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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.

Star Citizen patch 1.1 is out now and makes big changes to the PC space game.

UPDATE 23/3/15 11.45am: Ubisoft has now commented on the Rainbow Six: Siege leak and also detailed how you can gain access to the game's upcoming closed beta.

With E3 looming over the horizon, Microsoft has launched a Serial-style fictional podcast exposé on the Master Chief as part of a Halo 5: Guardians alternate reality game.

Evolution Studios, the developer of PlayStation 4-exclusive racing game DriveClub, is set to lose 55 staff, sources familiar with the matter have told Eurogamer.

Battlefield Hardline has topped the UK all-formats chart, giving publisher EA its first number one of the year.

The digital version of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D does not fit on the New 3DS' standard microSD card.

Bloodborne is out tomorrow - and with it comes a important 2.69GB day one patch.

UPDATE 23/3/15 8.20am Pokémon Shuffle has now been downloaded more than 2.5m times, Nintendo has announced.

The traditional nostalgic view of boys at play is that old playground classic of 'war', where kids pelt around the tarmac making "akka-akka-akka" noises and pretending to shoot each other with machine gun sticks. The alternate to that scenario is, of course, cops and robbers, so it makes sense that for its first foray outside of the military milieu Battlefield would swap tanks for squad cars.

Few games leave you with as much unfinished business as Dark Souls. A single playthrough is only ever a paltry slice out of an array of delicious possibilities, and you can never walk away with the sense of contented closure that most games would. Sure, you may have defeated Gywn, Lord Of Cinder and seen the end credits, but there's always the lingering knowledge that there is so much more to come, or that you could have done things completely differently.

Even during the height of his fame at Sega in the 90s, Yu Suzuki was an outsider. Unable and unwilling to keep to the 8.30am starts demanded by the company, Suzuki moved his team out to a rented office near the main headquarters so he could keep his own hours. Sega colleagues would joke that the name of Suzuki's group - AM2 - came from the fact that the only time of day you could guarantee all the team would be working was two o'clock in the morning.

Hi Eurogamers and welcome to your weekly round up of the video goings-on over at Outside Xbox. This week, we've been grappling with perplexing mysteries, like Sherlock Holmes if he were three people and really into videogames.

They don't make 'em like they used to. With Xbox 360's abysmal failure rate and PS3s often falling victim to the yellow light of death, it's a strange that so many consoles from the 90s are still running just fine. To test these vintage video game platforms' durability, the folks at Wired decided to experiment with which ones could survive a 15 foot drop.

Square-Enix's last generation Crystal Tools engine came and went with only four games to its name before being put to pasture - so when it was announced that the publisher would be switching to Unreal Engine 4 for new projects we were left wondering just what would become of their next-generation Luminous Studio. For the time being, at least, the answer is Final Fantasy 15 - the only announced title being created with this new in-house middleware solution. The team responsible for this new toolset is working closely with the game development team in order to deliver the most technically ambitious in-house game the Japanese publisher has ever produced. In a move recalling Square's glory days on the original PlayStation, the publisher has bundled a special demo version of Final Fantasy 15 known as Episode Duscae with another product, giving us our first hands-on with this ambitious new title.

We have a certain imaginative sympathy with worlds we are invested in, and elevate them with subconscious complicity. Or to put it another way - the better the game, the more likely we are to give it a pass on below-par elements. No great revelation.

If you thought fighting monsters with a horn was bats*** crazy, then try besting Dark Souls with a set of bongo controllers. Because that's what dedicated player Bearzly just did.

Payday 2 and SpeedRunners, the beloved competitive multiplayer game that's inspired the new Giana Sisters title, have announced some free new crossover content.

Giana Sisters are taking on SpeedRunners with Giana Sisters: Dream Runners, a competitive multiplayer platforming racer due this summer on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

Magic Leap, the AR company where Snow Crash writer Neal Stephenson resides as "Chief Futurist", has released a conceptual demo showing off what it hopes to achieve with its cutting edge tech.

UPDATE 2: Hideo Kojima has issued a joint statement with Konami following recent rumours about his status within the Japanese game company.

Sony has announced God of War 3 Remastered for PlayStation 4. It launches 17th July 2015 in the UK.

The PlayStation 4 version of massively multiplayer first-person shooter PlanetSide 2 goes into closed beta on Wednesday, 25th March, its developer announced on the PlayStation blog.

This years EGX Rezzed was brilliant. Call me biased if you like, but I'd wager everyone that went found something to love. I had plenty of opportunities to try out the weird and wonderful indie games on offer and, in the video below, you'll find my pick of the bunch - four games I really can't wait to play more of.

It's an unfortunate reality that modern games are rarely finished at release, with publishers relying on post-release patches more than ever. Resident Evil Revelations 2 is no exception, and with the PlayStation 4 version suffering poor performance results, a new patch seemed inevitable. Well, Capcom stepped up this week with a brand new update for the PS4 version promising performance improvements. Hopeful, we updated our copy of the game and set out to see if the title's puzzling performance issues have been sorted.

Focus Home Interactive has released the first gameplay footage of Blood Bowl 2, the video game based on the American Football-themed Warhammer board game.

Science fiction has always been at the core of No Man's Sky. That might seem like a superfluous thing to say, given its scope, its fantasy and its attempt to realise the awe-inspiring spectacle of a life lived amidst a near-infinite sea of stars, but it's a very particular brand of science fiction that the team at Hello Games (they're a small team, I think I've heard) have taken to heart.

UPDATE 20/3/15 2.00pm: Square Enix has now released its official trailer for Life is Strange episode two, which shows off snippets of gameplay from later in the episode.