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Microsoft's game-making tool Project Spark will be available on 7th October, the Redmond giant announced.

The 2K Humble Bundle has launched, offering a pay-what-you-want opportunity to acquire BioShock, The Darkness 2 and The Bureau: XCOM Declassified. Plus you'll help charity.

UPDATE 6.59pm: In addition to Driveclub's fancy new visual effects demo, Sony has announced that it will be available in an upcoming PS4 bundle priced at an RRP of €439.99.

Last week Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski teased an announcement of his upcoming game at his new studio Boss Key Productions, and now he's revealed that it will be a free-to-play sci-fi arena shooter for PC codenamed Bluestreak.

Gearbox has announced its first new IP since Borderlands with the upcoming multiplayer first-person shooter Battleborn.

UK newspaper The Sun has been getting stick today for an article it published which carried the headline: "Gaming as addictive as heroin." But what's the real story?

Sometime last year a meme was making the rounds of an interior design student's school project in which they were tasked with creating the worst house floor plan ever. There was a toilet in the dining room, another toilet could only be accessed by going through a shower, and a bedroom defined by a chain-linked fence. This made plenty of sense in comparison to the mad, ramshackle designs my compatriots and I composed in Epic's upcoming free-to-play building & defense game Fortnite.

The new console version of Diablo 3 - the Ultimate Evil Edition - will be released on 19th August.

Microsoft has announced Zoo Tycoon Friends, a free-to-play title for Windows 8 PCs and tablets, plus Windows Phones.

There's been a noteworthy update to the controversial Areal Kickstarter (beyond what I dug into last week): the full-time hiring of Alexey Sytyanov, the lead game designer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and the lead game designer of Survarium.

Square Enix has revealed a Nintendo 3DS version of its online role-player Dragon Quest 10, which will be released in Japan on 4th September.

Warframe developer Digital Extremes appears to be in the throws of acquisition.

Japanese gamers have to download The Evil Within's Gore Mode DLC to see Shinji Mikami's new survival horror in its full adults-only version.

The PlayStation 4 has failed to make a significant impact in Japan.

Dying Light isn't a cool game to like. On the surface, it reeks of a design-by-committee approach to blockbuster development. It's got zombies. It's got an open world. It's got parkour. And stealth. And an upgrade tree. It even casts you as a generic badass dude with a woman who barks orders at you through a walkie-talkie. Heck, it's developed by Techland, who just did the open-world zombie thing twice, to questionable effect, in its divisive Dead Island series. Dying Light should be a banal wreck: the video game equivalent of the KFC Famous Bowl. That's what makes it all the more surprising that it was one of the hardest games to put down at this year's E3.

Rainbow Six Siege smashed its way into E3 with destruction-based asymmetric multiplayer and lady hostages for maximum empathy. The first demo of its siege action took place in a highly destructible suburban house in Boston.

EA has attempted to calm fans of the Sims franchise after it emerged that two regular features will be missing from The Sims 4.

UPDATE 08/07/2014: The £149.99 Destiny Ghost Edition is exclusive to retailer GAME in the UK.

The BioShock game once planned for PlayStation Vita would have been a turn-based spin-off similar to Final Fantasy Tactics, series creator Ken Levine has said.

A prominent member of the fighting game community has written a book designed to help newcomers learn how to play fighting games.

These days a potato salad can rake in over $15K on Kickstarter and a barely interactive "mountain simulator" can become one of the most popular programs on the iOS App Store. What a world we live in.

If you found Dota 2's competitive team-based dynamics too intimidating and pined for something simpler like a racing game, then you're in luck. Modder and Redditer "bmddota" has customised the popular strategy game to resemble an isometric variant of Mario Kart.

One look at the trailer for Microsoft's upcoming Metroidvania adventure Ori and the Blind Forest and it's easy to be blown away by its Studio Ghibli inspired visuals. It's also just as easy to be a little dubious, thinking it's a knee-jerk reaction to the Redmond giant's less than stellar reputation with indie developers after Sony made such a fuss about them last year. "We can do pretty, quirky indie games too!" it seemed to say. It may surprise you to learn that Ori has actually been in development for four years at Moon Studios, while Microsoft picked it up three years ago.

An Oculus Rift version of first-person survival horror game Alien Isolation was shown off at E3 last month, sparking excitement that the game will launch with full virtual reality headset support.

A group of hackers have modded Wii U racing game Mario Kart 8.

Hello! I think I remember reading somewhere that The New Yorker magazine would only use the word odyssey if it referred to a journey that began and ended in the same location. I may be wrong about this, mind, just as I may be wrong in linking that anecdote to this video which - I think - has a story about Oli Welsh and Johnny Rotten near the beginning and again at the end.

What do kids today think of the Game Boy?

Gears of War lead designer Cliff Bleszinski announced earlier this week that he's coming out of retirement and now he's revealed his new studio: a startup called Boss Key Productions that he's launching with Guerrilla Games co-founder Arjan Brussee.

UPDATE: Courtesy of YouTube user woooshness we have a video walkthrough of the reimagined Ascension for Halo 2 Anniversary.

Kinect 2 for PC costs £159 / $199, Microsoft has revealed.