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Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced he will take a 50 per cent pay cut in response to the company's continued financial problems.

The existence of an ending for Ubisoft's annual Assassin's Creed series is "not exactly true", one of the franchise's lead writers has said.

The moment thousands of haters have waited for is finally here. Call of Duty is wobbling. Reviews of Ghosts were more wearily critical than usual, and with sales noticeably down on those of its predecessor, it seems gamers too may be growing tired of the annual "corridors and carnage" formula. It's still the top dog, but the rest of the pack is nipping a little closer at its heels.

The launch of Battlefield 4 on consoles new and old was marred by technical difficulties.

Sony has begun sending out invites to its upcoming PlayStation Now game-streaming service, users report.

Garry Newman doesn't really dress things up. You'd likely have guessed that much from the name of the game that earned him his fortune. Garry's Mod, the sandbox created from Valve's Source engine that has supported Newman for coming up to a decade, is a brilliantly blunt bit of titling. That much you'd also get from a brief phone conversation with him one sunny Tuesday morning, his flat West Midlands firmly placing him in his Walsall base. It's an office still reeling from the shock of the success of Rust, Newman and the team at Facepunch's first public-facing offering since Garry's Mod. He's got a wonderful knack of stumbling into phenomenons, has Newman.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon creative director Dean Evans has revealed some of his earlier game ideas that make Blood Dragon's intentional 80s camp seem downright sobering in comparison.

Stylish top-down f***-'em-up Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is now due in Q3 2014, the developer announced on Twitter.

Battlefield 4 developer DICE is launching a "Player Appreciation Month" running from 1st February to 6th March to give thanks to the hard working veterans who valiantly fought through Battlefield 4's buggy launch.

CD Projekt Red has unleashed three scrumptious new screenshots of The Witcher 3.

Dark Souls 2 is going to change one of the cardinal rules in From's Souls series: undead players will be susceptible to invasion.

Bethesda's upcoming MMO The Elder Scrolls Online is not going to require a PlayStation Plus account in addition to a regular £8.99 / $14.99 monthly subscription on PS4.

Portable puzzler The Room 2 will be available for download on iPhone from this Thursday, 30th January.

UPDATE 2.18PM: And now there's a trailer.

UPDATE #2 1.05PM The trailer is now live.

Have you heard about the hot new trend that's sweeping gaming? It's not shooting, or punching, or even jumping. It's rummaging. That's the buzzword of 2014, the year when seemingly every other new game - on the PC in particular - requires you to dig around in cupboards, bin bags and broken fridges like a crazed old lady at a Mad Max jumble sale. Tins of meat! Clean water! Bits of old wood! These are the currencies of the new gaming age, not the shiny gold coins of yore.

Yesterday Microsoft announced that it had bought the Gears of War franchise and that its wholly-owned developer Black Tusk Studios had been put to task working on it. So what's happened to Black Tusk's previous project?

Despite being recorded off-screen, this raw footage of PS4 exclusive inFamous: Second Son is bound to turn heads.

Creative Assembly's ambitious survival horror title Alien: Isolation will be playable for the first time in the world at EGX Rezzed, organisers announced today. (Full disclosure: we are the organisers. Hello!)

Will Project Spark really enable an entire Xbox One and PC community (and Xbox 360 at some point) to become game makers? Will the free tools be robust and versatile enough?

My first planet was a beauty. I beamed down to a bright alien installation filled with money boxes and secret passages, while behind me claret-covered hills rose above forests in which every tree looked like a human brain. The wildlife was aggressive but puny; I could be a king here, and I was, I was! I drilled the mineral guts out of the place and felled all those trees. I built useful gear and fought a UFO loaded with penguins, and then I moved on leaving little but rubble. I never looked back.

Stealth adventure Thief includes an achievement for taking your time - to unlock it you'll need to play for at least 15 hours prior to finishing the game's story.

Valve's in-the-works Source 2 engine appears to have been unmasked by a set of images from a next-gen Left 4 Dead 2 prototype.

When will the Apple fall? Not yet - not by a long shot. Another record quarter means Apple's obscene cash pile - Apple's war chest, if you like - has swollen to $159bn. What can't it buy?

A quartet of Canadian indie developers have created one of the most clever uses of the Oculus Rift I've seen with Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, a game about bomb defusing.

You knew League of Legends was popular, but did you know that 27 million people play the game every day?

A Titanfall beta on PC and Xbox One has been confirmed by Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella on Twitter.

UPDATE: If you've been interested in Chucklefish's intergalactic 2D sandbox Starbound, but have been turned off by the developer's need to wipe players' progress via updates, your worries have been assuaged... mostly.

In the summer of 2012 German indie studio KTX Software in association with NG:DEV.TEAM's René Hellwig launched a Kickstarter for a modern Dreamcast shmup called Redux: Dark Matters. Now that blast from the past has just been released.

UPDATE: Gears of War creator Clifford Bleszinski has confirmed that he will not be working on the next Gears game in any capacity.