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Super Time Force is the latest game from Capybara, the team behind Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, which I always initially type as Clash of Herpes. Like Clash of Heroes it offers beautiful colourful graphics wrapped around ingenious mechanics. This time, you're pausing and rewinding time to drop additional copies of yourself into a brisk side-scrolling shooter.

UPDATE 13/5/14 16.10pm: Entertainment, sports and gaming apps will no longer live behind the Xbox Live Gold paywall, Microsoft has just confirmed, among other sweeping changes for Xbox One (although the paywall changes apply to Xbox 360 too).

Nintendo has poured cold water on the suggestion it will rush out a successor to its struggling Wii U, instead suggesting that it will wait to "satisfy" those who have adopted the console first.

Video games, even in their infancy, have their giants - the Miyamotos, Meiers, Carmacks and Kojimas - and they have too, in the shadows, those who have left an indelible mark on the medium. Think of Tolkien's fantasy landscapes being woven again and again across digital worlds, of Gibson's hardworn cyberpunks making countless cameos in dreary dystopias, or of Heinlein's hard-headed space marines screaming down impossible armies and marauding odds.

Titanfall's third major game update will add "extreme frame-rate" support for PC versions of the game, developer Respawn has announced, up to 144fps. But there's no change for the Xbox One version.

As anyone who struggled through Orphen on the PS2 will tell you, the first RPG of a hardware generation is rarely an impressive experience. The vast amount of content that needs to be created for your average dungeon-crawler also makes them quite rare in the first year of any console. Bound By Flame neatly solves this problem by having so little content you could write the plot on the back of cereal packet and still have room for a large picture of Snap, Crackle and Pop laughing and counting your money.

Sony's top brass will forego bonuses amounting to a hefty chunk of their annual salaries as the company prepares to report a billion-dollar annual loss tomorrow.

Hardware developer Nvidia has brought Valve's classic titles Half-Life 2 and Portal to its handheld device, the Nvidia Shield.

UPDATE 13/05/2014 12.06am: Sony's listing for Watch Dogs has since omitted the line about it running in 1080p at 60fps.

Diablo 3: Ultimate Evil Edition - Diablo 3 plus Reaper of Souls expansion - has been confirmed for Xbox One, Xbox 360, PS3 and, as we knew, PS4.

This week's special guest is Alasdair Beckett-King, stand-up comedian, indie developer and huge fan of The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. In fact, he thinks it's the best game OF ALL TIME.

Snooze and you'll lose - the limited quantity GOG Insomnia Sale has begun.

PlayStation 4 racer DriveClub will include micro-transactions so you can pay to unlock cars quicker, Sony has revealed.

A Story About My Uncle - a first-person platformer a bit like Mirror's Edge - now has a release date: 28th May on Steam.

Nintendo has announced a UK release for Pokémon Art Academy, the latest version of its handheld illustrate-'em-up series.

Square Enix plans to launch "large-scale online titles developed by Western studios starting from the fiscal year ending March 2015". That's this financial year, the one started 1st April 2014. There's no word in the company's annual financial report of what those games will be, but with E3 around the corner there may not be long until we find out.

Outside my Nonhyeon hostel in a quiet backstreet, I notice a white rose in the cigarette butt bin. Still sheathed in decorative plastic wrap, it's only one night dry, the leaves turning copper at the edges.

Ubisoft's delightful RPG Child of Light is brought to life using the same UbiArt Framework technology behind the last two outstanding Rayman games - but with a twist. Beautiful and imaginative, the world in Child of Light is created via rich water-coloured artwork where characters and scenery are displayed with fine brush stroke details, leading to a vivid and dreamlike painted appearance. Various layers are used to create depth and give locations a real sense of atmosphere, while the use of dynamic lighting forms an integral part of the gameplay - light sources are used to illuminate hidden or dark pathways during exploration, solve puzzles, heal your characters, and slow down enemies in combat.

More than 50 games will see their servers shut down at the end of June, EA has announced, including Crysis 2, Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142.

Users in Microsoft's Xbox One preview programme have received a second firmware update in as many weeks, this time focusing on party chat and system update fixes.

Family-friendly EA sandbox game The Sims 4 has been branded with an adults-only "18+" rating in Russia due to its inclusion of same-sex relationships.

The good news: Titanfall Xbox 360 developer Bluepoint has committed to handling updates and DLC for the game.

Rock Band developer Harmonix has released Record Run, a new rhythm-based runner for iPhone and iPad.

UPDATE: 7/05/14 3.10pm: Here's our first glimpse at in-game footage from Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire, showing off those game's legendary critters Kyogre and Groudon.

My best friend Snoop Doggy Lion has commissioned an ever so videogamey video for his new song Get Away.

Games have given us many iconic monsters, from Doom's Imps to Silent Hill's Pyramid Head. Yet indie developer Big Robot may have just created the most terrifying foe of all. The robots which stalk you across the bleak landscapes of Sir, You Are Being Hunted are, basically, Nigel Farage crossed with The Terminator.

HTC's recent troubles have been well documented of late and there was talk of the HTC One being the Taiwanese firm's last chance to stay in the race which it at one point was comfortably leading. The HTC Desire set the template for the premium Android phone, but Samsung has since come along with its Galaxy S range and swallowed up a massive sector of the market, while HTC has struggled amid some misguided products and the departure of key staff members. Thankfully, the One was a massive success - one of the firm's best-selling phones, in fact - and many regard it as 2013's best mobile, full stop.

Each week, Eurogamer presents a highlight from our archives - and today, in this profile piece from 2012, Simon Parkin goes in search of Nolan Bushnell, the man who helped popularise the medium of video games before turning his back on them.

Midnight Resistance is the sort of old-school arcade game that dumps you right into the action. Press the fire button and you materialise mid-jump in the first level of its side-scrolling militaristic world, making landfall just as a blonde in a jeep vrooms past. If you orientate yourself quickly enough, you can catch a ride - that jeep will plough through the first few waves of enemy infantry, doing your super-soldier job for you. While not really a tutorial, it creates a window of chauffeur-driven downtime - literally, a welcome wagon - to help you get your head right for the mayhem to come. It's an unexpected dollop of calm before the sturm und drang. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

Salutations, Eurogamers. We're but a month away from E3 and marooned in the middle of a serious game release drought. Still, in amongst the news of game delays, there's been a new Call of Duty announced. One that promises Kevin Spacey and robot legs.