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Despite its frame-pacing issues and long load times, Bloodborne is still very much worth the rush of commotion it's receiving this week. The game sits high in the hierarchy of quality PS4 exclusives, its only real competition in the gameplay stakes coming via From Software's very own remaster of Dark Souls 2, due out next week. With a new enemy layout, improved lighting and 1080p60 gameplay, the remaster's bid for relevancy is strong, but does Scholar of the First Sin keep up on technical grounds, or does Sony's exclusive steal the show?

Splitscreen modes aren't as fashionable in these days of internet-loving consoles as they were in the GoldenEye golden age, but I tell you what is on trend: HD remasters.

Hello! Happy Friday! And welcome to the first episode of The Eurogamer Show.

Lying with my face on a hotel pillow reading IMs from Chris Donlan: 'It's time to go full gonzo.' Donlan is paying me a fee to take the free iPhone app #Fortune around the world with me to do a 2015 Dice Man. It's an app that uses Twitter to generate digital fortune cookies.

2K Games is offering huge discounts on several of its biggest hits on the Humble Store, with some titles up to 83 per cent off.

The folks behind Infestation: Survivor Stories (aka the game previously known as The War Z before it changed names due to a trademark issue) is rebooting its zombie MMO with a new game called Romero's Aftermath.

Grand Theft Auto 5 is coming to PC on 14th April and to whet our appetites Rockstar has released 15 glorious new screenshots showing how the PC version looks on a tricked out kit.

Sunless Sea more than doubled developer Failbetter's best case scenario sales estimate.

Another action role-playing game by Japanese maestro From Software will be available next week: Shadow Tower, the 1998 PS1 game.

As someone who plays RPGs more than just about any other genre, I'm not really sure why to date I've always struggled to enjoy the Dark and Demon Souls games. I admire the precision of the gameplay, and the reduction of combat down to its purest forms, but there's something about the sheer weight of the games that I find stifling - I just can't bear to live in their worlds long enough to push much beyond the opening hour.

From Software is working on a patch for Bloodborne it hopes will improve the game's load times.

From Software's Hidetaka Miyazaki gets straight to the point. "Just to make everything clear," he tells a small audience assembled at Sony's booth to see Bloodborne, his recently announced PlayStation 4 exclusive, "this is not a sequel to Demon's Souls."

UPDATE 11.45PM GMT: Obsidian boss Feargus Urquhart and Paradox boss Fredrik Wester talked about the deal at GDC moments ago. Contributor Paul Dean was there and sent me some choice remarks.

Playable Pillars of Eternity - finally! Obsidian has announced that the retro-styled role-playing game will go into beta for backers from 18th August.

UPDATE 11/02 11.45PM: Obsidian has just officially announced a "winter 2014" release window for Pillars of Eternity.

I spoke to Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer recently and wrote a piece about the game's likely release date, about reaction to the first proper trailer and about this being the start of a series of games. But that wasn't all Josh Sawyer said, and I had leftover material I thought you'd appreciate reading.

There are still months until release but finally Pillars of Eternity - Obsidian's Kickstarter darling - is playable.

Soon, European PlayStation users will be able to easily check whether PlayStation Network is up or down.

The €500,000 Make Arma Not War competition - designed to find the best Arma 3 mods around - has come to an end, and the winners have been announced.

Sony has cut the price of PlayStation TV in the UK to £44.99.

(This is our final review of Bloodborne, and contains discussions of some of the game's surprises and themes. If you'd rather not read them, have a look at our spoiler-free first impressions from earlier in the week, or skip to the last paragraph.)

Atari today launches Asteroids reboot Asteroids: Outpost on Steam as an Early Access title - and it's threatened to reboot other cult classic Atari games, too.

UPDATE 27/03/2015: Indiana's controversial "religious freedom" bill has been signed into law.

Hearthstone expansion Blackrock Mountain comes out next week, Blizzard has announced.

With the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of Wasteland 2, Torment: Tides of Numenera, The Bard's Tale 4 and possibly, probably even more games in the works, inXile Entertainment has a lot on its plate.

Microsoft has detailed further Xbox One enhancements due as part of the system's April firmware update, including voice messages.

Bungie has detailed its upcoming expansion of Destiny's item vaults, and revealed it has found itself reaching the hardware limits of last-gen consoles.

The Souls effect will reach fever pitch this week with the release of Bloodborne, and very important gaming people at lunch around the world will wonder how they can copy it. Feels like a recent thing, given that Dark Souls appeared in 2011 to really kick it all off. But as I discovered, in something of a crypt in London recently, the Souls effect was felt a long, long time ago.

Want to be in a video game? And make a few bucks in the process? Well you might be in luck, as Homefront: The Revolution developer Deep Silver Dambuster Studios is looking for folks to pose as models for the upcoming sequel.

Ironcast, a new hybrid between a match-three puzzler and a turn-based strategy game, has just been announced for PS4, PS3 and Xbox One later this year via publisher Ripstone.