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

In August gargantuan Dota 2 tournament The International once again kicks into gear, and so this year's Compendium has launched.

Sony will soon sell The Last of Us downloadable add-on Left Behind as a standalone product.

UPDATE 01/05/2015: Access Games has released the first screenshots of the PC version of D4.

What there wasn't, in the recent Elder Scrolls Online console closed beta, was the option to chat via text. That's unusual for a massively-multiplayer online game but not for a console game.

Ahead of its big Kickstarter push for Yooka-Laylee, we visited the newly-formed Playtonic Games to chat about the team's extensive history with Rare. Between the six of them, they had worked at that studio for over 100 years and I wanted to find out what finally convinced them to leave and start afresh.

Mode 7 has released a free update for turn-based sci-fi American Football game Frozen Cortex that adds a management simulation.

In April 2013 superstar YouTuber PewDiePie played Surgeon Simulator, a game about clumsily performing operations, and made a video about it. It's had 11.5m views.

UPDATE 1/5/15 9.50am: An image of what appears to be Disney Infinity 3.0's Star Wars starter set has appeared online, and contains Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano as its two packed-in characters.

UPDATE 1/5/15 9.15am Microsoft is rolling out a new Xbox 360 firmware update that adds USB hard drive support up to 2TB.

In one memorable exchange in the most recent TV series of Game of Thrones, the brutish warrior known as the Hound suggests that the only people who bother to name their swords are "c***s". But we video game players usually leave our weapons nameless not through virtue but through a plain lack of resources: there aren't enough names in the world to bestow on the endless supply of swords and guns that pass through our virtual palms. (The Master Swords and Klobbs of our world have to be uniquely good, terrible or recurrent before a christening.)

Given its antic plundering of creaky old books, it should not be surprising that Code Name: STEAM finds its soul in a library. And not just any library. This is the great library at Miskatonic University, the starting point for so many excursions into the weird, the deathless, the unthinkable. More on that stuff in a bit. What's important is that the library is a wonderfully unusual map, and one that brings out the best in a wonderfully unusual - and often infuriating - game. Code Name: STEAM is a squad-based tactics affair (more Valkyria Chronicles than XCOM due to the granularity of its action points variant) and the library level starts by encouraging you to split your team of four into two teams of two. You're on the back foot from the end of the first turn.

Destiny developer Bungie has launched a new T-shirt to raise money for disaster relief in Nepal.

A console version of Terra Battle, the next game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, is in development.

UPDATE 01/05/2015: Dragon Age Inquisition's first single-player add-on, Jaws of Hakkon, launches on PS4, PS3 and Xbox 360 on 26th May, BioWare has announced.

Square Enix has revealed a glimpse of the tech it's developing for its upcoming Luminous Studio engine at Microsoft's Build conference today.

Threes developer Asher Vollmer has released a new game, the pay-what-you-want "optimistic peasant simulator" dubbed Royals.

Prison escaping sim The Escapists will arrive on PS4 on 29th May, publisher team 17 has announced.

Watch Dogs 2 appears to be in development, according to the LinkedIn profile of an Ubisoft senior gameplay programmer.

Child of Light now has a free downloadable storybook entitled Child of Light: Reginald The Great.

UPDATE 30/04/2015 7.50pm Galaga Tekken 20th Anniversary Edition is out now worldwide as a free download on iOS and Android devices, Bandai Namco Entertainment of Europe has announced.

I lost my first character in Diablo 3's Hardcore mode - where death is permanent - to a puddle of acid excreted by an angry tree. The character was a level 17 wizard. I just wasn't watching where I was standing. That was a back before the console version, before the Reaper of Souls expansion - when the game was less fun, less pliable, less eager to please.

One of Rare's best-loved franchises has made a triumphant return in a brand new video game.

Playtonic Games has revealed the first firm details of its upcoming Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor, which now sports an official name: Yooka-Laylee.

A group of former Rare developers have announced plans for a "spiritual successor" to platforming classic Banjo Kazooie.

UPDATE 14/3/15 5.15pm: An edited version of the first screenshot below, shown today during Playtonic's EGX Rezzed developer session, has teased a glimpse at one of the game's characters.

In September 2012 a rag-tag crew of former Banjo-Kazooie developers calling themselves MingyJongo announced that they were working on a spiritual successor to the bear & bird-based N64 platformer series. Unfortunately, that project is no longer in development.

A ragtag crew of ex-Rare staff have joined forces on Twitter to rally up support for a "spiritual successor" to Banjo-Tooie.

Pre-order any edition of Wii U-exclusive Splatoon at GAME and you will get an exclusive free Inkling beanie.

Dead Island 2 will now be released in 2016, developer Yager has announced.