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Microsoft is offering Xbox Live Rewards members a special gift on their birthday - a PDF of a paper cake.

The £169.99 Halo: The Master Chief Collection Mjolnir Edition includes a 12" Master Chief statue.

Codemasters is offering refunds on Colin McRae Rally on Steam.

Blizzard has downplayed World of Warcraft's latest subscriber count fall.

It seems counter-intuitive to say it, but Steam, the biggest and most popular digital video game shop we have, may be selling too many games - or rather, it may be selling too many of the wrong kind of games.

Last year we wrote about The Power of Glove, an in-development documentary focusing on Nintendo's most comically inept gaming peripheral: The Power Glove. It looks like the movie's budget fell a little short at the 11th hour and the filmmakers behind it have launched a Kickstarter campaign asking for $15K to finish the film.

Diablo 3 has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide as of 30th June, publisher Activision Blizzard announced in its latest financial report.

Ex-Left 4 Dead developers at Turtle Rock's upcoming five-player asymmetrical shooter Evolve is being delayed until 10th February, publisher Take-Two has announced in its latest financial report.

2D platforming racer SpeedRunners is coming to Xbox One, publisher tinyBuild has announced.

Wing Commander 3: Heart of the Tiger is now free on Origin, EA has announced.

The first time we covered Broforce I noted that it's "what The Expendables game should have been." Well, someone at Lionsgate had a similar idea and decided to collaborate with Broforce developer Free Lives to create a free promotional spin-off of the testosterone-mad shooter that's a crossover with the upcoming The Expendables 3.

UPDATE #2 5/8/14 5.00PM: Ubisoft has finally confirmed Assassin's Creed: Rogue and officially released the trailer which appeared online this morning.

Legacy of Kain spin-off Nosgoth goes into open beta this winter, Square Enix has announced.

In late 2011, while on a business trip to Singapore, Brian Fargo gave a presentation to a room full of people about old-school role-playing games. As founder of Interplay, he'd worked on many: Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Fallout 1 and 2. He had a lot to say.

Indie sci-fi shooter Velocity 2X arrives in Europe for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita on 3rd September.

The original Resident Evil game is being remastered for release on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One, Capcom has announced.

Publisher Rising Star Games has picked up the Vita version of hard as nails Metroidvania game La-Mulana for release in the west.

There's a new Borderlands on its way, and unsurprisingly its full of fart jokes and guns - oh so many guns.

UPDATE: IT'S OVER. The stream is, that is, but you can still catch it in all of its glory below.

A French retailer listed then removed a white Xbox One and Sunset Overdrive console bundle, priced at €399.

Nintendo has detailed the European special edition of Hyrule Warriors, which includes a copy of the game and a real-life replica of Link's new scarf.

Often considered one of the finest books of the 20th century, James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses is akin to the Demon's Souls of English literature wherein only the most dedicated fans of early modern prose have persevered through its approximately 265K words of nearly impenetrable text.

Gone Home developer The Fullbright Company has revealed that it's next project will be an "immersive, first-person story exploration game," not unlike Gone Home.

UPDATE 4/08/2014 6.18pm: Tropico 5 publisher Kalypso Media has confirmed that the game's Thailand distributor, New Era, has decided not to appeal the local government's decision to ban it from the country.

State of Decay developer Undead Labs is collaborating with mobile publisher Kabam on a free-to-play fantasy RPG called Moonrise.

Who remembers that classic documentary, Music: The Movie? Or Books: The Movie, and it's rather meta follow-up, Movies: The Movie? They don't exist, of course, because those are such broad concepts that the idea of encapsulating them in a single 90 minute film is madness. Instead, documentary makers covering those media wisely focus on specific periods, genres, or tell the story of unique creations and the innovators who brought them to life.

On the face of it, the Xiaomi MiPad is irresistible. We have the most powerful mobile chipset on the planet within an iPad mini form-factor, put together by one of the few true enthusiast-friendly OEMs working today. It's available in China right now, costing the equivalent of just £140 - but good luck on getting one, in the short term at least. The initial 50,000 unit allocation sold-out mere moments after it went on sale - the mark of a highly desirable piece of technology. But specs aside, what so special about the MiPad?

Mutant Mudds and Dementium developer Renegade Kid has revealed its new project - a 3DS Metroidvania game named Xeodrifter.

Subject 13, the next game from Paul Cuisset, the creator of cult classic adventure Flashback, has been successfully funded on Kickstarter.

If you grew up with games in the 1980s, it's likely that the Coriolis Star Port's been spinning through your imagination ever since. It's still dazzling to see the place rendered and textured in Elite: Dangerous, though, those unmistakable wireframes newly covered with beacons, gantries, and glittering towers. Coriolis has been waiting for you all this time, and it's a treat to be back. Line up with the docking bay, and you'll find that the feel of your Sidewinder jetting itself into position is exactly as you remember it. Once inside, you can still spend your precious credits, too, outfitting your craft for the battles that lie ahead, and stocking up on any supplies that might be worth a little bit more out there than they are right here.