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Long before Hearthstone was even a glint in Blizzard's eye, there was Magic: The Gathering: once just a card game, now a video game, and soon - a new report suggests - a film.

In addition to crowning Cristiano Ronaldo its world player of the year last night, football's governing body FIFA also named its Team of the Year, prompting EA Sports to update FIFA Ultimate Team with special one-off in-form versions of each of the players selected.

Rome 2's Caesar in Gaul expansion campaign has a problem with recent history. Unfortunately for Caesar, The Creative Assembly has established a pattern of releasing novel and systemically distinctive follow-ups to their major releases. Shogun 2's Fall of the Samurai campaign was a fascinating collision of Age of Rifles technology and doctrine with the fading samurai way of war. The Peninsular Campaign expansion for Napoleon: Total War likewise tried to combine traditional Napoleonic warfare with the guerrilla war and counterinsurgency campaign fought across the Spanish countryside. Both these campaigns (and arguably, Napoleon: Total War itself) tweaked the core Total War game design in exciting ways to cover more specific conflicts and challenges.

Like Hyper Light Drifter before it, Rain World emerged on Kickstarter out of nowhere and boy does it look good!

Road Redemption, the unofficial spiritual successor to Road Rash, has released a new gameplay video showing how the motorcycle-based action game has progressed since its Kickstarter campaign was successful.

UPDATE: Activision has confirmed that Onslaught's 28th January release is exclusive to Xbox Live, of course.

Team Meat has shown off a few seconds of gameplay from its upcoming "cat lady simulator" Mew-Genics in the following gif. (Click on to watch.)

Import publisher MonkeyPaw Games has announced release dates for half a dozen Japanese PS1 games on the PlayStation Store.

HMV's flagship store in London's Oxford Street will close its doors tonight after nearly 30 years.

The Xbox 360 was the UK's best-selling home console in 2013, figures shown to Eurogamer reveal.

SimCity will get an offline mode, Maxis has announced.

Maxis has unlocked the door to SimCity mods, but there are five rules those who tinker with the city building game must follow.

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.

When I think about games that have disappointed me, I can't help but think of BioShock. It's not that Irrational's dystopian shooter was a bad game, but it wasn't really what I thought it was going to be. I was lured in by the premise of being an anonymous survivor desperately trying to escape the ruined, mutant-infested remains of a spectacular underwater city. I thought you'd get to navigate this environment in an open-ended fashion, taking advantage of a supposedly rich ecology of mutated miscreants. Instead it ended up being a bunch of linear corridors full of one-dimensional kill-happy characters and binary choices.

China has begun drawing up plans to police games released in the country following its decision to lift a 14-year ban on foreign console sales.

Some of the world's top speedrunners gathered together last week to complete 155 games in record-breaking times - all in the name of charity.

There's a new Tekken movie in the works.

Happy 2014 to you, and if it's your first day back at work many condolences. Like a lot of you, we're miserably contemplating our enlarged bellies and trying to remember how this whole working thing goes, so in the mean-time: lists!

UK developer Codemasters has had a go at the endless runner genre that's so popular on mobile devices - with a trademark racing twist.

As a generation of video game designers enters its 30s and 40s and, in many cases, takes on the responsibilities of parenthood, themes of custody and paternity begin to feature more regularly in games. In the last couple of years, Telltale's The Walking Dead, Naughty Dog's The Last of Us and Irrational's Bioshock Infinite have each investigated the male custodian's role in a fallen world, asking us to assume the role of father figures protecting younger girls. Max: The Curse of Brotherhood - a resolutely traditional platform game with a resolutely traditional business model and, as such, an anomaly in the Xbox One's early catalogue - is another game based on family dynamics. It shifts the angle slightly with an investigation of the love/hate feelings so often experienced by young siblings toward one another - conflicting yet conjoined emotions that will be familiar to any parent with young children.

Traveller's Tales' loveable series of Lego games is known for its imagination, humour and attention to detail - and, in the case of the early titles, their solid 60fps refresh. However, the transition to the first round of HD consoles didn't go smoothly. Despite the relatively simple visuals, the jump from SD to 720p found the engine struggling to maintain a steady frame-rate without heavy tearing. Eventually, Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars saw TT abandon 60Hz entirely in favour of overhauling the visuals of the game and expanding the scope of the action to freshen up the series. With the arrival of next-gen console, though, there's all those extra frames to play for again. So just how well has the Lego series transitioned onto Xbox One and PlayStation 4? We decided to take a look at Lego Marvel Super Heroes in order to find out.

Good video games can tell you a story, or transport you to another place. The very best ones, though, are a stage on which to perform. Maybe it's via the thundering staccato of a well-played Makoto in Street Fighter, or in a waltz with the grey wolf Sif through the bleak ballroom of Dark Souls' Darkroot Garden. They grant you mechanics of expression, and they're flourished with little details designed only to embellish your dance; Street Fighter's taunts that allow you to showboat, or Dark Soul's gestures that gift you the prancing power of a well animated emote. A boss fight in From Software's masterpiece is made all that more gratifying when you step in with arms outstretched in cocky defiance before unsheathing your blade.

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Hello, Eurogamers! A new year means a fresh start for everyone, even a franchise as beleaguered as the Alien one. Creative Assembly wipes the slate clean with Alien: Isolation: a first-person horror ordeal that will make you forget all about Aliens: Colonial Marines.

The Secret Developers is Digital Foundry's occasional series where game-makers come forward to talk with us - and you - about topics they are passionate about, or in the case of this article, to give you the inside story behind a particular hot topic. As the future of the Wii U looks uncertain in the face of the successful launches for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4, this "warts and all" tale from a respected third-party creator gives you some idea of how Nintendo handled the transition to the high-definition gaming era, and the challenges developers faced in bringing their games to the Wii U platform.

So then, we finally have eyes on Steam Machines at CES 2014 in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, those eyes have come away unimpressed.

Yakuza: Ishin, the feudal era spin-off of the Japanese gangster series, won't have karaoke bars and arcades, but it will have singing, brothels, and haunted houses.

Sir, You Are Being Hunted lead programmer Tom Betts has cooked up a procedurally-generated racer called Permutation Racer.

The first half of Double Fine's long-awaited Kickstarter-funded point-and-click adventure Broken Age is coming to backers on 14th January. [Editor's note: We originally reported that it was coming to Early Access then. We apologise for the error.]

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity developer Dejobaan Games has added a weekly challenge mode to Drunken Robot Pornography's Steam Early Access build.