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Prone to crashes, stuttering drops in frame-rate, juddering animations and a general imprecision of control, Undead Labs' State of Decay is one of the untidiest video games of recent times. This new chapter, set within the wearyingly familiar context of post-apocalyptic America, does nothing to level the technological bumps; you even need to restart the entire game whenever you want to switch between this latest add-on and previous chapters.

PayDay 2 publisher 505 Games has recruited Breaking Bad criminal mastermind Gustavo Fring for the game's next expansion.

Microsoft's Games with Gold promotion launches on Xbox One today, the company has announced, meaning you can now download this month's two titles for free.

Among the Sleep is the dream of a toddler with bigger problems to worry about than whether there's a monster under the bed. It's wonderfully staged, extremely creepy... and doesn't really work, not least because your avatar quickly starts to feel less like a vulnerable two-year-old than an adult chopped off at the knees. It's one thing to suspend your disbelief enough to crawl over and gurgle like a pro at various dreamworlds, but quite another to hear lines like "I didn't believe in evil before this, but now I'm not so sure," while doing so. Even if they are spoken by a talking teddy bear.

2D sandbox game Terraria is making the leap to next-gen consoles later this year with "some brand new functionality".

Long-running farming RPG series Harvest Moon is getting a new 3DS entry later this year entitled Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley.

UPDATE 03/06/2014: A new trailer for Goat Simulator shows off the co-op features and map added in today's 1.1 update.

Watch Dogs sold more than 4m copies in its first week on sale, publisher Ubisoft has trumpeted.

Murdered: Soul Suspect is out this Friday. It's a sort of supernatural adventure game that proves there is a fate worse than death, and it involves spending eternity wearing a stupid hat and a very tight waistcoat.

The last time US president Barack Obama visited Poland, back in 2011, prime minister Donald Tusk gave him a copy of The Witcher 2 Collector's Edition as a gift.

UPDATE 30/05 18:30 BST: FIFA 14 Ultimate Team: World Cup should now be live on all formats, according to EA Sports.

The World Cup is about to kick off and everyone and their dog is trying to make the most of it.

UPDATE 3.27pm: A new report suggests that Sony is ending support for PSP worldwide - not just in Japan.

Nintendo 3DS rhythm action spin-off Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Curtain Call launches on 19th September 2014, Square Enix has announced.

Richard Garfield doesn't remember much about the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. It was a bloody conflict, which caused the displacement of millions of refugees and presented an ongoing threat of violence to his family, who had moved to the country for Garfield's father's job as an architect. 


Remember all the hoo-hah last year about Kinect security? Potential Xbox One customers were, perhaps understandably, a little concerned about installing an HD camera in their homes that pointed directly at them whenever they sat on their sofa and that listened to everything they said.

There's an old Chris Rock joke about the price of bullets - about making them so expensive that people would be forced to think very carefully about who they shot. While it's not fair to suggest that the consumables in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Phantoms are as pricey as they are in the alternate reality Rock considers, the joke was going through my mind as I hurled my grenades and chambered my magnum rounds. Those things had cost me, and I wondered if it might have been wiser to save up for a new assault rifle instead. After all, the next one would be marginally more effective.

From an outsider's perspective, the differences between Street Fighter 4 and its three existing sequels must look marginal at best. The first game made its console debut back in 2009 and helped revitalise the fighting game genre. Super Street Fighter 4 surfaced a year later and added 10 new characters to the roster, but since then, the game-to-game differences have been tailored more towards the dedicated fans. Ultra Street Fighter 4 continues this tradition with five new characters, a trio of fundamental system changes and not so much as a story mode in sight.

The Ultra Street Fighter 4 update is live now on Xbox 360 a day earlier than planned.

FranknJohn, the head-swapping roguelike that allows you to smash in funhouse freaks with your magical noggin, has just landed on Kickstarter.

Stop everything. Polytron Corporation has used the Horizon indie press conference at E3 to announce Fez 2. It's also released a gloriously minimalist trailer.

Valve showed off its virtual reality headset recently at a get-together in Boston and attendees took a few pictures and wrote about how it's shaping up.

Nintendo has updated the Wii U's system software to version 5.0, bringing with it a new Quick Start menu to load recently-used games and apps.

Wii U racing game Mario Kart 8 is off to a great start with 1.2m sales at launch worldwide.

Microsoft has created a new app it hopes will get people watching the World Cup on their Xbox Ones.

Watch Dogs has stormed to the top of the UK all-format charts and earned itself the biggest launch week of any new IP in the UK ever, beating previous record holder LA Noire's haul by more than half its sales again.

Ubisoft has crossed over one of its Assassin's Creed characters into Watch Dogs, making him the focus of a side mission in the newly released game.

The people behind the Dawn of War and Company of Heroes real-time strategy games have got an idea for how to do the genre right on console - but they're keeping it a secret for now.

Epic is making a new Unreal Tournament game, but that doesn't mean it's forgot about the last game in the multiplayer shooter series, Unreal Tournament 3.

DriveClub director Paul Rustchynsky recently claimed that "the most important thing for a racing game is a locked frame-rate". "Whether it's 30fps or 60fps," he suggested. "It's vital that every controller input you make is consistent and also equal for all drivers. We chose a locked frame-rate for this very reason and with 30fps we don't have to hold back any of the obsessive visual detail."