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Buy the Watch Dogs season pass and you'll get a new playable character and mini-campaign full of missions, a product listing has revealed.

Walking down a hallway with twin machine guns, one firing one way, one firing the other way, sure looks like a lot of bloody fun. So does bundling into people with a kind of forward roll/flip. Judging by this new trailer, Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is shaping up well.

Super Smash Bros. 3DS will launch this summer, while Super Smash Bros. Wii U will arrive winter 2014, Nintendo has announced.

Note: As always with an episodic game, there are potential spoilers here that may impact your enjoyment of previous episodes if you haven't played them yet.

"At E3, people forbid me to say 'MMO'. The marketing teams were like, 'Don't say that. Don't say that.' It's crazy." Julian Gerighty is a former marketer himself, who worked his way up to a senior position in IP development at Ubisoft's Paris headquarters before jumping (or possibly parachuting) into development. Now he's a creative director at Lyon studio Ivory Tower and the well-spoken and enthusiastic spokesman for its ambitious online driving game, The Crew. He seems to enjoying himself on the other side of the fence.

With the US launch of Titanfall on the Xbox 360, gaming's best-kept secret has finally been revealed. For one of the most heavily promoted games in history, the complete media black-out surrounding the Xbox 360 version of the game has been mystifying, provoking a raft of theories. Some suggest that the game can't be particularly good in order to have been completely omitted from any and all marketing. Others - noting the involvement of respected developer Bluepoint Games - suggest the opposite: that the game may be so good that it might deflect attention away from the Xbox One launch. Now, finally, we have answers.

UPDATE 4PM: Virtuix has been in touch to clarify that Omni treadmills will actually begin shipping in July. The September date is for people who pre-order one now. So, if you're an early adopter, you could be getting yours as soon as this summer. Can I come round and try it out?

Xbox One may have been available in various countries for several months now, but not everyone has jumped in, or whatever the slogan was this time. (I want to say "jump on"? Was that it?) Not everyone has a gaming PC either. So it stands to reason that a few of us have probably been keeping half an eye on Titanfall on Xbox 360, curious as to whether this tardy port of Respawn's new multiplayer shooter belongs in the same conversation as its siblings on more powerful platforms.

Just over a month now until the brand new cross-gen Wolfenstein game arrives. To ramp up excitement, Bethesda has released a scene-setting trailer.

Silicon Studio, the Japanese developer of Bravely Default and 3D Dot Game Heroes, has released a new video showing off its next generation rendering engine - and it provides us with a glimpse of what games may look like in the future.

Microsoft has revealed a few new features it plans to add to the Xbox One in the next system update.

As of today, Microsoft will no longer support 12-year-old operating system Windows XP. No further technical assistance or updates will be offered, which potentially means any new security breaches or viruses will go unchecked. Potentially, then, Windows XP users will be at risk.

An image of the graphics options available within the PC version of Dark Souls 2 has hit the internet.

Your first act in Kinect Sports Rivals is to kneel in front of the Kinect 2.0, Microsoft's fat, sinister slab of a camera - but it's no act of reverence. It's been eight years since Nintendo released Wii Sports, the game that ushered in a new way to play video games using grand swipes and waggles rather than plain button presses. Most players now view the once-exciting promise of motion control with apathy. Wii Sports' imitators broadly failed to find new and improved ways to explore the technology and following 2009's Wii Sports Resort, even Nintendo appears to have moved on from the game that was instrumental in selling more than 100 million Wii systems (judging by its half-hearted promotion of the Wii U remake, Wii Sports Club).

Engineers at Stanford University have built a prototype gaming controller that measures a person's heart rate, blood flow, rate of breath, deepness of breath and movement of controller to establish how excited by a game a person is.

Thought the PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale was over? Sony Santa Monica has released a huge update for the brawler that makes sweeping balance changes to the entire roster of characters.

Erotica 1 is the most notorious and talked about character in Eve Online since The Mittani.

The Steam page for Lord of the Rings spin-off Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is up and so we learn the minimum and recommended specifications for the PC version of the game.

The Elder Scrolls Online will get its first post-launch content update later this month. It's called Craglorn, and it's designed to challenge the game's veteran players.

Can a game be too generous? In the case of Mercenary Kings, a retro-flavoured action game that mashes up Metal Slug's run-and-gun carnage with Terraria's foraging and crafting, the answer might well be yes.

Mojang's card combat game Scrolls is coming to iPads and other tablets, the developer has announced.

UPDATE 07/04/2014: Frog Fractions 2's Kickstarter campaign has succeeded its $60K goal over the weekend.

Viscera Cleanup Detail - the game about being an intergalactic janitor tasked with cleaning up after epic, galaxy-saving battles - has arrived on Steam Early Access.

Outcast, the classic 1999 PC adventure game with goofy running animations, is being rebooted on Kickstarter with Outcast HD.

This week's Let's Replay features stand-up comedian and Nintendo fanboy Paul David Collins. He walks us through a level from Super Mario Sunshine, discussing the history of this GameCube classic and its lasting legacy. Meanwhile, Ellie waffles on about brothels.

One of the chief features of next-gen consoles is the ability to record and share gameplay videos online, and Microsoft is embracing this emerging trend whole hog by adding an update to its Xbox One YouTube app that will allow users to upload gameplay clips to the popular video portal.

UPDATE 7th April 4.15pm: Due to some surprise game server maintenance (a surprise to us, anyway), we've had to cut this live stream short. Sorry!

Following on from a crisply executed Kingdom Hearts HD re-release, Square Enix now unbinds Final Fantasy X's world of Spira from the PS2's decade-old shackles, letting it find its legs on more modern Sony platforms. This remastering project ranks as the company's most ambitious to date, delivering a 16:9 HD presentation with higher quality textures, improved lighting and re-sculpted character models on both PS3 and Vita. But after all this time, has anything been lost in the transition or do both remasters unequivocally offer the best way to play these games?

Scottish studio Ruffian is giving Game of Glens, its Angry Birds meets Minecraft meets World of Goo strategy game, a rest following its stint on Square Enix's crowdfunding hype builder the Collective.

UPDATE - 07/04/14: The Wii U version of Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate launches this Thursday, 10th April.