Telltale’s upcoming Game of Thrones games series is obviously drawing a bit of attention, especially from fans of the series both in its book and television program forms. Some people wish that it was taking from the books more than the show, but the decision was probably made due to the fact certain faces are now recognisible as the characters in question.

Or at least that’s what we can take if the leaked screenshots posted on Twitter earlier are actually real.

Eight screenshots were posted in all, in a tweet that was quickly spread around. The account in question, @lifelower, calls themselves the “XBLA watchdog” and even though the tweet has since been removed some people had already copied the images, some of which are included below.

Telltale have neither confirmed or denied the legitimacy of the screenshots but they do appear convincing. However the Internet is rife with hoaxes and even ones that appear credible can sometimes be proven wrong, so we will need to wait to find out if this one is for real or not.

The first episode of the game should be releasing sometime before the end of the year, with five more to follow next year. The game will be set just after the end of the third series and will take place over the course of Series 4 before ending just around the beginning of Series 5. It will follow House Forrester, which hasn’t been touched on greatly in-show yet.

Zombie apocalypse games have been quite popular in the last few years and one of the more unique was definitely DayZ, the game that began life as a mod for the shooter Arma 2. It’s being developed as a standalone game now, although the process is a long one and creator Dean Hall has made it quite clear that if you’re not willing to play a game with bugs – do not buy DayZ yet. It’s still being updated.

One of these updates is going to bring with it an opportunity for many players to answer a common if quite disturbing question that gets asked about apocalypses and especially this type of end of the world situation: if you had to would you turn cannibal?

The community has expressed concern about it encouraging the ‘kill on sight’ reputation that DayZ players have, but Bohemia are addressing that by making it so that there are some fairly dire consequences for consuming your fellow, slightly unluckier man.

Kuru is a brain disease that actually exists in real life. Consuming raw human flesh in the game (although not cooked yet) will have a chance of giving you this disease. The symptoms include uncontrollable laughing, crying, shaking and eventually, death. It’s not pleasant and you better believe that the developers are not encouraging this as an option unless it’s your last resort.

It’s already running on experimental servers and some feedback on it suggest that players feel gun shake should also be a symptom as well as the cooked flesh also having a chance of giving you the disease, albeit a smaller one than the raw flesh would do.

What are your thoughts on this new addition to the game? It just makes me shudder a little bit…

Any big game launch is onset with server issues and lag as many players attempt to log on as soon as possible. Warlords of Draenor was no exception to this, but the problems seem to have lasted a little bit longer than the normal period of initial server issues. It’s apparently not unusual to wait hours to get onto the server, then find yourself DC’d and sent to the back of the queue again.

Blizzard are trying their best to deal with the causes of the issues though and have announced that they’re planning to use the phasing technology first used in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion to essentially phase the entire continent of Draenor – thus allowing them to spread server load across more than one ‘copy’ of Draenor.

European servers were the first to get the fix implemented and the North American, Oceanic and Americas realms were to follow shortly. A few tests were run on selected North American servers and this convinced Blizzard that it was a worthwhile tactic to battle the lag.

I hope it works. It’d make Lone very happy.

Seems that an awful lot of new players to EVE Online are confused by the control setup at first. Not that they don’t make sense, it just seems that people are expecting to be able to manually pilot their ships through space rather than inputting commands and having the process being automated. CCP have taken note of this because they’ve come up with an experimental keyboard flight control system for the game.

An opt-in Beta version of it will be included in the Rhea mini-expansion next month, and the bugs worked out. If the experiment shows that keyboard controls can work within the game, CCP will think about implementing it proper. If not, it won’t be sticking.

Given that EVE is quite a large game, I doubt that the controls will be as simple was WASD. Automated controlling might have the edge in the big battles that happen frequently in EVE’s player-driven galaxies, but maybe the keyboard controls will be quicker to react to separate events. We just don’t know yet.

They’ll be available at first on the public test server, Singularity; with a mass test coming some time during the next week.

The last piece of DLC for Battlefield 4 is releasing soon, with a date set for a November 18th launch. At least, it will for Premium members, non-Premium members will need to wait until December the 2nd.

The DLC is named Battlefield: Final Stand and will bring with in ‘future’ tech, four new maps and a load of snow in its locations. Expect hovertanks, railguns and all sorts of other weapons and vehicles that seem to have taken inspiration from Battlefield 2142.

As for the new maps, they’re all snow-covered. Operation Whiteout takes place in a blizzard in Siberia, Hammerhead pits soldiers against each other in a submarine base, while Hangar 21 takes place in a hi-tech military base and Giants of Karelia a mech factory with a big open space making up the surrounding area.

A full list of what can be expected hasn’t yet been revealed but dataminers have already found the data for a compound bow that uses explosive bolts in Battlelog.