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Upset over what EA's doing with The Sims 4, which is missing features found in previous versions of the series, but still quite fancy getting stuck in to a bit of The Sims? Then this might be of interest.

It's no secret that when Valve initially conceived of Portal 2 it didn't have portals. Or at least it didn't have a portal gun. Now, Valve superfans have created their own modded campaign that follows in the footsteps of Valve's bold, yet scrapped, creative exercise with Aperture Tag.

Starcraft, Guild Wars and State of Decay lead designer James Phinney is now heading up development on Gigantic, a free-to-play PC action-MOBA at new Seattle-based studio Motiga.

First-person survival sim The Long Dark is coming to PC, Mac and Linux via Steam Early Access in September, developer Hinterland Games has announced.

UPDATE 15/07/2014 8.30pm: Sega has clarified that it could potentially release its catalogue on the Wii U Virtual Console in the future. The publisher offered Eurogamer the following statement on the matter:

Codemasters has unveiled its plan for Grid Autosport downloadable content.

Activision has yet to announce it, but evidence for a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game has popped up online.

PC, Mac and Linux versions of addictive indie skateboarder OlliOlli are headed for release on 22nd July, developer Roll7 has announced.

The pre-order bonuses continue. This time its for 90s wrestling star Sting and WWE 2K15.

Oculus has already taken steps to halt re-selling of the latest version of the Rift virtual reality headset in China. Now it's turning its attention closer to home.

Reign of Giants, the first expansion for indie roguelike Don't Starve, launches on PlayStation 4 next week.

Sony is using PlayStation 4 to target Wii owners who skipped the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The International Dota 2 tournament is down to the final eight teams who will each battle this weekend for an eye-watering $5m first prize.

Saints Row studio Volition has announced plans to hire 100 new employees, bringing its staff size up to a total of 300.

Mass Effect developer BioWare has issued a new survey for fans of the series, which asks for your input on what elements the next Mass Effect game should highlight.

Attacking the shopkeeper in a game is never a good idea. If you're playing Dark Souls, you can't buy any arrows for the next 20 hours. If you're playing Spelunky, you're dead. But that doesn't deter Ian "the Tesco killer" Higton when he's offered the chance to murder a humble merchant in his Let's Play video of Abyss Odyssey below.

This Thursday, 17th July, Bungie will open the doors to the Destiny beta, and hundreds of thousands of players - potentially even millions - will assault its servers. Those who have pre-ordered the PlayStation 4 or PlayStation 3 versions of the game go first, with Xbox One and Xbox 360 owners going second on 23rd July. That timed exclusivity, alongside a raft of exclusive content relating to weapons, emblems, vehicles, space ships and even the expansion pack, is the result of Sony shelling out to make Destiny, set to be one of the biggest games of 2014, feel as close to a PlayStation exclusive as it possibly can without it actually being one.

One of the things that can be hard to keep in mind about space travel - especially when there are rockets going off and thick clouds of exhaust obscuring the horizon - is that this stuff is mainly about economy. As the ground shakes and the birds scatter, as the bus-sized interstage section detaches, flares and spins softly back to Earth, it can be tricky to remember that what you're watching is actually the triumphant launch of an object that's been carefully whittled down to its barest essentials. Millions of moving parts go into these spaceships, but every nozzle, every pipe, every plastic button on every control panel has to justify itself in the master equations. Ideally, you want the cheapest, lightest booster for getting the most functional, efficient payload into orbit. Space travel's not about what you need to take with you so much as it's about what you've learned you can live without.

Former VR specialist and Valve contributor Fabian Giesen has seen where this emerging technology is going and he's none too pleased about it.

Last week SCEA's head of developer relations Adam Boyes said that Sony is contemplating adding an Early Access-like program on PlayStation and it looks like Microsoft is in a similar boat with its eye on this potentially groundbreaking shift in the console release infrastructure.

Mark Cerny, the system architect of the PlayStation 4 and director of PS4 launch title Knack, is now working on a new indie game.

Ranking among the cream of the crop of PC developers working today, CD Projekt RED has shown a no-compromise approach to every project it's set its mind to. Case in point: the sublime Xbox 360 edition of The Witcher 2 didn't simply cut back the original PC code, but instead had code rewritten from scratch to push the console aesthetic in a new, arguably improved direction. But with The Witcher 3 being developed on Xbox One and PlayStation 4, can we once again expect an off-shoot of the PC experience, or something closer to parity? And indeed, how is the team looking to get the most out of PC development?

Payday 2 lead designer David Goldfarb has quit developer Overkill Software to start his own indie studio.

Fire Emblem: Awakening heroes Lucina and Robin are the latest playable characters to be announced for Super Smash Bros. 3DS and Wii U.

Hello! This afternoon, Ian Higton's live streaming Light, which looks absolutely brilliant.

Talk to people about the superlative Super Mario World 3D World and ask them what they love. It's often a long conversation, but Captain Toad's little puzzles always seem to come up. The mini-levels were designed as quick distractions - brief breaks from Mario and co.'s main platforming adventures - and yet amongst 3D World's inventiveness and capacity to surprise level after level, their simple concept still stood out.

Oddworld Inhabitants has reduced the price of platform puzzle game Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty by a couple of quid ahead of its release next week.

Space game Elite: Dangerous is confirmed for PC and Mac. But will it ever come to console?

The 2014 Evolution Championship series ended last night and it will go down as a tournament full of upsets.

Sci-fi fans have spotted a familiar face in the BBC's new Doctor Who - an alien who looks a lot like Mass Effect squad member Garrus.