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Survarium, the free-to-play MMOFPS being made by several ex-S.T.A.L.K.E.R devs at start-up Vostok Games - is going to have a 24 hour open beta on Friday.

UPDATE 22/04/2014: Well that didn't last long! Within a couple of days of YamaYamaDingDong setting the Spelunky world record with $3,109,850, did a man named Buddy7heElf come along and surpass it with an astounding $3,140,325.

UPDATE #4 22/04/2014: 2K will be migrating the PC versions of Borderlands, Civilization 3 and Civilization 4 - along with their expansions - to Steamworks following GameSpy's multiplayer server shutdown.

Namco Bandai's single-player only free-to-play fighter, Soul Calibur: Lost Swords, is coming out on PS3 tomorrow.

UPDATE 4PM BST: The European release date is 10th October, EA has confirmed.

Daylight! It's possibly one of Sylvester Stallone's greatest movies, where he takes on his greatest role (Kit Latura!) and in which he faces his greatest foe. A tunnel! And one that won't stop exploding at that. Plus Aragorn's in it, so even though I've never seen it one look at the trailer has convinced me it's amazing. Over on YouTube, EpicFart89 puts it best: 'Tunnel go boom boom! :D'

Those crazy developers at Icelandic studio CCP are at it again: they're going to fight an actual mixed martial arts star during this year's Eve Online get together.

The sequel to rhythm-based Final Fantasy spin-off Theatrhythm will release in Europe, Square Enix has announced.

A recent survey of 10 million mobile gamers claimed only 2.2 per cent of the free-to-play audience spent any money at all. That's worrying - does it mean developers are deliberately designing games to cater for the minuscule minority rather than the vast majority?

Nintendo has announced its first downloadable content season pass: for Mario Golf: World Tour.

For Codemasters, it's been a funny couple of years. After a scintillating start to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 generation with Dirt and Grid, two smart console distillations of the studio's automotive expertise, a more erratic rhythm has set in. A couple of superb Dirt sequels were followed up by the slightly less stellar Showdown, a quick-fire sequel whose knockabout racing couldn't quite sustain standalone status, while Grid 2 took a lunge for the mainstream that left many of Codemasters' more traditional fans wanting.

The people behind fighting games Tekken and SoulCalibur have announced a free-to-play 2v2 3D brawler called Rise of Incarnates.

"I got my first real six string, Bought it at the five-and-dime, Played it till my fingers bled, It was the summer of '69."

There's a Fatal Frame game in development for Wii U, according to Japanese magazine Famitsu (translated by Gematsu).

Codemasters has announced Grid Autosport, a new standalone title that's coming to PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on 27th June - and a game that puts the emphasis firmly back on motorsport for the series.

Trials Frontier - the free-to-play mobile spin-off of RedLynx's physics-based bike series - has been downloaded 6m times, Ubisoft has announced.

Dead again. No it's not the Souls series responsible but other players in War of the Vikings - a period multiplayer melee that seems serious on the outside but is all awkward slapstick decapitations on the inside.

Respawn's shooter Titanfall is the UK's number one game for a second week running, successfully fending off the challenge of EA's 2014 FIFA World Cup game.

Back in 1991 the GameBoy was well into its swing, and all manner of new publishers were getting in on the action. Not wishing to miss a trick, Banpresto released a relatively small turn-based strategy game developed by a tiny studio by the name of winkysoft. It was called Super Robot Taisen (aka Super Robot Wars, or SRW for short).

The curiously abbreviated JRPG, Tales of Hearts R, will be making its way to European, Australian and North American Vitas, series producer Hideo Baba has announced.

NES Remix - Nintendo's recent madcap rearranging of its classic games in an exciting new package - was quite the nostalgia-tinged offering on Wii U, but it led many Nintendo fans to wonder why such a seemingly simple affair wasn't also on the 3DS. According to series director Koichi Hayashida, it's because the handheld simply wasn't powerful enough.

UPDATE 11.16pm: Actor Todd Stashwick, who provided the voice of an unrevealed character in the Uncharted 4 teaser, has also left the project as his character has been recast.

The Vita's not short of unique experiences you can still find elsewhere; the highlights of its back catalogue, games like Spelunky and OlliOlli, can be found on PC and console, even if they feel more at home on Sony's handheld. Games designed around the many quirks of the Vita, though, are in much shorter supply, and Massimo Guarini's forthcoming Murasaki Baby joins a very select group that have actually figured out a use for the handheld's rear touchpad.

I think the genre title "real-time strategy" is something of a misnomer. It's misleading. Sure, while most such games are about assuming generalship and carefully marshalling great throngs of tanks and troops, shaping them into the savage pincers that will squeeze your opponent until they burst like a zit under pressure, being a military commander is really only part of it.

If you've played games, you're undoubtedly used to controlling an avatar in a virtual world. No matter how immersed you become in a game world on the television screen, though, your mind stays firmly on the sofa, fully aware that your hands are holding a controller. Yet it turns out to be surprisingly easy to fool your brain into thinking it's somewhere else entirely. Two people from completely different backgrounds have both discovered that 'freeing your mind' simply requires a few leads and a camera - and that merging video games with real life can have profound effects.

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. On the eve of Dark Souls 2's PC release, here's Rich Stanton's take on the differing styles of storytelling at work in the original game and another great RPG of the year it came out, Skyrim. This article was originally published in December 2011.

Trials Fusion is the most ambitious entry in RedLynx's physics-driven motorbike game to date, developed in tandem with other internal studios at Ubisoft and delivered on four platforms - PS4, Xbox One, PC and Xbox 360. The most exciting battleground is next-gen console, where Fusion shoots for full 1080p on PS4, while optimisation has clearly gone down to the wire on Xbox One, which arrived at 800p before being boosted to 900p in a day-one patch.

Hayao Miyazaki sure has a lot to answer for. One of the leading lights of Japanese animation for the past six decades, Miyazaki's body of work has entertained and influenced countless millions - Steven Spielberg and John Lasseter are both vocal fans - and the many unique worlds he has created have spawned countless tributes and imitations. 1986's Laputa: Castle in the Sky is one of the most significant Miyazaki productions, building on the theme of gigantic aerial battleships that he would tentatively explore in the 1970s anime series Future Boy Conan.

Happy Easter, Eurogamers! I hope the Spider Goddess sees fit to implant you with only her very finest eggs. Oh wait. Wrong denomination? Sorry.

Square Enix handed in a solid MMORPG with Final Fantasy 14 Online: A Realm Reborn, despite a gruelling two-year development period that saw the original game rebuilt and radically redesigned with a new engine, gameplay systems and network infrastructure. We've already covered the PC and PS3 versions of the game extensively, but now there's a PS4 version in town. Freed from the shackles of seven-year-old hardware, does it mean console players can finally enjoy the same polished experience available on PC?