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Bandai Namco announced Tekken 7 at the Evolution Championship Series fighting game tournament last night with a teaser trailer, below.

Wii and GameCube emulator Dolphin can now run Super Mario Galaxy and Super Smash Bros. Brawl in 720p high definition.

UPDATE 14/07 8.20am: BioShock Infinite costs just £6.59 on Xbox 360 today, the final day of Microsoft's Ultimate Games Sale.

Why has nobody made a video game of the Shipping Forecast? Because it's a five minute weather report broadcast a few times a day on Radio 4? Or because it's just too brilliant, and because it already does what most video games wish they could do - yank you out of your day-to-day life and transport you somewhere that's both coherent and completely fantastical?

One of the most remarkable aspects about the Japanese arcade scene is that it still exists. Perhaps it's because organised criminals loves to launder their money through arcades and pachinko parlours, or perhaps it's just down to the reality that people still want to play games there.

Overclocking: the arcane art of brute-forcing more performance out of your components through a combination of raw voltage and increased clock-speeds. Back in the day, virtually any CPU could be overclocked, resulting in some colossal performance gains and a gargantuan increase in the all-important "bang for your buck" on select processors. Those days are mostly gone now, with Intel locking down multipliers and base-clocks for all but a small number of enthusiast-centric processors, but to celebrate those glory days, the firm has released the stealthily titled Pentium G3258 - a 20th anniversary special edition.

Every Sunday we bring you a selection from our archives, giving you the chance to discover something for the first time or maybe to become reacquainted. This week we present Ellie Gibson's fascinating insight into the downfall of Gizmondo, perhaps the gaming industry's most spectacular failure. This feature was originally published in August 2012.

It's raining. You're racing through a capital city at 120 miles per hour. You're in a Maserati 250F, a car that made legends of Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio (who in a single race, broke the Nurburgring lap record 10 times with one). You're powersliding like a bastard, and it's brilliant. You can only be playing Project Gotham Racing 4, a game that sings with its adroit refinement and howls with its exhaust notes. PGR2 may have made the legend and 3 took it into a new generation, but PGR4 cemented its reputation forever.

Hello Eurogamers, welcome to your weekly video gift basket from Outside Xbox. We considered drumming up interest in this week's post by producing an ad, but the video game adverts we watched by way of research put us right off the idea.

If there was one key message to take from last month's E3, it was that 2015 is going to be a proper treat. The roll call of games coming out next year is just dizzying - Halo 5: Guardians! Bloodborne! Xenoblade Chronicles X! - and it's all so exciting that even some of what were set to be this year's biggest games didn't want to be left out, with the likes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman: Arkham Knight slipping back to get involved in the throng.

With a name like "Coming Out Simulator 2014" one would expect indie developer Nicky Case's autobiographical text-based browser adventure to be a pretty one-note affair. You expect to get outraged over homophobic parents, yelling will ensue, then crying, then ultimately acceptance. It's a story we've heard a million times before, but rarely in as excruciating detail as what Case has wrought here.

Fruit Ninja Kinect is liable to be getting a sequel according to a listing spotted on the Australian Classification Board (via Gamers4Xbox).

Far Cry 4's villain Pagan Min is certainly an eye-catching character with his magenta suit and bleached blond downward faux-hawk making him easy to spot in a crowd. And now Ubisoft has explained the enigmatic villain's colourful threads in a new video expanding on the origins of Far Cry 4's villain and hero.

Sony is looking into adding an Early Access type of deal on its platforms.

The PlayStation 4 is struggling in Japan. But why?

As colony building game Maia nears beta, its creator, Simon Roth, is trying to work out which game to make next.

UPDATE 11/07 2.30PM BST: BioWare has released the second E3 gameplay video walkthrough for Dragon Age: Inquisition, this time focusing on Redcliffe.

It's been the toast of Steam these past few days, so we figured it's about time we had a look at the latest indie phenomenon Unturned. A free-to-play survival game with hints of Minecraft - as sturdy a recipe for success as I've ever heard - it's been riding near the top of Steam's most-played list of late.

And so Bigby Wolf's first gaming adventure comes to a close. It's been an uneven journey, to say the least, with some episodes feeling particularly light while others have crammed plot twists and action scenes in so tightly you can barely breathe. The writing, as you'd expect in a Telltale game, has been sharp and memorable, but the gameplay has wobbled as the developer struggled to adapt this prequel to an existing story (the Fables graphic novel it's based on) into the same framework that served The Walking Dead's standalone side-story so well.

Slightly Mad Studios' racing game Project Cars launches November 2014 on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as announced. But the Wii U version won't be released until next year.

Update 11/7/14 13:04. We've been talking with Rebellion today and have made a couple of changes to this article. Specifically, tessellation is implemented on consoles but in a significantly pared-back manner compared to PC, only affecting near-distance objects. Certain texture assets are blurrier on Xbox One - which Rebellion says is down to lower anisotropic filtering, not lower quality assets (and the good news is that it may be patched). The studio also points out that obscurance fields are in effect on Xbox One, though we're still seeing some differences there.

I've only played a little bit of Nekro, but it's looking pretty interesting. DarkForge's Early Access game promises players a strange hybrid of action RPG enemy-whacking and more strategic thinking as you summon nasty things to fight alongside you.

Look on the Xbox One store and you still won't find many game demos. It's something users have asked Microsoft to encourage, and it sounds like Microsoft is listening.

Space strategy game Habitat has launched on Steam as an Early Access title.

Today is the final day of independent operation for 20-year-old games studio Neversoft, best known for its work developing Tony Hawk's titles and later Guitar Hero games.

World of Warcraft, Diablo and StarCraft maker Blizzard Entertainment is challenging itself to create more diverse heroes and video game content.

Downloadable fighter Skullgirls will get a release on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita, developer Lab Zero Games has announced.

You don't have to pre-order Alien: Isolation to get the extra DLC missions starring the original Alien cast, developer Creative Assembly has now said.

Frontier Developments raised eyebrows when it charged £200 to get in on the alpha for space game Elite: Dangerous, and did so again when it launched the Elite: Dangerous premium beta for £100.

You're not a true strategy gamer unless one of your tank battalions has been destroyed by a Roman legion. It's practically a rite of passage as, since 1991, the Civilization series has been giving strategy gamers the world over the opportunity to lose battles against under-equipped, technically inferior opponents. Pikemen have stabbed at aeroplanes. Barbarians have battered battleships. Musketeers have shrugged off stealth bombers. While the series has introduced all sorts of checks and balances to mitigate this, I'm delighted to report that Civilization Revolution 2, its latest instalment, still allows the occasional victory using what I can only imagine are Ewok tactics. And, really, would we expect anything else?