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PopCap's multiplayer shooter spin-off Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare launches on PC on 24th June in North America and 27th June in Europe, EA has announced.

I am a fearful man at heart and in the flesh - one who whimpers and nibbles at the blankets when I hear creaking after dark, one who whistles on my way past the graveyard.

The same caveat applies to just about every mainline Kirby game, but it's worth repeating for those who've never had the pleasure of his company: if you're looking for a challenge, you've come to the wrong place. Triple Deluxe has its moments, but the kind of player who believes that the greatest rewards come from conquering the steepest hurdles probably won't be tickled pink. If, however, you don't happen to mind easy games as long as they've got enough going on elsewhere to compensate, then read on.

The Hearthstone team at Blizzard has its hands full at the moment finishing Curse of Naxxramas and the upcoming Android version, all of which means nobody's spending any time thinking about console versions, the developer told Eurogamer last week.

Profits at Angry Birds maker Rovio halved during what it called a "foundation-building year".

Brian Fargo, boss of Wasteland 2 developer inXile Entertainment, has declared Steam maker Valve the "saviour of the PC" for making digital distribution mainstream.

A lot of coffee is drunk in Broken Sword 5. Certainly in the game's first half, which formed a rather crude Episode 1 when it was first released at the end of last year, many scenes revolve around a lovingly drawn Parisian café, where heroes George Stobbart and Nico Collard meet up and sip tiny cups of black java while discussing their latest case.

UPDATE 28/4/14 10.20am: Microsoft has published an excerpt from its upcoming ET: The Extra-Terrestrial game documentary showing the moment that the first copy to be unearthed was shown off to waiting crowds.

From Software, developer of Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2, has been bought out by Japanese publisher Kadokawa.

EA has activated the ability to purchase in-game items for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare with real-world money - two months after its launch.

There is a corner of Blizzard Entertainment that is now obsessed with death. As we grow older we all start to dwell on our own mortality, of course, but this is different: the people making Hearthstone are excited about death, the process of dying and the effect death has on the ones we leave behind. I can hear it in their voices, speaking to me over the phone from thousands of miles away. They are excited about finally realising the potential of death - and particularly the potential of deathrattles.

Every Sunday we dust off an article in our archive that you might have missed at the time or we think you'll enjoy again. In the wake of World of Darkness's cancellation, and as - thanks to the modding community - the recent release of version 9.0, here's Rick Lane's look at Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, the game that refuses to die. This article was originally published in July 2013.

Samsung clambered to the top of the Android pile with the launch of the defining Galaxy S back in 2010, and has managed to repel its rivals with increasing confidence since then. The Galaxy S5 is the latest member of the family, and seeks to build on the success of previous models without scaring away the legions of fans that Samsung has amassed of late. In that regard, it's a triumph - certainly more of an evolution than a revolution - although if you're expecting any amazing innovations or life-changing features, you're going to come away distinctly disappointed. Samsung knows that it has found a winning formula in the Galaxy S range, and clearly doesn't want to tinker with it too much lest the commercial magic should somehow be lost in the process.

At the time of Super Mario Land's release, its producer, Gunpei Yokoi, was one of gaming's most influential figures. The man who invented the d-pad and mentored Shigeru Miyamoto - indeed, it was Yokoi who first brought Donkey Kong to then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi's attention - headed up an R&D1 team that could seemingly do no wrong. Responsible for the likes of Metroid and Kid Icarus, Nintendo's oldest internal studio was given the task of making a Mario game for Yokoi's latest innovation, a handheld device called the Game Boy.

Last night I beat Trump in a game of Hearthstone, and my hands are still shaking.

This import review of Surface Pro was originally published in March. We present it again to mark the release of the device in the UK today.

The original Dark Souls on PC was undoubtedly a disappointment out of the box, with a 1024x720 native resolution and a 30fps cap that stuck agonisingly close to its console counterparts. Dark Souls 2 is certainly a big improvement on that, offering a generous range of visual options, but does that make for a dramatic improvement over the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions? And are there any catches?

Greetings, Eurogamers! Welcome to the weekly Outside Xbox video sampler. It's been a week full of questions.

"In video games," Game Boy designer Gunpei Yokoi once said, "there is always an easy way out if you don't have any good ideas."

Knights of the Old Republic never really happened. Not only did it not happen a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, it never happened in the official Star Wars canon. That's what Lucasfilm is now claiming, along with every comic book, novel and video game to bear the Star Wars moniker.

The other day Capcom announced The Great Ace Attorney, a 3DS Phoenix Wright spin-off set in the Meiji Period. As it turns out, Capcom is hoping to turn this period affair into its own series.

Sportsfriends, the collection of enhanced versions of such stellar indie games as Johann Sebastian Joust, Super Pole Riders, BaraBariBall, and Hokra is coming to PS4 and PS3 on 7th May for €13.99.

Sony has revealed some of its ongoing experiments in Augmented Reality. Hosted on the company's Japanese website (and translated via NeoGAF), there are two videos and a picture detailing what Sony's been brewing up.

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty, the remake of the 1997 PlayStation adventure Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, will cost £19.99 / €24.99 / $29.99, publisher Oddworld Inhabitants has revealed.

Larian Studios' crowdfunded isometric turn-based RPG, Divinity: Original Sin, is set for release on 20th June.

UPDATE: 5.17pm: Just Cause publisher Square Enix has issued us the following statement regarding the Just Cause 3 domain registration:

The year of Luigi's over, right? I should probably take off these green dungarees, then, but I can't help but cling on to the memories of twelve sweet months spent in the presence of the beanpole plumber. Nintendo can't either, it seems, and he takes a star role in NES Remix 2 thanks to Super Luigi Bros., a reimagining of the NES original that places Mario's brother in the starring role and runs through the classic levels backwards.

You can see how making a massively multiplayer version of a popular single-player role-playing game would look like a no-brainer to a publishing executive. The gameplay will be broadly portable and, if your game series is as long-running and voluble as Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls, the world and the lore have already been mapped and written.

The Mad Max game in development at Avalanche launches at some point in 2015, a new trailer shows.

UPDATE: The platform exclusive content for Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes will be made available to all players for free on 1st May, Konami has announced.