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Developer DICE reckons it's sorted the rubber-banding issue that has affected shooter Battlefield 4.

It turns out that 2001: A Space Odyssey had it pretty much right: most life in the universe does owe its existence to a giant floating baby. I think it's a baby, anyway. If it's not, it raises even more questions. Star children are bad enough, but what's a fully grown cosmonaut doing out there in the echoing wilds of the galaxy wearing nothing but a perspex helmet and a jetpack?

UPDATE 25/4/14 09.30am: PlayStation 4 system update 1.70 will be available to download in Europe from 30th April, Sony has announced via Twitter.

The industrious modder who fixed the PC version of Dark Souls has returned to give the new PC version of Dark Souls 2, released today in Europe, a kick up the technical backside. (Edit: that should say that it's out on Steam today and in shops on 2nd May.)

Platformer The Last Tinker: City of Colors launches on PC, Mac and Linux via Steam on 12th May.

Happy Wars, the Xbox 360's first big free-to-play game, will soon be released on Steam, developer Toylogic has announced.

Quirky puzzle platformer Stick it to the Man launches on the Wii U on 1st May, publisher Ripstone has announced.

UPDATE 25/4/14 08.10am: Xbox boss Phil Spencer has now confirmed that game saves from Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will be transferrable to the upcoming Xbox One version.

XCOM: Enemy Unknown - Firaxis' resurrection of the classic turn-based strategy franchise - has made its way to Android.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed's iOS and Android versions have made the transition to free-to-play.

Wadjet Eye Game's long-running ghost detective series Blackwell has come to a close with today's release of The Blackwell Epiphany on PC.

UPDATE 24/04/2013: The "Denpa" Men 3: The Rise of Digitol is now confirmed for an 8th May release in Europe and North America, the developer announced on the game's Facebook page.

Titanfall developer Respawn has detailed a map in its upcoming DLC expansion Expedition.

Physic-based survival-in-space strategy game Habitat has just been funded on Kickstarter, ensuring the game will come to fruition on Xbox One, PC, Mac and Linux.

Machinarium developer Amanita Design's adorable insect-based exploration game Botanicula is coming to iPad on 1st May.

Indie outfit Flying Carpets Games will be bringing its successfully Kickstarted fantasy adventure The Girl and the Robot to PS4, in addition to the already announced platforms: Wii U, PC, Mac and Linux.

A Sony patent has revealed details for a sensor that measures the changing chemical make-up of your saliva.

The developer behind free-to-play zombie MMO H1Z1 has vowed not to sell important items such as guns, ammo, food or water.

2K Games has released a new eight minute-long gameplay video for Evolve, the promising 4v1 first-person shooter from the creators of Left 4 Dead.

UPDATE 24/4/14 12.08pm: Nintendo has now confirmed the Mario Kart 8 Wii U bundle, which will launch the same day as the game in the UK - 30th May.

You can now buy an Xbox One console and FIFA 14 for £329 at UK retailer Overclockers - that's £100 cheaper than the console's original £429 launch price.

The art and business of video games has always been a complicated marriage. In the medium's formative days Atari's arcade game designers were never shielded from the pressing economics of their art. They would have to tweak each game in such a way that the majority of its players would lose the game within 90 seconds without, crucially, also losing their desire to play again. Too easy, and the game would fail to earn its keep - too difficult, and players would walk away nonplussed. In both cases the arcade machine risked being turfed from the bar in which it squatted: the art had to make money, else find somewhere else to take up residence.

UPDATE 24/04/2014: The Android version of Warhammer 40K: Storm of Vengeance is out now on the Google Play store.

A Resident Evil 2 fan has recreated key sections of Capcom's classic survival horror to play like Resident Evil 4.

UPDATE 24/4/14 8.20am Capcom has released its first look at the next Ace Attorney game, which will star an ancestor of modern day lawyer Phoenix Wright from around 1900.

Grand Theft Auto 5 may soon host jetpacks for the first time, according to a new string of code recently added to the game.

Social game behemoth Zynga continues to struggle despite ex-Xbox chief Don Mattrick running the show.

A few Digital Foundry readers have pointed out that the PS4 version of Final Fantasy 14 features an interesting option in the display settings menu that allows you to select between two different rendering modes, labelled 'Full HD Quality' and 'HD Quality'. We're sorry we missed this in the Final Fantasy 14 face-off we published at the weekend, but we've been looking into it over the last few days and it throws up some interesting results.

The creators of the Outcast HD reboot have released the first gameplay footage of the game in a bid to boost its Kickstarter campaign.

Activision has unveiled the next Skylanders game - and it features a new mechanic that lets players teletport digital characters into the physical world.