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The company behind Kinect's motion-sensing technology has been bought by Apple, the iPhone and iPad maker has confirmed.

Former 343 Industries programmer Corrinne Yu has joined Naughty Dog to work on PlayStation 4.

Atlus has announced Persona 5, a PlayStation 3 exclusive due out in Japan by the end of 2014.

Nasty, brutish and short, Ryse: Son of Rome has emerged from a seven-year development hell as a visually resplendent, preternaturally dumb action game that exhibits a galling, monotonous bloodlust. As a gladiator in the console wars arena, it should wow the crowds, but it's not likely to keep them on side for long. It doesn't have the staying power.

Like PlayStation 4, Xbox One has got off to a great start.

There are already an awful lot of cards in Hearthstone, Blizzard's amazing new online collectible card game, and they cover a wide variety of play styles. Last week, though, I opened a fresh pack and found a card that's posing an unusual problem: whenever I play it, it's so powerful that I feel bad about the whole thing afterwards. Meet Onyxia, the dragon.

It's PlayStation 4 launch week - in the US at least. For the UK and Europe, the next generation doesn't start for another couple of weeks, while Japan is months away from the arrival of Sony's latest hardware. To help bridge the gap, we're happy to provide some 1080p60 download video of the key Sony first-party exclusives: Killzone Shadow Fall, Resogun and Knack.

I've been rolling dice my whole life. Sometimes in a metaphorical sense, like that time on the Catford to Bromley bus when I sat next to the skittish chap jangling a carrier-bag of cutlery (3+4: "safe, nothing happens"). More frequently, though, it's been accompanied by the satisfying clickety-clack of polished polyhedrons tumbling across a tabletop. Through the years I've repelled the frenzied mass of tooth and claw with a sole surviving Terminator, hacked apart gigantic spiders in an underground lair and, on more than occasion, fallen asleep drunk in the corner of a tavern ("miss 1 turn"). This is how legends are born.

It was an irresistible opportunity. Just before the launch of Killzone Shadow Fall, Guerrilla Games offered us the chance to visit its Amsterdam studio - to meet and talk with every major design and technology discipline within its walls. As journalists we are almost always outsiders looking in, and not privy to the design process itself, so this unprecedented level of access would make for a very different article. During the course of our visit, we swiftly discovered that next-gen isn't just about better graphics and sound, although clearly those play an important part; it's about the opportunities this new level of power offers to developers, and how it allows them to more fully express themselves as creators.

There's nothing much to do at the top of the Agency Tower. Trust me: I've been there before.

On paper, delivering Forza Motorsport 5 to the 1080p60 standard seems like an immediate, crowd-pleasing move; a massive boost in clarity that sounds aloud the series' first crashing footstep on next-gen turf. But even as an Xbox One launch title, this only scratches the surface of what we expect from a series of this pedigree making a technical leap. Indeed, developer Turn 10 has strived to go the extra mile by making each car in its 200-strong roster worthy of close scrutiny in its Autovista mode, with many of its legacy circuits also remixed to a higher level of precision. Improvements over Forza 4 are many - but there are caveats preventing it being the full-on overhaul we had hoped to see.

UPDATE: Olatunji's manager has issued a statement on his client's behalf insisting the YouTuber had changed his ways.

UPDATE: Microsoft has issued the following statement to further clarify its first statement:

Rewind some eight years and you'll remember a time when DLC was a dirty word - when it symbolised a certain arrogance and greed typified in the shining armour that could sit on The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion's horses, for a price. It took the best part of a generation for the concept of DLC to settle in, and for it to become a respected, at times respectable way to extend the lifespan of a game.

Dice's super-popular multiplayer shooter Battlefield 4 launched with more than its share of online issues, causing many a game to crash. Now, to make up for this botched launch, the developer is going to offer double XP for any multiplayer match played between 28th November and 5th December.

Co-op action puzzler Tiny Brains is now dated for a PS4 launch on 11th December in Europe and 3rd December in North America.

Legendary tech guru John Carmack - he who brought the first-person shooter into the limelight with Doom, Quake and more - has left id Software, the studio he co-founded back in 1991.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes is set to have "exclusive Xbox content," according to a new trailer for the Xbox One.

Ratchet & Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac's upcoming Xbox One-exclusive open-world, parkour-based shooter Sunset Overdrive has been confirmed for a 2014 release.

Virgin America has become the latest airline to allow passengers to play games during take-off, the company has announced. Other airlines that have recently granted this include: Delta, JetBlue, American Airlines, United Airlines, US Airways, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, and Southwest Airlines. (Thanks, Polygon.)

Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida claims that Demon's Souls and Dark Souls inspired some of the PS4's key features.

UPDATE: And finally, The Spartan Show has gone to bed after a marathon streaming session that lasted through the night.

Popular streaming service Twitch is planning to add a way to archive videos on PS4.

Happy Birthday, Doctor Who. After 50 years on TV and a string of middling video game adaptations, how does the franchise's interactive future look?

"You don't want people to feel alienated by crazy features and crazy changes." So said Battlefield's executive producer, Patrick Bach, just over a week ago. Few will have been surprised by his words, what with the military shooter genre not being known for its radical reinventions, but it's interesting that he felt he had to address the issue at all.

Do you remember that bit in The Dark Knight Rises when Bane escapes from a plane in flight, blowing it in half and whisking himself to freedom as the fuselage falls away? Infinity Ward certainly does. It recreates the scene almost exactly in Call of Duty: Ghosts. It's just one of many widescreen blockbuster moments in a game that is, as always, propelled more by macho bombast than narrative coherence - but in lifting so blatantly from such a famous scene in a recent popular movie, it offers us a glimpse at the desperate emptiness that can so easily creep into a series when annual updates require a constant stream of wow moments.

EA has identified a couple of bugs with the Xbox One version of FIFA 14 it intends to tackle with an update.

When SoulCalibur 2 made its console debut back in 2003, I already had the hardware trinity of the day in my possession: Xbox, PlayStation 2 and GameCube. When a multi-format game came along, I tended to buy it on PS2, so I had a higher chance of swapping it with a friend. But when SoulCalibur 2 appeared, the decision to buy it on the GameCube was a complete no-brainer.

Last week Microsoft congratulated Sony on the North American launch of the PlayStation 4. With Xbox One out today, now it's time for Sony to return the favour.

Happy Xbox One day! It's a day that's been years in the making, and if you're smart you've probably already got it booked off and are indulging in some of the treats to be found on day one on Microsoft's new console.