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You've got to hand it to Volition and Deep Silver, the developer and publisher behind Saints Row 4. In addition to creating one of the smartest, funniest, most fun, and shockingly progressive adventures in recent years, it's also assembled quite the marketing campaign for its upcoming next-gen re-release, Saints Row 4: Re-Elected, and standalone expansion Gat out of Hell.

Civilian mass murdering game Hatred is the third game in history to receive the dreaded AO [Adult's Only] rating from the US ratings board, the ESRB, despite it not having any sexual content whatsoever.

Rockstar's mischievous scholastic satire Bully (or Canis Canem Edit, as it was originally called upon its European release) came out in 2006 and many have clamoured for a remake to it. It's unclear if that will ever happen, but graphic design student Wesley Arthur has given us some idea of how that might look by painstakingly recreating its boy's dormitory in Unreal Engine 4.

The IP for Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons has been sold to 505 Games, the publisher behind Starbreeze's familial adventure, for $500K.

To make up for Grand Theft Auto 5's recent delay on PC, Rockstar is offering pre-order customers a few nifty perks like a free game and some bonus in-game cash.

What's missing from the Survarium open beta (which we found very encouraging anyway) is arguably the most important part: the Free Play mode. It's described as a PVE (player-versus-environment - you-against-the-computer) mode with exploration and missions. In other words it's as close to a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience as the game will get - remember that Ukrainian developer Vostok Games formed when S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer GSC shadily fell apart, so there's plenty of shared heritage.

Ubisoft's Watch Dogs sequel must improve the fledgling series' formula and appeal to fans "in a new way", its creative director has said.

It's been 19 years since we first set foot in Spencer Mansion, and 13 since we returned for a GameCube remake of the original PlayStation game. Now, in 2015, we're back there once again, for - stay with me - a HD re-release of that remake.

Microsoft has clarified its rules for streamers using Xbox game content on services such as YouTube and Twitch.

Xbox One rounded off 2014 by shifting more US consoles during December than PlayStation 4, a feat it has now managed for two months in a row.

UPDATE #2 16/1/15 8.45am: Hotline Miami 2 designer Jonatan Söderström has said that Australian gamers should simply pirate the game if it does remain unavailable to buy.

Destiny's latest raid, Crota's End, is getting a Hard mode on 21st January at 6pm GMT, Bungie has announced.

Gaming analyst group NPD has revealed the top 10 highest selling games in the US retail market.

Open world zombie survival sim Infestation: Survivor Stories - better known under its original name, The War Z, before altering it due to a trademark issue - has sold 2.8m copies since its launch in November 2012.

In late October Microsoft heavily discounted the US retail price of the Xbox One to $349 for an indefinite period of time. It didn't go up to its standard retail price of $399 until over two months later on 3rd January. Now, less than two weeks later, Microsoft is bringing the price back down to $349 for another yet to be determined period starting tomorrow.

Dark Souls 2 will be getting an update on 5th February for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC that will add the new content coming to The Scholar of the First Sin edition of From Software's beloved fantasy adventure.

Parks and Recreation fans will no doubt remember Ben Wyatt's ludicrously impractical board game The Cones of Dunshire. Now, board game company Mayfair Games, of Settlers of Catan fame, is developing the ridiculous parody game for real on Kickstarter.

Google will no longer be selling Google Glass in its current form.

Minecraft's Xbox One and Xbox 360 editions will be getting The Simpsons-based skins in an all new pack coming in late February.

Streaming service Twitch has announced a new free-to-use library of music which it has cleared for VOD broadcast.

Remember the Gold Saucer from Final Fantasy 7? It's coming to Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn.

You can now 3D-print a bloodied, bikini-clad zombie figurine to celebrate the upcoming launch of survival game Dying Light.

As far as downloadable content goes, 2K's plan for four versus one shooter Evolve is as complex as they come.

Just Add Water's remake of cult classic 1997 PlayStation puzzle platformer Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee comes out on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 3 in the coming months.

Ride, the motorcycling game from the people who made the MotoGP games, launches on 20th March 2015.

The Nintendo 3DS Hatsune Miku game launches on 29th May 2015 in Europe in shops and as a download via the eShop, Sega has announced.

League of Geeks has just announced that its debut game, Armello, will be coming to Steam Early Access on the 22nd of January, and will be available for PC, Mac and Linux.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has released the first gameplay footage of Kitana and Kung Lao in NetherRealm's bloody fighting game Mortal Kombat X.

Resident Evil: Revelations 2 has been delayed one week for “polishing work and gameplay optimisation," Capcom has announced.

After a whirlwind three years Dean Hall has gone, left Bohemia, returned to New Zealand, started a new indie studio, walked away from day-to-DayZ. "Saying goodbye is like a mountain summit," he wrote on Twitter in December. "People focus on that, and forget that it is the journey there and then onward that really matters."