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Ubisoft's online store appears to have inadvertently revealed a few story snippets for the recently announced Far Cry 4.

Forget Dragon Age, there's an indie role-playing game called Witchmarsh that's set in the Jazz Age - the roaring '20s.

From the air, Jefferson is glorious. It's a carefully sculpted city, the lines of which I scored into the landscape many hours ago and from which a relief has sprung more spectacular than anything I could have imagined. Downtown stands tall, great sentinels of concrete and steel that stare out over the huddled, homely neighbourhoods towards the edge of town. One by one, their lights wink out and, with the setting of the sun, workers become residents, making their way to redbrick apartments, two story townhouses, or the static homes sat amongst the trees at the city limits. A park fills with children, the air with their laughter, and those skyscrapers become sundials as afternoon shadows creep from block to block. But look a little closer and you find much that is wrong.

WWE 2K15 will launch in the UK on 31st October for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, publisher 2K Games has confirmed.

Everything went wrong when six Siege Worms suddenly appeared out of the ground. Think Dune's sandworms, only without their water allergy weakness, as comfortable in the grasslands of humanity's new home as its deserts, canyons and the less familiar fungal blooms. Attempts to keep very, very quiet or point to the nearest enemy city didn't go so well, as one giant's tendrils whipped every soldier in the area into human paste, before turning its attention inwards.

Blizzard is making the 100 per cent Legendary drop-chance buff permanent.

Unreal Tournament and Infinity Blade developer Epic has launched a Flappy Bird clone named Tappy Chicken.

In the last year I had an epiphany. It turned out that my favourite genre of gaming is one I'd written off my entire adult life: the easy to pick up, but hard to master local multiplayer game. Gather round children and I shall tell you the tale of how we first met.

Ubisoft's charming fairytale RPG Child of Light is being made with the UbiArt Framework, used to create the last two Rayman games - and this 2D world is similarly stunning, if stylistically quite different. In place of Rayman's riotous cartoon antics, Child of Light is painted in delicate, dreamy watercolour, while in gameplay terms the development team has been quick to tip the hat to the classic Japanese RPGs of their youth.

Full Bore's a block-pushing puzzle game revolving around pigs, apparently. If that doesn't sell it to you, it has an "exploratory twist" and it also looks colourful and intricate and pleasantly quirky.

Outlast is a psychological horror game that's always looked sufficiently scary to stop me from playing it. Ian Higton's made of different stuff, however. He's worked his way through Outlast with a spring in his step and a jaunty song in his heart and now he's back for the newly released DLC called Whistleblower.

At long last, DakkoDakko's excellent Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rails is out! I've been looking forward to the Wii U exclusive ever since laying eyes on it early last year, and thankfully it really doesn't disappoint - it's a completely unique challenge, with the emphasis really being on challenge there.

Sometimes the Spelunky world record hunters seem to speak in another language. They enthuse about eggplants and Udjat Eyes, Hell runs and Olmec, a vocabulary incomprehensible to outsiders.

Successfully Kickstarted 2D sci-fi adventure The Fall is launching on 30th May for PC, Mac and Linux via Steam.

Tarsier Studios, the Swedish developer behind LittleBigPlanet Vita and Rag Doll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic, has announced its upcoming PS4 project, Hunger.

Earlier this month id parent company ZeniMax accused former id co-founder John Carmack of stealing VR tech before he left the company to work for Oculus VR full-time. It looks like the two parties couldn't settle this amicably because ZeniMax filed a lawsuit against Oculus VR and its founder, Palmer Luckey.

UPDATE #2 21/05/2014 7.32pm: It appears that this Sadness resurrection won't be a Sadness game after all as the rights to the IP aren't for sale.

Valve's latest addition to Steam allows players to stream games from one computer to another on the same network.

Demon's Souls and Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki has become the new president of From Software.

The option to pre-load games onto a console for immediate access upon release is coming to PS4, beginning with Destiny.

Weird fiction horror game The Vanishing of Ethan Carter will be released roughly four months from now, creator Adrian Chmielarz has told me.

Microsoft will add external storage support to Xbox One via June's firmware update, but external devices will need to support USB 3.0 and have at least 256GB of free space.

Through systematic study, experiment and observation, scientists seek a greater understanding of the world for the betterment of mankind. Someone should probably tell that to scientists in video games, though, because they all seem to be intent on creating supermonsters, hands that shoot bees and exploding murder robots.

The first two God of War games rank among the most spectacular titles on PS2 - major technical feats from the console's twilight years, both making a worthy jump to the HD era via Bluepoint Games' excellent PS3 remasters. The Vita, meanwhile, has a mixed history with PS2 ports so far, with Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3 taking a visual hit owing to sub-native resolutions, and the Jak and Daxter trilogy running at truly trying levels of performance. So what's the deal with the God of War Collection on Vita?

Here's a first look at in-game footage from Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady's final chapter in its trilogy starring the Dark Knight.

The first major update for The Elder Scrolls Online will arrive later this week, developer Zenimax Online Studios has said.

Oddball 3DS sim Tomodachi Life will come bundled with two download codes for a trial version of the game, which will be redeemable from the Nintendo eShop.

Two-player co-op mobile dancing game Bounden is out later today on iPhone. How's a dancing game work on iPhone, you ask? By making two players hold onto the same device and use its gyro sensor to tilt a cursor around a sphere so it collects dots.

Wasteland 2 is set for an August release, developer inXile has announced in its latest Kickstarter update.

UPDATE 20/05/2014: The Forest's Early Access release has been pushed back one week. It's now slated to come out on 29th May.