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There's just a week to go until EGX - the UK's premier gaming festival, organised by our parent company Gamer Network - comes to the Birmingham NEC for the first time, from 24th to 27th September.

A new update for the Xbox 360 - remember that? - has gone live, and it adds 2GB of cloud storage.

After early first sightings in Japan, the new CUH-1200 series PlayStation 4 - or C-Chassis - is now starting to circulate UK stores. With little fanfare from Sony to mark its arrival, the console bears several noteworthy changes over earlier PS4 models. Its physical design gets some choice tweaks, but reports of lowered noise levels also point to it addressing one of the console's longest running bugbears. But is the improvement really that radical, and if so, is it worth upgrading if you've already committed to an earlier model?

The BBC's Make It Digital season stumbled out of the blocks with The Gamechangers, the muddled docudrama about Rockstar and Grand Theft Auto, and one of the most frustrating elements of the film was the way it fumbled the question of violence in games.

Facebook functionality is being removed from older PlayStation platforms, Sony's support website has announced. The affected platforms are PlayStation 3, PS Vita and PS TV.

Sales of the PlayStation 4 in China have yet to take off, and Sony says a lot of that has to do with censorship.

Warhammer 40K: Deathwatch, the turn-based strategy game that launched on the App Store in July, comes out on PC next month.

Rainbow Six Siege's DLC maps will be free, Ubisoft has promised.

You can play the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront beta offline, EA has confirmed.

In retrospect, Forza Motorsport 5 was something of a technological miracle bearing in mind the tumultuous Xbox One launch, characterised by rushed software and obvious technical challenges in working with the new console. For the most part, Turn 10 achieved a solid 1080p60 - an impressive achievement bearing in mind that most of the production occurred on unfinished hardware, with Microsoft engineers still tuning the hardware as the studio entered the final months of development. Forza Motorsport 6 is an important release then - it demonstrates what one of the most talented first-party development teams can achieve with a clear two-year run on final Xbox One hardware.

The Dead Island MOBA shuts down on 15th October.

Capcom has announced Karin as a playable character in PlayStation 4 and PC fighting game Street Fighter 5.

First Assault is a first-person shooter based on the Ghost in the Shell manga, and publisher Nexon has released debut gameplay in the video, below.

One of the first things that Tatsumi Kimishima, the newly-appointed CEO of Nintendo, said in his new role is that "it's wrong to lead a gaming company on numbers alone." This is the kind of thing all Nintendo fans want to hear, of course, and yet here the sentiment seems curiously out-of-place. For Mr Kimishima, the future will be numbers and little else.

The Last Guardian, Sony's almost mythical exclusive that's been in development since 2007, didn't make an appearance at the platform holder's Tokyo Game Show press conference on Tuesday, but it has found its way on to the show floor at the Makuharai Messe. It's not, though, what you might have hoped.

Earlier this week, Capcom revealed an all-new character for its PC and PS4 fighter Street Fighter 4, and we've just had a chance to play as him.

Dark Souls 3 has had its release date in the west narrowed down, with Bandai Namco confirming at this year's Tokyo Game Show that it'll be coming out in Europe and North America in April next year.

The first game in the Secret of Mana series is getting remade, again.

Naughty Dog all but confirmed that a sequel to The Last of Us is in the works.

Manifold Garden's latest trailer bests Antichamber as the most M.C. Escher-inspired video game I've seen. Set in a world where the player manipulates gravity on one of six axis, you decide how to navigate this omnidirectional world by tilting it around like a box.

Did you know that Destiny: The Taken King launched this week? You probably did.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 5 team is developing content for GTA Online only, the developer has said.

Brace yourselves for the virtual reality assault on your wallets early next year. Q1 2016, which probably means March, is the target for both the consumer version of Oculus Rift and the wider availability of HTC Vive (limited availability begins later this year). PlayStation VR - who knows? But we're tantalisingly close.

Telltale's five-part Minecraft: Story Mode launches next month on 13th October as a digital download.

My Dwarfs (not Dwarves) are standing their ground. A line of heavily armoured infantry supported by crossbowmen, handgunners and around 50 flamethrowers. They wait patiently, as Dwarfs often do, for a much larger force of Greenskins to crash upon their ranks. Outnumbered and then some, but not yet outgunned, they've brought with them some rather formidable artillery: two sets of Organ Guns, named for their resemblance to the musical instrument... although instead of leading hymns down at the local Methodist, they shoot lots of tiny cannon balls at a pleasing rate of fire. (It makes sense when you see them in action.) My other cannon shoots flames and is called a Flame Cannon. That one is probably a little easier to picture.

Pokéflutes at the ready, Trainers: the Pokémon: Symphonic Evolutions live concert tour has been given a UK date.

Star Wars games have a patchy history - some of them make great use of the rich universe they're set in and even enrich it further.

Nintendo has announced its fan-pleasing Nintendo Direct announcement shows will resume.

World of Tanks is coming to PlayStation 4 with Share Play, Vita Remote Play and all the PlayStation features you'd expect.

Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 and its expansion Yuri's Revenge are currently free on EA's Origin.