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A good measure of a Carmageddon games' success is how quickly it makes you honk with inappropriate laughter. With Carmageddon 2 I think this took about five seconds, although I was a teenager at the time. I'm still waiting for TDR 2000 to give me a giggle. Carmageddon: Reincarnation was possibly even faster than 2 at forcing me to curl protectively around my own jiggling diaphragm, although I'm not entirely sure it was intentional.

UPDATE 18/03/2015 7.29pm: Atari has responded to Minter's outrage with the following statement:

Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier has added a new starport to the space game that celebrates the life of Terry Pratchett.

Windows 10 is slated for a summer 2015 release, Microsoft has announced. Better yet, the company is comfortable letting those with pirated versions of Windows accept the free upgrade to the latest OS.

Gory vehicle smash 'em-up Carmageddon: Reincarnation leaves Steam Early Access and launches proper on 23rd April 2015, developer Stainless has announced.

There's a new trailer for Pixels, an apocalyptic Adam Sandler film where the bad guys are video game characters Donkey Kong, Pac-Man and Space Invaders.

UPDATE 18/3/15 1:24pm: We now know exactly how powerful Titan X is - check out the full Digital Foundry Titan X review for detailed performance metrics on demanding games at multiple resolutions.

Rodeo Games, developer of Warhammer Quest, is making a Warhammer 40K turn-based strategy game.

World Bank director of corporate communications is the latest parent to discover their child had racked up a huge credit card bill while purchasing virtual game items.

Indiana Jones must spend long hours off-camera trying half-baked solutions to insurmountable ancient riddles - but his death-defying successes make for more thrilling fiction. The whip-wielding protagonist of La-Mulana, Lemeza Kosugi, has a lot in common with Indiana, except his own story is told via a series of gruelling failures.

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has caused problems for Battlefield Hardline on Xbox One, according to publisher EA.

A set of leaked images have revealed Erron Black is a playable character in fighting game Mortal Kombat X.

For the better part of the last two decades the adventure game genre was thought dead. Or at least comatose. But in these past few years it's finally returning. And how diverse a return it's been! In one corner, we've had Telltale's streamlined, linear take on interactive storytelling. In another, we've got Double Fine remixing old templates with modern tech and style with Broken Age. And then there's Maniac Mansion creators Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick successfully Kickstarting their faux 1987 throwback Thimbleweed Park. So how will The Odd Gentlemen, the LA studio behind The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom and Wayward Manor, handle reprising King's Quest? The answer is a mix of all of the above in a way that's distinctly its own.

Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda teased a "surprise" JRPG for "home game machine(s)" in fiscal 2015.

Valve has updated its user agreement policy to make it against the rules to promote a product if you're receiving any commercial kickbacks without at least disclosing this.

Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin's release date has been brought forward in Europe to 2nd April on PS4, Xbox One and PC, Bandai Namco has announced.

UPDATE 17/03/2015 5pm: Tales from the Borderlands: Episode 2's PS4 and PS3 versions will indeed be out tomorrow in Europe, Telltale has confirmed.

Overdog is a new third-party matchmaking service for Xbox One that incorporates Facebook-style profile information to find you multiplayer buddies that share your interests.

A private beta for PlayStation Now begins this spring in the UK, Sony has announced.

UPDATE 17/3/15 3.55pm: After today's announcement that Nintendo will begin smartphone and tablet game development, Eurogamer's Chris "Bratterz" Bratt has rounded up resident Nintendo fan Tom Phillips and resident Nintendo sceptic Wesley Yin-Poole to discuss what this might mean for the company's future.

Nintendo designed many of its recent 3D Mario levels using the four-part structure of Chinese poetry and Japanese comics.

I originally planned to start this blog post with a pun about the police force, but I couldn't think of one and gave up. What a cop-out.

Android games store Google Play will adopt the PEGI ratings system across Europe, UKIE has announced.

LA Cops has two very distinctive influences. One is the Beastie Boys' iconic Sabotage video, an explosion of 1970s cop show cheese, all wide lapels, handlebar moustaches and aviator sunglasses, that sparked a million Student Union fancy dress club nights. The other is the nightmare of blood and depravity that is Hotline Miami, Dennaton Games' neon-hued top-down twitch classic. Spend just ten minutes with LA Cops and it's impossible to deny that both of those names must have dominated the early design discussions.

The newly-revived Sierra has announced Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions Evolved, an update for Lucid Games' fast-paced neon twin-stick shooter.

Games console subscriptions such as Xbox Live Gold and PlayStation Plus will now be included in the UK government's consumer price index, a ranking of commonly-used goods and services collated to determine the impact of inflation.

A substantial expansion for old-school fantasy role-playing game Pillars of Eternity is in the works.

Nintendo today announced it will begin releasing games on mobile phones and tablets, after years of opposition to smart device development.

Borderlands developer Gearbox Software has detailed how you can transfer saves from last-gen consoles into the upcoming Handsome Collection on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Firaxis has continued to support its 13-year-old strategy game Civilization 3 with the release of a new update that makes multiplayer work through Steam.