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As much as Lego The Hobbit was inevitable - as well the last words Bilbo would ever want to hear while being flown around by those eagles - it does rather beg the question: "Wait, now?" We're only two thirds of the way through the unnecessarily bloated film trilogy, leaving a gap the size of Smaug's corpse in the story, with a concluding DLC pack nothing more than a rumour at present. For now, though, we have the initial parts, "Too Many Dwarves" and "Holy Crap, What an Awesome Dragon": two blockbusters, now with endlessly more blocks to bust and enough irreverence to make that barrel ride look like the Silmarillion as read by Orson Welles.

Sony Computer Entertainment has just announced the sale of its entire 9,520,000 pile of Square Enix shares to a company called SMBC Nikko Securities.

Sony has unveiled its new 4K Media Player, which holds an uncanny resemblance to the PlayStation 4.

The most popular games on dominant PC download platform Steam are Valve's, with Dota 2 revelling in an estimated 25.9 million owners, and Team Fortress 2 an estimated 20.3 million owners.

After an earlier look at Batman: Arkham Knight's three major returning villains - Penguin, Riddler and Two-Face - comes this larger gallery of images featuring Oracle, Commissioner Gordon.

Don't let Wednesday get on top of you - relax with a few minutes of gentle background music from upcoming fantasy adventure Pillars of Eternity.

Fourth wall-breaking first-person puzzler Glitchspace is now on Steam Early Access for PC, Mac and Linux, where it's going for £4.99 / $6.99.

Last November Atlus announced that it would be localising 3DS and Vita RPG Conception 2: Children of the Seven Stars - the sequel to Japanese curio Conception: Please Give Birth to My Child! - for North America. Now it's out across the Atlantic, but more excitingly, it's coming to European shores in May.

UPDATE 11.25pm: Interceptor Entertainment CEO Frederik Schreiber is now suggesting that the company never officially announced a Duke Nukem project. Semantics can be argued, but it did refer to Duke in its previous AllOutOfGum site and, more importantly, release encrypted text that was deciphered to reveal Duke Nukem: Mass Destruction.

Call of Duty: Ghosts is about to receive what is unequivocally the best DLC ever with an add-on that makes the game's multiplayer narrated by Snoop Dogg.

Last month Disney's Chris Nicholls told me that one of the goals behind its upcoming Kinect-exclusive Fantasia game was to "create the most eclectic soundtrack ever in a video game." It looks like developer Harmonix is well on its way to do just that with newly announced additions to its playlist including Cee Lo Green's Forget You - i.e. the censored version of F*** You - alongside Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes (best known as the song Lloyd Dobler plays while holding a boom box over his head in Say Anything).

The Hong Kong Massacre sure looks like Hotline Miami directed by John Woo, but that's in no way a bad thing. We first caught a glimpse of indie developer Vreski's homage to 80s and early 90s east Asian cinema last month in a couple of gifs, but now we can see a minute and a half of actual gameplay.

Game developer Gareth Noyce may not be a household name, but he has quite the pedigree being the co-founder of Ruffian Games (Crackdown 2), and having worked on the original Crackdown, Fable 2 and PGR3. He also provided the music for Jeff Minter's recent Vita opus TxK. Now Noyce has gone indie and recently revealed his pet project, an arcade puzzle adventure called Lumo (it's Finnish for "enchanted").

A "manufacturing issue with packaging" means the boxed PC release of Dark Souls 2 in the UK will be delayed a week to 2nd May.

UPDATE 4PM GMT: Game creator David Dunham has been in touch with a correction to a tweet he put out earlier. "King of Dragon Pass is just for Android at the start," he clarified, "other platforms possible." Those other platforms are Vita and Windows Phone.

Ah the slammer, the big house, sing sing, old chokey. Why are there so many different names for prisons? I'm guessing it's because in prison there isn't much to do except come up with different names for the place. And wander around in a dandy orange jumpsuit, of course. And play Scrabble.

Microsoft has launched a range of discounts on Xbox 360 games and DLC that will last until next Tuesday, 21st April.

There's a free update for Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare today, in the shape of PopCap's new Zomboss Down DLC.

When is a game not a game? Because 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, when judged against your average triple-A release, has some pretty major shortcomings. Firstly: its value to you will grow and grow and then suddenly nosedive the day after the World Cup final. If you buy on release day, that's around 88 days of Rio-related fun and then it may as well self-destruct in your disc-drive. Online opponents will become harder and harder to find, the tie-in online content will suddenly become unavailable. And that's overlooking the fact that English readers will be pining for their club teams after a few hours spent in the company of Roy Hodgson's England.

UPDATE 2PM GMT: The X-ray Artwork Kickstarter campaign is now live.

A vast update for the console version of Terraria will be available to download this Thursday, 17th April, developer Re-Logic has >confirmed.

Concursion, quite frankly, is an ugly game. On the surface - in stills, and in motion, too - it is, anyway, its unwieldy artwork clunking along in an unpleasant, garish blur of clashing colours and unsightly characters. Yet Concursion, when played at a decent lick by someone who has mastered its strange, unique systems, is breathtakingly beautiful - a clash of genres that are bought together by deft finger-work and some remarkable invention from developer Puuba.

BioWare's iconic game romances are evolving again for Dragon Age: Inquisition, it seems, allowing for different kinds of love between characters to shine.

Massive Entertainment, developer of Ubisoft's promising next-gen shooter The Division, has hailed the publisher's decision to delay Watch Dogs last year as "tremendously important".

Rayman creator Michel Ancel has shown off a new look at Beyond Good & Evil's main character, Jade - presumably her appearance in the cult adventure's on-again, off-again sequel.

A new Xbox One system update is rolling out that improves a number of features and adds 50Hz video output for the Blu-ray player.

Monaco: What's Yours is Mine is one of the most beautifully conceived games I've ever played. Every aspect of it seems to be the result of careful, considered planning. It's clever, creative, and endlessly surprising.

Having brought games like God of War, Metal Gear, Ico and Shadow of the Colossus from PS2 to last-gen consoles, Bluepoint Games has established itself as the go-to studio for high-quality HD remasters. But its latest project is something entirely different: Titanfall - a next-gen console title built without last-gen hardware in mind - has effectively been demastered to run on Xbox 360.

Sony's Japan Studio - the place that lent a hand in developing such classics as Demon's Souls, Shadow of the Colossus and Gravity Rush - has announced a trio of new games coming to European and North American Vitas.

Super Crate Box, Ridiculous Fishing and Luftrausers developer Vlambeer's upcoming action roguelike Nuclear Throne now features two-player local co-op.