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Cave Story developer Studio Pixel is releasing its upcoming frog-centric retro platformer Kero Blaster on 11th May for PC and iPhone, but to tide players over until then the developer has released a free prologue for PC entitled Pink Hour.

Harmonix has revealed its next mobile game: a music-based auto-running title called Record Run.

Tribute Games' recently released PS4, PC and Mac retro sidescrolling action game Mercenary Kings is coming to Vita.

Last May Road Rash spiritual successor Road Redemption cruised past its $160K Kickstarter goal with $173,803. Now developer DarkSeas Games has released an alpha build of its motorcycle combat game.

Titanfall's stellar Xbox 360 port will remain a retail-only affair as publisher EA has confirmed that the multiplayer mech FPS isn't coming to Games on Demand.

OnLive has halved the price of its monthly subscription video streaming service CloudLift.

Chris Roberts has for the first time shown off Star Citizen's dogfighting.

Blizzard has announced the upcoming single-player adventure mode for collectible card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft.

The last time we bought you a Hotline Miami 2 preview, it was fronted by a talking chicken. There's none of that weirdness this time round - and I will not have you calling the lovely Ian Higton a chicken, thank you very much - and instead just a straight look at what's new for this year's sequel.

Skyrim and Mass Effect did it, and now Dragon Age: Inquisition will do it - Kinect voice commands are in.

Press Play, the Danish studio behind Max: The Curse of Brotherhood, has announced its new game: Xbox 360 and Xbox One platformer Project Totem.

There's a popular school of thought that says almost all video games, when you get right down to it, are about tidying up. From clearing the skies in Space Invaders to eating every last dot in Pac-Man, to the blissful calm of an empty Tetris screen, and on through the games that have descended from similar bloodlines, there's a powerful human compulsion to sweep things clean. Most of the time, that impulse is subtext or metaphor. In Viscera Cleanup Detail, it's in your face. And all over your shoes.

The next Magic the Gathering video game will release on Xbox One - but there are no PlayStation versions this year.

Introversion's Prison Architect does building and managing a prison; Team 17's The Escapists does escaping from prison; now small project Prisonscape is doing a role-playing adventure based on life inside a prison.

Cast a glance at screens of Age of Wonders 3 and you'll notice two things. The first is that its fantasy-themed world is really very pretty - tall spires tower over lush forests that gradually give way to craggy peaks and glistening clear glacial waters, while quarries, mines and mana nodes pulsate with an industrial glow. The second is that, despite its aesthetic differences, Age of Wonders 3 looks to owe a lot to Civilization 5.

Popular green UK supermarket Asda, and hulking online retailer Amazon, have both dropped the price of the Titanfall Xbox One bundle down to £349.99.

Robot Entertainment's well-received Orcs Must Die! series is getting on-trend in new game Orcs Must Die! Unchained - mixing in MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) and CCG (collectible card game) elements with the existing third-person action strategy template to create something new.

UPDATE 11/04 9.15AM GMT: Ghost Recon Phantoms is out now on Steam and has a fancy new trailer to mark the occasion.

When basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal announced his crowdfunded fighting game, Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn - the sequel to his hilarious 90s dud Shaq Fu - he noted that it would only come to various platforms if certain Indiegogo stretch goals were met. This is no longer the case as the game is now confirmed for PS4, Wii U, PS3, Xbox One, and Xbox 360 so long as the minimum $450K goal is met.

UPDATE 10/04/2014: Fract OSC's release date has been set for 22nd April, developer Phosfiend Systems has announced.

Last week Dementium and Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid launched a Kickstarter for its upcoming first-person horror game, Cult County. Now its revealed the first pre-alpha footage of what the game looks like in action.

Sword & Sworcery and Clash of Heroes developer CapyGames' upcoming action roguelike Below is now slated for a Steam release in addition to its already announced Xbox One destination.

Last year Ontario-based film production company Fuel announced that it would be digging up the long-rumoured E.T. cartridges buried in a New Mexico landfill. It's now been announced that the excavation will take place on 26th April at the Alamogordo Landfill.

That Dragon, Cancer - Ryan Green's upcoming autobiographical game about raising his cancer-stricken son, Joel - is getting a documentary covering the life and times of the Green family as the game is being developed.

Hitman's isometric turn-based strategy spin-off, Hitman GO, is coming to iOS on 17th April.

By most accounts Titanfall is a great multiplayer first-person shooter, but it launched with one glaring omission: there were no options for private matches. That's finally being fixed in its latest patch.

Ubisoft has released a new video showing off the PC version of open-world action game Watch Dogs.

Naughty Dog has released a glimpse at The Last of Us Remastered in a new video.

Sci-fi action role-playing game Transistor launches on 20th May, developer Supergiant Games has announced.

New Xbox boss Phil Spencer has discussed his 26-year career at Microsoft and how he intends to take Xbox One forward in a new video interview with Major Nelson.