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• Xbox Live deals: Dishonored 2, Final Fantasy 15, Injustice 2, The Evil Within, more

  This week’s Xbox Live Deals with Gold contains quite a few heavy hitters along with DLC.

• Rainbow Six Siege: Blood Orchid PC tech test coming Aug. 29, game is free to play this weekend

  Ahead of the next update, Rainbow Six Siege is getting a free to play weekend on all platforms. New information on the Blood Orchid expansion was also announced today.

• Final Fantasy 15 PC will take up quite a bit of space on your HDD, but the game will support mods

  The PC version of Final Fantasy 15 will take up quite a bit of space on your hard drive, according to early specs, but who cares as long as mods are supported, right?

• God's Trigger is a frenetic, top-down co-op action game inspired by Hotline Miami

  Techland Publishing has unveiled God’s Trigger, a top-down shooter that lets you violently take down enemies working for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

• 4v1 shooter Raiders of the Broken Planet is giving away its prologue mission for free

  Raiders of the Broken Planet, the next game from Castlevania: Lords of Shadow and the upcoming Metroid: Samus Returns, releases in September.

• Final Fantasy 15 info drop: August update adds Chapter Select, Bestiary, Pocket Edition coming, Monsters of the Deep VR expansion lands in November

  Final Fantasy 15 players have more to look forward to than just a PC version.

• The first Biomutant gameplay trailer is all kinds of wacky, up to and including actual finger guns

  Whatever game Biomutant ends up being, its first gameplay trailer sure is a treat.

• Cyberpunk shooter Ruiner gets September release date

  The top-down cyberpunk shooter, Ruiner, finally has a release date.

• See the new tessellation tech in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

  Ground and terrain textures are about to look a whole lot better in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds thanks to tessellation.

• The Crew 2 gets March release date, pre-order bonuses

  The Crew 2 is being shown at gamescom this week, and new information has come out.

• PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds creator teases a UI refresh

  The front-end of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds needs a lot of work, so much so that players are starting to come up with their own mock-ups.

• Destiny weekly reset for August 22 – Nightfall, Crucible, Challenge of Elders, featured raid changes detailed

  Though we’re neck-deep in gamescom news, we still have time to do the Destiny weekly reset.

• New Battlefield 1 patch adds Lupkow Pass map, makes horses more reliable

  DICE dropped a Battlefield 1 patch yesterday as soon as the EA gamescom 2017 show ended.

• Overwatch: D.Va is getting a new ability, a big nerf to Defense Matrix

  Blizzard has been working on an updated version of Overwatch’s D.Va that, among other things, bring a new ability to the hero.

• Gwent is getting a single-player story campaign

  Thronebreaker is the name of the first story campaign for the incredibly popular Gwent.

• Far Cry 5 offers plenty of opportunities to faff about instead of getting on with the cow tipping

  Far Cry 5: a tightly focused sandbox shooter about taking the fight directly to the source and oooooooooooh is that a fishing rod? Excuse me for the next three hours.

• Watch the first footage of new Battlefield 1 map Tsaritsyn

  EA closed off its gamescom 2017 show with a nice long demo of a new Battlefield 1 map called Tsaritsyn.

• New Far Cry 5 gameplay shows fishing, shooting, ramming, and dogfights

  The E3 demo for Far Cry 5 showed a nice slice of everything we’ll be doing in the game, but today’s video is even better.

• Destiny 2 launch trailer sets a sombre tone for the adventure

  Not to be outplayed by other publishers at gamescom, Activision has dropped the launch trailer for Destiny 2 16 days ahead of the actual launch.