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• Already more exciting than the Steam sale: the Humble Store is giving away Killing Floor for free

  One of the best zombie shooters of the last few years can be yours for the low price of zero.

• New Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice trailer finally gives us a look at the world through her eyes and holy heck, cats: it's not ideal

  Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice just floored the pedal and accelerated right up our to-do lists.

• PS4 "is like a five-year-old PC," says A Way Out developer

  You can count on A Way Out, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons director to shoot it to you straight.

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds week 12 patch out today, fixes a few performance problems

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds week 12 update is heavy on performance fixes.

• Art of Gaming: FFS! How frustrating must a game be before you lose interest?

  Dancing the thin line between annoying and challenging, with Hotline Miami, Octodad and Pool Party Panic

• Pretty walking sim Reaching for Petals releasing this summer, has more than a hint of recent indie favourites

  Firewatch, Dear Esther, What remains of Edith Finch, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture – the DNA here is clear.

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is getting another weapon later this month

  The next monthly update for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds will bring a new pistol to the game.

• VG247 teams with GOG.com for massive sale on 25 best PC games

  Last chance to pick up absolute banging collection of classic shooters, horror, RPG, action and indie titles with up to 85% off.

• After months of silence, Mighty No. 9 dev reemerges to confirm that Vita and 3DS versions are still coming

  Mighty No. 9’s portable versions haven’t been cancelled, despite over year passing since we last heard anything about them.

• This Vampyr gameplay demonstration highlights story, combat, and difficult choices

  This new video for Dontnod’s upcoming title, Vampyr, takes an extended look at both gameplay and Dr. Jonathan Reid’s story.

• Square Enix toys with the idea of opening the Legacy of Kain IP to indies

  Remember the Legacay of Kain series? Well it might just make a comeback.

• Rocket League on Switch features cross-network play with PC and Xbox One, out this holiday

  Looks like the evaluation phase from Psyonix Studios has finished: Rocket League is coming to Nintendo Switch.

• Matterfall got an E3 2017 trailer with an actual, honest-to-goodness release date, amazing

  It’s an E3 trailer post that doesn’t end in “no release date”. Blessed be!

• 5 weird and wonderful VR games you missed during Sony's E3 2017 presser, through no fault of your own

  Sony has some very cool new VR games on the way, and didn’t give us much of a chance to look at them.

• Locoroco 2 and Undertale are the best 'old games finally coming to PS4' announced at E3

  Well, if you don’t include the Shadow of the Colossus remake, at least.

• Playerunknown's Battlegrounds adds climbing, vaulting, and weather conditions

  A new update for Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds will make fences less of a bother.

• Space gods, dwarves, reptile shops and cyberpunk infiltration feature in new Xbox One X launch exclusives

  Xbox One X will bring some shiny, all-new exclusives and semi-exclusives with it when it joins the Microsoft family.

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' console launch will be Xbox One exclusive

  The Battle Royale inspired PlayUnknowns Battlegrounds is making its way to the Xbox One X.

• EA Play E3 2017: Star Wars Battlefront 2, Need for Speed Payback, Anthem, A Way Out - all news and trailers

  The EA Play E3 2017 presentation kicked off the biggest show off the year. All news, trailers and the full stream replay, right here.