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UPDATE 09.34am: The Xbox One Media Remote has also now been spotted on Amazon UK, priced £19.99.

Jason Holtman, once high up business guy at Valve, has left Microsoft. There, he was in charge of PC gaming.

Bungie has unveiled the Shrike, one of the vehicles players can ride in upcoming first-person shooter Destiny.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One version of two-button fighting game Divekick is called Divekick: Addition Edition, developer Iron Galaxy has announced.

Spoilers below for BioShock, BioShock Infinite and Burial at Sea Episode 1.

As much as I once enjoyed marching to the modern warfare beat, all ghillied up, it's fair to say the fun has long fizzled out. The Total Hours Played tally that could run into the hundreds for Call of Duty 4 has gradually petered out with each series release, and in the case of Ghosts' online mode I barely got to double digits. But for many like myself, Titanfall's interplay between mech and pilot promises a reinvigoration in theme that the console FPS scene desperately needs, direct from the talents who propelled it to centre-stage in the first place.

The PS4 Final Fantasy 14 beta will be broken into two phases.

UPDATE 12/02/14: The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 has hit its $65,000 (£39k) Kickstarter funding goal in less than 30 hours.

Kinect Sports Rivals - the game that should show what Xbox One Kinect can really do - will finally be released in April.

Hotline Miami, Shadow Warrior and Luftrausers publisher Devolver has now picked up the brilliant Broforce, made by developer Free Lives.

I like inFamous games, but I've always wanted to love them. I've always felt I should love them, in fact, given that they blend acrobatic open-world chimney hopping with the crackle and fizz of elemental superheroics. inFamous 2 brought me close to love - mostly, granted, because you could kill street musicians - but it couldn't entirely escape from a handful of problems that had troubled the original.

Booming Clash of Clans developer Supercell plans to release a third game next month called Boom Beach. It's apparently already soft-launched in Canada and Australia, and is a top-five grossing iPhone game in both countries, reported Gamasutra.

It's that time of year again: The British Academy Games Awards (BAFTA) nominees have been announced. The biggest surprise is that BioShock Infinite - its triumphant arrival being one of the gaming events of the year, if not the generation - is not nominated for Best Game. Fighting it out for that honour are Tearaway, Assassin's Creed 4, Grand Theft Auto 5, The Last of Us, Super Mario 3D World and Papers, Please.

Microsoft's Xbox Entertainment Studios is developing Street Dreams, a TV series revolving around the life of rapper Nas.

UPDATE 12/02/14: Microsoft has updated its Xbox One Stereo Headset support page with a list of headsets that won't be supported by the Xbox One Headset Adapter.

American pop punk quartet Fallout Boy will release their own version of mobile hit Flappy Bird, the band has announced.

The online arm of GameStop UK is selling PlayStation 4 consoles for £329.97 - a tidy £20 saving off of the console's usual retail price.

UPDATE 9.42am 12th February: The stream is now over but can be watched in full below.

I'm not going to tell you a great deal about Bokida, because it quickly becomes the sort of game you don't want to know too much about in advance. I will tell you this first-person exploration game is worth your time, though, and I'll also tell you that - amazingly - it takes the kind of mechanics that Minecraft and Tiny & Big have employed to create hilarious slapstick carnage, and uses them, instead, in the service of something much more serene and contemplative. This is a deeply playful game, but it isn't a hectic one, and although you can spend hours exploring the current demo build, it all comes down to just two elements for the most part. There's the huge echoing landscape you've been dropped into, and there are the simple, satisfying tools you've been granted to help you make sense of that landscape. That's it.

Ubisoft has announced Guild of Rogues, a new multiplayer DLC pack for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

Goat Simulator will be released on Steam this spring, Coffee Stain Studios has announced.

EverQuest maker Sony Online Entertainment looked more than once at buying Project Copernicus, the MMO follow-up to Kingdoms of Amalur that sunk along with the 38 Studios ship.

Grand Theft Auto 5 developer Rockstar will update the game's online mode this Friday with a free Valentine's Day-themed add-on.

Turtle Rock co-founder Phil Robb has explained why the Left 4 Dead developer decided to leave Valve, and what it's like working alongside the sometimes enigmatic Seattle outfit.

Monster movies make fantastic fodder for video games, so it's a little odd to think back on how few video games have ever grasped what it is that makes monster movies fantastic. That stony silence cut short by a flock of birds fleeing in a panic from distant trees; the rustle in the grass that suggests a sudden threat of claws; that burst of blind panic brought into submission by a rough-edged order of heroes. It's a formula that's been good enough for films as varied and great as Godzilla, Jaws and King Kong, and it's one that flows through Turtle Rock's co-op shooter Evolve.

Microsoft has given further detail on March's Xbox One system update, which will focus on refining the system's multiplayer and social features.

Here in the gaming world, we don't get quite as many silly seasonal releases and game updates on Valentine's Day as we do for Halloween or Christmas - I wonder why? - but we do get a few. I'm sure there's some really cheesy temporary quest available in every major MMO right now, for example. And Gearbox hasn't been one to miss an opportunity to release a bit of themed DLC for its durably entertaining co-op extravaganza, Borderlands 2, so step forward its latest Headhunter mini-expansion: Mad Moxxi and the Wedding Day Massacre.

Crucial to medieval no-fantasy role-playing game Kingdom Come: Deliverance is its first-person melee system, which the developer has hailed as "revolutionary".

Some of the people who worked on Snatcher have announced a Kickstarter for an adventure game set in a steampunk Victorian-era London.

It's coming out this autumn and it's most simply described as a next-gen Dark Souls, and now Lords of the Fallen has finally shown its face in a videoed gameplay walkthrough several minutes long.