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The official Mirror's Edge Facebook page has posted a piece of Mirror's Edge artwork with a description that reads: #E32014 (via Destructoid).

New release Murdered Soul: Suspect launched third in the UK all-format charts this week, behind Watch Dogs and Mario Kart 8.

Just Add Water has released a new trailer for upcoming puzzle platformer Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty and it's, well, a little different.

FIFA on PC has for some time now lagged behind the console versions when it comes to features and, crucially, the game engine itself.

Picture this: you're a video game executive. Maybe you head up a big independent publisher, or maybe you steer the video game division of a massive global corporation. You're an accomplished and successful business person; you might also have a background in technology and engineering. You're very good at what you do. You can knock an investor call or a corporate restructuring or a complex contract negotiation out of the park. Need someone to network the hell out of that tech industry mixer? Want a pugnacious journalist stonewalled with befuddling newspeak? No sweat. You're the guy for the job.

For the first time in eight years, Sony's back on top of global annual console sales.

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has released Cliffhorse, a new game about a horse which lives on cliffs.

Planetary Annihilation is a game about being a massive robot, but it's really a game about being a massive jerk.

Assassin's Creed: Unity has four-player co-op, a new banner shown at E3 suggests.

It was our first taste of next-gen. Watch Dogs' brilliant E3 2012 reveal demonstrated a new level of open-world gameplay - a stunning simulation of Chicago, where the ability to hack smartphones and infrastructure hinted at previously impossible levels of interactivity, rendered with visual fidelity that wasn't achievable on the hardware of the time. This was Ubisoft's vision for the future of gaming.

In the rapidly maturing clone console market, the Retron 5 has become something of a legend. Announced amid great fanfare last year, this wonder system promised compatibility with a staggering number of vintage formats - NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Famicom, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance and Master System (the latter requiring the Sega Power Base Converter) - as well as technological advancements such as upscaled 720p output, image filters, save states and a wireless controller. Christmas 2013 was the proposed release window, but a manufacturing fault forced creator Hyperkin to push the machine into 2014 - yet for most of this year the company has remained ominously silent regarding any solid launch date.

Nearly all retro-heads of a certain age have an enduring romance with the 1980s arcade. We reminisce about the rows of machines blaring out for attention and credits, their screens illuminating a dark cave that smelt of hot electronics, cigarettes and spilt drinks. I increasingly think it sticks in the mind precisely because it had a smell. These days, we have only the scent of a freshly opened game, rather than places of magical discovery and competition. My deepest feelings of arcade romance are for the mid-80s carnival of JAMMA, where the Japanese megabrands such as Sega, Capcom and Konami cemented their growth into industry legends. It really was a splendid time, where new arcade games seemingly arrived on a weekly basis.

This story was originally published on 18th October 2012.

Greetings, Eurogamers, and welcome to the last Oxbox post before the world changes forever. Alright, E3 is rarely that dramatic, but by this time next week there will be a boat-load of previously unannounced games to talk about. If publishers haven't gotten over-excited and splashed them all over the internet beforehand, that is.

A group of Grand Theft Auto 5 players have used Rockstar's open-world multiplayer playground as the means to stage a virtual remake of Terminator 2: Judgment Day's famous car chase.

For whatever reason dating sims never really caught on in the west. Perhaps they were too slow paced, pandering, or lacking in action. Or maybe the problem was that they generally starred humans. What if they starred birds? Or, better yet, a human girl dating male birds? That's just printing gold, right?

Klei Entertainment's gothic survivalist roguelike Don't Starve is coming to Vita along with its Reign of Giants expansion in Don't Starve: Giant Edition.

Oddworld developer Just Add Water's upcoming twin-stick arcade shooter remake, Gravity Crash Ultra, is coming to Vita this July.

Harmonix's Kinect-exclusive music game Fantasia: Music Evolved is due for a worldwide launch on 21st October for Xbox One and Xbox 360, the developer has announced.

Retro platformer Shovel Knight is slated for a 26th June release on PC, Mac and Linux via Steam, developer Yacht Club Games has announced.

YouTube editor Ian Higton's just sent me an email describing The Forest as a "super scary run-away-from-cannibals simulator." Does that sound like it might be up your alley? Because he's also told me that he's doing a live stream of the game at 5pm BST this evening.

Nintendo of Europe is closing its headquarters in Großostheim, Germany with the loss of 130 jobs, the company has announced.

I remember chatting to developers from Vigil, the now no more studio behind the Darksiders series, whenever they were in the UK, and one question would always come up: when are you guys going to do four-player co-op?

With the battle between PlayStation 4 and Xbox One heating up these past few weeks, it seems somewhat fitting that the next throwdown between these console giants should take place in the Octagon. EA Sports UFC makes its next-generation debut this month utilising the Ignite Engine, promising to deliver a new sense of realism, and its arrival brings to mind the impressive Fight Night Round 3, released a few months after the launch of the Xbox 360, and its incredible presentation. More than eight years later, one might wonder just how much of an evolution we might see, and with the release of the UFC demo this past week we got the opportunity to find out.

There's a pretty good chance that at least one of your favourite games came about by mashing together the features from two other popular titles. Games are a fluid, iterative medium and that cross-pollination between genres is how they evolve. Role-playing XP systems leak into racing games as shooter systems bleed into platform games as puzzle mechanics take root in action-adventures - a constant churn of ideas and systems that, every so often, throws out an exciting new path forwards.

Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 will arrive in Europe on 5th December, the publisher has announced.

Nintendo will not hold a live press conference at E3 2014, the company has announced.

Nintendo has told Eurogamer that it will not show off any new hardware at E3 2014, after reports published overnight and today suggested it was readying some kind of announcement.

Microsoft will hold its annual E3 press conference on Monday, 9th June at 5.30pm UK time.

EA is planning to reveal six new games at its E3 press conference, Spike TV's Geoff Keighley has revealed.