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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.

You know what first-person shooters need? Monkeys. We had them, once upon a time, but the cruel tide of fate snatched them from our fingers and replaced them with stoic blood-stained warriors, all knotted jaws and angry scowls.

PlayStation 4's Remote Play connection with PS Vita is exciting stuff - a value-added extra with the potential to revitalise the fortunes of Sony's under-performing handheld. Nintendo's Wii U GamePad established the notion of decoupling from your HDTV and playing remotely with excellent image quality and no noticeable lag. Since then, Nvidia's Shield has come along - not quite as impressive right now, but great stuff nonetheless, with a new update coming up soon that promises significant improvements. Call it wishful thinking on our part, but we couldn't help but hope for similarly impressive results from PlayStation 4.

It was 9am on a Saturday morning and I was hunting around my flat for a paperclip. I needed a paperclip because that is Microsoft's chosen tool for manually releasing discs from an Xbox One drive. And I needed to do this because, hours after being unwrapped, my Xbox One needed to go back in its box.

Hi, Eurogamers, and welcome to the first Outside Xbox roundup of the Next Generation. It's not all that different, if we're honest, but feel free to try using voice commands to scroll the page if you like.

So, the next generation of PlayStation and Xbox consoles have now gone on sale in many different parts of the world, and what have we got to show for it? Well, I don't know about you, but after spending many months writing this sort of thing, I now have this expression on whenever I run into anyone from Microsoft...

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UPDATE: Sony has removed the option to redeem vouchers while it continues its investigation into the PSN disruption.

Back in the early 90s, I swear it took me at least a month of focused effort to work my way through The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. And what a month I had. A month of navigating Hyrule and its dark twin, of pulling swords from stones, of collecting bottles - nabbing the last one from that guy sleeping under the bridge - and of sticking it to hideous fiends in a pyrotechnic tennis match. The Triforce was eventually united and ancient evil was sealed away, but at what cost? I'd missed four whole weeks of Clarissa explaining it all.

Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow hasn't played a video game before. That much is clear.

It's been a bumpy six months since Xbox One was unveiled. During that period, Microsoft has scrapped its controversial plans for licence-only game ownership and an online check-in element that would have forced owners to phone home every 24 hours. It has introduced a way for users to switch off Kinect and bundled a mono headset (and FIFA 14 in Europe) to address concerns about privacy and pricing. Oh, and right in the middle of all the drama, the boss of the Xbox division left to go rescue Zynga.

Nine months after it was unveiled in wintry New York City, PlayStation 4 is finally on sale in North America now and in Europe this Friday. Over the past month, we have played and reviewed all the big games and gotten to know the hardware itself, so if you're on the fence about whether to buy a PS4 this year, hopefully some of our coverage below will help. Alternatively, if you have already picked one up, this is an opportunity to learn more about your new toy.

Rune Factory and Lufia developer Neverland has shut its doors and declared itself bankrupt.

Achieving the rare feat of platform parity on both PS3 and 360, the FIFA series now takes its first dive onto the succeeding consoles, taking advantage of the spec upgrade with EA Canada's brand new Ignite Engine. On the Xbox One and PS4 versions we're promised more than just a resolution increase - the new technology also brings a sharp increase in player animations, smarter AI, and fully polygonal 3D crowds to replace the sprite-work of previous games. But with this visual upheaval, and the rush to be there for day one of the console launches, has the series' history of platform parity been maintained for the new generation?

In the moments before our interview begins proper, Andrew House tells me 2013 has been his most exciting year since joining Sony. If he's being sincere - and, given what happened at E3 this year, he may well be - 2013 should be honoured. House, the communications expert from Wales who rose through the ranks to become boss of all of Sony Computer Entertainment - was at Sony Corp when PlayStation was a mere skunkworks project 23 years ago.

As it stands, Sony's games are more expensive on PlayStation 4 than Microsoft's are on Xbox One.

A trademark application for the long-awaited Shenmue 3 is, unsurprisingly, a hoax.