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Bangai-O was once destined to be a generational cast-off. It was a quirky Dreamcast hit and an obscure N64 import around the same time, so it straddled two generations pretty easily. 2008's Bangai-O Spirits made sure Treasure's demented freeform puzzle-shooter would live through another. This was fabulous news when the game was announced, but even better news was that Bangai-O Spirits wasn't seeding its continuation by adding more content or updating the graphics. It did it by blowing its entire concept wide open, removing all traditional restrictions and shipping the game with a fabulous construction kit.

Warning: This article includes detailed ending spoilers for BioShock Infinite and Burial at Sea Episode 1.

What happened in the US this week? Apparently, some new kind of new console surreptitiously slipped into stores with barely a whisper.

Hello Eurogamers! There's under a week to go now until the Xbox One launch, so we have prepared a soft-furnishing fortress of solitude in preparation for the day when we can wave goodbye to this cruel current-gen world.

If you're launching a console - like Sony is at the moment, right - one of the key phrases you're probably hoping to hear when people first set eyes on any of your new games is: What the hell is that? In fact, what the hell is that? (said with an admiring tone, mind) is worth tens of millions of pounds to platform holders and game designers alike. It gets people headed down the shops or clicking away on PayPal. It's the sound of audiences seeing something they have to have.

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition developer 4J Studios is working with Microsoft to allow players to transfer their Xbox 360 save data to the Xbox One edition of the popular block-based building game.

Earlier this week Nintendo announced that it's bringing its Wii U social network Miiverse onto the 3DS in December. Unfortunately, it's just been revealed that the 3DS implementation of the service won't allows private messages or friend requests.

YouTube user The Phawx has tested the viability of remote playing a PS4 game on a Vita using a mobile phone's LTE network. The takeaway: it's surprisingly functional, even tested in downtown Manhattan.

Popular open-world zombie game State of Decay is soon for an expansion, not that anyone will notice with all this next-generation hoo-ha going on.

Metal Gear Solid 4 producer and Halo 4 creative director Ryan Patton's upcoming crowdfunded stealth affair Republique is gunning for a December release.

In an uncharacteristic display of sportsmanship, Microsoft has congratulated Sony on its North American PS4 launch.

PlayStation 4 exclusive imFamous Second Son launches on 21st March 2014, Sony has just announced.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima announced the PlayStation-exclusive "Deja Vu Mission" for Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes at Sony's PS4 launch event.

Big console launches are exciting enough, but they're often short on surprises - after months of build-up, hype and planning, when whichever big black box you've opted for arrives in your living room on day one there's never that much room in the launch line-up for unknown quantities. All of which makes some of the less hyped games like Zoo Tycoon all the more pleasing, as I discovered last week - and Powerstar Golf's another little surprise awaiting people who pick up an Xbox One at launch.

Blood Bowl - Warhammer American football - went down pretty well on PC a few years ago. And now there's a sequel. And even more now, there are the first screenshots.

In the future, we will all live in a daze, stunned by the technology that will surround us. Our homes will be at the top of towers thousands of feet tall, all of them connected by shining bridges that cut through the sky. Automated drones will keep us healthy, keep us tidy, even make sure we obey the law. We will work in buildings that are great sentinels of metal and light. We will be so rapt, so amazed by the omnipresence of progress, that we won't notice that the maglev train has got stuck, that the school bus is circling like a shark, that our friends can't find the shops next door. Then occasionally, just occasionally, something will knock us out of that daze and we'll realise just how silly the future has turned out.

Nintendo has shown off Super Mario Galaxy in HD - as a level for Smash Bros. Wii U.

Having convincingly toppled the Xbox One in terms of both resolution and performance, the PS4 release of Battlefield 4 stands as the first game to show a theoretical "on-paper" advantage manifest as a practical one. But today we turn from shooters to racers; coming from the newly-formed Ghost Games, Need for Speed: Rivals uses the very same Frostbite 3 engine to deliver a next-gen cops-versus-crooks chaser that blends single and multiplayer modes into one. However, given the series' strong history of platform parity - with PS3 and 360 releases of Most Wanted being almost like-for-like - do we dare to expect any clear performance leader with this new engine?

Yes, yes, yes, the PlayStation 4's all super-exciting right now but let's not forget its portable sibling the Vita. It's been a bit quiet on the handheld front of late, though that's set to change with the release of Tearaway at the end of next week and, a couple of weeks later, roll7's OlliOlli.

There are many words you could use to describe Cartoon Network's Adventure Time. Surreal. Inspired. Sweet. Ingenious. Sadly, those aren't words that apply to this video game spin-off. Repetitive. Shallow. Boring. These fit better.

UPDATE: Beta redemption codes will be handed out to those who pre-order Destiny in the UK at the following shops "while supplies last":

Stealth reboot Thief no longer includes any quick time events, developer Eidos Montreal has confirmed.

Sony developer Naughty Dog has unveiled a new Uncharted game for PlayStation 4.

UPDATE: Microsoft has now officially confirmed the change in policy for Xbox One download-only games, which will have the same amount of Gamerscore as retail titles.

UPDATE: And we're done. A new Uncharted for PS4, Destiny beta coming first to PlayStation and a new look at The Last of Us DLC. See it all as it unfolded - lengthy ad breaks and all - here.

Naughty Dog has revealed Left Behind, the first piece of story-based DLC for The Last of Us.

UPDATE: Warner Bros has confirmed to us that Lego Marvel Super Heroes will be out on 29th November in Europe for both Xbox One and PS4. Thus the Xbox One version is only missing the console's 22nd November launch by a week, and the delay is limited to Europe. In North America it will still be an Xbox One launch title.

Spooky first-person toddler game Among the Sleep is now shooting for an "early spring 2014" release on PC, Mac and Linux according to developer Krillbite Studios.

UPDATE: Paradise Lost: First Contact has achieved its Kickstarter goal of $70K with 16 days to go before its 1st December deadline.

Four-player co-op first-person shooter Payday 2 gets its first DLC, Armored Transport Heists, today on PC.