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Nehalem. Sandy Bridge. Ivy Bridge. Haswell. Year after year, Intel has produced ever more capable, more efficient CPU architectures with relentless pace. The strategy's known as the "tick-tock" model. A new architecture is released with a tock, before it's shrunk down the following year onto an even smaller fabrication process - the tick - making it even more power-efficient, before the cycle begins again. Last year's Haswell, manifesting in the top-end Core i7 4770K, was a tock. This year we were expecting to see the 14nm tick, codenamed Broadwell. The only problem is, it's not ready.

I'm here thanks to the Commodore Amiga, that flat beige biscuit of a computer which celebrated its 30th birthday this week, and saw off the 8-bit computers as surely as an asteroid did for the dinosaurs. Admittedly, it was those 8-bit computers - specifically my beloved ZX Spectrum - which got me into gaming in the first place, but it was the Amiga that helped me transition that childhood passion into an adult career.

I always pick the ape. I'd like to say I do this for some meaningful reason. But the truth is I do it because monkeys are funny. Not as funny as penguins. Penguins are slapstick incarnate. But you can't play as a penguin in Black & White. Note to all game developers: more penguins please.

Hello! In this week's show Johnny and Aoife make bad jokes, whilst I take another look at The Swindle ahead of its launch next week. You may have seen an earlier video we published alongside its developer, but this time I wanted to take a look at one of the later, more difficult stages. This sort of happens. Kind of.

If you've always loved Ico for its sparseness - the wind-blasted ruins, the empty space, the near total absence of an overbearing backstory - you probably had mixed emotions about this week's news that fans have datamined the game and discovered that the original script was far longer than the final cut. 115 lines of dialogue for an entire game is hardly chatty, of course, but Ico as we have it now is all about restraint, about the things that go unsaid or unexplained. Will Self has a wonderful word that's worth reappropriating for this kind of thing: under-imagined. It's not a criticism at all in this context (or in his original context), just an acknowledgement that if showing is better than telling, sometimes not showing or telling is better than both.

Keiji Inafune's Kickstarter campaign for the action-RPG Red Ash has added a $1m stretch goal to finance a PS4 port.

Infinifactory, the acclaimed open-ended puzzle game by SpaceChem developer Zachtronics Industries, is coming to PS4.

Space shooting roguelike Galak-Z is secretly also a mech combat platformer-thing, developer 17-Bit has revealed less than two weeks ahead of its 4th August launch on PS4.

Submerged, a combat-free exploratory adventure by a trio of former BioShock developers in Australia, is out next week on PS4, Xbox One and PC, developer Uppercut Games has announced.

Shadowrun: Hong Kong will arrive on 20th August at 6pm UK time, developer Harebrained Schemes announced in a Kickstarter update.

Nintendo has published a set of patents relating to its in-development "quality of life" device.

Randy Pitchford is showing me an email he received a day ago on his phone. In it someone asks the Gearbox Software boss whether Aliens: Colonial Marines, which came out in February 2013 for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, will be remastered for PlayStation 4 or released as part of the PlayStation Plus subscription service.

UPDATE 24/7/15 2.00pm Burgled London arcade The Heart of Gaming has hit its £5k funding target needed to get back up and running.

The deluge of HD remasters shows no sign of abating - fatigue is starting to kick in, but the allure of prettier, smoother, enhanced versions of genuine classics remains a pretty enticing proposition. God of War 3 Remastered stands apart from the crowd by delivering a full 1080p presentation in combination with performance that is to all intents and purposes locked at 60fps. From a visual perspective, nothing can quite top the experience found when locking resolution and frame-rate to the specs of your display, but even better than that, God of War 3 emphasises how gameplay can be improved via the remastering process too.

This year's EGX, the UK games festival formerly known as the Eurogamer Expo (and run by our parent company Gamer Network, disclosure fans), will be the first opportunity to play Ubisoft's 2016 juggernaut The Division in the UK, it has been announced. By which I mean, the guys a couple of desks away have told me.

If you're searching for the new generation of talent within Nintendo, you needn't look much further than Tsubasa Sakaguchi. They certainly don't come much more youthful that the co-director of Splatoon, Nintendo EAD's first all-new character led game in 14 years; when we meet in a sushi house in Soho he bristles with a child-like energy and enthusiasm, his long hair tied back and his bright yellow Splatoon-themed t-shirt shining as brightly as his smiling eyes. You can sense so much of that energy in Splatoon too, a game that dances to the rhythm of youthful exuberance. New beginnings don't come much more convincing than this.

What happens when a first-person game never shows your character in third-person? You probably imagine yourself as a human hero, the chap on the box, but chances are you're actually a terrifying alien creature with a shape-shifting liquid spine.

Rise of the Triad developer Interceptor Entertainment has released 10 minutes of gameplay footage from their upcoming isometric shooter Bombshell.

PlayStation Vita owners will finally be able to play Resident Evil Revelations 2 on 18th August.

Five Nights at Freddy's 4 developer Scott Cawthon has picked up a trick from his animatronic animal monstrosities and shocked us all when we were least expecting it - for Five Nights at Freddy's 4 is out now on Steam where it's going for £5.59 / $7.99.

Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers 20th Anniversary Edition is now available as a free download on both iOS and Android tablets.

Professional League of Legends player Yu "XiaoWeiXiao" Xian, a mid-laner for Team Impulse, has been suspended after admitting to ELO boosting, i.e. leveling up another player's account for money.

It's 30 years to the day since Commodore unleashed the first in a long line of its Amiga machines onto the market, and while the initial Amiga 1000 made a fair technological splash of its own, it was the chronologically awkward Amiga 500 that was to cement the hardware maker's place in the annals of gaming history, shifting around six million units.

The Fallout Anthology has just been announced, grouping five beloved post-apocalyptic RPGs together for the first time.

Clothing line Puma is making official Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain branded sneaking boots.

ESL, the world's largest eSports events company, begins randomised testing for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) next month.

Rise of the Tomb Raider comes out on Windows 10 and Steam early 2016, and PlayStation 4 "holiday 2016", Square Enix has announced.

Hidetaka Miyazaki isn't anything like I pictured him. I'm not really sure what I expected, but the image I had conjured up, of a quiet, brooding auteur responsible for the creation of nightmarish visions like the Gaping Dragon and Quelaag and Ebrietas, was far from the grinning figure who stands at the front of the room for our hands-off demo, bright-eyed, animated, and joking about PC malfunctions and Legolas from The Lord of the Rings.

Lords of the Fallen 2 has changed creative course and in the process shed executive producer Tomasz Gop. He announced his departure on Facebook and discussed it more in an email exchange with me this morning.

The wait for Life is Strange: Episode 4 is nearly over - the excellent episodic series' penultimate chapter launches next week.