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UPDATE 16/02/2014 08:00 GMT: Good news for Xbox One owners who missed out on a beta key: Respawn has now opened the game up to everyone on Microsoft's next-gen console.

Conversations about Space Giraffe tend to focus on how it looks. How it sounds is just as important, though. Every enemy, every shot, every single interaction with Jeff Minter's vivid and relentlessly busy tube blaster comes with its own distinct audio cue, from the escalating knife-on-a-wineglass chimes of a flower being trimmed, to the push-button beep of a sneeze bouncing back into the playing field. The more I play it, the more I've started to realise that Space Giraffe's ultimately about a weird form of triangulation - about zeroing in on the location of a threat by combining the imperfect data from your eyes with the imperfect data from your ears. This alone makes it one of the most exciting and original games ever created, if you ask me - and also one of the most divisive.

While I was enduring a long-haul flight a few weeks ago, I started thinking about old classic games that deserve a remake. With gaming history now spanning five decades, there are plenty of ideal candidates for a modern-day makeover - but which ones should make the cut?

Hello Eurogamers, welcome to your weekly roundup of the Titanfall beta over at Titanfall beta. I mean, the goings on over at outsidexbox.com. Sorry, I've been a bit distracted of late. It's due to the Titanfall beta taking up most of Oxbox's free time.

Valve wants to expand enthusiast PC gaming beyond the desktop, bringing the Steam platform into the living room and beyond. We've already seen the initial line-up of Linux-driven Steam Machines, but the Valve initiative does not end there: imagine being able to stream gameplay from your PC to anywhere in the home, including a living room-based $99 Steam Machine. It's an exciting concept that's actually exceptionally well executed - and if you're one of the lucky ones, you may already have access to the technology.

Who do you want to be? A pilot gadding about in a giant mech? A magical lady in a complex, zip-heavy outfit? An abstract claw racing around the edges of a bright, vectorish grid? How about a goat?

Both Witcher games are free to play (don't get that phrase confused) on Steam this weekend.

Well-received indie platformer SteamWorld Dig will launch on PlayStation 4 and Vita in March, its developer Image & Form has revealed.

On Wednesday 16 October 2013, South Park hit the headlines across numerous entertainment channels and hard-news outlets when the long-running TV show missed its scheduled air-date for the first time in its history. For over a decade, Messrs Parker and Stone had been turning around episodes of their Comedy Central staple in just six days, pulling off the kind of deadline-baiting that would drive mere mortal writers to mental collapse and, by doing so, ensuring that their parodic social commentary remained on the nose and in line with the week's events.

Gruesome survival-horror game The Evil Within will be released 29th August in Europe and 26th August in the US, publisher Bethesda has announced.

Pre-order the digital version of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 on PlayStation 3 and you'll get a free download of Lords of Shadow: Mirror of Fate HD.

3DS role-player Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl will arrive in Europe on 2nd May, publisher Reef Entertainment has announced.

Retro-game download shop GOG is giving away the original Dungeon Keeper for free this Valentine's weekend (offer ends 11am GMT Sunday).

Flappy Bird is gone, but its influence remains. The overnight hit disappeared from App Stores nearly a week ago, but search for "Flappy Bird" on an online jobs site today and you'll get dozens of hits.

NCSoft's 2013 report shows Guild Wars 2 making steadily less money than it used to.

French developer Spiders (Of Orcs and Men, Faery: Legends of Avalon) has pulled back the curtain on Bound by Flame, a dark fantasy role-playing game for PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 4 due out at some point between April and June this year.

UPDATE 14/02/2014: The Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians Kickstarter was successful.

Remember Battlefield 2142, the 2006 Battlefield spin-off set in the future? It had a mode called Titan that a lot of players remember fondly. Now, developer DICE is reimagining it for release as DLC for Battlefield 4.

Ghosts and Modern Warfare might be two separate Call of Duty universes, but they're both developed by Infinity Ward, and so, we have a crossover.

Sega's Valentine's Day promotion for Rome 2: Total War and Company of Heroes 2 has downloadable content at stake.

Amazon (via NintendoLife) has published listings for an unannounced Transformers game called Rise of the Dark Spark.

Sony has boasted of impressive sales for PlayStation 4 in the US last month, where it outsold Xbox One by nearly two-to-one.

Backing up reports from earlier this year, Steve Downes, the voice of Master Chief, has said Halo 5 won't launch until 2015. For this year, we can expect Halo 2 Anniversary Edition.

Square Enix has announced Hitman GO, a turn-based strategy game for mobile devices.

Buy a PlayStation 3 copy of Final Fantasy 10/10-2 HD and you'll get a set of free costume DLC for Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Our version of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 has Japanese voice-overs, Square Enix has announced. It's a first for the fantasy role-playing series.

You can now download a trial version of Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 on Xbox 360, Square Enix has announced.

Can action role-playing game Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 get the series back on track?

UPDATE: Ubisoft has now firmed up Freedom Cry's release dates across individual platforms. The PC edition will launch alongside Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions next Tuesday, 17th December.

Remember those "very special" episodes of a TV series where everything becomes serious for a show? Freedom Cry feels a little like one of those - a familiar franchise tackling a particularly difficult topic. That's not to say the approach is jarring - the change befits Freedom Cry's slavery storyline - it's just surprising to find such a markedly different tone in the coda of Black Flag's swashbuckling adventure. But while Freedom Cry differs from the main game's story and themes, it remains technically reliant on the Assassin's Creed 4 mothership for everything else, and this is where its gameplay flaws remain.