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A modern Formula One car has more in common with a UFO than it does with the hatchback parked in your driveway. With an engine that revs to an artificially limited 18,000rpm, an electrically powered boost button that delivers an extra 80bhp on demand and enough aerodynamic downforce that it could, legend has it, drive along the ceiling, it's stretching the definition of car to the point of distension.

GamesIndustry.biz has run the second half of its massive interview with Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, and managed to squeeze a few vaguely reassuring but maddeningly inconclusive words from him regarding the status of The Last Guardian.

The Bureau, 2K's third-person tactical shooter prequel to the XCOM strategy series, wasn't a great game but it was better than expected and seems to have sold well enough to warrant a spot of DLC.

The Pokémon Company has revealed another of the dual Mega Evolutions you'll be able to trigger in the upcoming Pokémon X and Y games. This time it's old fan favourite Charizard getting his mega on, and the results are impressive.

The legendary Australian Bathurst circuit, formally known as Mount Panorama Motor Racing Circuit, will make its series debut in Gran Turismo 6, developer Polyphony Digital has confirmed.

The Gridiron Thunder saga continues. The controversial Kickstarter funded American Football game has had its release date punted back a month into the endzone of October, developer MogoTXT has revealed.

Xbox One reserves 10 per cent of graphics resources for Kinect and apps functionality, Digital Foundry can confirm, with Microsoft planning to open up this additional GPU power for game development in the future. This, and further graphics and performance-based information was revealed during our lengthy discussions with two of the architects behind the Xbox One silicon.

Phenomenal Kickstarter success Hyper Light Drifter has made its way past the gates of Steam Greenlight, which is rather impressive for a game that still has nine days left in its crowdfunding campaign.

Thought Dark Souls was too easy? Or perhaps too predictable upon your umpteenth playthrough? Well I've got just the thing for you, young grasshopper, as a modder JITD has tweaked the game to make enemies vastly more aggressive and unrelenting.

Prior to applying for his job at LucasArts to work on The Secret of Monkey Island, Tim Schafer had never played a graphic adventure.

Mobile dungeon crawler Warhammer Quest gets a dollop of new content today, courtesy of developer Rodeo Games.

Eidos Montreal has confirmed that it will bring the Deus Ex series to next generation consoles, with the formal announcement of Deus Ex: Universe. This isn't a single game but rather "an ongoing, expanding and connected game world built across a generation of core games".

Tom Clancy, the prolific author of best-selling espionage thrillers, has died at the age of 66, his publisher has confirmed. Clancy passed away in a Baltimore hospital close to his home in Maryland.

Sonic the Hedgehog is coming back to TV screens in 2014 in a new animated show with the working title Sonic Boom. The show will mark Sonic's first outing in CGI - not counting the cutscenes in his games, obviously.

Yesterday saw the launch of GTA Online, but also the open beta for Battlefield 4. As expected for any multiplayer game getting its first whiff of real world interaction, there are issues and bugs cropping up and developer DICE has taken to the official forum with a list of known issues currently being investigated.

It's less than a week until the launch of Quantic Dream's decade-spanning spook-em-up adventure, Beyond: Two Souls, and the developer will be giving the game a movie-style red carpet premiere tonight at the Grand Rex theatre in Paris.

The long-awaited Warcraft movie has been given a release date, the game's official Twitter has announced.

Mark Pincus, co-founder of struggling casual gaming giant Zynga, is bored of games.

Sony no longer views iOS and Android as rivals, but as tools to be used to spread the PlayStation message via related spin-off apps. That's according to Sony Worldwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida, speaking in the first instalment of a wide ranging interview with GamesIndustry.biz.

Audiosurf 2, the long overdue follow-up to Dylan Fitterer's 2008 indie hit, will launch today, October 2nd, on Steam Early Access. Fitterer himself made the announcement via Twitter.

The debate about violence in games is an important one, and gaming can only become more interesting if designers think up more things for us to do than mindlessly destroy stuff. Having said that, who doesn't love to mindlessly destroy stuff? And if you absolutely have to do that, why not do it as the titular vengeful rock of this game - thundering down an alpine mountain, flattening everything in your path?

Daikatana, John Romero's disasterpiece, has inexplicably sprung up on Steam, priced £4.99.

Microsoft has warned that the Xbox One's day one system update will need around 15-20 minutes to download.

In what is surely a completely innocent coincidence, and in no way an illustration of the way Valve makes us all dance at its whim like fleshy marionettes, the developer's internal User Picker software was suddenly and inexplicably open to the public last night.

War games are becoming so realistic that it's time virtual soldiers started obeying the Geneva Convention, the Red Cross has argued.

Sony has announced a PlayStation 3 firmware update due to go live this afternoon.

Over on his Youtube channel, Blendo Games' Brendon Chung has posted an early prototype of his brilliant spy thriller, 30 Flights of Loving.

Frozen Endzone's about hand-crafted strategies pieced together in long thoughtful minutes and then unpicked in scrappy, tense seconds; it's about territorial scraps that reward the deep thinker who possesses vision. It's hardly strange that Mode 7's follow-up to Frozen Synapse leans so heavily on the thumping strategy of American football, then - it'd be frankly odd if it turned out to be anything else.

Earlier this year LucasFilm confirmed that its canned Star Wars noir spin-off, Star Wars 1313, was about everyone's favourite grappling hook-weilding bounty hunter Boba Fett. Now an anonymous former developer on the project spilled the beans to IGN about what the project would have entailed.

UPDATE# 2: The Mighty No. 9 Kickstarter has ended with a total of $3,841,001.