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Acclaimed fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died aged 66.

This seems like a straightforward proposition, but what is Devil May Cry? It's a third-person fighting game that more or less invented a genre, then with Devil May Cry 3 raised the bar once more and, with Devil May Cry 4, had its biggest-selling entry (2.9 million). In 2008 the series did not seem in bad shape - and then the next Devil May Cry was DmC, a reboot developed by the Cambridge studio Ninja Theory. This switch was much-maligned by series fans, persistently and often unfairly.

Post-apocalyptic open world shooter Homefront: The Revolution has been delayed until 2016, publisher Deep Silver has announced.

It doesn't take much more than a cursory glance at the pastiness of my skin or the way I flinch at the words "team sports" to realise I have never been a fan of the great outdoors. Nature seems a little bit too adept at making terrible things happen to adequate people for my liking, and video games seem to agree.

Sonya Blade and Johnny Cage are playable characters in NetherRealm's fighting game Mortal Kombat X.

Some of you may know that, late last year, we regretfully closed our Swedish language edition. No drama - just an amicable parting of ways with the team that ran the site.

First things first, Ori and the Blind Forest is gorgeous. Absolutely jaw-droppingly eye-poppingly gorgeous. You'd have to look back to Okami for a game so visually beguiling. It's the sort of game where you'll actually stop and give an involuntary "ooh" sound when you first see it in motion.

A team of modders is remaking Blizzard's real-time strategy game Warcraft 3 using the StarCraft 2 editor.

Xbox One owners who subscribe to EA Access can now play Visceral's first-person shooter Battlefield Hardline.

Frontier has released a video running through the basics of its recent Wings update for complex space game Elite: Dangerous.

Sid Meier's Starships shares one crucial theme with Civilization: Beyond Earth, the game whose story it loosely continues. Both titles hinge on a very simple idea, powerfully stated: the worst thing you're ever likely to find floating around out in space is another human being.

Star Citizen - the colossal crowdfunded space trading and combat game by Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts - could be a 100GB download just for the client, developer Roberts Space Industries has revealed.

Just Cause 3 publisher Square Enix is letting players vote on what they'd like to see in the game's Collector's Edition when it launches later this year on PS4, Xbox One and PC.

PlayStation 4's upcoming 2.50 update, codenamed "Yukimura", will add a host of new features including the option to Suspend/Resume your games.

Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has debuted the first footage of his upcoming arena shooter codenamed Bluestreak.

RTS/action hybrid AirMech Arena is coming to Xbox One and PS4 this spring as a free-to-play game, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

Upcoming tactical RPG Lost Dimension is coming to Europe and the Americas this summer on PS3 and Vita, publisher Atlus has revealed.

Sony has detailed how Bloodborne's online multiplayer will work. In many ways it's similar to that of From Software's Demon's and Dark Souls games, but there are some subtle differences.

Slightly Mad Studios' Project Cars has been delayed again.

The developer of Pokémon has announced Tembo the Badass Elephant, a 2D side-scrolling platformer for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

There are extremes, and then there's DmC. This reinvention of Devil May Cry is capable of leaving you open-mouthed in amazement, gazing in wonder while clutching the joypad so hard it creaks - but it also easily segues into boredom and, occasionally, frustration. When DmC gets going it is sensational and when it slows down it's barely average. It's the 10/10 game that won't stop forgetting itself.

Mastery of the skateboard and mastery of the twitch arcade game share a fundamental similarity: in each case the goal is to achieve flow, a removal of the friction that exists between the human mind and body. In video games, that means entering a state where you are able to weave unerringly between obstacles or threats without deliberate thought. Your will and your on-screen avatar act as one. In skateboarding, flow is where you physically move through your environment without interruption, grinding along rails, jumping over obstacles and linking tricks together, thereby transforming the contours of a park or city into a single, unbroken track along which you travel.

It's easy to forget that Ubisoft really hit on something with Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. It was one of those open-world games where you might set off towards a mission marker with good intentions, but you would seldom get there because you would be too busy being dragged this way and that by compelling diversions. It turns out Assassin's Creed Rogue is effectively Black Flag 2, and that's fine by me.

Wii U owners of indie skate-'em-up OlliOlli are able to download multiple copies of the 3DS game.

Dutch developer Triumph has announced a second major expansion for fantasy strategy game Age of Wonders 3, called Eternal Lords.

DmC Devil May Cry developer Ninja Theory has removed a snippet of sexually suggestive dialogue from the action adventure's Definitive Edition release.

We've already established that the PlayStation 4 version of DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition offers a palpable upgrade over both Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game, with 60fps gameplay moving Ninja Theory's last-gen reboot more closely into line with Capcom Japan's origin titles. In addition to the faster, smoother gameplay, native 1080p visuals also deliver the welcome boost in sharpness expected from a title running on a current-gen console.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End has been delayed to spring 2016, with Naughty Dog explaining it needs more time with the PlayStation 4 exclusive to meet the team's standards.

The PlayStation 4 will launch in China later this month.

Turkey's Family and Social Policies Ministry is seeking a ban on Minecraft.