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We've already taken a look at some of the less impressive games to debut alongside consoles past in our Five Terrible Launch Titles video. But of course, they weren't all terrible (in fact some of them weren't that bad at all, eh, vociferous Kameo fans?), so here's our guide to five of the best.

UPDATE: Rockstar's GTA Online Beach Bum update is now available on Xbox 360.

Gamer Network, which publishes this website, is planning two massive consumer events in 2014 to build on the success of the Eurogamer Expo and Rezzed.

Fumito Ueda, creator of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, has apologised for the lengthy development process of upcoming project The Last Guardian.

It always smacks of laziness to introduce a game by declaring it a meeting between two well-known titles, but when the result is "Limbo meets Trials" and its aim is to educate the player in the history of typography, it's hard not to bask in the sheer left-field genius of the combination.

PlayStation 3-exclusive racing game Gran Turismo 6 has micro-transactions, Sony has confirmed. It's the first game in the series to do so.

Kickstarter success Shadowrun Returns will be expanded in a new Berlin-set expansion, Dragonfall, developer Harebrained Schemes has announced.

Launch games often underwhelm. We've seen it before and we're seeing it again with the next-generation of consoles. But why?

Canned concepts for the Xbox One controller included a version that created smells to match on-screen gameplay.

Valve will demonstrate its own Virtual Reality hardware early next year, it's announced.

Obvious as it is in more than one way, Blizzard played its cards perfectly with Hearthstone. Its World of Warcraft-themed card game, which goes into open beta next month incidentally, began as a side project. Almost immediately, it became a phenomenon. Over a million keys have been sent out during the closed beta, and still that's nowhere near enough. Sites have buckled under the stress. Howls of protest have echoed throughout the net. Quite possibly the developers of Scrolls have wept, and not without cause if so.

The upcoming Need for Speed movie has received an extended trailer showing the exploits of Jess- Aaron Paul as he races cars. Not for money. Not for love. But for revenge. And possibly fun too, because boy does it looks fun.

UPDATE #2: Scale's crowdfunding campaign has come to a close with $108,020, thus meeting not only its $87K initial goal, but its $100K Oculus Rift support stretch goal as well. Congrats, team CubeHeart!

Mutant Mudds Deluxe, Renegade Kid's enhanced version of its 2012 retro 3DS platformer, is finally coming to Steam on 21st November, the developer has announced.

For many, this is the most exciting week in gaming in ages with Sony and Microsoft launching the PS4 and Xbox One respectively. For others, this is a sad time as Ubisoft's highly anticipated open-world cyberpunk adventure Watch Dogs - a potential system seller for many - has missed its launch deadline and won't be out until spring 2014.

Farming Simulator 14 - which is short for Farming Simulator 2014, as opposed to the 14th game in the series - is out now on iOS and Android devices.

Valve's popular MOBA Dota 2 will be getting The Stanley Parable's narrator as DLC.

Psychedelic platforming adventure Stick it to the Man is slated for a PS3 release on Wednesday, 20th November, developer Zoink! has announced.

The Android-based open console Ouya has revealed its second iteration as a limited edition white console with 16GB storage space, double that of the initial model.

ShopTo has issued a public apology after it took money from some PlayStation 4 pre-order customers without warning.

With Xbox One launch day stock running dry in the UK, you can still get a PlayStation 4 at Tesco.

UPDATE: Less than an hour later and Asda has now sold out of its Xbox One Day One Edition stock.

Guerrilla Games has said there are currently no plans to add 3D support to PlayStation 4 launch title Killzone Shadow Fall.

Chris Roberts has addressed concern that PC space combat and trading game Star Citizen will be "dumbed down" for release on console.

Sometimes, art imitates art. Take LocoCycle, a QTE-addled blaster and brawler inspired, allegedly, by a viewing of the horrid motorbike action movie Torque ("A peculiarly slow kind of torture" - Salon.com). The idea, I suspect, was to make the video game equivalent of a bad movie - that is, a game with all the pleasures a bad movie can offer but none of the attendant pitfalls. You'd get the goofiness, the endearing cheapness and the warm thrill of the implausible, but you'd be saved from the tedium, the mindlessness, the slow creep of frustration.

Konami has released data pack two for PES 2014.

Dead Rising 3 takes place in the city of Los Perdidos, a very loose rendering of Los Angeles in California, and Capcom Vancouver may live to regret that choice. Not because Los Perdidos is poorly put together - split into four districts linked by freeways, it's host to plenty of interesting locations - but because it's impossible not to compare it to the other game we played this year that took on the City of Angels. Grand Theft Auto 5, with its astonishing attention to detail and beautiful art direction, makes Dead Rising 3 look like it's struggling with the limitations of ageing hardware.

Blockbuster's administrator has confirmed the closure of 72 stores in the UK, a move that will cost 452 jobs.

A number of North American PlayStation 4 owners have reported their consoles dead on arrival.

Not picked up a Vita yet? Don't already have a new console on the way? Sony's new handheld bundle may be for you.