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Microsoft announced last night that Xbox One games will be streamable to Windows 10 PCs and tablet devices over a local Wi-Fi network.

Some games just love to court controversy, and Hatred certainly has done just that since it was first announced in October last year. Last week, the game was slapped with a rare "Adults Only" rating by US ratings board the ESRB. That's going to limit Hatred's distribution options - but the resulting media exposure has probably been worth it, and most likely what developer Destructive Creations was after all along...

Our Ian Higton is a brave sort. While the rest of us will most likely spend the apocalypse cowering in an abandoned supermarket clutching onto our last tin of beans for dear life, he'll be out building a hospital out of corrugated iron, simultaneously killing zombies in the face. Come watch his exploits later on today; you'll have two streams for the price of one. You lucky sod.

Angry Birds developer Rovio has announced Storm Sisters, a series of young-adult fiction books starring a quintet of 11-17 year-old girls.

UPDATE #2 7.20PM GMT: Console gameplay footage was shown during an Elder Scrolls Online livestream this afternoon. I've ripped out the relevant gameplay for a video embedded below (the full Twitch stream is also now available). Please bear in mind it is recorded from the low quality Twitch stream and then blown up and encoded again, so it's not indicative of final game graphic quality. It's produced to give you an idea of the console game in action.

The 2015 League of Legends World Championship will be hosted in Europe in October.

A clan of Destiny diehards have become the first to beat the new Crota's End raid hard mode - and finished in less than half an hour.

Microsoft has revealed a new augmented reality headset, Microsoft HoloLens.

Microsoft has demoed its new Xbox app for Windows 10, which will be available on desktops, laptops, tablets and phones.

Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 will let you stream Xbox One games to PC and tablets, the company has announced.

UPDATE 21/1/15 7.45pm: Dying Light developer Techland has commented on the wait for physical copies of the game by pointing to its publisher, Warner Bros. Interactive.

Creative Assembly's excellent survival horror Alien: Isolation has finally sold 1m copies.

We first looked at Evolve late last year when the game was still in its alpha phase, finding a new take on the team-based multiplayer shooter that felt fresh and fun to play, built upon the first multi-platform outing we'd seen for the powerful CryEngine middleware. However, while graphics and gameplay shaped up rather nicely, the experience was hit heavily by server issues and inconsistent matchmaking, leading to extremely long waiting times between matches, not to mention irksome disconnections during play.

UPDATE 21/1/15 1.35pm: In celebration of today's Origin freebie (and because H1Z1 is still down) Ian "Greetings" Higton will be live-streaming Theme Hospital tonight from 4pm GMT.

In her infinite wisdom, Cher once sang, "If I could turn back time, if I could find a way." Really makes you think. Mind you, the cruel and inexorable march of time is good for some things, like bringing us this bunch of video game remakes that, in one way or another, managed to surpass their progenitors. Who would have guessed back in 1998 that the one thing missing from Half Life was Paul and Barry Chuckle? Technically that's two things, but you get my meaning.

The Witcher: Battle Arena will be available to download tomorrow, 22nd January, on Android and iOS devices.

Yet more Assassin's Creed Unity missions, weapons and gear are now available via the game's new Secrets of the Revolution DLC.

It's been a ropey old Early Access start for zombie survival contender H1Z1. Granted, it is Early Access, but it's also Sony Online Entertainment, maker of PlanetSide 2 and EverQuest, and H1Z1 has now been offline for around eight hours - unplanned.

PlayStation's first exclusive TV series, Powers, will land on 10th March.

You can now buy access to Blizzard's free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) Heroes of the Storm by purchasing a £29.99 Founder's Pack.

There's a card game blowing up on Kickstarter that's designed by two senior Xbox bods.

Last year we covered the gorgeous pixel art adventure Children of Morta and now it's on Kickstarter.

Was Resident Evil misclassified? Returning to the game that popularised the genre term 'survival horror' 19 years after its original release invites the question.

Remember when Saints Row was all about colour-coded street gangs? How long ago it seems, with bombing through the netherworld in Gat Out of Hell now a natural enough progression from alien invasions and virtual reality shooting galleries. If there's a problem with the setting, it's that it's far too grand for a game perched right between DLC and full release, and much of the potential is almost inevitably left on the table - some bits more unfortunately than others.

UPDATE 10.15PM GMT: Robotoki founder Robert Bowling has posted a video showing all of the stuff, he told us, he never got to show. It's below.

Recently the devs behind Monkey Island launched a Kickstarter for Thimbleweed Park, an adventure game designed to look like it was made in 1987. Now developer Pixel Titans is following suite by trying to make a first-person shooter that looks like it was made in 1996.

Puzzle adventure Unmechanical: Extended is coming to Xbox One on 30th January and PS4/PS3 on 11th February, publisher Grip Games has announced.

Dark Souls' PC port, dubbed Prepare to Die Edition, has removed its region lock.

UPDATE 4.45PM GMT: There's an official press release up now. Listed improvements to State of Decay on Xbox One include 1080p resolution, new textures, new lighting and increased draw distance. There are new animations, an improved interface and some new playable characters. And a knife, you've got a default (it sounds like) knife.

Dontnod, the French studio known for stylish action game Remember Me, has announced a vampire role-playing game called Vampyr.