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The PC version of arcade shooter Velocity Ultra will arrive on Steam next Thursday, 12th December, priced £6.99/€8.99/$9.99.

UPDATE: The Stasis Kickstarter has been successful.

UPDATE: The multiplayer mod for Just Cause 2 launches on 16th December 2013, its Steam page has revealed.

Switching on your next-gen console you might be surprised to notice it lacks some of the most-used features of its eight-year old predecessor. But that is the case with Xbox One, whose operating system trades many of the Xbox 360's system features for a leaner interface.

Despite a reputation for creative conservatism, Japanese role-playing games have enjoyed something of a revival of the imagination in recent times. The recent triumvirate of Nintendo Wii titles, Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story and Pandora's Tower, demonstrated the potential for ingenuity and originality in this often staid genre - particularly Xenoblade, which is one of the most interesting games of any sort of the past decade.

Vita TV got off to a slow start in Japan - but that hasn't put Sony off of releasing it in the west.

Hello, and welcome to a special edition of the increasingly regular Eurogamer.net Podcast!

PlayStation 4 has sold over 2.1 million units worldwide, Sony has announced.

Civilization 5 designer Jon Shafer has delayed his latest 4X turn-based strategy game At the Gates to 2015.

Braid developer and elder statesman of sticking it to the man, Jonathan Blow, has teased VR support for his upcoming first-person puzzle game The Witness.

Here's something exciting to kickstart your Tuesday: a guided tour through a series of menus. They're not any menus, thought! They're Gran Turismo 6's menues. Okay, they're just like any old menus.

I don't know about you, but a world in which Knack outsells a Tokyo EAD Mario isn't a world I want to be a part of. But before I hire some plumber to come round and jump on my head until my skull cracks, let's try to right some wrongs by showing Super Mario 3D World some of the love it deserves.

UPDATE: Microsoft has issued the following statement to Eurogamer advising players not to do everything they see on YouTube, especially if it involves mucking about in your Xbox One's super secret Developer Settings menu.

Microsoft will update its Windows platforms in spring 2015, according to a report.

Terry Cavanagh's dastardly difficult mobile classic Super Hexagon has been ported to the Commodore 64 via indie developers Paul Koller and Mikkel Hastrup as part of RGCD's C64 16KB Cartridge Game Development Competition.

Let me be Frank. And John. Actually, let me be FranknJohn (the head of the former and the body of the latter), a bizarre post-human experiment who wakes up with no knowledge of his horrible purpose, and then sets off to find out who he is and why he came to be.

An odd mix of American Football and robotic simulation, Frozen Endzone will launch for PC in public beta this Thursday, 5th December.

UPDATE: An industry source has told Eurogamer that life-to-date Wii U sales in the UK are still around the 150,000 mark after a year on sale.

The Walking Dead's "All out War"-themed Game Jam has come to a close with the surreal, monochrome first-person exploration-based Remember the Fallen emerging as the victor.

UPDATE #2: Batman: Arkham Origins' Initiation DLC will be available to buy on PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360 from tomorrow, priced £5.49.

With the rising price of next-gen games a hot topic of conversation, the case for free-to-play moving onto consoles should be easier to make. Games like Warframe, however, probably won't help.

I've had access to the beta test for Diablo 3's first expansion, Reaper of Souls, for over a week now, yet I've barely touched the new fifth Act in the campaign and only scratched the surface of the Crusader class. The reason? Adventure mode, which is absolutely the best and biggest addition in an expansion which changes almost everything. It's nothing less than a new way to play the game.

Submissions are now open for EGX Rezzed 2014's Leftfield Collection, the event's free-to-exhibit platform for indie titles.

Rockstar's upcoming content creator for Grand Theft Auto Online has been discovered and accessed in the game's files.

With Ashes Cricket 2013 cancelled after its catastrophic launch was deemed "not fit for purpose" by angry customers, what next for cricket-loving gamers?

Retail behemoth Amazon has announced plans to fly packages direct to your door via unmanned drone, starting in the US in 2015.

Sony's PlayStation 4 is the fastest-selling console in UK history, according to official sales figures.

Telltale Games has confirmed a second returning character for The Walking Dead: Season Two - your friendly travelling companion Omid.

Dogged by controversy over the shortcomings of iOS 6 - and, in particular, the woeful state of the maps app at launch - the iPhone 5 didn't get much of a break during its initial weeks on the market. A solid device with excellent games performance and a logical refactoring of the screen, the phone was clearly another quality product from Apple, but game frame-rates and OS fluidity aside, it was difficult to see much of a reason to upgrade as enhancements to basic functionality weren't quite compelling enough. The iPhone 5S puts things to rights.

For decades, video games have strived for cultural relevance. Cultural identity struggles instigated by spats with politicians or critics from other media have led to a complex among many gaming hobbyists as well as designers and developers in the gaming industry - that this medium has serious potential and deserves the same level of respect and critical scrutiny as any other. At the same time, there's a rise of game development programs and degrees at universities across the world; professorships, residencies and long-form game criticism are helping games through their adolescence and into adulthood.