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Dungeon Keeper-esque strategy simulation Dungeons 2 arrives for PC, Mac and SteamOS on 24th April.

England legend Bobby Moore finally comes to FIFA 15 tonight.

Diablo 3 patch 2.2, coming soon to the Public Test Realm, will add new Legendary level 70 armour sets as well as redesign existing ones.

I reckon that the loneliest lines in all of poetry probably belong to Hart Crane, who got to witness the birth of the modern office job and wrote:

The Counter-Strike eSports scene has suffered a number of high-profile scandals in recent months, but it's safe to say it's booming.

DICE has called on Battlefield 4 players to help it build a new map for the game.

Capcom has released a new trailer for action role-playing game Dragon's Dogma Online, due out in Japan for PC, PlayStation 4 and PS3.

Eurogamer has dropped review scores and replaced them with a new recommendation system. Read the editor's blog to find out more.

Bungie is adding matchmaking to Destiny's Weekly Heroic Strike missions as of the game's next update.

One of the reasons Magicka works so well, and remains so popular, is its complete subversion of all those wizardly tropes that high fantasy has so firmly established. In lieu of pensive scholars with wise words of reflection, we have faceless idiots setting huge tracts of land alight, giggling at the cooked corpses. Instead of stuffy, bearded old codgers locked in cold stone towers, there are psychotic mages hurling lighting and firing machine guns. In Vietnam. While you can argue that it's hardly subtle, to its credit, it's certainly not staid.

BioWare co-founder Dr. Greg Zeschuk has returned to the video games industry after he previously retired in order to pursue a career in beer journalism.

Epic Games is giving away $5m to developers using Unreal Engine 4 as part of a new grants program.

A new Rock Band game is in development for PS4 and Xbox One, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Former Battlefield developer and current Eurogamer columnist David Goldfarb has announced plans for a new, untitled role-playing game.

Independent developers Alan Hazelden (Sokobond, These Robotic Hearts of Mine) and Benjamin Davis (Sushi Snake) have revealed that their upcoming grid-based puzzler, A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build, is coming to Steam, the Humble Store and its official site on 25th February.

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number now has a free digital comic that you can download on Steam.

Rebellion's upcoming undead compilation Zombie Army Trilogy includes the two previous Zombie Army games alongside a brand new third chapter. Video producer Ian Higton's had an extended hands-on with the third instalment, and thinks it's a much better co-operative multiplayer experience than that other game that's all about co-operative multiplayer experiences - Evolve.

The Order: 1886 may well prove to be a highly divisive title - but for all its controversies, we're equally confident that it represents something very special, a sneak-peek at the future direction of real-time graphics on console hardware. Ready at Dawn's visual technology is simply immense: so good, so precise, so realistic that at times it's like you're playing a game that looks as good as a pre-rendered movie. This is a milestone in the development of next-gen visuals.

Not a Hero, the next game from the talented team that brought us OlliOlli, will be released 7th May on PC via Steam, GOG and Humble.

Bladestorm: Nightmare, Koei Tecmo's follow-up to Bladestorm: the Hundred Years' War, has been pushed back to 20th March 2015. It had been due out in Europe on 6th March.

There are problems that crop up during a game's development, and then there are problems. Right now, Not a Hero - the next game from OlliOlli developer roll7 - has one of the best I've ever heard of.

I've already written enough about New Cross developers Roll7 that they've threatened to take out a restraining order should I write any more, but hopefully they're all looking the other way this afternoon and won't realise I'm penning this little blog for a quick video starring them. It comes from last month's Rezzed, and features a new look at action shooter Not a Hero in action.

Futuristic turn-based sports strategy Frozen Cortex today receives an official release after months in Early Access on Steam.

Capcom has insisted Deep Down, its missing in action free-to-play action role-playing game, is still alive despite months of silence.

Games charity SpecialEffect has announced GamesBlastLIVE, a round-the-clock charity livestream due to start at 10am this Saturday, 21st February.

Elite: Dangerous developer Frontier has registered a trademark for something called Elite: Deadly.

In opening up about the new Guild Wars 2 profession (class) the Revenant, developer ArenaNet has also revealed brand new skill mechanics coming to the wider online game.

UPDATE 19/2/15 9.50am Strafe has successfully reached its $185,000 Kickstarter funding target.

EA will reward those who played any of the last few Battlefield games and buy upcoming cops and robbers spin-off Battlefield Hardline.

UPDATE 19/02/2015: We've got the first gameplay of Sonic Runners, the new Sonic mobile game.