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A slew of Xbox One users have claimed that they've been banned from the Skype and Upload Studios apps on Xbox One supposedly due to nothing more than using foul language in their chats and videos.

Sega's zombie-themed typing tutor, The Typing of The Dead: Overkill, gets even more educational with its Shakespeare-themed DLC.

Saint Row 4 is set to kick off the holidays in style with its yule-tide themed DLC, How the Saints Save Christmas, due on 11th December for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Valve has added a section to Steam to allow for user reviews.

Dutch independent game developer Vlambeer has had quite the troubled history with lazy developers copying its games. First Gamenauts ripped off Vlambeer's flash title Radical Fishing before the two-person team of Rami Ismail and Jan Willem Nijman could get its commercial remake Ridiculous Fishing onto the market. Then, Rubiq Lab revealed a game called Skyfar, which bared more than a passing resemblance to Vlambeer's upcoming dogfighting game, Luftrausers.

Rumours have been popping up that Activision may have sold off its PlayStation One platforming star Crash Bandicoot to Sony, given that the publisher has disavowed all connections to Naughty Dog's missing marsupial on its official site.

It's not too late to buy a PlayStation 4 on launch night - Sony has a stock of consoles which it will sell in Covent Garden on Friday.

Well it wouldn't be a console launch without some absolute stinkers, and doing the honours for the Xbox One is Ubisoft's Fighter Within, a Kinect-powered brawler that sees you flailing around to strike a series of inelegant attacks.

At BlizzCon this month Blizzard ran through a number of changes and additions it will make to its in-beta free to play collectible card game Hearthstone.

UPDATE: Warner Bros. has confirmed Lego: The Hobbit for a spring 2014 release on 3DS, Mac, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Space combat and trading game Star Citizen has just crossed the $30 million raised mark.

EA Sports has conceded the football sim genre to long-term rival Football Manager and announced it will no longer publish its own FIFA Manager series.

Rockstar Games has filed a trademark for "Bully Bullworth Academy: Canis Canem Edit".

UPDATE: Xbox One sold around 150,000 in the UK during its launch, according to a report by MCV.

FlatOut creator Bugbear Entertainment has canned the Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming Next Car Game project.

There are two fundamental issues with FIFA 14 on current-generation consoles that seem to obscure all other discussion about it. The first is that aerial through-balls can be used to bypass the opposition's midfield with alarming frequency. The second is that the majority of matches feature at least one cheap headed goal. The rest of the game is good fun, if only marginally better than FIFA 13, but that's scant consolation when the other guy gets a free goal in the last minute and it knocks you out of the gold cup.

Final Fantasy 4: The After Years is now available to download from the iOS App Store and Google Play, priced £10.99/€14.49.

One of Blizzard's key developers has apologised for what he has admitted was a poor response to a question about "over-sexualised character designs" and vowed to listen to feedback.

Video game streaming company Twitch spent the weekend taking down a number of non-gaming streams by PlayStation 4 users.

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.