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Wii U owners won't be offered the most exciting and significant piece of Batman: Arkham Origins downloadable content: the upcoming, unannounced story addition, which focuses on "one of the most key relationships in Batman canon".

In the summer of 2011, Black Rock Studios, developer of acclaimed racing games Pure and Split/Second, closed.

UPDATE 31/1 8.30AM: It's a blip, and it's business as usual while both parties - Økokrim and Funcom - get to the bottom of the insider trading accusations. That's what Funcom director of communications Erling Ellingsen told Eurogamer.

My cursor pauses, thoughtfully, above the castle map. I'm running calculations in my head, cross-referencing with a chart of my young queen's mood. I make my decision. With a gesture and a click, I consign her to spend her weekend off attending court.

In honour of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds coming out / being awesome, Nintendo has decided to release The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition for free until 2nd February at 11.59 pm PST on the 3DS eShop.

Nintendo of Europe has announced a new offer where people who own one of five selected indie games will be able to purchase the rest at 60 per cent off.

UPDATE: This offer is limited to Microsoft Retail Stores in the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, Microsoft has confirmed in an e-mail to Eurogamer.

Sony has announced a new 10 game anthology entitled the PS Vita Indie Game Mega Pack.

State of Decay developer Undead Labs has hired one Patrick Wyatt, a man who specialises in "developing really big multiplayer games", like MMOs, like Guild Wars - the game he co-created alongside Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain. (The only missing Musketeer is Mike O'Brien, current head and only remaining founder of Guild Wars developer ArenaNet.)

The annual QuakeCon event has moved from August to July for 2014. It will take place in Dallas, Texas, from 17th-20th July.

The moment that I knew I wanted to be a Viking was the moment that I pushed another man off a cliff. I didn't mean to do this, but gravity and circumstance joined forces and suddenly he was gone. I suppose I didn't know my own strength. I suppose I also ignored the clues to my own strength that included: my big suit of armour, my big helmet, my big sword, my big shield.

EA's new free-to-play version of Dungeon Keeper is now available worldwide to download on iPad, iPhone and Android devices, the publisher has announced.

Octodad: The Dadliest Catch will have local co-op for up to four people, each controlling one set of the octopus' suckered limbs.

The people of Sony Computer Entertainment are in a good mood, which is understandable enough. The launch of the PlayStation 4 was a resounding success, and it's been backed up by some eye-opening numbers. In the UK, Sony's new console outsold the Xbox One at a ratio of 1.5:1 - a clean switch from the balance between the numbers of Xbox 360s and PS3s on these shores.

It's been two days and already Czech-made no-fantasy medieval RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance has reached its Kickstarter goal of £300,000.

Sony has announced plans to release a slimmer, lighter PlayStation Vita model in the UK, with the PCH-2000 due to launch on February 7th, with an estimated price point of £180.

Dictate-'em-up Tropico 5 has been confirmed for PlayStation 4! It will be the first game in the series to appear on Sony hardware ever ever ever.

"Kid spends large amount of parents' money in online/mobile game without parent knowing," may be a headline of the past.

The ratio of PlayStation 4 sales to Xbox One sales here in the UK is 1.5:1, PlayStation UK boss Fergal Gara said at an event this morning, attended by Eurogamer.

Backwards compatibility is coming to PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Now is only part of the story. A well-placed source working with Sony's streaming service reveals that only PlayStation 3 titles are currently scheduled to use the "gameplay over IP" cloud service. PS1 and PS2 titles are set to follow the more conventional route of running locally under emulation on Sony's latest console - but with the possibility of HD visual enhancements.

Microsoft will launch its much-needed Xbox One dashboard update in March, a new report suggests.

Rymdkapsel's a thing of real beauty. It's a slight beauty - there's a strong minimalism running throughout developer Grapefrukt's aesthetic and design - but it's more than enough to create one of the most compelling strands of strategy available on mobile and Vita.

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed new development plans for smart devices designed to increase consumer awareness of its consoles and games.

Oops! Missed this earlier in the week. The first Hearthstone Adventure mode - a single-player PVE experience where you earn new cards - will arrive after Hearthstone launches on PC and iPad, and will contain new quests, game stages and between 10 and 20 new cards.

Nintendo DS games will be ported onto the Wii U's virtual console, Nintendo has announced.

Nintendo has revealed that Mario Kart 8 will be released in May during its quarterly earnings presentation tonight. Previously the Wii U-exclusive had only been pegged for a general "spring" release.

In an effort to make Google Glass wearers appear even loonier than they do already, Google has created a handful of very basic mini-games as a way to inspire developers to make games on the platform.

Dynasty Warriors developer Omega Force's highly anticipated monster hunting Vita affair Toukiden: The Age of Demons will launch in Europe on 14th February, but in the meantime publisher Tecmo Koei has released a comprehensive 10 hour demo.

Microsoft has rebranded its cloud-based file hosting app SkyDrive as OneDrive following a copyright dispute with the British telecommunication group BSkyB.

Mammoth MMO projects sure know how to do one thing: cinematic trailers. And the newest The Elder Scrolls Online video, Arrival, is no exception.