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A zero, followed by ten more zeroes. That's a pretty frightening number. It is when it's the starting point of the hi-score table for Poof vs. the Cursed Kitty, anyway. It is once you realise there's a fairly good chance your final score for an early round will be 00000000006.

Forged with its latest GCN 1.1 architecture at centre, the AMD R9 290X sports a cutting edge Hawaii XT chipset that sets out to better Nvidia's cards - right up to the mighty GTX Titan - for a considerable discount. And unlike the 260X and 270X cards released earlier this year, which were simple rebrands of the existing HD 7790 and 7870 GPUs respectively, this is the company's most forward-thinking entry in the series yet. In amongst support for the pending Mantle API, a unique on-chip TrueAudio sound processing technology makes the cut, plus an ambitious push for gaming at full 4K resolution.

I finally got to see Abel Gance's Napoleon last weekend, and like pretty much anyone else who's been fortunate enough to witness the six hour silent epic, I've been obsessed with it ever since. It's sadly too rare an occasion to be able to see Kevin Brownlow's restoration of the 1927 visionary masterpiece, thanks partly to some unpleasant business with Francis Ford Coppola, but largely down to its grand Polyvision finale that requires three projectors and three screens.

After crashing and burning in 2D shoot-em-ups for more years than I care to remember, I've often wished for lightning-fast reflexes. But there's only one shmup that ever got me thinking about the insane effort that it takes to reach the speed of light. That game was SWIV.

Did you see that Beyonce released an entire album the other night, completely out of the blue? Yep, in a stunning move that makes Radiohead's choose-your-own-price release of In Rainbows look like risk-averse toe-dipping conservatism, the 32-year-old started selling a collection of 14 new songs online, complete with 17 music videos. "Surprise!" she wrote in a press release - the existence of which appears to have been her main concession towards industry convention. Apparently she was "bored" of releasing stuff the traditional way.

Ultra Street Fighter 4 includes online training and three versus three team matches.

Genius idea, half-baked product, or both? When Vita TV was first revealed on the eve of the Tokyo Game Show, the reaction to the screenless version of Sony's underperforming handheld was uniformly positive. Buoyed by a growing library of quality indie titles in combination with triple-A heavy hitters, this was the micro-console done right: quality hardware, decent games and an excellent controller in the form of the existing DualShock 3. But mediocre sales on the machine's Japanese debut suggest that Vita TV's execution may not have quite lived up to the potential, with much work left to do before the product hits the West.

Season's Greetings Eurogamers. It's the home stretch now, 2013's almost over and we're feeling nostalgic for the last 12 months. Broadly it's been a great year for gaming and there are plenty of fantastic games to talk about, but this week we've decided to concentrate instead on the fantastically awful ones.

The Cards Against Humanity creators have teamed up with Johann Sebastian Joust and SpellTower developers (Doug Wilson and Zach Gage respectively), to create Clusterf***, a card game about getting into a threesome with your mates.

Cut the Rope 2, the sequel to ZeptoLab's BAFTA-winning mobile hit Cut the Rope, will be coming to iOS on 19th December.

The Pokémon Bank app, which lets players transfer their adorable little fighters, will launch on the 3DS eShop on 27th December, Nintendo has announced.

Dead Rising 3's first DLC, Operation Broken Eagle, will star a Spec Ops Commander named Adam Kane, i.e. this guy:

Gaijin Games is porting its charming retro auto-runner, Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien, to Vita on 18th December in Europe and the 17th December in North America.

Another day, and another charming looking indie for Sony's platform. This week it's Doki Doki Universe, a strange little hybrid of a game that plays out like a disarming take on the Scribblenauts formula, all told in an aesthetic that looks like it's come straight from an artful child's scrapbook.

More often than not, video games attempt to approximate real-world activities that would otherwise be too perilous, expensive, physically demanding or scarce for us to enjoy. As we push light around the television screen with our thumbs, we catch something of what it might be like to fly a fighter plane a few feet above the ocean, to tilt a Ferrari around the Nürburgring's lingering corners, to miss a penalty for England, to shoot Hitler in the balls or, in the case of Shenmue, to work a fork lift shift down at the local docks. We know that the video game versions of these activities are only a faint echo of the real thing, but the thrills are sufficiently representative to compel our attention.

Maia has problems. Since its alpha launch, it's been something of a victim of its own success; promoted by Valve in a fashion not typically extended to Steam Early Access games of late, it saw an influx of new players intrigued by its mix of Dungeon Keeper and Silent Running, and in developer Simon Roth's futuristic warren through which layers of simulated systems and people course.

UPDATE: DICE has released a patch for the Xbox One version of troubled shooter Battlefield 4.

Wasteland 2 is in the hands of the public! At the moment those hands belong to people who backed the game on Kickstarter, but later today they'll belong to anyone who wants to pay for Steam Early Access.

Amnesia developer Frictional Games has released a new trailer for SOMA, its next horror game due out in 2015 for PC and PlayStation 4.

Capcom and art dealership Cook & Becker have teamed up to create a Street Fighter art print collection.

The Alien Isolation leaks continue: first it was artwork, now it's screenshots.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced the free games heading to PlayStation Plus subscribers.

Don Bradman Cricket 14 - that other cricket game - has been delayed.

"Hello?" A naked man on a tiny bicycle utters this plaintive question, and it echoes across a frozen wasteland, a little hint of desperation lifting the last syllable as it goes. Who is he? What does he want?

An officially-licensed Mega Man board game has been successfully crowd-funded on Kickstarter.

Eve Online maker CCP has re-evaluated vampire MMO World of Darkness and let go of 15 staff at the Atlanta studio making it.

A freshly-remastered version of Sega classic Sonic the Hedgehog 2 includes a previously-incomplete level only glimpsed until now.

The PlayStation 4 sold more than the Xbox One in US retail, according to stat-tracking group NPD.

The first episode of The Walking Dead: Season Two, All That Remains, has received its debut more-than-a-teaser trailer.

As amazing as Naughty Dog's post-apocalyptic epic The Last of Us is, one can't help but wonder "what would it look like in Lego?" Well ponder no more as animator Brian Anderson has delivered a delightful mock-up video of this very premise.