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The infinite reaches of space have inspired humans ever since they first decided looking up at night might be worth a go. Elite: Dangerous gives you the chance to explore those reaches to your heart's content, which should make you feel pretty special - or at least it would if Elite didn't spend every waking minute trying to convince you you're a nobody. Rather than being dissuaded, I reckon this makes Elite: Dangerous one of the best role-playing experiences I've had in years...

The fundamentals of #IDARB are immediately recognisable to anyone with even a passing familiarity with most sports - two teams vie for control of a ball, which they must move to the opposite team's goal to score points. The reality of playing it is far, far different. Welding the anarchy of Smash Bros., NES-era platforming, and Twitter hashtags into a curious pastiche, #IDARB is an absolute farce. At times it can be too much, but more often than not it's a vehicle for chaotic fun that rewards those that can manage its many nuances.

Bandai Namco will publish Professional Lumberjack 2015 in the UK, both as a digital download and on disc.

Editor's note: This article was originally published last year under the title Super Bank Breakers. We've since updated the list with more formats and amended some of the details.

Dustin Browder is the game director of Blizzard's new MOBA, Heroes of the Storm. He is also a rush character, I think, but one with a very short charge and practically no cooldown. Maybe he's been making multiplayer games for too long; who knows? Regardless of the reasoning, I suspect he has internalised his own hotbar, and his special ability involves getting so enthused about a topic that he starts to have a dialogue with himself. Seriously. He plays both sides.

Microsoft is currently testing a new Xbox One controller update that will halve the time it takes for your pad to connect to the console.

World of Warcraft patch 6.1 adds a S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera to the game.

The economist who worked at Valve is now the new finance minister of Greece.

Valve has come down hard on professional Counter-Strike players who were caught match-fixing.

In a survival situation, the first step to salvation is to take off your t-shirt. Never mind the additional storage capacity a pocket-less t-shirt apparently provides - free your nipples! Let them breathe the open air as you tear that torso-tube into shreds. Then run to the nearest forest and press E on all the spry saplings to steal their sticks. Take your ripped t-shirt in one hand, the sticks in the other, and slap both hands together hard. If you've done it right, an exquisitely-fashioned hunting bow will appear suddenly in one of your four available slots (best not to dwell upon the location of said slots). Congratulations! Now get moving, because you've only got about half a day until you die of thirst and starvation at the same time.

Only in politics is the post of second-in-command considered a punchline. Here, unlike in sport or war, Vice President (or, indeed, Deputy Prime Minister) is the ultimate embodiment of the near miss - evidence of a grasp for power that fell just a little short, which, it turns out, is the precise distance necessary for tragi-comedy. The Veep is presented in both fiction and media as the arch-loser, a person whose ludicrous ambition outstripped their achievement, making them the perfect candidate for our scorn (and, perhaps, the perfect distraction from our own personal fears and failures).

UPDATE 09:00 BST: Double Fine's Tim Schafer has tweeted suggesting that the remastered Grim Fandango may appear on other platforms.

It's only fitting that Grim Fandango takes place in the Land of the Dead, because in hindsight it represents something of a eulogy for the declining adventure genre. LucasArts' penultimate adventure game (its swansong was the anticlimactic Escape From Monkey Island) may well be its best. It helped cement director Tim Schafer as something of a superstar, prone to appear on late-night talk shows and host awards ceremonies despite Grim Fandango and his biggest games (Psychonauts, Brutal Legend) being commercial failures. Before we were all swayed by open worlds, 3D combat, and an influx of shooters, Grim Fandango proved that there's still some life left in those dusty bones.

Grim Fandango is finally being re-released tomorrow after being stuck on CDs since its October 1998 launch. Never available for console or digital download, many thought the cult classic would remain a rare collector's item for adventure game enthusiasts. When a special edition of LucasArts' arguably best-known adventure, The Secret of Monkey Island, came out in the summer of 2009, it led many to believe that Grim Fandango would follow. Yet years went by without so much as a whisper of a re-release. When Disney acquired Lucasfilm on Grim Fandango's 14th anniversary in 2012, many thought it was a lost cause. Disney is notorious for its family-friendly fare, so a tale of crime and corruption with liberal use of drinking, smoking and sexual innuendo didn't exactly fit the house of mouse's modus operandi.

Microsoft sold 6.6m Xbox consoles in the quarter ending 31st December 2014, the company announced in its latest earnings report.

In 1992 print publication Nintendo Power released an episodic comic series adapting the plot of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Now manga and anime publisher Viz Media is re-releasing the out of print series as a singular graphic novel.

Dragon Age: Inquisition's "tavern songs" have been officially released as a free download from BioWare.

Five Nights At Freddy's 3 has received a Steam Greenlight page and disturbing debut teaser trailer showing how good old Freddy Fazbear has held up over the three decades since the pizza place of his namesake shut down. The years have not been kind to him.

It's always been about how well The Witcher 3 occupies an open world that really mattered. That's the big differentiator, where the game will achieve greatness or become, simply, nice. We know from The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt Red can serve up delicious chunks of game across several acts. But when the walls come down and everything, whoosh, spreads out - what happens then?

Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier has announced redundancies in the same breath as a new Tycoon game.

Planetside 2 now holds a Guinness World Record for biggest first-person shooter battle ever.

A remastered edition of David Cage's 2005 adventure Fahrenheit (or Indigo Prophecy as it's known in North America) is getting a remastered edition for PC and Mac.

Ubisoft has said it is actively deactivating keys it believes were "fraudulently" obtained and resold via third-party websites.

The first instalment of Dontnod's new episodic drama Life is Strange comes out on 30th January for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One and Xbox 360. A demo launches on the 30th for both current and last-gen consoles, allowing you to play through the game's first 20 minutes. I had the opportunity to have a go at that very same section recently, and you can see how I got on in the video below. It's a gentle but stylish opener; I'm quite looking forward to seeing the story unfold.

Borderlands 3 isn't in production yet, but Gearbox is hiring for it.

Borderlands developer Gearbox has released the first footage of its Homeworld remake.

27 years after the release of The Bards Tale 3, Brian Fargo has announced plans to return to the cult classic fantasy role-playing series for a sequel.

Carrots. Why'd it have to be carrots?

We had mixed feelings about the PS4 version of Saint's Row 4 after taking a look at the game last week. While the boost to 1080p resolution and higher frame-rates clearly provides a better experience than the last-gen versions, highly variable performance meant that the conversion wasn't as solid as it could be, with the existing PC version remaining the best way to play the game. However, we wanted to go in-depth on final code, while also assessing how the developers would tackle the Xbox One version. Would the developers attempt to run with a 60fps update, or instead lock at 30fps to avoid the consistency issues found on the PS4? On top of that, we also wanted to check out the Gat out of Hell standalone expansion.

It's confirmed - Heart of Thorns will be the first expansion for massively-multiplayer online fantasy game Guild Wars 2, release date to be confirmed.