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Double Fine adventure Broken Age now has all the funding it needs for the game's concluding chapter.

I have a confession to make. I've found a free-to-play game with a cooldown system that I love. Usually, these artificial barriers to progress make me climb the walls in despair. In Extrasolar, a narrative browser game from Lazy 8 Studios, I actively look forward to being made to wait for the next bit of gameplay.

Ken Levine wants to chase a dragon, and whatever the (inevitably more complicated) truth behind the shuttering of Irrational in order to do it turns out to be, let's take that recently restated goal at face value. "To make narrative-driven games for the core gamer that are highly replayable." Huge challenge. Noble sounding goal. Bad idea, looking as seductive on paper as a treasure map promising great riches and fortune, but ultimately leading right down the same kind of rabbit hole that Balance of Power creator Chris Crawford has now been spelunking for over 30 years.

Every so often, we reach back into the Eurogamer archive for a feature you may have missed or might enjoy again. On this occasion, however, I was prompted to resurrect this one by its subject, who emailed me last week to ask about it - something that will make sense when you read the feature. It was originally published in February 2013.

I've killed my little brother Matt hundreds of times. I've killed him on a gunboat. I've killed him on a train. I've killed him on a spaceship, but not, sadly, on a plane. It's been reciprocated in kind, too. He's sniped my head off on an asteroid, dropped a nuke into my castle, and splattered my giblets across a cathedral floor. Ah, memories.

Greetings all!

After more than a decade, Capcom has finally seen fit to revive the Strider franchise, placing the crew at Double Helix in charge of its revival. Initial reactions to the new comeback were mixed, with the developer's less than stellar track record causing some concern amongst fans at the time. They needn't have worried - the game's a real success, standing as a strong entry in the genre and possibly the best game Double Helix has made to date.

The graveyard in Pokemon Red's Lavender City has always been an odd place, capable of spinning out myths and legends of its own, but seeing 80,000 people trying to shepherd a single character through its maze of tombstones has turned it into something else entirely. It's become an apt stage, complete with props of madness and despair, for the bumbling, insane genius that is Twitch Plays Pokemon.

Inspiring Spelunky savant Bananasaurus_Rex has just set a new world record in Mossmouth's incredible action-roguelike Spelunky.

Ryse: Son of Rome was once set to feature a mission editor mode where players could set objectives and challenges in the game's co-op mode via a SmartGlass app. That features is no longer on the docket.

Ever wondered how the original The Legend of Zelda would look in first-person? Well wonder no further as developer Ubiquitron is working on a first-person remake of Nintendo's 1986 classic that can be played on Oculus Rift.

UPDATE 21/02/2014: Towerfall developer Matt Thorson has announced that the enhanced version of his multiplayer arena-brawling hit, Towerfall Ascension, will arrive on PS4 and Steam on 11th March.

Sony's PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset will finally be unveiled next month at GDC 2014, a new report suggests.

PopCap's upcoming cartoony zombie shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare will definitely not have microtransactions at launch. But who knows what the future will bring.

Shallow, dumb and relentlessly violent, you could make a pretty strong case for Rambo: The Video Game being a near perfect adaptation of its source material. That source material being the three Sylvester Stallone movies released between 1982 and 1988, in which sociopathic war veteran John Rambo shoots the crap out of a small Washington town, most of Vietnam and a good chunk of Afghanistan.

Fridays, eh? The working week is almost over (boo!) and the weekend is almost here to replace it, signalling the start of two long and tedious days of rest and relaxation. The only consolation is that it's the same for all of us.

More than 80 Ubisoft titles have been reduced in a huge Steam sale, which is running from now until 24th February.

It's easy to forget in all the hype about DayZ about its bigger brother Arma 3, which is a bit of a shame as it's a stonking game. Bohemia Interactive's augmenting it a little too with the Zeus DLC, a multiplayer add-on that introduces Dungeons & Dragons style Game Master tools. And it's free!

A select group of Xbox One owners are being offered the chance to beta test the console's March firmware update and provide feedback on its changes.

Twitch Plays Pokemon is too popular for its own good - it's starting to break parts of the video game streaming platform.

A new Tony Hawk game is in development, the retired pro skateboarder has announced.

Donkey Kong sidekick Diddy Kong will again be a playable character in the upcoming versions of Super Smash Bros.

Shooter fans the world over are awaiting Titanfall next month, but there's another giant mech FPS that came out this week on Steam that fans of arcade destruction shouldn't ignore. That game is Dejobaan's Drunken Robot Pornography.

UPDATE: It's finished! You can still catch the livestream in all its glory below, though - and we'll be bringing you more from Bohemia's offices over the coming week.

'Round one. Fight!' booms the announcer, just like he has a million times before. Guile opens with a Sonic Boom, Ryu counters with a fireball. So far, so familiar. Then the first strange thing happens: Guile throws another Sonic Boom, much faster than his two-second charge time should allow. Ryu's forced to block one, then another. He jumps backwards to get space, and the second oddity occurs - he unleashes a fireball mid-leap, 'standing' on thin air. As soon as it leaves his hands, it veers towards Guile, who's already into the animation for his next shot. Meanwhile, two Sonic Booms are already humming through the air, glacially slow but ominously relentless. Ryu retaliates again, then again. Soon, the screen is a stream of projectiles, Guile's signature yell overlapping itself: 'Sonic-sonic-sonic-sonic...'

UPDATE 20/02/2014: Medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance has ended its Kickstarter campaign with a healthy £1,106,016.

Upon starting his own company in 2010 Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami began developing a game starring a gun-wielding cockroach. No, really.

Enemy Zero and D developer and musician Kenji Eno passed away a year ago today, but three of the late designer's colleagues will be producing his final game based on documents the Japanese developer left behind.

Now this is something different. It's the usual form for graphics cards vendors to unleash a brand new architecture with their latest and greatest high-end products. Yet here we are, with Nvidia's eagerly awaited new "Maxwell" technology receiving its debut in the form of a mainstream gaming product - the £115 GeForce GTX 750 Ti. What the new card may lack in raw gaming power, it more than makes up for in terms of efficiency and sheer innovation - in many ways, it's a stunning little piece of technology.

Zombie Studios' procedurally generated first-person scare-fest Daylight launches on PC and PlayStation 4 on 8th April. It costs £11.99.