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Facebook bought successful Kickstarter virtual reality headset Oculus Rift for $2bn - will more crowd-funded projects be snapped up by big business?

"If we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs," said director Werner Herzog. It's a sentiment that's as true in games as it is in film and former art students Eliott Johnson and Matthew Warshaw have created some of the most striking imagery the medium has seen in their upcoming exploration game A Light in Chorus.

Yet another Valve staffer has jumped ship to Oculus following the VR company's acquisition by Facebook. This time out it's Aaron Nicholls, who previously worked on "gameplay, design and system work" according to his bio on Valve's staff page.

Sucker Punch's latest open-world superhero epic inFamous: Second Son will be receiving an update in a couple of weeks with some pretty unique options.

UPDATE 01/04/2014: Half-Minute Hero's sequel, Half-Minute Hero: The Second Coming, is slated for a Friday, 4th April release on Steam, publisher Marvelous AQL has announced.

Imagine if Noby Noby Boy, The Human Centipede, and QWOP had a baby. And then that baby was taken by a mad scientist and attached to another baby at the rear. And this horrifying monstrosity was forced to compete in feats of strength with another dual-baby abomination. That's basically Push Me, Pull You in a nutshell. Needless to say, it's incredible!

Microsoft will today roll out access to the Xbox One's OneGuide feature for "select" users in Europe and Canada.

At long last, it's the one you've all been asking for! Ian Higton's going to sit down at 5pm BST and play the hell out of Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom, a game so enigmatic there's not even a decent Wikipedia entry for it I can steal from for this intro.

Guildford studios Hello Games and Media Molecule have been chatting down the pub, and the result is Sackboy and Tearaway characters will pop up in Joe Danger 2 for PlayStation Vita.

Microsoft has hailed the Twitch Xbox One app, saying it "played a big role" in an increase in usage of the console.

"You're going to go away and say that f***ing bastard, he's promising stuff all over again."

UPDATE: The FIFA 2014 World Cup demo is now available on PlayStation 3. You can download it now from PlayStation Network. There it's 1.7GB.

Back in 2012, Hotline Miami created more than a minor stir at the first Rezzed PC and indie gaming show. Chatter about the game spread around the event like wildfire, notes were made to drop by the stand to see what all the fuss was about, and the game rightly rode this wave of enthusiasm all the way up to its release. A similar buzz rose up around another game at this year's show, and it's not hard to imagine that the same good fortune awaits it.

Last week a YouTube reality show about game jams starring several notable independent game developers was being produced with a reported budget of $400,000, but never made it off the ground due to a host of schlocky product placements, poor attempts at forcing drama, draconian contracts, and the indie community ultimately deciding it didn't need to put up with this s***.

Valve has announced this year's The International Dota 2 tournament.

Change is scary. Hearing Ziggy Stardust intermittently throughout one's life means the last thing you'd want to do is alter David Bowie's 70s classic glam rock anthem. But Harmonix's upcoming Fantasia: Music Evolved encourages players to muck about with their most beloved tunes. This doesn't always sound amazing, but more often than not, Fantasia's player inputs sounds wonderful in ways you'd never imagine.

Cave Story developer Studio Pixel is releasing its upcoming frog-based platformer, Kero Blaster, for PC and iPhone on 11th May, the developer has announced.

Wild Pokémon have appeared in Google Maps! This is not a drill!

UPDATE 6.00 pm: Metro publisher Deep Silver has confirmed that Metro Redux, the next-gen rendition of the Metro games, is in fact real.

The next two free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers will be stealthy adventure Hitman: Absolution and 2D survival-horror affair Deadlight, Microsoft has announced.

PlayStation 4 game Secret Ponchos, a stylised multiplayer Western, won't be ready for release in April as originally expected.

Phil Spencer is the new boss of Xbox, Microsoft has announced.

You can keep your refined combat systems, your open-world nonsense and your Kiefer Sutherland - here's to the time when Metal Gear Solid was all just fields. Well, air ducts and exclamation marks.

Ragnar Tornquist's studio Red Thread debuted the first proper look at Draugen, its first-person survival horror game, releasing a trailer first shown at this weekend's EGX Rezzed.

Hello ewe! Goat Simulator is an actual, real thing that's coming out, fittingly enough, on April Fool's Day (that'd be tomorrow, fool), and a damn fine thing is too. Dan Whitehead had a proper look for us earlier on to see what he could goat-se, and it turns out there's more to Coffee Stain Studio's quick-fire effort than a throwaway joke. Although only slightly more.

The success of superb Japanese role-playing game Bravely Default has sparked a rethink at publisher Square Enix.

Patrick Redding, director of the recent Splinter Cell Blacklist, has joined Batman: Arkham Origins developer Warner Bros. Montreal to work on an unannounced project.

Square Enix has filed a trademark for Deus Ex: Mankind Divided - but what is it?

Might and Delight has announced it's working on Shelter 2, the follow-up to last year's abstract badger survival game.

UPDATE 31/03/2014: The recently-released Watch Dogs Welcome to Chicago trailer contains footage captured from the PlayStation 4 version of the game, Ubisoft Montreal has revealed.