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20 per cent of all developers polled at last year's Game Developers Conference were working on a game for PlayStation 4, a newly-released survey has revealed.

Thief outputs at a native 1080p resolution on PlayStation 4 and a native 900p resolution on Xbox One, Square Enix has confirmed to Eurogamer.

Games typically begin and end with killing. In between, there will be a lot of killing. And if you get bored, you can always go off and do some different killing. Heavy Rain is another game about killing, but the difference is that when you pull the trigger - if you pull the trigger - you're committing to something with consequences. You may die in Heavy Rain, but rather than losing progress you may lose opportunities. In a medium where your existence is now so cheap that most games don't bother to punish you for wasting it, Heavy Rain wants you to respect human life.

The next update for Minecraft's best-selling Xbox 360 version will include some major features from the game's PC build.

Brian Fargo is a name that permeates virtual role-playing. He's touched, influenced or otherwise dabbled with some of the most popular games in the genre, including Fallout. And, of course, the one that started it all: Wasteland.

Ex-Epic design chief Cliff Bleszinski has had it with disc-based games.

Sega has secured the future of Persona maker Atlus after buying its parent company last year.

Dance Central and Rock Band developer Harmonix will next turn its hand to the shooter genre, with futuristic free-to-play FPS Chroma.

Gabe Newell has taken the unusual step of addressing concern over VAC - Valve's anti-cheat system.

Sony has announced it's sold more than 5.3m PlayStation 4 units around the world.

UPDATE: It's all over bar the shouting - and while we're waiting for those yet to the evac point in time. You can catch the full stream from yesterday in the magic YouTube box below.

Strider Hiryu sprints deeply, at forty-five degrees, arm raised to mouth as if shielding his lips while leaning into a mean wind. His crimson scarf billows dramatically behind. He launches into a cartwheel arc through the air before landing with a silent thud on the tail of a familiar foe, the grandson of the chain-link Chinese dragon that loop-de-looped through the air in the original Strider of the arcade. This remake may have been developed in California by Double Helix, but it bears a strong family likeness: Strider's silhouette is unmistakably that first conceived by Tatsumi Wada in 1989, and the lithe ninja's gait and armory remain intact. You even benefit from the generous double jump he learned in the second game.

A Final Fantasy 7 remake - often called for by fans of the Japanese role-playing game series - is not currently in development, Square Enix has said, and it doesn't look like it will be any time soon.

Microsoft hasn't made things easy for itself. For a console with so many sub-1080p games, the quality of its internal hardware scaler has been deeply unsatisfactory up to now, resulting in poorer-than-expected image quality in a lot of key exclusives and multi-platform titles. The good news is that this weekend's Xbox One system update, which followed hot on the heels of the Titanfall beta, has seen Microsoft take positive steps in resolving the issue.

UPDATE 16.08PM The UK sale price of Ryse will be £34.99, Microsoft has confirmed.

Five and half million people have watched and thousands taken part in a still-ongoing livestream of Pokémon Red where viewers control the game.

Activision has announced Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, the game leaked by Amazon last week. It's due out on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U, 3DS and PC.

Tengami, the point and touch adventure puzzle game from UK developer Nyamyam, launches on the App Store this Thursday, 20th February.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will inspire a range of reactions. Fortunately it's not exactly a wide range of reactions, so we can probably just run through them one by one.

I never thought I'd write an article in praise of a gun, but I never really saw a gun like Titanfall's smart pistol before, so I'm willing to risk it just once. This seemingly diminutive gadget is the first weapon that Respawn's lengthy - and laudably pacy - tutorials introduce you to. In its own quiet way, I think it gets to the heart of why the game's already so much fun.

Apple and Google have finally begun to stem the tidal wave of Flappy Bird clones saturating app stores, developers report.

The Lego Movie Videogame has beaten Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 to the top of the UK all-formats chart.

Konami has confirmed the resolutions and frame-rates for all versions of Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes - and PlayStation 4 comes out on top.

The names of new Titanfall maps, modes and more have been found in the beta game data.

UPDATE 17/02/14: Valve has tightened up its game-tagging after a few customers - somewhat predictably - began using the feature to create their own humourous labels for certain games.

The last time Microsoft took on publishing duties for the Xbox version of a constantly evolving PC hit, it ended up swimming in Minecraft millions like Scrooge McDuck. Will the same happen with World of Tanks, which has around 78 million registered players on PC? That depends on how eager you are for a slightly scruffy and incredibly niche game where one shot can kill you stone dead.

I first read about Sky Rogue over on RPS, where the happy talk of SEGA blues and the promise of fwooshiness was enough to get me downloading the current alpha. Seconds after firing it up, I had discovered the Kondor light bomber, and, well, life has never really been the same since.

In our earlier exchange with Titanfall developer Respawn, the words "frame-rate is king" rang loud as its mission statement. Perhaps it's not too surprising, then, that visually the game is a composite of striking and bland elements - a vibrant effects-fest in motion, but with a clinical simplicity elsewhere that can be hard to overlook. We've seen these cutbacks before, of course, and if there's one thing that can get you off the hook for taking this approach, it's a low-latency 60fps golden standard. In the case of the Titanfall beta, however, the results aren't entirely as expected.

To celebrate the launch of Lighting Returns: Final Fantasy 13, we thought we'd take a look back at one of the most fondly remembered instalments in the series: number seven.

The arcade is dead. It's not even a statement to be contended any more. The London Trocadero's Funland pulled its shutters down two years ago, and late last January, Goodge Street's Casino, a yellowing warren that once housed an eclectic and exciting array of cabinets, gave up on arcade gaming altogether. It's not a phenomenon exclusive to the UK capital, either: in Tokyo, the 50 yen arcades synonymous with the rose-tinted view many have for the Japanese scene are dwindling in number, with Shibuya's finest example shutting its doors for good last year. There are the occasional havens - Acton's Heart of Gaming is a destination as thrilling as any arcade that's gone before for the real aficionado - but they're museums, preserving a moment of time and tenderly suspending it in stasis.