Open-world survival game Rust was originally intended to be a hitman sandbox game where players would assassinate politicians. By the looks of it, 343 are making plans to start a new project line in the Halo universe.
Analysts reckon that Destiny will be the biggest sales success of the year. Sniper Elite 3 was last week's best-selling game, while Grid: Autosport managed to chart in seventh.
We talked with Yager about Dead Island 2, what the studio are calling the world's smallest MMO, while Telltale Games told us that minds will be blown in Tales from the Borderlands.
Steam boasts a new record with 8 million concurrent users and there is a DayZ who went swimming for four hours to find an island.
EA's Andrew Wilson owns up to mistakes made with Dungeon Keeper on mobile. In other news, there's that game that's always greener - Grass Simulator 2014 featuring dynamic grass and Doom gets vuvuzelas (!). There's talk that a standalone Kinect will retail at €150.
More GRTV goodness in the afternoon as Sledgehammer bosses Condrey and Schofield talked of Kevin Spacey's involvement in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Insomniac Games' Ted Price spoke of the "self-aware" story of Sunset Overdrive and its co-operative multiplayer. If you can't get enough of zombies... eh infected, well then there's Dying Light impressions to read up on. Finally a busy day and the desk was capped off by this recent audience with Sony's Shuhei Yoshida.