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Speedrunning collective quadrazoid has set a new world record by blazing through the original Half-Life in a scant 20 minutes and 41 seconds.

Eve Online developer CCP has announced the cancellation of vampire MMO World of Darkness.

If you think the 80s was all legwarmers and Ghostbusters, you weren't there. In fact, it was a time of darkness. Global nuclear holocaust was a perpetual and very real threat. As children shivered in the shadow of the Cold War, Thatcher stole their one source of warmth - free school milk. Meanwhile, it was considered acceptable behaviour to swear at Five Star.

The latest series from legendary documentary maker David Attenborough is being filmed for Oculus Rift.

The Xbox One version of Trials Fusion will require a day-one patch to raise the game's resolution to 900p, Ubisoft has confirmed to Eurogamer.

Microsoft's unveiled a new Age of Empires game for mobile devices, called Age of Empires: World Domination.

UPDATE 14/04 1PM: The official press release is out and Mac and Linux versions, developed by Aspyr, are confirmed.

The PC version of Rollercoaster Tycoon 4 will be released in "holiday 2014", publisher Atari has announced.

The much-delayed Wii U version of Watch Dogs will arrive this autumn, according to a now-removed listing on Ubisoft's web store.

If 2013 was King's year - when you couldn't walk through a train carriage without seeing half the commuters busily tapping away at mobile phenomenon Candy Crush Saga - then 2014's been the year when the dream has perhaps soured slightly, a swell of controversies ensuring the Swedish developer has never been far from the headlines.

Gang Beasts, in case you didn't understand from our various bleatings about the game, is something rather special - a brawler with all the broken grace of a drunken scrap that's an absolute delight to play with friends.

Former-Naughty Dog alumni Amy Hennig has named her co-writer for Visceral's under-wraps Star Wars project.

Dean Hall talked about the reaction to his leaving Bohemia and DayZ during a live on-stage interview at EGX Rezzed this weekend passed. The archived live-streamed footage is on Twitch now.

Titanfall has been boosted back to the top of the UK all-format charts thanks to the launch of the game's Xbox 360 version.

It's a joke, of course. Goat Simulator's very existence is a sort of self-fulfilling meta-prank, in which a spoof idea proved so popular that Swedish indie developer Coffee Stain Studios decided it should make it a reality. But how funny the joke is ultimately depends on you.

The first DLC for Titanfall arrives in May and is called Expedition, developer Respawn has announced.

UPDATE: Want to make your PC run Watch Dogs so it looks like the latest trailer? You'll need the game running close to its Ultra settings, which have now been detailed by creative director Jonathan Morin.

Gravity's Rainbow! It's not my favourite Thomas Pynchon novel, but it still feels like the definitive Thomas Pynchon novel. It's a mad, mandala-like book, looping ever outwards as it takes in Churchill's adenoids, the V-2 rocket, rogue Mickey Rooney sightings and a neat little poem that introduced me to the word preterite, the meaning of which I have long since forgotten even though I continue to use it in situations where I am unlikely to be challenged. Best of all, there's this crazy, beautiful moment right at the end of the book where the narrator presents a scene of imminent disaster and then steps back, outside of the frame, to tell you: "There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you."

With no real desire to work in video games, young Kouichi Yotsui joined Capcom as a means to pay outstanding loans from his college film project - a financial burden made heavier by his use of expensive 16mm film. There, at the recommendation of mentor Shinichi "Yossan" Yoshimoto, co-designer of Ghouls n' Ghosts, he wrote a treatment for a game that caught someone's attention within the creative hierarchy. Although it would never see the light of day, it instilled enough confidence to place Yotsui - credited in-game as "Isuke" - In the driving seat of a new three-tiered collaborative venture.

For better and for worse, Michael Bay's energetically stupid idea of the Transformers is now the most dominant version of the franchise in popular culture. I've seen all three of his swaggering, over-long movies and will most likely see the fourth instalment with Mark Wahlberg when it comes out this summer. But as someone old enough to just about remember the first generation of toys - boxy marvels that, through a complex sequence of manipulations, could become convincing muscle cars or fighter jets or cassette decks - I've found precious little to love in the maximal movie Cybertronians.

This year, we've decided to cheat. Although we're still happy to crown a Game of the Show, there are so many exciting games at EGX Rezzed 2014 being showcased at all sorts of different stages of development that we've decided to include a few others as well in our new Editors' Picks category. (There is no trophy, but if there were then it would be a little golden pickaxe to reflect the sparkling craftwork on display.)

Every Sunday, we dust off an article from the Eurogamer archive that you may have missed at the time or may enjoy again. Valve announced The International 2014 for Dota 2 this week, so we thought we'd revisit Paul Dean's piece on the origins of the MOBA genre. This article was originally published on 16th August 2011, so some facts and figures are now out of date, but it still tells an interesting back-story and provides a snapshot of the genre's progress at that time, back when Dota 2 was a barely known quantity.

What's the most important video game location? I think it's Shell Beach, which isn't actually in a video game at all. It's in a movie, Dark City, directed by Alex Proyas and written by Proyas, David S. Goyer and Lem Dobbs. And - hold onto something - if we're being completely truthful, Shell Beach isn't really in Dark City either.

There's poetry in games, but you often have to look for it. Sometimes the place where you have to look is in the patch notes. Take this example, now justly famous, from Boiling Point: Road to Hell, an open-world action-adventure that, back in 2005, was going to propel Arnold Vosloo to even greater heights of fame and influence following a nuanced performance in The Mummy. "Fixed: size of the moon," it reads. "Fixed: jaguar floats across screen at treetop level." And elsewhere: "Police station cannot be destroyed by a crossbow anymore." Fixed!

Every Sunday, we dust off an article you may have missed the first time around or may enjoy again. In this week of Kinect Sports Rivals' release, we thought we'd republish this piece from June 2009, where Dan Whitehead peers through the curtains of time to the earliest days of the motion control phenomenon and charts the path that led us from Power Glove to Wii MotionPlus. This article was written at what might be considered the peak of the motion control craze, so five years later some of its surety about the future of the form feels a little optimistic, albeit understandable at the time. Perhaps the same will be true of VR five years hence? In the meantime...

Let's get something straight, before we begin. Talisman isn't just a video game. You're witnessing the digital rebirth of an institution. Talisman: The Magical Quest Game was first published as a board game in 1983, when the venerable ZX Spectrum was a feisty little juvenile.

PlayStation Network shoot 'em up Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype is getting its first DLC pack, publisher eastasiasoft has announced.

Before David Board moved to Alaska, he had never seen a really big pumpkin.

Hi Eurogamers, welcome to your weekly video debriefing from Outside Xbox. As summer approaches, our thoughts turn to getting in shape, and then how hard sports are, and then if there are any sports games we can play instead of doing actual sports, and then if you can cheat Kinect Sports Rivals' face-scanning character creator with rubber masks.

I've often wondered what would happen the day it's finally announced. The day when some leaked developer schedules, a handful of rumours and a whole wave of speculation build to a climax, leading the world's press to a conference hall somewhere in downtown Los Angeles, perhaps, or maybe just to an office block in Washington State. The moment when Gabe Newell strolls out, a knowing smile on his face, before, on the screen behind him, an orange 'three' fades into life.