About a week ago I covered the news that Payday 2 was getting a new heist mission, as well as a new character named Clover whom at the time we knew very little about other than she was female, spoke with an Irish accent and had a minor obsession over a certain diamond. Now the character and heist DLCs are out and we know more.

Her class is Burglar, and can do things such as pick locks, answer pagers and bag bodies a lot faster than the other classes. A Burglar is also harder to hit and recovers from wounds fast, although they’re not great as frontline gunners due to their being squishy. Clover comes with a UK-based weapon set to add to the game, an L85 assault rifle and a shillelagh, as well as her own mask which fittingly has clovers on it.

Clover’s Character Pack costs £3.99, and her heist mission, the Diamond Heist, costs £4.99 on top of that. They’re both available on Steam and right now, Steam is in the midst of its Holiday Sale so there are some discounts on both right now if you want to pick them up.

Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Unity has been, to put not too fine a point on it, a disaster for them. The biggest problems have come in the form of the launch of the game showing that it was far from finished (oh those faceless bugs) and more recently a large fourth patch that was even larger on the Xbox One version thanks to it re-downloading the entire game.

One part of the entire debacle has been the cancellation of the Season Pass for the game, which resulted in Ubisoft telling purchasers of it and the Gold Edition of the game that as compensation for the problems and the cancellation they could choose a free copy of a number of Ubisoft games. And some of those games were pretty nice ones too.

Only hold on a second.

Some sharp-eyed people who have actually read through the legalese of the free game offer have noticed a little waver inside the agreement. Namely that if you choose to accept the free game you’re not then allowed to join in any lawsuits that might want to sue Ubisoft over the broken game not being as advertised. Basically, Ubisoft are trying to cover their own backsides and lower the chances of a class action lawsuit or making sure there’s so few left to file one that it wouldn’t be considered worth it in the end.

Either way, the entire situation has seriously damaged Ubisoft’s reputation among the Assassin’s Creed fans and the next game will have some serious work to do to make it up.

The titles on sale for the free game offer in case you’re still interested are as follows:

• Assassin’s Creed Black Flag
• Far Cry 4
• Just Dance 2015
• Rayman Legends
• The Crew
• Watch Dogs

DayZ continues to develop, even now that creator Dean ‘Rocket’ Hall has departed from Bohemia Interactive as he said he would eventually. Bohemia have just released a DayZ patch that adds in new items, areas and features to the game.

Among the new items is the Chainsaw depicted in the image below. A traditional zombie killing weapon, and one that many find a favourite despite its noise being a zombie magnet. There’s also a medieval-style greatsword if more traditional fare is your preferred go-to (they can be found in castle ruins in case you’re wondering). Christmas trees are also now dotted around the bigger cities on the maps and will spawn plenty of loot beneath them for you, provided you get there before someone else and don’t fall foul of any other survivors who are also aiming to snag the same items as you.

Also added is the ability to dig plots for gardens anywhere you please now instead of waiting to find a greenhouse to plant your seeds and grow food to survive. Of course, it’ll require you to have the right tools to dig it and keep it fertile, but effort will reward you with a constant food source provided you want to make a camp in just one place.

The last ‘big’ thing added to the game in this update is slightly more sensitive. Apocalyptic situations are hard on survivors and not everyone is able to cope… so some choose to find a quick way out. Previously you could do this by walking up to another unknown survivor or jumping off a high building but now you have the option to use any weapons you pick up to end your own life. No animation for it right now though.

Earlier this year, development of the alien vs marines shooter game Natural Selection 2 was handed over to its community. Although developers Unknown Worlds Entertainment have not completely abandoned it, they did approve and vet a number of programmers and designers within the game’s community to safeguard its future.

There’ve been quite a few patches since then, and the latest one, Build 272, brings Christmas cheer to the game among other things. A number of maps have had a festive touch added for the season and a number of aspects of the game have been improved to make the game flow more fluidly. In fact, the patch was so large they had trouble getting it finished before the holidays.

“Build 272 has been a monster to get out, and it nearly didn’t happen. So as always special thanks to all the folks at UWE and our many programmers and playtesters on the CDT.” wrote WasabiOne in the patch update text, before noting that they had already begun work on the next Build hoping to get it out for New Year.

Obviously Build 273 will remove the festive aspects from the maps so if you’re interested in seeing them, you might need to be quick.

It was recently announced that Computerandvideogames.com, the homesite for the long-running CVG brand is due to close.

The announcement came from publisher Future, and is part of a general concentration of Future’s content into fewer locations. Some of CVG’s content will be added to the new location GamesRadar+ before the entire CVG audience is ‘folded’ into the site, along with the audiences of Edge, Official Playstation and Total Xbox. They will join the other publications that already have their home on GamesRadar+, Total Films and SFX.

Computer and Video Games began life in 1981 as a physical magazine before transferring online as the Internet gained momentum. Future have said that the new GamesRadar+ is hiring, but CVG’s former editor has said that so far none of the existing staff of the CVG site are due to make the leap over to working for GamesRadar+.

Obviously we wish those affected by the closure the best.