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Middle-earth: Shadows of Mordor sounded a lot like Warner's excellent Batman Arkham games, and now it looks a lot like them in action, too.

Remember all that hullabaloo about revealing lesbian sex in Mass Effect? However ludicrous the criticism, it's the sort of steamy content BioWare fans have come expect - love stories, love scenes, and often quite daring and progressive ones (for video games, at least).

Elder Scrolls Online publisher Bethesda has roped in a green room full of acting talent to voice some of the key characters in its upcoming MMO.

Insectoid invasion shooter Earth Defense Force 2025 will touch down in Europe on 21st February, publisher D3P has confirmed.

It's quite possibly not meant to happen this way. A new console arrives accompanied by expensive fireworks and equipped with considerable firepower, and the one game everyone's talking about has its heart set in the corner of an 80s arcade, even if it's been dolled up in sharp voxel threads from an early 90s vision of the future. Resogun's status as the jewel in the PlayStation 4's crown might have been assisted by the less sparkling offerings elsewhere in Sony's first-party line-up, but none of that could detract from the sheer amount of style developer Housemarque had injected into its shooter.

3DS platformer Yoshi's New Island will launch in Europe on 14th March, Nintendo has revealed.

Over the last few years, video games have quietly arrived at a hallowed place where creators - be they hobbyists or fully-fledged professional developers - have begun to look not to motion pictures and literature for inspiration, but to the medium's own history. This has resulted in as much navel-gazing as it has productive introspection, and so for every successful reimagining of a treasured slice of history, there's a franchise reboot or crowd-funded revival whose merits and miscues can be debated ad infinitum.

The BBC and Microsoft have remained tight-lipped on the progress of an iPlayer app for Xbox One, despite a recent report that suggested its ongoing absence was due to problems integrating Kinect support.

After nearly a year on console and PC, Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider reboot is finally coming to Mac later today on the Mac App Store.

Eurogamer's alpha and beta reviews are reviews of games that are still in development but are already being offered for sale or funded by micro-transactions. They offer a preliminary verdict but have no score attached. For more information, read our editor's blog.

PC manufacturer Alienware has clarified an earlier report that its upcoming Steam Machine cannot be upgraded by users.

Group combat in Elder Scrolls Online is something that's fundamentally new to the Elder Scrolls IP. There are MMO classes and roles - it's not you in an AI playground being what you want, doing what you want and changing the world around you.

UPDATE: That was quick! 24 hours after its North American launch, Hearthstone is now into open beta in Europe, too. The game is free to download and play for everyone from the European Battle.net. Want to know why you should give it a try? Check out Tom Bramwell's Hearthstone beta review.

A collective of artists and scientists called Be Another Lab have created a way to use the Oculus Rift to see what it would be like to occupy someone else's body.

Passage and Sleep is Death developer Jason Rohrer is giving away cold hard cash and weaponry as part of a week long promotion celebrating the launch of The Castle Doctrine, his MMO strategy game about burglary and defense.

Retro platformer Shovel Knight - the debut title of ex-Wayforward staff at Yacht Club Games - is now slated for a 31st March release on PC, Wii U and 3DS, the developer has revealed in a new trailer.

UPDATE #3: The Banner Saga developer Stoic Studios has finally released a statement about its trademark dispute with King over the word "saga."

Steam has accepted its latest batch of 50 titles on its Greenlight service, including a couple of recent feline-based favourites.

UPDATE: The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog has released the full version of the opening cinematic to its story-based DLC, Left Behind.

Sony has revealed its list of offerings for its February Instant Game Collection, i.e. full games you can download with a PlayStation Plus account that you can keep so long as you continue your service.

If you've got an Xbox One and Dead Rising 3 sitting in your house somewhere, chances are you've already got its freshly launched DLC add-on Operation Broken Eagle - how else to explain that whopping 13GB update? You might be in two minds whether to part with the money to unlock the thing, though, even if it's been impolite enough to guzzle up your bandwidth. And that's where the lovely Ian Higton comes in, a man who braves the wilds of new games so you don't have to. Or at least so you can figure out whether it's worth you heading there yourselves.

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is barely out of closed beta but developer Blizzard is already having to fight off its first clone.

Just Cause 2 is an exhilarating and chaotic sandbox action game: you play a secret agent whose main skills are the ability to grapple two objects together with a magical wristbow and spawn an infinity of parachutes. The game's set on the island of Panau, a place of disasters and pinwheeling hilarity where a single, seemingly insignificant mistake can have ludicrous and explosive consequences. The whole thing's glorious and exhausting and ultimately perhaps a little bit hollow. Over the last few weeks, I've been told that the recent fan-made multiplayer mod - standard Just Cause 2 is resolutely single-player - is even more extreme in all these aspects. I had to see it for myself.

The first three games in Capcom's Ace Attorney series will be re-released on 3DS in Japan.

Smart-looking mobile spin-off Deus Ex: The Fall is now available on Android, its publisher Square Enix has announced.

UPDATE #2: Microsoft has asked Machinima to mark videos made as part of its paid-for Xbox One content deal as advertising, the company has told Eurogamer.

Julian Gollop is best known as the creator of XCOM and now he's returning to his classics with a planned update of his 1985 ZX Spectrum strategy game, Chaos: The Battle of Wizards, entitled Chaos Reborn.

Minimalist RTS Rymdkapsel is coming to PC, Mac and Linux via Steam on 30th January.

Aerial combat game Strike Vector made some waves last year when it revealed that a four-person team was capable of making a polished-looking dogfighting game with high production values and fluid combat. The dev team eventually grew to nine, and after an only 15 month development cycle Strike Vector is ready to launch on 28th January for PC via Steam.

Some would say Square Enix has a lot of nerve for shilling out a full-priced next-gen version of its 2013 Tomb Raider reboot a full year after the game hit store shelves, but the publisher is adamant that the new enhancements are worth the high asking price. Now, it's detailing exactly what these additions are in the following tech trailer.