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Following in the wake of technological showcase that is Killzone: Shadow Fall, Sony's first-party studios surprise and delight us once again with a stunning new workout for the next-gen PlayStation 4 hardware - inFamous: Second Son. Unfortunately, owing to a combination of factors (GDC, Project Morpheus, Metal Gear Solid and the late arrival of inFamous code, if you're wondering), we didn't have the time to bring you a full tech analysis at launch, but we couldn't mark the arrival of this beautiful title without a spot of Digital Foundry coverage.

Hello, Eurogamers! This week, GDC left in its wake revelations of glittering new game technologies, but forget DirectX 12. Forget Project Morpheus. Kinect Sports Rivals can turn your face into a terrifying virtual mask with the power of Kinect and presumably some timelordy magic from narrator David Tennant. Watch Rare's first Xbox One game pour Mike into the unitard of a Kinect Sports Rivals champion in this avatar creation video.

It's been nearly two years since John Carmack invited us into a room at E3 to show us Doom 3 running on prototype virtual reality hardware, but it was the insanely successful Oculus Rift Kickstarter that really suggested that the ancient VR concept might finally be ready to deliver on its promise. (Carmack clearly felt it was - he left id Software last year to join Oculus full-time.)

By the basic measures that the phrase 'open world' suggests are most important, the battle between the competing playgrounds of inFamous: Second Son and Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes ought to be no contest. In one camp we have the entirety of Seattle, recreated so that you can pilot yourself superheroically around it, while the other is literally just a camp - a few tents and admin buildings scattered around on a rock in the sea.

Castlevania producer and Symphony of the Night lead Koji "Iga" Igarashi said he wasn't inspired by Metroid, but rather Zelda when he rejuvenated the series as an exploration-based affair.

Ken Levine is an old dog trying to learn new tricks. The BioShock creator took to open-micing his new philosophies in a GDC panel attended by Eurogamer, the way a comedian will test new material at a club on an off night.

Yu Suzuki is researching Kickstarter, and looking into the possibilities of using it to fund future projects.

Relic Entertainment will be hosting a special developer session at EGX Rezzed next Friday where the studio plans to talk about future plans for the Company of Heroes franchise.

"With great power comes great responsibility." Not my words, of course, but the unforgettable refrain of Spider-Man's dad or whoever it was. Who knows what he would have made of inFamous: Second Son, then, a game where you spray-paint stuff on walls and generally fight the power.

UPDATE 21/03/14: Nintendo Europe has confirmed this weekend's free access to Wii Sports Club, previously announced for Japan, will also be available in the UK.

It was a while before I discovered proper wizards. When I was young, magic was a benign thing: lighthearted entertainment for early evening television. The magicians made things disappear or convinced you that the card you were holding wasn't what you thought. In Magicka: Wizard Wars, you can cast spells that will make people explode into chunks of bloody meat. You can also drop rocks on their heads, scald them, set them on fire and even have the grim reaper chase them down, surgically removing their soul with one swift swing of a scythe. This is more like the magic of my adolescence - less about tuxedos and tails, more about rage and brutality and burning brimstone.

UPDATE 21/03 2PM GMT: A Forbes reporter heard more about the issue from a source close to development.

Nintendo has shown off a new Wii U version of Mario vs. Donkey Kong at GDC 2014.

BioWare Montreal's gameplay designer Manveer Heir received a standing ovation for his rousing "Misogyny, Racism and Homophobia: Where Do Video Games Stand?" talk at GDC yesterday.

Three new Batman: Arkham Knight screenshots posted by Game Informer have revealed our first next-gen look at returning villains Penguin, Two-Face and The Riddler.

There's an inFamous Second Son day-one patch available that adds a considerable amount of content: five hours of gameplay across 19 side-story missions.

Microsoft exec Phil Harrison has defended the Xbox One's ongoing sales battle with PlayStation 4 as "a marathon, not a sprint" in response to Sony's higher global sales total.

Update 21/3/14 07:30: Microsoft tells us the PC Forza demo "was simply a rendering tech demo to showcase the power and ease of development for DX12. We have no plans to release Forza Motorsport 5, or any other Microsoft Studios Xbox One title on PC." When asked about specific enhancements for Xbox One, Microsoft confirmed that DX12 was on the roadmap for the console, but "beyond that, we have nothing more to share."

BioShock Infinite's leading lady Elizabeth initially didn't speak.

The themes of security and hacking have been hot topics in recent months - something which unsurprisingly hadn't escaped Ubisoft's notice when we became the 900th person to mention the word "NSA" in their presence.

Ubisoft has detailed its exclusive content for Watch Dogs on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

Open Watch Dog's world map and what will you find? I see a city divided into districts, around half a dozen in number. Each has a central control point to capture, to unlock a surrounding sea of icons - side-missions, mini-games, collectibles. So it is in Assassin's Creed, so it is in Far Cry and so it is in Watch Dogs too.

Which one was it for you? Most of those who've made it through to the end of Valve's brilliant sequel will have encountered at least one test chamber whose solution remained so unfathomably elusive as to induce genuine despair.

A closed beta version of Trials Fusion will launch for PC tomorrow, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

UPDATE 3.30PM GMT: A new trailer for Skyforge, the other Mail.Ru/My.com MMO Obsidian is helping with, has been released. Beta sign-ups are open and the game is "coming soon".

Announcing the third inFamous game at the unveiling of PlayStation 4 last year, director Nate Fox got political. He mentioned that he'd been tear-gassed in 1999's anti-globalisation riot, the Battle of Seattle (an event he's been invoking in interviews for a while). He attacked the police. He touched on the troubling extent of government surveillance that was dominating headlines at the time. "Our security comes at a high price: our freedom," he declared, before linking current affairs back to inFamous lore - an unruly superhero universe where the emergence of super-powered humans in present-day USA causes chaos and unrest. "Which of us would have the courage to fight to get our freedoms back?" he asked.

"A sweeping range of new systems and feature enhancements" for Guild Wars 2 will arrive 15th April.

Climb out of your Titans! Activision wants you to play Call of Duty: Ghosts' new Onslaught DLC this weekend without paying a penny.

Epic Games has no current plans for, and is not developing, a new Unreal Tournament game.

Tempted by the offer of a McDonald's Happy Meal with a free Mario toy? Our friends at Nintendo Life have filmed an unboxing video to show you exactly what you'll get.