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Best described as a mix of Crazy Taxi and KuruKuru Kururin, oddball indie game Roundabout has been confirmed for launch on Xbox One.

UPDATE #2 11/02/14: Ubisoft has updated its release schedule for the upcoming Far Cry compilation, The Wild Expedition. The bundle will now launch a week later - on 21st February rather than the 14th.

The latest colours in Microsoft's Special Edition Chrome Series of Xbox 360 controllers will be purple and black, the company has announced.

Batman Arkham Origins: Blackgate, the 3DS and PlayStation Vita game which accompanied last year's Batman: Arkham Origins, is getting a home console launch.

Open-world survival game Rust has sold a whopping 1m copies.

Sony has announced release dates for two Vita collections.

Ubisoft has confirmed that the Wii U version of Watch Dogs will not arrive when the game launches on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One at some point between 1st April and 30th June.

Last year proved to be one of the most progressive in UFC history. Not only did we see women fighting in The Octagon for the first time, we saw two of the sport's most iconic champions - Anderson Silva and Georges St-Pierre - lose their respective titles. Silva lost twice to Chris Weidman, with the second fight ending in a clean break of The Spider's leg, while St-Pierre vacated the title after a highly controversial win over Johny Hendricks. It feels like we're heading into a new era of MMA, and it's not something that begins and ends with the physical sport itself.

After making the precarious decision to stick with PC development during the Famicom console boom, and again during the developer death knell of the mid-2000s, when Square Enix, Sega Sammy Holdings, and Namco Bandai were born of a scramble for assimilation, Nihon Falcom Corporation's most impressive achievement is probably managing to stay in business. Like a float on a tidal wave, the company has surfed 30 years of industry turmoil by staying small, sensible, and buoyant.

One of Japan's oldest video game developers and sadly lesser known in the west than the Final Fantasy Corporation, Nihon Falcom is a company credited as the architect of the JRPG. Founded by computer buff Masayuki Kato, Falcom cut its teeth on NEC's PC-88 in 1982 and stayed loyal to the PC gaming scene for nearly 25 years.

Slightly Mad Studios has announced that it's working on World of Speed, a free-to-play racing game alongside My.com that's to receive a closed beta this Spring.

UPDATE 10/02/2014: Team 17 has confirmed to Eurogamer its plan to self-publish Worms Battlegrounds on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

The CG Heavenly Sword movie is out soon, and so a new trailer has been released.

UPDATE 12.30PM: Unsurprisingly, importers stampeded Amazon Japan to secure a copy on the region-free PS3. It sold out. There are Xbox 360 versions left, but the console isn't region free.

Microsoft's remake of the original Fable game has entered the UK all-format charts in third place this week, behind FIFA 14 and Call of Duty: Ghosts.

The achievements list for South Park: The Stick of Truth has leaked online and - who'd have thought - it contains a typically un-PC set of awards.

This weekend's removal of mobile hit Flappy Bird has already been capitalised on by app store developers looking to fill the game's void - and by people who downloaded the original when it was still available.

Batman: Arkham Origins developer Warner Bros. Montreal has indicated it will not release another patch for the game - a decision that has upset many players who have complained about game-breaking bugs since last year.

If you only started playing Hearthstone recently when it went into open beta, then hopefully one of the things you're starting to appreciate as you become more proficient is the subtle balance that exists among the hundreds of cards available in the initial version of the game.

The relentless march of time may bring with it incredible advances in gaming technology, but there's a cost too: with each passing year, the number of working vintage consoles slowly but surely diminishes. Some fail simply due to age, others due to the fact that they've been serving their owners dutifully for much longer than was ever anticipated when they were first manufactured. While it's true that "they don't make them like they used to" (you're unlikely to see many launch Xbox 360 consoles match the Atari 2600 by lasting three decades and still functioning), there's a definite lifespan to these classic systems, and indeed all consumer tech. Sooner or later, they're likely to stop working.

In a bewildering series of events Flappy Bird developer Dong Nguyen has decided to remove his hugely popular app, despite it raking in $50K a day in ad revenue.

AMD's APU technology - combining CPU and GPU in one chip - is well-known for offering up entry-level gaming power that significantly outperforms the Intel equivalents, usually at a very competitive price point. But in the last few months, the technology has upped its game. With the arrival of Xbox One and PlayStation 4, we've seen APU tech move on to the next level, defining the next generation of console gaming, while the latest PC desktop equivalent - codenamed Kaveri - promises to completely revolutionise the relationship between CPU and graphics tech in a way that simply isn't possible in a conventional computer.

"We don't have a mobile gaming industry anymore. We have a mobile scamming industry."

What do you get if you combine a game, crack, and a full-frontal lobotomy? Flappy Bird, of course. The most infuriatingly mindless, mind-bogglingly simple, inexplicably popular game since the last infuriatingly mindless, mind-bogglingly simple, inexplicably popular bird-themed game. Only this time around, Flappy Bird makes Angry Birds look like a real-life B-2 Bombing Simulator.

Sniper Elite's ghoulish X-ray kill cam returns in Sniper Elite 3 with 1080p next-gen testicles. This was the scoop with which our man Mike Channell returned from his interview with Sniper Elite's head of art, and let it never be said he buries a lede. See the interview and the first gameplay from the anatomically correct sniping adventure in the video below.

Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune has revealed a minute of early footage showing how his blue bomber's crowdfunded spiritual successor Mighty No. 9 is coming together.

inFamous: Second Son's pre-order bonus in GameStop Italy is glow-in-the-dark condoms and Red Bull.

In order to help users keep up with game updates in this crazy digital world, Steam has added a Recently Updated section to its online store.

Back in 2000 the 1993 point-and-click adventure Myst was remade as realMyst, a fully 3D restoration that allowed players to walk around the eerie isles as they saw fit. RealMyst was later spruced up for a shinier iOS release last year and now the original developer of the game, Cyan, has released a significantly enhanced version of its two decade old classic with realMyst: Masterpiece Edition, available now on PC and Mac via Steam.

UPDATE 07/02/2014 7.14pm: Renegade Kid has released the following Moon Chronicles debut trailer showing how this 3DS remake looks in action. It's definitely sharper than the original DS Moon, but there's no mistaking it for a current-gen affair. What do you make of it?