Grab your pickaxe, bow, and trusty boom-stick, and get yourself ready for two fierce new arenas for Tomb Raider multiplayer. Hop in and make a name for yourself by leading the Scavengers or Survivors to victory among the treacherous shipwrecks and deadly mountain-top shrines.

The Shipwrecked Map Pack features two new multiplayer levels:

Lost Fleet

A massive beached ship serves as a dangerous battleground filled with twists, turns, and traps.

Himiko’s Cradle

Danger lurks around every corner in this mountain top shrine. The area is sacred to the scavengers and will be your final resting place if you are not careful.

Tomb Raider fans will be able to purchase the downloadable content today for 320 Microsoft Points, £2.49/€2.99/$3.99 on Steam, and £2.39/€2.99/$3.99 on PlayStation Store from May 8.

Have you got what it takes to survive these harsh new lands? 

Exciting news! Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX is now available to pre-order across Europe, so get the jump on everybody else and make sure you don’t miss out.

Not only that – as well as the standard edition, you can also pick up a special limited run art book edition from selected retailers, which includes artwork for each of the titles in the pack.

But you’d best hurry – those versions of the game are bound to get snapped up sharpish.

The game’s out on September 13 in European and PAL territories for the PlayStation 3, and we’re pretty confident it’ll be the best HD update you’ll have seen so far.

Included in the box are both Kingdom Hearts Final Mix and Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories – never previously available here – as well as HD cinematic story videos from Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days… not to mention the PlayStation 3 trophies of course!

Details on exactly where you can pre-order from will be available on the official Kingdom Hearts website… race you there!

If Lara Croft was looking for a relaxing research trip with beautiful white beaches and clear waters, it's safe to say she got a little bit more than she bargained for. Yamatai's picturesque vistas and rich history are juxtaposed with dangerous cliff edges, cult-following murderers, and ferocious wolves - to mention but a few of its less-than-attractive qualities.

There’s barely time for poor Lara to rest before she's thrown into an action-packed rollercoaster adventure, which will forge her into the tomb-raiding heroine we've come to know and love. 

It's because of this fast-flowing and deliciously vibrant adventure that we naturally have a lot of special, memorable moments that will stay with us forever. In fact, there are so many incredible moments to count that we were forced to whittle them down to our top 10.

What was your favourite moment in Tomb Raider? How did you feel? Let us know in the comments below.

Growing up we’ve all had hopes and dreams of what we want to do with our lives when we got older, of what we wanted to become. Most of them are usually quite bold and outlandish - I wanted to be the architect of an underwater Michelin Star restaurant. Some kids want to be spacemen/women, law enforcers, or even rock stars - but growing up we realise that in reality following our dreams can be a lot harder.

Games like Championship Manager allow us all to fantasise about what it might be like to be a part of the football world, but when we switch the game off, that’s when we slip come back into reality and our normal routine.

But how can you change that? It was what we were thinking about when we decided to do something special and go the extra mile for young football fanatics in China.  

Recently we held a unique opportunity for 50 Chinese children to train with former German Bundesliga top scorer and current attacking coach for the Danish National team, Ebbe Sand. Not only did they get the expert tutorage of a football legend, but five lucky superstars in the making we're selected for a Championship Manager Online-sponsored scholarship at the Ebbe Sand Soccer Academy.

It’s a small gesture, but we hope that this will give five lucky children the extra helping hand and ultimately bring them one step closer to having their dreams come true. 

Do things that go bump in the night give you the creeps? Do you check under your bed for demonic soul-devouring monsters before going to sleep? Do you - despite having a borderline heart attack -like getting the crap scared out of you? I do, and if the recent public response to Bethesda’s "The Evil Within" is anything to go by, you do too. But it hasn’t always been like this.

Horror games have had a bit of a rollercoaster past when it comes to their success, and due to their arguably niche nature, it’s rare for a horror game to be make it as a blockbuster hit. Those developers that do attempt to reach a bigger audience by making the games more mainstream often risk losing what makes them so terrifying. After all, there are very few people who will willingly pay money to be frightened into a catatonic state.

But it can be done, and we’ve seen indie developers tackle the genre with open arms. Games like Slender are simple in nature, just pick up eight notes and you win the game. But a dark forest, perfect audio design, and no combat mechanics, leave you feeling vulnerable and scared to your wits’ end.

Among the Sleep – another project that’s looking towards Kickstarter for funding – also keeps it simple by placing you in the first-person perspective of a two year-old. Unable to defend yourself your only option is to hide at a moment’s notice as you navigate a corridor of nightmares. Will it hit its target of $200,000? Well that remains to be seen, but maybe it will paint a clearer picture of how popular the horror genre is.

If you’re not used to it by now, Gamer Chat is all about letting you lose in a hypothetical wonderland where there are no wrong answers – so best get your thinking-caps on.

• What Square Enix universe would you like to see reimagined into a survival horror game?
• How would it play, and what do you think would make it so scary?

I think it’s hard to conceive some of our popular heroes and heroines in such fragile and frightened states, but that doesn’t mean their universes couldn’t lend to the genre. For instance, instead of playing Lara Croft, perhaps you could play a young child, held prisoner as a successor to the Sun Queen, Himiko. No weapons, no means to fight, you try must uncover the true nature of Himiko’s power and escape the endless maze of temples and fearsome Oni!

As always, share your opinions with us in the comments. Feel free to discuss the topic and engage with each other’s ideas - but please be nice; there are no wrong answers. 

Image Credits: Corpse-boy (deviantArt)