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UPDATE: One of Get Even's most unique features is its cutting edge 3D scanning technology that recreates real-world locations in the game - as demoed in the trailer below. This begs the question: will its reliance on real-world locales hinder the level design? After all, real-world architecture likely isn't as suited to a gunfight as fictional maps the developer could manufacture.

Indie developer Roll7 has announced a 22nd January release date for its 2D side-scrolling skateboard title OlliOlli.

"The God of War comparisons really pissed us off."

Ubisoft has released a set of images comparing the original PlayStation Vita version of Assassin's Creed: Liberation with its upcoming PC and console port.

DayZ's quite popular, isn't it? Even with a half-hearted plea from its developers not to jump in just yet, the standalone on Steam early access is racing towards a million sales, which isn't bad considering the actual beta's pretty much at least a year away.

Activision is stumping up a whopping $1m for the next Call of Duty Championship.

UPDATE: Bethesda has explained the sighting as a website error.

Luigi's Mansion 2 and Mario Strikers developer Next Level Games will work exclusively with Nintendo on future projects, the studio has announced.

I've always enjoyed the mystery and menace of the Fade, Dragon Age's twisted ethereal plane. It offers magical power, but it bites, fangs shaped as malicious demons ready to entice and deceive ambitious minds. And they do, and so the world fears magic for the corruption and destruction it tempts. Templars police the study and practice of magic but tensions, strained to breaking point, have snapped - torn by the events of Dragon Age 2 and the events of novel Dragon Age: Asunder. In third game Dragon Age: Inquisition, the world is at war. And the Fade is at the heart of it all, its demons threatening to spill through a great tear in the belly of the world of Thedas.

Eldritch was one of the many mini-gems of 2013, a procedurally generated survival horror game that placed a handful of neat systems in the player's hands as they struggle to stay alive.

Five students are working on a first-person puzzle game with an intriguing mechanic - manipulating objects using forced perspective.

Here's a 30-minute walkthrough of a murky prison level from Dreamfall Chapters, the Kickstarted 3D adventure by Dreamfall creator Ragnar Tornquist and his Norwegian Red Thread Games.

This is what happens when you try to rob Robert Bowling, former Infinity Ward creative strategist and community manager and now president of Human Element developer Robotoki.

Fixing Xbox One's unintuitive social features will be the focus of the console's first major firmware update, Microsoft has said.

There's a Japanese proverb that tells the story of a cricket that decides it will swim across a wide stream. The insect sets off with great gusto, but when it reaches the middle of the river it begins to doubt its ability to finish the task. Sieged by self-doubt, the cricket turns around and swims back the way that it came. It's a proverb that - with admirable humility and self-awareness - the game designer and head of Monolith Software Tetsuya Takahashi once said applies to his career.

Steam Family Options is now live to all users of the digital platform.

PlayStation Now requires a 5Mb/s connection to ensure what Sony calls a "good experience" for the majority of games.

Mike Singleton's 1989 Commodore Amiga and Atari ST survival sim Midwinter is getting remade in glorious HD for PC and unannounced consoles.

Steam Greenlight has accepted another 50 games onto Valve's distribution service, including Depression Quest, Steam's first Twine game.

The latest Humble Bundle lets you pay what you want for Papo & Yo, Joe Danger 2: The Movie, To The Moon and Runner 2: Legend of the Rhythm Alien.

A sequel to Killing Floor is likely in the works, based on a glitch on Steam earlier today that swapped its stats page for a list of titles not yet announced.

Popular fantasy series The Witcher is getting its very own board game later this year.

Slender: The Arrival, the official commercial remake of the browser-based horror phenomenon Slender: The Eight Pages, is coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 in Q1 2014.

Blizzard has made a change to parental account controls that, by default, set kids' accounts to 'not allowed to buy stuff'.

There's a Halo game on Xbox One! Shame it's not a particularly great one, mind - Spartan Assault, a top-down action heavy spin on Microsoft's fantasy sci-fi universe, doesn't quite reach the highs of its first-person relatives, but it's enjoyable enough nevertheless.

IGF finalist Don't Starve is available on PlayStation 4 from the PlayStation Store today for £12. Better still, it's free for anyone who subscribes to PlayStation Plus.

ARRRRGH what is it what is it?!

Creative Assembly's just-announced Alien: Isolation will not appear on Wii U any time soon, the developer has confirmed.

Mirror's Edge writer Rhianna Pratchett has confirmed she is not working on the sequel, Mirror's Edge 2.

With the servers for Sony's SOCOM games near death, it seems fans of team-based tactical third-person shooters are stuck for something to play.