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Octodad: Dadliest Catch will be getting free DLC later this summer with the recently announced "Octodad Shorts" add-ons.

Festive metroidvania adventure Guacamelee! Super Turbo Championship Edition will be free on Xbox One for Xbox Box Live Gold subscribers as part of Microsoft's July Games with Gold promotion.

Yesterday Kotaku reported that Ryse 2 had been canned because of a conflict between Crytek and Microsoft over who would own the rights to the franchise.

Nintendo's E3 2014 showing was full of unexpected ideas from the house of Mario - the offbeat but brilliant shooter Splatoon for example, as well as new prototypes from legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto.

On 22nd January 2014, The Banner Saga developer Stoic Studios released a statement about its trademark dispute with mobile game specialist King.com over the word "Saga".

Move over Morpheus. On your bike Oculus Rift. Google has revealed a cheap but functioning VR alternative which requires little more than a cardboard box and an Android phone.

The Banner Saga is coming to iPad, Windows and Android tablets at some point this summer, publisher Versus Evil has announced. It launched on PC back in January.

The closed beta for Destiny will arrive on Xbox 360 and Xbox One in late July, a new trailer spotted by VideoGamer.com has confirmed.

Platinum, developer of Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101 and Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, is making a game based on The Legend of Korra animated series.

A new focus on Android gaming has emerged at Google's I/O 2014 event, with Nvidia's Tegra K1 processor showcasing the raw processing potential of the next wave of mobile technology. TK1 - integrating the same Kepler architecture as the current GeForce desktop graphics cards - theoretically has more rendering horsepower than the last-gen consoles, a claim Epic has put to the test by producing a brand new real-time Unreal Engine 4 demo.

A special "Complete Edition" of Batman: Arkham Origins has been spotted for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, via the German arm of retailer Amazon.

Offbeat anime Afro Samurai has sprouted a second video game conversion, this time for launch on PC and "next-gen consoles".

The inFamous First Light standalone downloadable add-on launches on PlayStation 4 on 27th August 2014, developer Sucker Punch has announced.

Sucker Punch has just announced standalone DLC for InFamous: Second Son. Judging by the teaser shown during Sony's E3 press conference, InFamous: First Light stars female Conduit Fetch, who has already cropped up in Second Son's main campaign with some nifty Neon powers. A short trailer shows her brooding away in some kind of snow-bound prison and then causing all manner of trouble.

The organisers of EGX London 2014 have announced the first of many games that will be playable at the UK's biggest gaming in just a few months' time, including titles from Microsoft, EA, Activision and a host of indies.

Minecraft's console editions for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 have now sold more copies than the game's original PC and Mac version.

Eric Chahi's Another World remains one of the all-time greats, and there's fewer games more worthy of the full remaster treatment. The 20th Anniversary edition, first released in 2011 on PC, is now available on pretty much every console out there including that lovely Nintendo one with the funny game pad. Ian Higton has put together a quick comparison of the original running side by side with the new PS4 version, which should give you some idea of the visual upgrade the 20th Anniversary Edition brings.

The developer of Sleeping Dogs is making a free-to-play game for release in 2015, it's announced.

Noir puzzle adventure Contrast goes live today on Xbox One.

Namco Bandai is making a Godzilla game for PlayStation 3.

League of Legends. Dota 2. StarCraft 2. Counter-Strike. Just Dance?

In development over the last three years for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC, Assassin's Creed Unity discards support for last-gen consoles to establish new technical ground. Set against the backdrop of late 18th-century Paris in violent revolt, riots are brought to life by a new animation system, improved facial animation technology and a huge ramp up to 5000 concurrent NPCs to fill out the crowds. But with Assassin's Creed 4 already delivering a rock-solid 30fps experience, is there actually any headroom for these lavish extras to explore? And do they reflect the stated ambition?

Sony has announced July's batch of free PlayStation Plus games.

Oculus VR has filed its defence for the upcoming lawsuit with ZeniMax over the Rift virtual reality headset.

Rainbow Six Siege will feature male and female hostages, developer Ubisoft has explained, answering questions raised by its E3 demo earlier this month.

Roguelike puzzler Road Not Taken launches on PlayStation 4 on 6th August 2014, developer Spry Fox has announced.

Did you like war strategy game Battle of the Bulge on iPad? We did. A lot. Not only was it a "hugely enjoyable strategy game", wrote Richard Stanton, it used its Second World War source material in a way that "enraptured" him.

For many, the Dungeon Keeper reboot was yet another depressing example of a treasured game ruined by greedy corporations and their money-grabbing microtransactions.

There's a time and a place for subtlety, and the stage of a platform holder's conference very likely isn't it. Having just played a starring role in Sony's E3 show, Hello Games' Sean Murray watched the rest unfold in bemusement in the green room, puzzled as to why every grotesque fatality in the newly revealed Mortal Kombat 10 was met with a cheer. "What is that about?" he asks no-one in particular. "It all seems a bit brutal for us Europeans."

UPDATE 12PM BST: I've spoken to Survarium developer Vostok Games - founded by former S.T.A.L.K.E.R. devs - about Areal.