First up: if you'd been hedging paying for Titanfall, Respawn are letting you play it for free the next 48 hours. Find out the details here.
Let's talk extras and DLC for your shooters. Call of Duty: Ghosts has got its next shipment of DLC dated, while an online retailer seems to indicate that Destiny's extras will be
PS4 exclusive for some time. Maybe that news is why Sony can't keep up with PS4 demand. That, or because of another superb month of PS Plus that's just been rumoured.
Building better worlds: Visceral talks how they're making Hardline the 'tightest Battlefield' ever, 343 Industries lay out a manifesto for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and Obsidian discuss keeping away from cliche with Pillars of Eternity.
Also outside the digital space yet still connected to it, Nintendo's Amibo figurines could drastically reshape Wii U's future, while there's chatter about a Dead Rising movie.
We've left this last because otherwise you'd have skipped on all the other stories: the Steam sale starts tonight. Your wallets have our sympathies.