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Who would like to buy everything to do with good-actually role-playing game Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning? That includes rights to the Amalur fantasy world, rights to a sequel and rights to the well-into-development Copernicus MMO that everything was building up to.

Skulls of the Shogun has launched on iPad and iPhone.

Love it or love to moan about it, the latest annual chapter in the Assassin's Creed franchise has once again advanced the increasingly labyrinthine narrative, provided answers to a number of outstanding mysteries and dropped new clues as to where the series may be heading.

Museum fans can now take a tour of the Louvre without a trip on the Eurostar - Nintendo has released its 3DS Louvre guide for general sale via the eShop.

Audio files pulled from Grand Theft Auto 5's recent Beach Bum update have hinted at a number of upcoming activities headed to the game's already-bulging open world.

Call of Duty: Ghost's PlayStation 4 debut hasn't gone too smoothly, with some reviews citing noticeable performance issues - even compared to the 360 game - along with the recent revelation that the single-player campaign is only running at 720p and not the full HD 1080p resolution promised by the developer.

Forza 5 developer Turn 10 has indicated it is open to tweaking the racing game's economy following the controversy surrounding its micro-transactions.

Like he just stepped out of the salon: Colin, the dog in Call of Duty: Ghosts, has been patched on PC to receive Nvidia's next-gen fur.

"Create the zoo of your dreams," reads the back of the Zoo Tycoon box. This is an exciting prospect. In the zoo of my dreams, visitors ride around on kangaroos. The gift shop is run by talking bears. Over at the colosseum, monkey butlers serve cocktails while Olympic sprinters race giraffes. There are no animals in the cages, just a thousand Jeremy Kyles, dolefully picking at rotten banana skins while scratching themselves new sores.

Amnesia developer Frictional Games has updated its status on its horror sequel, Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, which is now due in Q2 2013.

The recently revealed Steam Machine from PC and laptop developer iBuyPower has been priced at $499 (about £308), according to a report by The Verge.

Twitch has removed all channels livestreaming the PS4 app The Playroom from its directory following a glut of non-gaming related content.

Waking Mars developer Tiger Style has announced Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, a sequel to its 2009 mystery Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor.

Joe Danger and its sequel, Joe Danger 2, are coming to Mac and Linux via Steam, developer Hello Games has announced.

Desert Bus for Hope - the fundraiser that sees comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun play through Penn & Teller's joke of a game about driving a bus through the desert in real-time - has raised $522,348 this year for Child's Play, a charity that provides video games for sick kids.

After almost four years at the top, some would argue that change was long overdue. Since the original iPad launched and single-handedly kickstarted the tablet revolution in 2010, the device has grown in technological stature but remained fairly constant as far as physical form is concerned. The fifth generation model - blessed with the "Air" suffix - marks something of a departure from what has gone before, looking more akin to its smaller sibling, the iPad mini. This is the lightest large-screen tablet device on the market right now, and you'd be surprised at how much of a difference that makes during regular usage.

Yesterday Klei Entertainment and toy manufacturer ESC-Toy launched a Kickstarter campaign to mass produce plushies of the game's lovable pack mule-esque monster Chester. The campaign met its $15K goal in less than an hour and a half.

Double Fine's downloadable adventures Stacking and Costume Quest may have been published by the now defunct THQ, but the boutique developer has just regained their publishing and distribution rights. Better yet, it's partnered with Nordic Games to release retail versions of Stacking, Costume Quest and Eurogamer's 2005 Game of the Year, Psychonauts, for PC and Mac in 2014.

PlayStation 2 classic Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is headed to mobile devices next month, Rockstar has announced.

Digital Foundry is planning to put the video capture and streaming capabilities of both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One through their paces very soon, but in the meantime our YouTube editor Ian has been playing around with the tools and has some first impressions.

Codemasters' forum has gone offline.

Xbox One sci-fi adventure Quantum Break will ship with episodes of its tie-in TV show included on its disc.

Free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena game Smite launches on 25th March 2014, developer Hi-Rez Studios has announced.

UPDATE #2: Battlefield 4's PS4 patch is now live, DICE has announced, and includes fixes for the game's single and multiplayer modes.

Sony has confirmed the entertainment apps that will be available on the PlayStation 4 when it launches in Europe this Friday.

UK supermarket giant Asda has secured extra stock of PlayStation 4 and will sell it to those without pre-orders at midnight Thursday.

UPDATE: Sony's PlayStation App is now available to download in the UK from the iOS App Store and Android's Google Play.

Ashes Cricket 2013, a video game deemed "not fit for purpose" by angry customers, has been pulled from Steam.

Shining Force Online, a fan-created MMO based on Sega's classic RPG series, will enter into beta on 28th November.

When it comes to advancing the state of real-time rendering technology, Crytek has long stood at the forefront of the industry. With its first console-exclusive title, Ryse ushers in both the next generation of consoles and the latest iteration of its advanced middleware, CryEngine. Yet, when it was revealed back in September that Ryse would operate at 900p, it stirred up controversy that would explode over the coming months. Crytek has maintained that the sub-native presentation was its choice rather than a hurdle in delivering the best combination of image quality and performance. So the question is, does Ryse succeed where other sub-1080p titles have failed?