his inception at the hands of Masahiro Sakurai at HAL Laboratory, Kirby's lent himself to the further reaches of Nintendo's experiments, from the accelerometer powered Tilt 'n' Tumble to the slick velocity of Air Ride.

Inside My Radio, a rhythm-action platformer set in a dying boom box, will arrive on PC and Mac on 11th May via Steam.

Spark Unlimited, the developer behind such titles as Lost Planet 3, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z and Legendary, has stopped developing games after 11 years.

In honour of the embarrassingly pun-based Star Wars Day ("May the fourth be with you"), I am Bread developer Bossa Studios has parodied George Lucas' beloved franchise with a new free update entitled Starch Wars.

Star Wars: Battlefront will have 12 multiplayer maps, publisher EA has announced.

Nintendo's NFC-based content-adding figurines Amiibo have been exceedingly popular, resulting in shortages for the collectables and skyrocketed third-party vendor prices. Nintendo is aware of the problem, however, and just announced plans to bolster its production line and even re-issue out-of-print models.

It's bank holiday Monday, a day on which all the bankers are allowed to come out from behind their side of the counter and roam the countryside for a few hours. At least I think that's how it works.

As someone who writes about video games for a living and plays them in their spare time, it's fairly important that I keep up with what's new and fresh and exciting in this industry. And in 2015, I've been doing a rubbish job of that. You see, this year something like 90 per cent of my gaming time has been split between only two games: Bloodborne and Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate. And why wouldn't it? They're both Essential titles, after all. They're also quite similar! Both are known for their steep difficulty, bombastic bosses, varied weapons, deep combat, and cooperative multiplayer. And yet, only Bloodborne has seen any kind of notable success in the west while Monster Hunter has famously struggled to replicate its craze from Japan.

Right down at the core, most games find their pulse in the friction between freedom and repetition. There's a sweet spot, always different depending on an individual game's context, between the player's own agency and the knowledge that you can always start over if things go wrong.

This year's Call of Duty has been revealed as Black Ops 3, which is set in a troubled futuristic world that is distinct from the troubled futuristic world of Advanced Warfare; soldiers with Exo suits are out, soldiers with robots arms are very much in. As with all Call of Duty trailers, the first one for Black Ops 3 is choppy and chaotic. Let us make sense of it for you.

ITEM: In the Edinburgh Filmhouse in 2007 Tartan Noir writer Allan Guthrie tells me in a private conversation that contemporary noir is when "you start out f**ked and you end even more f**ked".

Rez's soundtrack is often considered a thing of legend... with one exception: the Area 5 theme "Fear" (or "Mind Killer" as it's commonly referred to) is not the same version of the song that's in the game. Thankfully, Rez superfan and audio aficionado GO-GO-GST has managed to reconstruct composer Adam Freeland's long-lost tune.

Dragon Age: Inquisition is getting a new multiplayer add-on entitled Dragonslayer that will arrive on all platforms 5th May for free.

Earlier today there was a currency conversion error on Steam that resulted in a Counter-Strike gun costing $3,549,383.07.

Not a Hero, the 2D cover-shooter/political satire from OlliOlli developer Roll7, has been delayed an extra week until 14th May when it will launch on Steam, GOG and the Humble Store.

Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate gets free DLC every month and publisher Capcom has just detailed its May additions.

UPDATE 01/05/2015 5.22pm: The tweet-embedded games have been removed from Twitter for violating the site's policy.

Well, look at that. Another week draws to a close, meaning it's time for another episode of The Eurogamer Show.

Ever wondered where Street Fighter pros look on the screen while they're playing?