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PlayStation continues to do the business for Japanese electronics giant Sony.

Editor's note: This is an early impressions piece, based on completing Battlefield: Hardline's campaign. Our full review will be up once we've played the multiplayer on fully stressed servers.

Borderlands 2 writer Anthony Burch regrets making its playable cast so quiet.

UPDATE 16/03/2015 7.20pm: All codes have been claimed. On the plus side, Rise of the Triad will still be 80 per cent off until Thursday.

Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record will be transitioning from Games for Windows Live to Steamworks tomorrow, Capcom has announced.

Goat Simulator developer Coffee Stain Studios is trying to add its leading mammal to Dota 2 via Steam Workshop.

Hotline Miami 2 launched last week to critical acclaim, but a fair number of folks were disappointed to realise that the game wouldn't run on Windows XP, despite the system requirements saying otherwise prior to launch. This was unfortunate for those who pre-ordered the game.

The next Tiger Woods game won't be a "Tiger Woods" game. Instead, EA has replaced its flagship golfing series' mascot with four-time Major champion Rory McIlroy.

Children are kind of useful, giving people who no longer fancy going to the pub very often something to fill their time with instead. They also ensure the continuation of the human race solely by existing, which is pretty impressive when you think about it. Apologies to any parents reading this by the way, I really am trying my best.

A few early thoughts from Martin and myself on Not A Hero, ahead of its launch on the 7th May (the very same date as the UK's general election, because of course it is).

For a game that has no pressing reason to be, Mario Party 10 makes a decent fist of justifying its existence. It still suffers from many of the same problems as its predecessors - repetition, inconsistency, outrageously underhand CPU opponents - but developer Nd Cube has at least attempted to inject some fresh ideas into a series that, as recently as two games ago, was beginning to feel well past its sell-by date.

Right around the time Playtonic Games, a new studio made up of former veteran Rare developers, unveiled their spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, thousands of miles away a new, Rare-approved Banjo-Kazooie game was shown off.

Microsoft's Xbox One parity clause has caused a lot of confusion - both among the developers it relates to and gamers trying to work out if a title they like will be released on their console.

Ironcast launches on PC, Mac and Linux via Steam and the Humble Store on Thursday, 26th March.

UK video game shop has launched an online marketplace on which third-parties can sell their products.

A former Maxis employee who worked on SimCity and its expansion, Cities of Tomorrow, has launched a Patreon to crowdfund the creation of Cities: Skylines buildings.

Based on a film series about resurrecting the past, Lego Jurassic World's familiar mechanics seem almost fitting. Developer TT Games' biannual Lego titles settled into a rhythm long ago, and its latest - due to release alongside Jurassic World in cinemas this June - is no exception.

Resident Evil Revelations 2's Raid mode finally gets online co-op later this month.

Cute first-person shooter Lovely Planet launches on Xbox One this summer, publisher tinyBuild has announced.

At this week's EGX Rezzed show in London, I had one of those experiences that journalists live for. I got a glimpse of the future - or perhaps it would be more accurate to describe it as a privileged understanding of the present. I tried Valve's SteamVR system and for half an hour was held rapt by a suite of demos that allowed me to walk around virtual spaces. I came out with my head spinning - only figuratively - and babbled excitedly at anyone I could grab. The first friend I subjected to my ravings told me I looked stoned. I did feel like my perceptions had been altered in a way that taking the headset off didn't immediately reverse. It's that good.

Old habits are hard to break, especially when they're ones that kept you safe through trying times. When you walked through the Valley in the shadow of Drakes, when you descended into the toxic depths of Blighttown, and when you paced the gleaming ramparts of Anor Londo, the old sword and shield combo was a reliable fallback in Dark Souls. Block, slash, back off, wait. It was a mantra you repeated to yourself over and over, a song whose comforting words saw you through the darkest nights. Block, slash, back off, wait. Dark Souls' creator Hidetaka Miyazaki doesn't want you to get comfortable, which is why his latest title, PS4 exclusive Bloodborne, is taking that fallback away. And as suspected, learning to get by in a From Software game without relying on a sword and shield doesn't come easy - at least at first.

UPDATE 16/03/2015: DriveClub update 1.12 has been released. It adds replays, better drift scores and the Ferrari 599XX Evoluzione for Driver Level 50. The patch notes are below.

Remember Hawken, the free-to-play mech shooter that was billed as the next big thing? The company that owns APB Reloaded, Reloaded Games, has just bought it.

Designed with last-gen consoles in mind, Assassin's Creed Rogue slipped under the radar somewhat owing to the controversy surrounding its Unity stable-mate's bugs, glitches and questionable performance. Built using the same technology behind Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Rogue may not deliver the same graphical punch as the next-gen Unity, but some might say that it offers a more liberating gameplay experience when freed from the shackles of on-land exploration. Perhaps more importantly, it doesn't suffer from as many bugs - even if it still features a few random glitches of its own, such as enemy characters disappearing in battle.

Who is your favourite version of Lara Croft right now? The cartoon star of Temple of Osiris, with her bubblegum-blue leotard, or the 2013 reboot's bedraggled gap year student? For me it's neither. I'm much more taken with the Lara Croft of Melissa Lee-Houghton's "Hot Pursuit", which introduces the final section of video game poetry anthology Coin Opera 2: Fulminaire's Revenge. Largely, that's because this incarnation of Lara won't do what she's told. Lee-Houghton portrays the character as neither an instrument of the player's will nor a swashbuckling heroine, but a kind of wayward protégé who must be laboriously won round if any progress is to be made.

What is it about Blizzard's games that command such obsession and commitment from those of us who play them? There's the emergent complexity that springs up from root simplicity - easy to learn, hard to master if you prefer - but there's something more to the magic of the time you spend in these worlds, something that transcends the fundamental nuts and bolts of tightly-tuned gameplay.

Valve and HTC's Vive virtual reality system isn't just about the headset, or about the immersion - which is simply incredible, by the way - it's about space. At the risk of venturing into hyperbole, you could even suggest that it's about creating a first generation holodeck of sorts, to the point where there's even a subtle homage to Star Trek: The Next Generation. As you wander around the play area, the signature grid pattern appears before your eyes in the form of glowing vectors - defining the safe limits of the space, and stopping you from hitting the walls in the real world.

UPDATE: We've uploaded ArenaNet's Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns developer session from Rezzed for your viewing pleasure.

UPDATE: At EGX Rezzed developer Dontnod played Episode 2 of Life is Strange live on stage, and we've got 15 minutes of gameplay in the video below.

Measured against most yardsticks, my 19-month-old baby doesn't really know very much. As I type this, for example, she is crouched in the kitchen, trying to start a conversation with the washing machine. Still, though - and trite as this sounds - every day, I learn a lot from her.