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The new Mad Max game by Just Cause developer Avalanche has a Thunderdome! That's a domed gladiatorial cage as made famous by film Mad Max 3 and strutting singer Tina Turner, who ran it.

Sony has temporarily cut the PlayStation 4's UK RRP to just £299.99.

It is tempting to argue that Early Access should only be for certain kinds of games - ambitious games, experimental games, games with a certain degree of the unknown to them. Setting aside the fact that developers can do whatever they want, this approach makes Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power seem like a weird fit. In my memory, this is a series built of wonderfully poised platform adventures, in which elegantly rendered Sleepy Hollow tree limbs curl around a range of ingenious physics puzzles. With its wizards and warriors and its pan-piped soundtrack, it's a bit like spending an evening in Peru's favourite Tolkien theme pub. It's a known quantity, and it has a certain polish.

Rocksteady has detailed its PC system requirements for upcoming trilogy-finisher Batman: Arkham Knight.

Ex-Ubisoft creative director and Assassin's Creed creator Patrice Désilets has unveiled the first details of his new game, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey.

"When a day you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere."

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt developer CD Projekt Red has revealed nearly nine minutes of new footage from its upcoming medieval action-RPG series.

Microsoft has apologised for including PC gameplay footage of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in a Xbox One trailer.

It's said that the curse started when George Keefer Brewer died at 45 years old, in circumstances that to this day remain unclear. Brewer, an Iowa native, all broad shoulders and a wide grin, is better known for his role as the favourite son of Krypton during the first television iteration of Superman. You've probably heard his name before in the context of The Superman Curse, which today is used as shorthand to describe the terrible fate that befalls those involved in creative adaptations of the franchise.

UPDATE 22/4/15 8.25pm: Bungie has revealed new details of features coming alongside its upcoming House of Wolves expansion during tonight's livestream.

Grim action-RPG Bloodborne may have both cooperative and competitive elements, but until this afternoon I'd never viewed it as a potential eSports title. That all changed upon watching the following video pitting the finalists against each other in a contest to see who could slay the most NPC hunters the quickest within the game's opening 15 minutes.

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty is out today on PS3 and it's free for those who own the PS4 version, even if they snagged it for free in last month's Instant Game Collection.

Microsoft has unveiled its list of upcoming Xbox One and Xbox App features being previewed in May.

State of Decay is soon to be released on Xbox One, which provides a fantastic opportunity to start arguments with those who still think this is just-another-zombie-game.

Total War: Warhammer has been officially announced for PC, Mac and SteamOS by Sega and developer Creative Assembly following an accidental announcement earlier this year. There's no release date mentioned.

Invites for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One closed beta of The Elder Scrolls Online are now being sent out to a limited number of participants.

I am not sure about the Apple Watch - which, when a single object costs as much as this does, means that I am sure that I am not going to buy one any time soon. Early reviews suggest that this a device you need to actually create a new gap in your life for: you must find a way to love the various strange things it is good at, and forgive all the things it's not so brilliant with. Go deeper and things get weird. The Apple Watch protects you from the tyranny of your own phone, apparently. That is nice to hear. Maybe something will come along in a few years that will protect you from the tyranny of your own watch, too. Maybe your phone and your watch will start to gang up on you. Maybe a turf war will race all the way from your pocket and up your arm, headed for the ear where Apple products will start to crawl inside your head and clamp painlessly onto your limbic system.

Classic shoot-'em-up Gradius 5 will be re-released today for PlayStation 3, publisher Konami has announced.

NBA 2K15 will be free to download this weekend on Xbox One for all Xbox Live Gold subscribers, Microsoft has announced.

UPDATE 22/4/15 10.55am: BBC Two has now officially announced Game Changer, the newly-titled drama that will detail development of Grand Theft Auto.

UPDATE 22/4/15 10.05am Free-to-play online battler Happy Wars will officially launch for Xbox One this Friday, 24th April.

Clint Eastwood escaped Alcatraz but can you? The Escapists Alcatraz downloadable content has been released on PC (£1.59) and Xbox One (£1.99). The content blurb says Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary has been "painstakingly rebuilt".

Microsoft has released yet another patch for Halo: The Master Chief Collection. The update weighs in at 1600MB.

Party Hard, a game I once described as "a small scale, disco-themed Dishonored", has a new trailer as your fed up avatar must put an end to their neighbor's obnoxious party... by slaying everyone attending it.

Don't Starve Together, the standalone multiplayer spin-off of gothic wilderness survival sim Don't Starve, has received a bulk of the added content from the original game's Reign of Giants DLC.

Windows 10 will be released at the end of July, according to computer processor-producer AMD.

Metal Gear Online, the multiplayer component of the upcoming Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, will support up to 16 players on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Games based on the popular Adventure Time cartoon series don't turn out very well. There was a three-game series a few years back, the only instalment of which we reviewed got a sparkling 4/10.

Charles Dance, best known recently for his fabulous turn as Lannister patriarch Tywin in Game of Thrones, will star in The Witcher 3 (due out in under a month).

Peripheral maker Mad Catz is going to co-publish Rock Band 4 on PS4 and Xbox One.