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Square Enix will release the Final Fantasy 14 update 2.1 on 17th December.

UPDATE: Recently-released endless runner The Snowman and The Snowdog Game is one of the first App Store titles to cap microtransaction spending for children.

UPDATE: DICE has released a new patch for the Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 4.

Just Cause 2 developer Avalanche Studios has given the multiplayer mod set to launch officially on Steam this month its blessing.

Skywind, the Morrowind remake in the Skyrim engine, is ready to download and play.

Microsoft has pledged to tighten its security policies to combat the "government snooping" uncovered in recent intelligence leaks.

Ultra Street Fighter 4 launches early June 2014, Capcom has announced.

Sadly there was no WipEout game at the launch of PlayStation 4 - but some of the spirit of the cult sci-fi racer made it in there.

Android-based console Ouya has opened up its payment options to include Bitcoins, a form of digital currency that nobody really understands.

Capy's mind-bending side-scrolling shooter Super Time Force is now slated to come to Xbox One via the ID@Xbox program.

Final Fantasy 8, the one about that moody guy with the fur-collared jacket, has arrived on PC today via Steam and "other e-tailers," Square Enix has announced.

Swedish developer Zoink's kooky psychedelic adventure Stick it to the Man is coming to PC on 13th December via Steam.

You may not know Dan Pinchbeck by name, but chances are you've heard of some of his games. The British indie developer made waves in the industry a few years back with his experimental Half-Life 2 mod, Dear Esther - a project Pinchbeck and his company The Chinese Room remade as a standalone release last year - and more recently he headed development on the divisive Amnesia sequel A Machine For Pigs. The Chinese Room's games are often characterised by their arcane prose, abstract storytelling, and an almost complete lack of conventional game mechanics.

UPDATE: Boston-based studio Owlchemy Labs has reached its $40K funding goal for its survival sim Dyscourse.

As Ghost Games' debut racer, Need for Speed: Rivals is a curious beast - a game of highway tag that replicates the handling of Criterion's efforts to an uncanny degree, despite the move to the Frostbite 3 engine. This isn't our first look at the game of course - we were lucky enough to gain extended access to Rivals during EA's recent multiplayer press event, but the PC version was nowhere to be seen. Regardless, during our testing, we were surprised to see the PS4 and Xbox One versions of the game delivering near like-for-like visuals too, albeit with more refined effects-work appearing on Sony's side. However, frame-pacing issues affected performance on both, and with promises of an imminent fix, a question mark lingers over the state of the final release - and how the end result stands up to PC.

Valve engineer Ben Krasnow has invented two rather odd input devices: one you control with your tongue, the other, your bum.

Bossa Studios - the brains behind bloody saw-'em-up Surgeon Simulator 2013 - have revealed Time to Live, a futuristic take on the multiplayer deathmatch genre.

UPDATE: Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has taken to Twitter to address concern about microtransactions in PlayStation 3 racing game Gran Turismo 6.

Nintendo has some of the most passionate fans of any games company, but even it has admitted that customer petitions hold little sway in business decisions.

Standalone DayZ is, finally, nearing some kind of playable release. But creator Dean Hall has issued a warning to people getting too excited about the Early Access launch on Steam.

Double Dragon Trilogy, the mobile port of the 1980s arcade side-scrolling beat 'em up series, has launched on the App Store for £1.99 and Google Play for £2.69.

DVD and games rental chain Blockbuster is to lose another 62 UK stores, its administrator announced today - another 427 jobs lost.

Behold, the cast of the Warcraft film, as revealed by movie makers Legendary and Universal (and Slashfilm).

Recently-released PlayStation 3 platformer Ratchet & Clank: Nexus has been rated for release on PlayStation Vita.

UPDATE: Microsoft has ditched its platform exclusivity requirement for Xbox One.

One of the great things about Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag was how often you could pretend that it wasn't actually an Assassin's Creed game at all. Sure, you were still running across rooftops, dealing with Templar mischief and, you know, assassinating people - but for a good portion of the game you could segment all the accumulated franchise clutter away and pretend you were just playing a really fun pirate adventure.

Developer Riot games has defended its decision to block professional League of Legend players from streaming rival games.

Apparently slaughtering FIFA Manager wasn't enough for Football Manager as it now preys on the living in Football Manager of the Dead, the latest update to Typing of the Dead: Overkill.

Saints Row 4 has added the cast of popular web show Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin'? as allies in its new DLC pack.

Battlefield 4 developer DICE has placed all of its expansions and "future projects" on the backburner while it puts all hands on deck to focus on the mess that is Battlefield 4's launch. Yes, that includes the Star Wars: Battlefront reboot it's been brewing up.