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The market for wireless gaming headsets has blown wide open in recent years, with third party brands such as Tritton, Turtle Beach and Astro each offering powerful accompaniments to the online FPS experience. Enter Sony with its first official PS4-compatible offering; an over-ear, noise-isolating, virtual 7.1 surround sound headset with an integrated rechargeable battery. At just shy of £80 it undercuts the competition bearing the same bullet-points - but taking into account its build quality, sound reproduction and features, does it pass muster in practise?

Darius is a series defined by grand scale - from the magnitude of its iconic bosses and the cabinets they built to contain them, to the scope of its universe and the ambition of its creative designers.

Alien Isolation will be released on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One from 7th October 2014, developer Creative Assembly has revealed.

Welcome, Eurogamers, to your weekly dispatch from the fallen utopia of Outside Xbox. Who knew building it in the centre of an active volcano would be such a bad idea?

"There is no information about a new The Last of Us game but I can share this knowledge; as of this summer, The Last of Us will be on the PS4. Both on PSN and physically," PlayStation's Eurasian Software Market Manager Sercan Sulun told CNN earlier this week. "The PS4 version will also include the DLC so you will be able to play Left Behind as well."

Animal sims have become the latest rage with Goat Simulator's imminent release to be followed by Catlateral Damage and Bear Simulator on the horizon, but there's one other animal sim you may not be familiar with: Roflpillar, the two-player caterpillar sim in which you dress up as a caterpillar.

UPDATE 28/03/2014 23:50 GMT: Bohemia has been in touch to clarify that its new subsidiary Bohemia Interactive Slovakia, the existence of which was detailed in Dean Hall's EGX Rezzed presentation, is a new studio built around former staff, facilities and technologies of Cauldron rather than a full-on acquisition of Cauldron.

While many reacted to Oculus' acquisition by Facebook with horror, shock and awe, not everyone was troubled by this merger. Certainly not Valve's former VR specialist Michael Abrash, who just left the house that built Half-Life to join the VR headset company as its chief scientist.

Threes developer Sirvo LLC worked hard on its puzzle game phenomenon and it's non too happy about a series of clones popping up on the marketplace. To counter this worrying trend, the developer wrote an over 42K word blog post detailing the game's year-and-a-half development, explaining why a seemingly simple game like Threes is actually a ton of work to get the balance just right.

Company of Heroes 2 is returning to the Second World War's western battleground with new standalone multiplayer DLC that offers two new factions - the US Forces and the German Oberkommando West - alongside eight new maps.

Desert Strike seems done and dusted - at least for now. Rights holder EA doesn't look like it's got a fancy pants big budget helicopter combat game in the works, so we're left to reminisce over the 90s Strike series.

Team17 has unveiled Flockers, its first non-Worms game in over a decade.

Sony has announced the games set to launch in April as part of the PlayStation Plus program over on the PlayStation Blog.

Microsoft has unveiled its Kinect for Windows v2 sensor, which looks almost identical to the Kinect sensor for Xbox One.

Activision has released a new video of its upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man 2 video game, showing off gameplay in detail.

EA has launched a new PC game promotion on its digital platform Origin - and as part of it Dead Space is free.

Titanfall developer Respawn has updated the shooter's matchmaking with more advanced metrics designed to better aid losing teams in finding more suitable matches.

Earlier this week Minecraft creator Notch cancelled an Oculus Rift version of the game in protest at Facebook's $2bn purchase of Oculus. But what kind of game was that going to be?

It seems likely that this year Microsoft will release Halo 2 Anniversary - a revamped version of Bungie's original Xbox shooter - although it has yet to announce it. But let's assume Microsoft had announced it. What, then, would be its most important feature?

Microsoft's top-down twin-stick Halo spin-off Spartan Assault launches on Valve's digital platform Steam on 4th April.

Peel away the snapping jaws and acid blood of the Alien franchise, and you'll find that what really drives this enduring saga is something far more primal. The ticking clock of pregnancy, the knowledge of something growing, incubating, preparing to burst into the world, is what gives the xenomorph its true power. It's a feeling that Al Hope, console lead at Creative Assembly, is all too familiar with.

Beloved space-sim/roguelike FTL (Faster Than Light) will cruise onto iPads on 3rd April, developer Subset Games has announced.

Last month Killer Instinct developer Double Helix was purchased by Amazon, leaving the free-to-play Xbox One-exclusive fighting game's fate in the balance. Microsoft said that a new studio would be coming on board to continue its development as new content is introduced, and it turns out that developer is none other than Iron Galaxy, the fine folks who made minimalist fighter Divekick as well as Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike Online Edition.

UPDATE 27/03/2014 : Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate HD is out now on Steam.

UPDATE 9.04pm: SCEA has responded to Richmond's departure with the following statement:

UPDATE: Sony has insisted it hasn't announced The Last of Us for PS4 - accidentally or otherwise - but stopped short of denying the game will be released for the console.

Frog Fractions developer Twinbeard Studios has voiced its disapproval of the Oculus acquisition by Facebook by adding a new stretch goal to its Frog Fractions 2 Kickstarter campaign: "buy Oculus back from Facebook."

The Kickstarter-funded Shadowrun Online is finally debuting for the public at large, albeit in a pre-release form, on Steam Early Access.

OlliOlli developer roll7 has unveiled its next project, a 2D cover-shooter being published by Devolver called Not a Hero.

Developer Creative Assembly today releases the Hannibal at the Gates downloadable content for strategy game Total War: Rome 2. It costs £9.99 from Steam.