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There's a guy in our office who can solve the Rubik's Cube really quickly. Not under-ten-seconds quickly like the very best Speedcubers, but he can still scowl his way through the process in less time than it takes a kettle to boil. If you work in an office, there may well be someone there who can solve the Cube, too. You'll probably know, because they'll probably have a Rubik's Cube visible on their desk. That's the problem with having a skill as fiercely specialised as this - it doesn't really come up much unless you force it.

Evolve developer Turtle Rock has dismissed its community manager, Josh Olin, after he embroiled himself in a major racism row.

The elevator door rattles open and you step tentatively into a dimly lit maze of cardboard boxes. The door crashes shut again, so you have little option but to wend your way through the boxes, the eerie strains of a nostalgic doo-wop ballad leading you on through the darkness. Then, all of a sudden you find yourself, blinking, in the middle of a town square. The mise-en-scène and music are pure 60s Americana. Wandering through the town you pass a Rockwellian drugstore, a dressmaker's haberdashery, a saddlery, an old-fashioned toyshop. Dozens of ghostly figures, their faces obscured behind white Venetian masks, drift past the trickling fountain in the middle of the square, each of them on their own unknowable mission. In the window of an abandoned TV repair shop, you catch sight of your own reflection and remember that, in this place, you too are a ghost.

Steam has discounted more than a dozen Star Wars games by 66 per cent in celebration of this year's "May the 4th be with you" weekend.

MOBAs - or "online team brawlers", as Blizzard likes to call them, because every developer seems to feel the need to invent its own blanket term for these games - are the biggest games in the world, with one big problem. League of Legends and Dota 2 are fast-paced, skilful competitive games with great tactical depth, gigantic followings and a thriving eSports scene that can turn young players into stars. But they're not very nice places to be, especially for newcomers.

UPDATE 02/05/2014: CCP has released pre-alpha footage of the new and improved Eve Valkyrie, now built on Unreal Engine 4.

Sci-fi massively multiplayer online game Defiance goes free-to-play this summer, Trion Worlds has announced.

Sandbox survival zombie game DayZ Standalone has sold an impressive two million units in just over four months on sale.

UPDATE 9pm: The greatest trick Kevin Spacey ever pulled was convincing the world he wasn't going to be in the next Call of Duty game. But if the internet sleuths at Variety have it right, he'll be playing the villain in the upcoming Call of Duty title to be revealed on Sunday.

Swedish indie developer That Brain has shown off footage of its upcoming ship-based aerial adventure 20,000 Leagues Above the Clouds.

Successfully Kickstarted oldschool RPG Pier Solar HD - a remake of the 2010 Sega Mega Drive cult-favourite - has been delayed until June, developer Watermelon has announced.

Rambunctious platforming game BattleBlock Theater is coming to PC and Linux via Steam on 15th May, developer The Behemoth has announced.

Ouya may not be the popular console out there, but it has beaten its triple A competitors to the punch by being first to include an option for streaming video games. The Android console has teamed up with streaming company Playcast Media to host a free beta program that streams games to the platform.

Fans of internet spaceships, take note! Today is the opening day of Fanfest 2014, Icelandic developer CCP's annual celebration of its Eve universe.

Daylight, the reasonably impressive horror game from Zombie Studios that marks the public debut of Unreal Engine 4, isn't exactly shy about its two-hour playtime - thanks to its procedurally generated environments, it's a game that can boast of being infinitely replayable.

Elder Scrolls Online players will be given five free days of game time to make up for the game's various "launch issues", developer Zenimax Online Studios has announced.

Microsoft announced yesterday it would launch Xbox One in China this September and try to crack the market of a country which previously outlawed games consoles altogether.

Were you a fan of Assassin's Creed 4's naval combat? Do you need another outlet for your piratical urges? If yes, then Steam Early Access swashbuckler Caribbean! may be worth a look.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the death of Ayrton Senna in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix at Imola, a tragic event that also saw the Austrian driver Roland Ratzenberger lose his life, and throughout May Polyphony is marking the occasion with the 'Ayrton Senna Tribute', a series of updates for Gran Turismo 6 that will culminate with the release of new in-game content.

Jagex, the UK developer behind free-to-play massively online tactical action game Transformers Universe, has announced its founders program, a multi-tiered early adopter scheme.

"Poor Iwata," jokes Curve Studio's Jonathan Biddle. "We think he's one of the best CEOs in the world. He needs a big hug."

Sony has announced a finale event for Gran Turismo 5's online mode, which is due to be switched off at the end of this month.

Sony is delighted with the performance of the PlayStation 4, which has shifted some 7m units worldwide since its launch last year, but it's a different story for the wider company.

UPDATE: Sky has told Eurogamer the Now TV app is still coming to Xbox One - and it will do so "by summer".

01/05/2014 UPDATE: Don't starve's Reign of Giants DLC has graduated from Steam Early Access to Steam proper.

Sony has revealed a dozen new games heading to PS4. Some are going multi-format too.

A couple of months back skating legend Tony Hawk revealed that a new skateboarding game branding his name was in the works. As it turns out, he was referring not to a console title, but a free-to-play iOS offering called Tony Hawk's Shred Session.

Usually when fans make mods or remakes of games, they have to be distributed for free to avoid the obvious copyright laws. That's not the case with Serious Sam Classics: Revolution, a fan-made project that's officially been sanctioned by series developer Croteam and is being distributed by Hotline Miami publisher Devolver Digital.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has become a bit of a mystery. Review copies have been thin on the ground (although that isn't unusual for Activision's licensed games) while the puzzling announcement that the Xbox One version of the game was "indefinitely postponed" provoked a raft of crazy conspiracy theories. The sudden digital release of the game on Xbox Live this week only heightened the interest around what turns out to be a rather average release. What caused the postponement in the first place and how had the situation been resolved? Right now, nobody's talking.

UPDATE: 30/04/2014: Last Life has surpassed its $75K funding goal with over a week to go before its 9th May deadline.