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Let's start by talking about what the Radeon R9 280X isn't. Despite relying on the same technology for almost two years now, we're not seeing the arrival of new AMD architecture here. This card is Graphics Core Next through and through, and it's very easy indeed to level the accusation that AMD is simply rebranding existing cards, adding a handful of new features to the firmware but fundamentally re-releasing the same product.

UPDATE: The FIFA 14 update is out now for Xbox 360, EA Sports has announced. It'll be released on PS3 soon.

UPDATE: The Nintendo Store lists the Wii U Mario & Luigi Premium Pack for £249.99 (thanks, youhavenomail!).

For a series once so keen on long-winded exposition, it's amazing that the reveal of a new Metal Gear Solid still manages to maintain so much enigma. The extended unfurling of Metal Gear Solid 5 has has been a masterpiece of misdirection and drawn-out teases, with a fictional Swede thrown in for good measure. It's been a campaign that's born the mark of Kojima Production's own love of twists, turns and deft wrong-footing of its audience, but it feels like one of the final, biggest shocks was saved for last. Sitting down to watch a demo within Konami's Tokyo headquarters, it's soon clear that this isn't the Metal Gear Solid you've become familiar with over the past 15 years: this feels like something that shares the shadows with Ubisoft's Splinter Cell and Assassin's Creed games.

PopCap has released a trio of short gameplay videos for puzzle game Peggle 2.

Codemasters has released F1 Challenge on the App Store. The officially-licensed iPhone and iPad game costs £1.99.

Eve Online is a daunting MMO to launch into. It's old, it's big, it's complicated and it's slow - you're not in Azeroth any more. And that puts some people off.

Elite: Dangerous will support virtual reality headset Oculus Rift, Frontier Developments has announced.

How exactly do you improve upon Monster Hunter? The series represents so many cornerstones in everything from the weapon classes, quest structure and crafting system, that from game-to-game, the most apparent changes are less fundamental and more supplementary. The addition of new monsters, subspecies and equipment has always been the easiest way to please the hardcore fanbase, but while the introduction of underwater combat in Monster Hunter Tri was a solid attempt at offering a twist on a familiar concept, it was hard not to feel a sense of déjà vu after setting a shock trap and hurling a couple of tranquiliser bombs.

Final Fantasy 6 is coming to iOS and Android devices this winter.

UPDATE: The Wii U version of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag will not be getting any DLC.

Rockstar has issued a PS3 update to Grand Theft Auto Online that should eliminate issues with profiles losing progress.

Indie developer Cyril Megem has certainly been busy. In the span of just over a year he single-handedly created a prototype for an insanely complex RTS/MOBA/third & first-person shooter hybrid Universum: War Front.

Thirty Flights of Loving and Atom Zombie Smasher developer Blendo Games won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's IndieCade festival in Culver City, CA with its upcoming cyberpunk thriller Quadrilateral Cowboy. (Thanks, Gamasutra.)

Lima Sky's mobile phenomenon Doodle Jump will be making its way to 3DS and, surprisingly, DS later this year in two new spin-offs: Doodle Jump Adventures and Doodle Jump Journey.

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West could be getting a "Premium Edition," according to a leak on the Australian classification board.

Drakengard 3 will be coming to PS3 next year as a digital-only affair, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Square Enix has released a new gameplay trailer for stealth game Thief, due out on PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on 28th February 2014.

UPDATE: Konami has teased a PC version of Mirror of Fate HD.

Male soldiers in Crytek's huge free-to-play online shooter Warface are depicted realistically but, comparatively, female soldiers are not. Their proportions are exaggerated, their clothing is revealing - they're sexualised.

Xbox One won't automatically record footage of you unlocking an Achievement. Rather, it's a feature developers can enable, if they wish.

Indies are scorching hot. Maybe it was Minecraft. Maybe it was Super Meat Boy. Maybe it was Journey. Either way, just weeks before the launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One it is indie developers who find themselves - whether they like it or not - on the front line of the next generation battle.

Dungeon Defenders 2 developer Trendy has ditched its planned Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) competitive multiplayer.

It sounds like the composer of 2011 crime drama Drive is working on Far Cry 4.

A new Star Wars: The Old Republic digital expansion - Galactic Starfighter - has been unveiled and it brings 12vs12 spaceship dogfighting to the MMO.

Dragon's Crown is a brawler as archaic as the fantasies it draws upon. Designer George Kamitani made his name with Capcom's Dungeons & Dragons arcade series of the early 90s - games that took on the lineage of Final Fight and furnished it with deep-pocketed inventories and experience points. That lineage was rudely cut short not long after, but Kamitani's Vanillaware studio has worked in the face of the genre's decline ever since, first with Odin Sphere and later Muramasa. They're games as artfully drawn as they are mechanically banal, though, and Dragon's Crown carries on that limp tradition.

Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma said that the Wind Waker HD remake was developed in six months.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z - Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's cel-shaded spin-off of Team Ninja's best-known series - will be launching on PC early next year simultaneously with its already announced PS3 and Xbox 360 versions.

Square Enix has partnered with crowdfunding site Indiegogo to launch its "Collective" initiative that will allow developers to submit game ideas to the publisher, users to vote on them, then the most popular pitches will gain support from Square Enix as they launch their Indiegogo campaigns.

Hitbox Team's score-attack platformer Dustforce is heading to Xbox 360, PS3 and Vita this January, publisher Capcom has announced.