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For 30 seconds this morning, the most important word in gaming was BEEFER. That's if you happened to be on the number 27, racing along the south coast towards Brighton, anyway, and if you were the man sat next to me on the upper deck, who was trying to play BEEFER in a game of Spelltower. Seriously, the stars had almost aligned for this man: he had the letters he wanted and he had a workable layout. What he did not have, and I am very sorry to report this, was access to a universe in which BEEFER appears in the dictionary.

Nintendo has revealed the full list of tracks for Mario Kart 8's second slice of DLC, which will contain eight new courses split between returning favourites and entirely new areas.

Life is a series of unanswered questions, when you think about it. Is there really a god? Why have the staff at my favourite local sandwich shop suddenly changed all at once? Who are you and what are you doing in my house?

UPDATE 12.15AM BST: Team17 has confirmed it, sending the official press release to Eurogamer. The Escapists is coming to PlayStation 4 "soon". It's also now mentioned on the European PlayStation Blog.

New fighting game Mortal Kombat X will be released around the world starting 14th April, Warner has announced. That's a Tuesday and that's definitely the date for the UK, Warner PR confirmed.

UPDATE 23/03/2015: NetherRealm has confirmed Predator as a playable character following last week's leak.

You can buy easy to perform Fatalities for fighting game Mortal Kombat X.

Now racing game Project Cars is nearing its mid-May release, developer Slightly Mad Studios has confirmed a raft of technical details on its website.

Europe has only been waiting since Halloween...

When it first became obvious that Hearthstone was awesome and everyone loved it, a lot of people expected Blizzard to hurl resources at it and for the game to grow massively in scale and scope - and yet it hasn't really changed. Instead, the Hearthstone that emerges from a long and increasingly public beta period is much the same as the one that became an invite-only sensation late last summer: a beautifully appointed card strategy game with a few game modes and a smallish stable of 500 cards. How come? There were bugs to squash, sure, but wasn't there time to bang out much-requested features like a spectator mode?

Destiny's data miners are at it again, this time digging into the recently released patch 1.1.2 to uncover plans for two new social spaces.

As is so often the case with the super-rich, my wife has started to exhibit some strange behaviour. A savvy blend of bank robbery and scattershot investing has left her with more money than she can ever hope to spend, and so she's increasingly only interested in the things that money cannot buy. Aliens, ghosts, zombies: this is the bizarre end-game to GTA 5. Once the missions are finished, once the last Achievements have been mopped up, unless you're willing to venture online you're going to be left right here: in a vast, beautiful map that you must shock back to life in any way you can think of. A map that tells you there is nothing left to find and nothing left to do. But that can't be true, can it?

Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac Games is releasing its first PC game, Slow Down, Bull, on Steam 20th April.

A variety of Sega Mega Drive classics are heading to 3DS with 3D support and now we've got the rough dates for them.

A remake of Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus is in its planning stage, series creator Lorne Lanning has revealed.

A slick CG trailer this week declared gravelly cyborg Adam Jensen would return soon for Deus Ex: Human Revolution sequel Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

The latest Humble Bundle has teamed up with EA to let you pay what you want for Dragon Age: Origins, Peggle, Dead Space 2, Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour, and Medal of Honor Allied Assault War Chest.

Grand Theft Auto 5 has finally made its way onto the platform of choice and just think of all the weird-looking mods we're going to end up with as a result! Phwoar. It's going to be absolutely lovely.

World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor's upcoming 6.2 patch will add a brand new ship-building feature along with tons of other additions.

With Grand Theft Auto 5 finally making its way to PC today fans are finding all sorts of cool features to personalise the game. One of the most vital - and easiest to pull off - allows players to upload their own music onto GTA 5's radio stations by shuffling files around outside of the game.

UPDATE 14/04/2015 5.06pm: The first details have arrived regarding Bloodborne's next 1.03 update.

After a five-year hiatus, music rhythm game Guitar Hero has reformed with a new perspective: first-person.

UK retailers have opened pre-orders for Yoshi's Woolly World Amiibo, with prices set higher than other figurines to date.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece based on a weekend with Mortal Kombat X. Our full review will be up in the near future once we've properly tested online features.

Sandbox construction sim Cities: Skylines has broken through the 1m sales barrier.

Sony has removed the nipples of a female character for the Japanese version of PlayStation 4-exclusive The Order: 1886.

Steam owners of Dying Light can now download the game's Developer Tools pack and begin creating their own custom content.

Tri-Ace and Square Enix are working on Star Ocean 5, a new report has confirmed.

Guitar Hero Live will launch later this year with a new controller peripheral, a Yahoo France report has revealed.

If your Windows username contains characters outside of the alphabet or numbers one-to-10 then you may run into issues playing Grand Theft Auto 5 on PC.