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Sega has agreed to pay out $1.25m as it looks to settle a class-action suit relating to the false advertisement of Aliens: Colonial Marines - while Gearbox, which was also named in the claim, continues to fight on. Polygon has the full scoop on the latest twist in the ongoing saga.

Madden NFL 15, the latest in EA's long line of American football games, won't be getting a free demo, with early access reserved for those who have signed up for the publisher's recently launched, Xbox One exclusive Access service.

You can dress up your Mii as a Nintendo character in the forthcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U according to an official tweet from the game's director Masahiro Sakurai. You heard, Gamescom - frankly, everyone in Cologne might as well pack their bags and come home because when it comes to video game news, this week we are done.

Infamous 1992 Sega CD FMV game Night Trap could be getting a remastered re-release called Night Trap ReVamped, if a new Kickstarter by the game's original developers is successful.

Some new Mortal Kombat X footage has arisen, this time showing the revamped version of cybernetic soldier Kano.

Doom co-creator John Romero let it slip that he's starting development on a new shooter. His first since Daikatana in 2000.

EA Access, the publisher's program that gives players unlimited access to several EA games for £3.99 / $5 a month - or half of that if one commits to an annual subscription - is now available on Xbox One in 12 contries.

If you pre-order Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare you can play it a day before its official launch.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare's marketing tagline is "power changes everything". That's not just about Kevin Spacey's all-conquering private military corporation in the game's story. It's about the multiplayer, too.

Hotline Miami will arrive on PS4 on 20th August, publisher Devolver Digital has announced.

The Toy Soldiers series is getting a third entry with Toy Soldiers: War Chest, due in "early 2015" on Xbox One, PS4 and PC.

Dictator simulator Tropico 5 will finally be released on Xbox 360 in November, publisher Kalypso has announced. The PC version is already out.

The first video showing gameplay footage from Dead Island 2 has been released.

British developer Sports Interactive has made a business - a very fine, profitable and long-running business - out of accurately simulating the statistics of football. Its Football Manager series reaches the best part of 1m people (more if you count pirated versions) with each instalment each year, and its accrued database is enormous.

French developer Dontnod has announced a new PC, PS4, Xbox One, PS3 and Xbox 360 game called Life is Strange, to be published by Square Enix.

To grind or not to grind? For Red5's long-gestating Firefall, that is very much the question. As a game that is both massively multiplayer and free to play, Firefall is squeezed on both sides by the need to stretch, pad and otherwise elongate the player's journey in order to keep them playing - and hopefully get them paying.

Nintendo's Digital Event was a hoot! Open-world Zelda! Mario Maker! Something that looks like Star Fox! Yoshi's Woolly World! Splatoon! We also got to see Amiibo - the little NFC toys - close up and learn more about them.

The BBC has announced that the new iPlayer app for Xbox One will be released by the end of the year.

The Last of Us: Remastered has climbed to the top of the UK all-format charts with the fifth biggest launch of 2014 so far.

Bungie has confirmed that progress made in last month's Destiny beta will be wiped, with players unable to carry characters across into the final retail version when it releases this September.

While not a sport to be advocated, if one were handing out scores for gut-punching strangers Double Dragon would be a straight ten.

Welcome to your weekly videoblast from Outside Xbox. This week we played Far Cry 4 in the triumphant return of the Far Cryathlon, our digital sporting challenge par excellence. The event this time is a fortress liberation challenge: each contestant is assigned a liberation method and the quickest to liberate the Ratu Gadhi fortress is the winner. Expect mortars, elephant rampages and many, many explosions in this new Far Cry 4 gameplay.

Oh, to be William Shatner, eh? To live in some curved glass Malibu dream home with a sunken lounge (just guessing, but it feels right), those staircases which are only attached on one side, and an over-stuffed Victrola-cabinet-stroke-bar lavishly stocked with Disaronno and the very choicest Mantovani LPs. Could life get any better for The Shat? Wait! Here's Facebook, emailing about Mentions, a new celebrity-only app that allows the anointed to...to... well, maybe I don't know exactly what it does, but it must do something incredible, right? Mariah Carey's involved. 'Sign me up, Scotty!' says Shatner, his words echoing off the glass and the Disaronno, until silence descends and he's lost in reverie - back auditioning for TJ Hooker, perhaps, or performing Hamlet at a technical college in Winnipeg.

Deep Silver has released a cool new video that shows how the graphics of Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light have improved for the upcoming Metro Redux remaster collection.

I loved Bayonetta. The 2009 original was a whirling dervish of a brawler, throwing out a hundred punches every which way, with every single one of them hitting the spot. It was Platinum's technical brand of fighting sped up into an absurdist blur, every bit as inventive as a Tokyo EAD Mario game where new ideas and preposterous set-pieces are thrown in as quickly as they are thrown away. It makes sense, then, that the sequel has ended up on a Nintendo platform.

UPDATE 08/08/2014: Square Enix has confirmed this week's leak of Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition.

It's been tough at Crytek this year.

Square Enix's re-releasing of its back catalogue of role-playing games continues with the launch of Dragon Quest 4: Chapters of the Chosen for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and Android devices.

Bit embarrassing when friends are over and they see all the Putt-Putt games in your Steam Library and you have no kids to blame them on. You like the casual puzzles and bright colourful graphics but try telling them that. You'll never live it down.