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The enthusiastically titled Chibi-Robo! Let's Go, Photo! is a game about taking pictures of everyday objects. It's also a game about housework and about guessing games, identifying onions and shooting balloons. It's about a lot of things - all of them very quirky in that unmistakable Japanese style - but for all its whimsy, it's also deathly dull.

Fallen London developer Failbetter Games has just launched its latest title, Sunless Sea, on Steam Early Access. It's a game about exploring a vast. murky subterranean ocean, getting lost, fighting a mutated narwhal or some other babbling monstrosity, and then running out of rations and eating your crew. No regrets. Not in this business.

Facial recognition software FaceRig will allow you to transfer your facial expressions onto Octodad using your webcam.

Ubisoft's open-world hacking adventure Watch Dogs is getting all new single-player DLC tomorrow on PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher: Battle Arena, a MOBA game due out on Android, iOS and Windows tablet and phone devices in Q4 2014.

Cars are great fun to drive, but they're even more fun to smash to smithereens. So Codemasters shouldn't be too upset to find out that, having gone to pains to improve the handling of its cars in Grid Autosport, all people want to do is drive them into each other.

Last week we heard Dreamfall Chapters would be broken into five episodes and that the first of those would be released this autumn.

Deep Silver has announced yet another Dead Island game.

Veteran game designer Paul Neurath is bringing the Underworld series back with a new game, Underworld Ascension.

Dead Island 2 at E3 was a bit of a surprise for a couple of reasons.

After blundering so badly a year ago, when it unveiled Xbox One and then had to backpedal on a lot of the system's original ideas within weeks, Microsoft was a lot humbler at E3 last month, paying tribute to its rivals and focusing on the games.

UPDATE 01/07/2014: Hironobu Sakaguchi's next game is indeed Terra Battle and is indeed for smartphones.

Crytek has launched its free-to-play first-person shooter Warface on Steam amid financial troubles that hit the headlines last week.

UPDATE 1/07 11.30AM: David Gaider was criticised on Twitter for his use of the phrase "fully gay". "I meant 'legitimately', sorry," he clarified. "I was trying to be clear - many people consider the bi characters we've done to be 'gay'."

There's a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game in development.

The Destiny alpha was loved by many (including our own Wesley Yin-Poole who played an early pre-alpha build), but there was one aspect of it that left many cold: Peter "Tyrion Lannister" Dinklage's voice acting.

There's yet another trademark battle waging in video game land - this time over the word "Rebellion".

PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and Vita post-apocalyptic turn-based strategy game Natural Doctrine launches in Europe on 19th September 2014, NIS America has announced.

UPDATE 30/06 11.30AM BST: West-Games made a bizarre claim in one of the updates that Vostok Games has now shot down.

Sony Online Entertainment has released a gameplay demo of H1Z1, its post-apocalyptic MMO survival game.

Speaking shortly after the success of Smash Bros. Brawl, series boss Masahiro Sakurai swatted away the notion that the series would be released on a more regular basis. There wouldn't be enough new features to add, he argued, and he didn't want a quick and easy sequel to consist of just a few extra characters.

Speedrunner BubblesDelFuego has made history by setting the latest world record speedrun for Fallout 3.

We've seen Grand Theft Auto 5's impressive sandbox environments used to recreate the car chase scene from Terminator 2 and the nine-minute trailer for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, and now Spanish film company Zapruder Pictures has used its native Madrid to recreate the GTA5 trailer in the real life.

Saints Row 4's most iconic weapon has got to be its Dubstep Gun: an alien terror thats bizarre beats forces its victims to dance until they fall victim to the shower of sparks the gun rains upon them. Now Saints Row fan KazeXenami is making a semi-working replica of the weapon that lights up and plays music - even if it's not functional as a deadly weapon.

Gears of War and Unreal designer Cliff Bleszinski will be unveiling his latest project in the next week. This will be the first thing he's worked on since he left Epic in October 2012.

For some time Sony has been offering players complimentary copies of its games on the company's other platforms when purchased once. Dubbed Cross-Buy, this meant you could purchase a game on PS3, then get the PS4 and Vita versions of said game at no extra charge. Now Nintendo is starting to follow suit with its 3DS release of the action-RPG/strategy hybrid Squids Odyssey.

UPDATE 30/06 09.30 BST:

Thousands of Steam codes - 7050 - for Sniper Elite 3 were apparently stolen from a PC game distributor and then illegally sold on to multiple outlets.

It's hardly one of the great mysteries of our age, but I'll never understand why Call of Duty is often explicitly called out for its bombastic Michael Bay tendencies, yet the official games of Michael Bay's Transformers movies are so tame in comparison, despite coming from the same publisher.

No you don't control the set-top Android TV box with your mind - you use a controller!