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They're making no boasts about being trendsetters but, long before Amplitude Studios put Endless Legend on Early Access, before Early Access even existed, they were already experimenting with Games2Gether, their "brand new way for players around the world to participate in the creation of a video game." Games2Gether helped Amplitude to develop their début title, the 4X strategy Endless Space, polling players to see what was popular and even letting them pitch their ideas to the team.

Fallen London developer Failbetter Games has revealed a first proper glimpse of its exploration and survival project Sunless Sea. The team's also just announced the game's Greenlight campaign. It should be appearing in Early Access, via the Humble Bundle, this June.

Microsoft's upcoming Halo "digital feature" will star US TV chap Mike Colter.

Polish developer CD Projekt Red has promised "no more delays" for massive role-playing game The Witcher 3.

Electronics manufacturer Philips is attempting to get the Wii U banned from sale in the US, after claiming it infringes several of the company's patents.

UPDATE 15/5/14 8.40am Nintendo has shown off the first footage from The Band of Thieves & 1000 Pokémon, which contains sticker-like characters similar to the company's Paper Mario series.

Old Duke Nukem house 3D Realms, and Danish developer Interceptor, are collaborating on a PC and PS4 action role-playing game called Bombshell.

Massively addictive minimalist high-score game Flappy Bird is coming back in August with multiplayer, according to a series of tweets by CNBC.

UPDATE 14/05/2014: Heart Forth, Alicia has smashed through a majority of its Kickstarter stretch goals, so it's now set for release on PS4, Vita, Wii U, Mac and Linux in addition to PC.

UPDATE 14/05/2014: A new trailer for Left 4 Dead: Survivors finally shows gameplay footage of the Japanese arcade spin-off.

Jonathan Blow's long-awaited follow-up to Braid, The Witness, will run at 1080p with 60 fps on PS4, according to its creator.

Did you know that embroidery was a popular pastime throughout the PoW camps of the First World War? It kept the hands and minds of the men engaged when it must have been near impossible to consider anything other than their current predicament. If ever I learnt that at school then it is knowledge that I've long since forgotten, but I definitely recall being told of the ravages of trench foot and how soldiers lost toes to prolonged exposure to the wet, oozing mud. A child's mind has a peculiar talent for retaining the outlandishly gruesome, I suppose.

It must have hurt to do it, but Microsoft's decision to strip Kinect out of Xbox One and lower the price of the console feels like the right one overall. The problems it solves were simply too important to get hung up on the problems it creates.

Xbox 360 and Xbox One owners will be able to cancel and get a refund for their remaining Xbox Live Gold subscription when Microsoft lifts its entertainment app paywall.

'80s-inspired co-op two-stick shooter Tango Fiesta will hit - literally punch - Steam Early Access on 4th June, developer Spilt Milk Studios and publisher Mastertronic roared.

The May Madness PlayStation Store sale has begin. There's nothing to get excited about on PlayStation 4 but on PlayStation 3 there's plenty.

Microsoft is now in talks with publishers about increasing graphical performance for Xbox One games running on Kinect-less consoles.

Sony's annual financial report is out and it ain't pretty. As expected, the company posted a billion-dollar overall loss (-$1.26bn/£746m). That's despite sales as a whole being 14.3 per cent up ($76bn/£45bn).

UPDATE 14/05/2014 12.18am: Respawn has revealed that its Titanfall DLC pack, Expedition, is arriving on 15th May for Xbox One and PC.

The Humble Bundle's pay-what-you-want offerings have gone from every other week to daily over the next two weeks.

Rockstar is working on a next-gen project due sometime before 31st March 2015.

Microsoft's decision to sell a version of Xbox One without divisive motion sensor Kinect from this June levels the playing field with Sony and its runaway PlayStation 4, analysts have told Eurogamer.

Two Tribe's HD adaptation of Ronimo Games' 2D RTS, Swords & Soldiers, is slated for a 22nd May release on the Wii U eShop in both Europe and North America.

Ubisoft has confirmed the resolution and frames per second for upcoming open world game Watch Dogs.

Microsoft confirmed that it's not planning to reward Xbox One early adopters following the console's price drop and recently revealed Kinect-less option.

Krillbite Studio's upcoming first-person horror game starring a toddler, Among the Sleep, has been announced for PS4.

Ubisoft has a penchant for including Easter eggs in its games that reference some of its other famous franchises - but last week the company went a step further and snuck a couple of cheeky hidden objects in a new trailer for Watch Dogs.

Note: as ever with episodic games, this review may (probably will) contain spoilers for previous episodes of season two of The Walking Dead. Proceed with caution!

Avoiding the spoilers, there's not a vast amount left to say about this second episode of season two of The Walking Dead. It's not that nothing happens, even if it does take a while to; it's because there's at least one big continuation from the 400 Days bridging episode, the big dramatic moment would be mean to even hint at, and the finale... that's about as off-limits as things get, except to say that it's very effective, brutally tense, and best only played once for more than one reason.

Microsoft has announced it will begin selling Xbox One without Kinect from 9th June "in all markets" where the console is currently sold.