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Ever since its release in May, Mario Kart 8 has become infamous for Luigi's "death stare", an animation of everyone's favourite Mario brother revealing a sinister dark side behind the wheel.

Microsoft has revealed the first 100 cars appearing in horse-power racing game Forza Horizon 2.

Winterkewl Games has told Eurogamer it will disband, following the demise of its $567,000 Yogscast-backed Kickstarter project Yogventures.

Sony wasn't going to release Japan Studio's Vita game Freedom Wars in shops in Europe, only digitally, but now - because you asked - it will.

Nvidia's sequel to its Shield handheld is set for release in the US at the end of the month - and a European release a few weeks later - and takes the form of a high-quality eight-inch tablet with an optional console-quality wireless controller. The firm's state-of-the-art Tegra K1 processor - with 2x the graphics power of the iPad Air - beats at the heart of the new device, set to go on sale for $299 in North America, and £229 in the UK.

UPDATE 27/03/2014 08:45: If you entered the competition, check your email! We just sent out all the keys. Enjoy the beta if you got one and apologies if you missed out this time.

I'm pretty sure the world doesn't need another Hotline Miami-inspired game, but World's Fastest Pizza is at least one of more characterful examples out there. A (pizza) slice of antipodean madness, it's energetic humour and succession of non sequiturs make it fun for a quick bash.

The largest pot of prize money in eSports history has gone to Chinese Dota 2 team Newbee, which has won The International competition and $5,028,174.

Halo and Destiny developer Bungie must pay $95,019 (around £56k) to former composer Marty O'Donnell, a US court has decided.

In an unprecedented move Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami's upcoming horror game, The Evil Within, has been brought forward a week.

Nintendo has just pushed live Wii U system software update 5.1.0 U, which adds the ability to transfer data between Wii U consoles.

Cast and crew from Naughty Dog's smash-hit survival adventure The Last of Us will reunite next week for a special theatrical show.

I swear there's a new Oddworld game released every week - or, at least, a new version of an old classic in the series - but as with so much in life I'm definitely wrong. There is a new Oddworld game out this week, though, which is a remake of the very first game in Lorne Lanning's series.

Koei's Musou series is 14 years old. That's older than GTA 3 and Call of Duty (even if you're so inclined to include Medal of Honor: Allied Assault), so at the very least it's a mark of endurance if not some fundamental, unique quality. Starting with a curiously educational setting in ancient China, the series has diversified by shifting its pseudo-historical locales to Japan and Europe. It's even spread into totally separate IP universes, adding manga/anime greats such as Gundam, Fist of the North Star and One Piece. As Nintendo joins in the melee for the upcoming Hyrule Warriors, it looks like the mega-series is about to enter a golden era of wider popular acceptance. What makes the Musou template so great that Nintendo was happy to offer up one its most cherished IPs to the altar of highly iterative en-masse brawling?

Russia Today has been spotted using a screenshot from Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain in a political commentary report on African child soldiers.

Windows 8: despised at launch by gamers, written off by Valve's Gabe Newell as a catastrophe for PC gaming. It was the upgrade nobody wanted, or seemingly needed - a misbegotten attempt to meld tablet and desktop interfaces into one OS. Two years on, things are looking up. Microsoft has finally got its act together and in combination with new Intel silicon, some remarkable mobile products are emerging that show the OS in a more favourable light. Indeed, while it won't be the best choice for everyone, Windows 8.1 is swiftly becoming our favourite tablet operating system - mostly because of the tantalising options it offers for the core gamer.

The Last of Us: Remastered is getting a day one patch that introduces the game's photo mode - and early reports from those who have their hands on the retail version suggests the game itself will require a 50GB install too.

Sokobond, a beautiful and minimalist game that will teach you wonderful things about science, will launch on Steam tonight at 6pm BST.

Eagle-eyed Sims fans have spotted an advert for something called The Sims 4 Premium hidden within a newly-released clip of gameplay footage.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End will be aiming for 1080p60 in-game, with Naughty Dog saying it's become an objective for all of its PlayStation 4 titles.

The fallout from failed Kickstarter effort Yogventures has continued, with more details emerging on the game's troubled development and how one early incident caused YouTube channel Yogscast to lose faith in indie developer Winterkewl.

Google will no longer label free-to-play games with in-app purchases as "free" on its Google Play marketplace.

You know Minesweeper, of course. It's video game wallpaper that's silently seeped into countless people's lives. Everyone can recount the basics; the left-mouse button reveals the contents of a tile whilst the right flags a tile as containing a mine. The levels vary from 8x8 grids up to huge 64x64 grids. There's the smiley face when you do well, the gasp of failure and the cross-eyed look of death when you fare slightly worse. The mechanical logic would make a chess grandmaster grin, while bold gamblers still chase quicker and quicker clearance times.

Every Sunday we like to plunder our archives to bring you an article you may have missed, or maybe would like to read again. This week, we bring you John Teti's examination of the FAQ kings, originally published in September 2010.

The Last of Us will receive new DLC add-ons this year, but all of the new content will be multiplayer focused.

When you stop and think about it, it's perhaps a little unusual that Konami's Castlevania - a series primarily concerned with bloodsucking vampires, crumbling gothic fortresses and ghoulish things that go bump in the night - isn't actually that scary at all. There's nothing to compare to the likes of Resident Evil, Silent Hill or Dead Space, no moments where you jump out of your skin or your find yourself fearful of what lies around the next corner. What Castlevania does have in spades is atmosphere; its finest instalments are fondly recalled because in each one the experience as a whole seems to pull together to create a striking impact on the player. There's no finer example of this quality than Super Castlevania 4.

Hi Eurogamers, welcome to your Avengers-style superteam of handpicked Outside Xbox videos. This week, we've been hunting videogame easter eggs, which exist to let developers hide jokes, secrets and downright weirdness in their games. And passive aggressive swipes at their rivals, it turns out.

One of the key plot points in Jurassic Park revolves around the concept of parthenogenesis: the curious biological miracle in which certain animals can functionally change their gender to compensate for an environment dominated by one gender. "Life", as rock and roll maths whizz Ian Malcolm informs us, "finds a way". Something very similar happened this week over at Marvel Comics, as it was revealed that The Mighty Thor, that most masculine of superheroes, is to become female.

A report published by SuperData Research (via GamesIndustry International) claims The Elder Scrolls Online had 772,374 subscribers in June.

Your expectations of cutting-edge portable gaming are about to be challenged. With the US launch of the Razer Edge in March and a UK release pending for later this year, we have a device that dares to declare itself all things to all users. On first glance the Edge presents itself as a conventional black-bezeled tablet with a 10.1-inch IPS screen - nothing out of the ordinary, though perhaps a bit over-bulked for the purposes of web browsing and a spot of Angry Birds HD. However, that's because the Edge first and foremost strives to be the most powerful gaming handheld in the market, and it's safe to say that it makes good on that pledge. Crysis 3 on the move? No problem.