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You can't "wake up" the PlayStation 4 using a voice command.

Cloud-based file hosting service SkyDrive will be available on Xbox One at its 22nd November launch, Microsoft has announced.

The PC version of racing game Dirt 3 will soon ditch Games for Windows Live for Steamworks support, Codemasters has announced.

Faster Than Light - one of Eurogamer's games of 2012 - is coming to iPad.

American McGee, he of American McGee's Alice fame, has announced the latest project at his Shanghai-based studio Spicy Horse, a free-to-play card combat action/RTS hybrid entitled The Gate.

We all love Humble Bundles with their generous pay-what-you-want, charity-benefiting deals on several great games, and now the Humble organisation has released a permanent storefront to offer enticing deals on games on a more permanent basis.

Constants and variables. BioShock Infinite's first story add-on does a staggering job of weaving a vivid and memorable tale around these core concepts. Irrational has had tremendous fun with the notion of taking characters with whom we are familiar and transporting them to a time and place that we have only imagined - Rapture, the undersea city from the first two BioShock games, before its explosive fall.

Annual Activision bullet-fest Call of Duty: Ghosts has zipped straight to the top of the UK all-formats chart.

There's been a great response from players of the console version of Diablo 3 - yours truly included - to the more immediate feel of its pad control scheme. This has naturally led the game's PC fanbase to ask if controller support could be patched into their version of the game.

Minecraft console developer 4J Studios has said that it is prioritising work on the game's PlayStation 3 version before launching on any other platform.

Successful Steam Greenlight candidate The Forest will be released in alpha before the end of the year - and there's a second atmospheric trailer below to whet your appetite.

The BBC has confirmed it is working on an iPlayer app for Xbox One, just days after Microsoft left the service off its list of entertainment apps arriving alongside the system on 22nd November.

Xbox One users with early access to the system have revealed the install sizes for much of the console's launch line-up.

The indie developer of intriguing sci-fi puzzler Reset has shown off the game's intriguing time travel mechanic for the first time.

BioShock creator Ken Levine has defended the length of Infinite's first proper slice of story DLC, Burial at Sea Episode 1, which can be finished in under two hours.

When it comes to expanding upon on an original concept, Firaxis is not averse to getting its hands dirty. After spending the last couple of years reworking, refining and enhancing key elements of Civilization 5, the developer has now slapped XCOM: Enemy Unknown on the operating table, rolled up its sleeves and poked at the innards of what was already one of the best strategy games around.

Last year, World of Warcraft was at something of a crossroads. With subscriptions falling and new contenders like Guild Wars 2 and The Old Republic applying pressure like never before, it was hard not to see Mists of Pandaria as Blizzard's one last big attempt to revive the game's fortunes and draw a whole new audience. It didn't really work out, but that's okay. The audience World of Warcraft retains is nothing to sniff at, and it's that audience that Warlords of Draenor seems primarily aimed at. There's no new low-level content on offer, no big surprises like Pandaria's pet battles that might suddenly attract players who were never going to buy into today's questing and raiding, and the story underpinning it is a deep-dive into Warcraft lore that's going to be most appreciated by players whose Warcraft experience started way back in Orcs And Humans.

Where is standalone DayZ? Not as close as being listed in the Steam database recently suggested.

Valve has opened sign-ups for Steam's upcoming In-Home Streaming feature.

"Picture-books are astonishing," says Jack de Quidt, one half of development partnership The Tall Trees, with no small measure of infectious enthusiasm. "Not enough adults read picture books - not enough writers read picture-books. They convey so effectively, in such sparse narrative choices, so many interesting emotions and plot points."

Suspense builds slowly in the video as sci-fi music pulses and the camera edges through a dark room filled with futuristic computers twinkling with light.

Every Sunday we dig an interesting article out of our massive archive for you to enjoy again or perhaps read for the first time. With an XCOM expansion due next week in the shape of Enemy Within - and we'll have the review for you on that this coming Monday - this week we thought we'd take you back to last year's reboot, and the tale of how Jake Solomon resurrected one of gaming's most treasured series.

With many gamers currently obsessing over the upcoming next-gen systems and the first games that will be available for them, I thought I'd do something completely different - and instead take a look at the very last games to be launched for classic and not-so-classic consoles.

The first tentative details on the Warcraft movie have seeped out of BlizzCon.

With the recently-announced World of Warcraft expansion Warlords of Draenor sparking nostalgia for early Warcraft lore, memories of the company's old real-time strategy Warcraft games have been rekindled.

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Xbox One free-to-play fighter Killer Instinct won't receive it's single-player campaign, Arcade Mode, until all of Season One is released.

Dead Rising 3's new combo weapons are the most ridiculous and most devastating yet. See for yourself in the videos below, Eurogamers, which include new Dead Rising 3 gameplay, along with the Xbox One's impending changes for Xbox Live.

Blizzard has ruled out making massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft free-to-play.

When Google and LG joined forces to create last year's Nexus 4, it marked a significant shift in the Android market. Google's previous attempts at creating a "first-party" handset had been critically well-received, but the commercial reaction was relatively lukewarm when compared to Samsung and HTC's offerings. However, by selling the Nexus 4 on the cheap - a tactic which worked equally well with the Asus-made Nexus 7 tablet - Google was able to carve out a significant portion of the Android handset market.