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Bloody horror Battle Royale will be free to watch this weekend on Xbox One, courtesy of Final Fantasy publisher Square Enix.

I'm engaged to be married (hooray!) which, if social convention is anything to go by, means my fiancée and I are probably due a conversation about having kids at some point. God I hope she never reads this.

Surreal survival sim Dyscourse is out now on PC, Mac and Linux via Steam.

UPDATE 25/3/15 12:00pm After one day, 21 hours, 18 minutes and 29 seconds, the longest ever turn in Hearthstone is now complete.

The PlayStation Store Easter Sale is upon us, running from today (25th March) until 15th April. Some sale dates vary so pay attention to avoid missing out.

Blizzard's in-closed-beta multiplayer online battle arena Heroes of the Storm has been updated.

It may not seem like it at first glance, but Final Fantasy Type-0 HD is one of the most ambitious remasters we've played. The gap has never been so wide - porting from the almost eleven-year-old PSP hardware with its sub-PS2 spec is a gargantuan task and one that Hexadrive hasn't taken lightly. The talented Japanese development house has crafted a new engine with features rivalling any other modern renderer on the market today, with Square-Enix handling the spruced-up assets. The final product is a mixed bag, but the sheer number of technical accomplishments on hand is very impressive.

YouTube owner Google was reportedly denied a juicy $1bn buyout of livestreaming platform Twitch last year. That had been Google's solution to a growing phenomenon: buy it.

Ubisoft has launched a two-hour trial of its open world racer The Crew.

Adriaan de Jongh wants to make games that help people fall in love. It's a bold ambition for a bold man. And depending on how you attribute the origins of one's romantic relationship, he may already have succeeded.

Croteam's philosophical first-person puzzle game The Talos Principle gets an expansion pack this spring.

The Consequence, part two of The Evil Within's Juli Kidman DLC, comes out on Tuesday 21st April.

2011's Brink was supposed to be Splash Damage's magnum opus. Stepping away from their lauded Enemy Territory series, Brink was a radical new title bursting with ideas. SMART movement! Context-sensitive objectives! Dynamic maps! Multiplayer narrative! It was a tantalising prospect. Yet for all its ambition, Brink proved a misfire, simply because it wasn't much fun to play. It was too slow, too lightweight, and its map design seemed to funnel players into irresolvable battles of attrition that rendered many of its ideas impotent.

UPDATE 03/23/2015 10.13pm Twitch has confirmed that users' credit card info is safe.

Our intrepid reporter Tom Phillips is digging into the just-released Dragon Age: Inquisition story DLC Jaws of Hakkon, and we thought it would be useful to explain how to get it started.

Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier just awarded £10,000 to the first player to reach Triple Elite status.

German magazine Gamestar recently published an article about upcoming fantasy role-playing game Witcher 3, and it revealed a raft of new information.

Payday 2 developer Overkill has pledged to continue support for its popular heist shooter into 2017.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece, based on four days' play with Bloodborne. We'll be posting our final review later this week, once we've experienced the game on fully stressed online servers and once we've been able to spend a little more time in Yharnam.

Competitive side-scrolling racing game SpeedRunners has sold 600K copies on Steam Early Access.

Open world zombie MMO H1Z1 has sold over 1m copies on Steam, developer Daybreak Game Company's president John Smedley revealed on Twitter.

UPDATE 03/23/2015 10.24pm: It appears that this teaser may just a celebratory reflection upon Raven Software's 25 year anniversary. The studio's recent Facebook post said, "From the Time Manipulation Device to the multiple factions in multiplayer, Singularity became a cult hit that continues to have a rabid and vocal fan base. This week is a celebration of all things Singularity."

Fatshark (War of the Roses, and the upcoming Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide) and Toadman Interactive (Killing Floor: Calamity) have shown off new gameplay of their upcoming collaboration Bloodsports.TV.

UPDATE 23/03/2015 5.47pm: Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has cast doubt on the Wall Street Journal report about a live-action Zelda series coming to Netflix.

Game of Thrones: Episode 3, The Sword in the Darkness, is due this week on PC, Mac, PS4, PS3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, iOS and Android, developer Telltale has announced.

A Wii U eShop developer plans to release what may be the most bizarre Wii Remote peripheral yet.

Devil May Cry 4: Special Edition was announced in December and now Capcom has unveiled the details on what this next-gen remake of the 2008 classic entails.

Lateral thinking with seasoned technology. It's a philosophy established by Game Boy creator Gunpei Yokoi, and one that you can attribute much of Nintendo's success to. It turns out it's a philosophy that's just as potent when it comes to software. Splatoon takes the somewhat tired premise of an online shooter and, with a little creativity and large, literal splashes of colour, makes for a shooter that's bursting with potential.

Batman: Arkham Knight has been delayed by a few weeks.

The people behind RollerCoaster Tycoon World have vowed to improve the game's graphics following the overwhelmingly negative reaction to a recently-released gameplay video.