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The latest Nintendo Direct has concluded, and with it came a flurry of release date changes and updates.

There's a lot that is strange about Asteroids Outpost, but the most obvious is surely the way this supposed evolution of Atari's 1979 arcade game has literally nothing in common with its classic ancestor.

Kojima Productions' logo been removed from the official Silent Hills/P.T. website.

Dirt 3 has transitioned to Steamworks from Games For Windows Live. Better yet, it's upgrading all owners of the main game to the Complete Edition.

UPDATE 2/4/15 0.15am: Nintendo has officially announced Pokémon Rumble World during its just-finished Nintendo Direct broadcast.

Nintendo has revealed an Animal Crossing spin-off entitled Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer.

Nintendo will soon release DS and Wii games via the Wii U eShop, beginning with iconic classics Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64.

Mario Kart 8's second batch of DLC has had its release date brought forward from May to later this April, with the Animal Crossing-themed content coming on the 23rd of this month.

Nintendo's highly anticipated squid kid shooter Splatoon is launching on 29th May, Nintendo announced during its latest Nintendo Direct today.

A new entry in the spooky Fatal Frame series is due later this year on Wii U.

Yoshi's Woolly World has finally got a release date - and it's going to be accompanied by a knitted amiibo, a departure from the plastic figurines seen to date.

Amid all the April Fools' Day shenanigans there are some actual goofy discoveries that just so happened to be discovered upon this most ridiculous of days. One of these is an incredibly obscure Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Easter Egg that lets you defeat zombies with exploding hamburgers.

DeNA, the Japanese mobile games publisher that recently merged with Nintendo, is hoping its latest partnership will rake in $25m a month.

UPDATE 01/04/2015 5.20pm Bloodborne's game-breaking bug has been fixed in its latest patch.

April Fools' Day - your annual helping of internet silliness (and a limited number of genuinely fun surprises).

PlayStation 4-exclusive Bloodborne managed to shift 152,567 copies during its launch week in Japan.

The closed StarCraft 2: Legacy of the Void beta (for PC and Mac) has begun and invites to it are being sent out today.

UPDATE 1/4/15 13.40pm Super Mario 64 HD creator Erik Ross has admitted defeat and pulled all download mirrors for his free, Unity-based version of the platformer's first level.

There have been big games on small screens before, of course. Think of the epic scope of a Pokémon adventure, entire regions charted as you gather together your own vast menagerie, or the toytown bestiary of Animal Crossing New Leaf, as your own village ticks on while hungrily consuming endless hours of your life. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, the handheld port of Monolith Soft's grandiose 2011 Wii RPG, is different.

From Software might have already made games that inspired the Souls series, but history wasn't adding up to much when Demon's Souls was first in development (around 2006). Internally, it was considered a failure.

Warner Bros. and Sony have created a Batman-themed PlayStation 4 console.

This morning, a couple of minutes later than expected, PlayStation Home was taken offline - for good. Time of death: 8.02am BST.

Microsoft considered the idea of providing the original Xbox console for free.

UPDATE 1/4/15 8.55am: Sony has released the previously-leaked MotorStorm buggy DLC for DriveClub today as a special April Fools' Day present (but don't worry, this actually is real).

SteamWorld Dig developer Image & Form has taken the series in an odd direction by creating a spin-off rather than a sequel to its breakout platformer. Dubbed SteamWorld Heist, this next game in the series is a turn-based strategy affair and Image & Form has finally released gameplay footage of its next outing in action.

Feminist video game critic Anita Sarkeesian has debuted the first video in her new series, Positive Female Characters, where she examines examples of video games getting feminism right.

UPDATE 31/03/2014 11.30pm: For more on Steam's transition to hosting films, Devolver Digital's founding partner Mike Wilson offered Eurogamer the following statement:

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt could take completionists over 200 hours to wrap up, according to senior game designer Damien Monnier.

PSN's Instant Game Collection - i.e. games free for PlayStation Plus subscribers - has been announced for the month of April.

Google has launched one of its annual April Fools' Day jokes a little early - you can now activate a Pac-Man mode for Google Maps.