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EA Access subscribers can now download NBA Live 15 for free.

HD remakes - even sumptuous all-new-asset reimaginings like Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty! - are often doomed to a rather melancholic fate. For all the care and attention, there can be something perversely cruel about them. Beneath that warm familiarity and the sharp-edged dazzle, you see beloved games from the past rendered elderly, blinking and confused as they're bustled into the harsh light of the present day. Seriously, we used to do things like that? We used to think this was fun?

If you haven't watched Mean Girls, the classic 2004 high school movie starring Lindsay Lohan, go and watch it right now. We'll wait. Did you see it? Boo, you whore, don't lie. Seriously, go and watch it now.

Eurogamer has dropped review scores and replaced them with a new recommendation system. Read the editor's blog to find out more.

Everybody knows the Assassin's Creed series' haystack leaps are ridiculous. But just how ridiculous are they? The students at University of Leicester's physics department, obviously with some time on their hands, decided to find out.

Metal Gear Solid: Revengeance developer Platinum Games has explained a recent image that appeared to hint at a possible sequel.

Eurogamer has dropped review scores and replaced them with a new recommendation system. Read the editor's blog to find out more.

UPDATE 25/02/2015: Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang has issued a statement on the controversy surrounding the company's GTX 970 graphics card.

There's always been an air of implausibility around Xenoblade Chronicles. When it received a PAL release on the Wii in 2011, it was hard to believe such a niche RPG would find its way out of Japan, let alone find itself the subject of one of Nintendo's most expansive, exacting localisations. Playing through Monolith Soft's epic, there was the gentle revelation that from a background of adversity had emerged quite possibly the finest JRPG of a generation, one that picked up the baton fumbled by Square as it waded through the Final Fantasy 13 saga.

Boasting two extra characters, new stages, and a variety of additional costumes, Dead or Alive 5: Last Round is the definitive version of Tecmo's divisive fighting game. Available across current and last-generation consoles, the title is remastered for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One using the extra power on offer to deliver 1080p60 gameplay - a clear leap above the variable framebuffer and slightly wobbly frame-rates present on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. While there's some confusion surrounding the actual release of the full game, the Core Fighters version is available now on PS4, PS3 and Xbox One, allowing us to get some hands-on time with the title.

David Pittman's follow-up to Eldritch isn't a sequel. It's an inversion.

A group of diehard Mother fans have been making a spiritual successor to Shigesato Itoi's beloved RPG series that includes Earthbound. Now, the folks behind it have released the first gameplay trailer detailing several of the activities you can do in this unofficial sequel.

Trials Fusion's Fault One Zero DLC is out now on Xbox One, Xbox 360 and PC. PS4 and PS3 users in North America will have already received it while those in Europe need to wait until tomorrow.

There have been video games set aboard the infamous ocean liner the Titanic before, but proposed Indiegogo project Titanic: Honor and Glory is by far the most ambitious recreation of the historical disaster yet.

Back in the mid 90s Sega Technical Institute was developing a 3D Sonic game for the Sega Saturn entitled Sonic X-treme. Initially scheduled for a holiday 1996 release, the game was eventually cancelled following a flurry of development issues. Yet some dedicated fans at SonicRetro managed to acquire the source code for the original demo and have polished it up to a playable build that you can download today.

Batman: Arkham Knight has been rated an M [17 or older] by the US ratings board ESRB. This makes it the first game in the series to do so.

Capcom has finally confirmed the presence of Charlie Nash in Street Fighter 5, with Guile's good friend starring in an all new trailer for the arcade and PlayStation 4 brawler.

Rockstar has delayed the PC release date of Grand Theft Auto 5 again - this time, until 14th April.

UPDATE 24/02/2015 5.30pm: The counterfeit version of Darkest Dungeon has been removed from the Windows Store. Here's Microsoft's official response on the matter:

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has said that the decision to stagger the New Nintendo 3DS' global roll-out had been a "difficult" decision.

UPDATE 24TH FEB: The promised trailer for Dreamfall Chapters Book Two: Rebels has been released. It's embedded below.

This is an early impressions piece based on playing through the first episode of Resident Evil Revelations 2. We'll have a full review once all episodes are live in the middle of March.

Microsoft mini-series Halo: Nightfall will be available to stream, download and buy on physical disc from next month.

UPDATE 24/02/15 11.05am: Sony has explained that the PlayStation 3 version of Dead or Alive 5 Last Round will take a little while longer to appear on the PlayStation Store.

A Bézier curve is a curve that runs between a series of control points. When you move the points, the curve moves too. It's a handy way of getting computers to draw bendy lines.

Sony has confirmed that it is continuing to work on the PlayStation Plus Edition of PS4-exclusive DriveClub.

Successful Steam Greenlight candidate Pneuma: Breath of Life will be released via Steam this Friday, 27th February.

Night Shift is certainly one of the more unsettling recent takes on the puzzle game. Brandon Brizzi's quaint surreal driving nightmare puts you in the role of a stranded motorist caught in a realm where the sun has mysteriously disappeared. Oh no!

Valve is going to be debuting a slew of new hardware at GDC next week.

If you're still lamenting the fact that the Shenmue series never made it to next-gen platforms, here's the next best thing: Yakuza Zero, an 80s gangster epic set in a slightly fictionalised version of Tokyo's red light district, Kabukichō.