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Blizzard has ruled out making massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft free-to-play.

When Google and LG joined forces to create last year's Nexus 4, it marked a significant shift in the Android market. Google's previous attempts at creating a "first-party" handset had been critically well-received, but the commercial reaction was relatively lukewarm when compared to Samsung and HTC's offerings. However, by selling the Nexus 4 on the cheap - a tactic which worked equally well with the Asus-made Nexus 7 tablet - Google was able to carve out a significant portion of the Android handset market.

There's a moment, not too far into Call of Duty: Ghosts' lacklustre campaign, when you bear witness to the storming of a beach. The destroyed shores of Santa Monica are being invaded by The Federation, a messy construct of evil South Americans who, in Ghosts' near-future fiction, embody an irrational fear that lurks within the part of the US psyche that Infinity Ward's games now so often reflect. Whether deliberately or not, there's also a recursive nod being made back to Call of Duty's Xbox 360 debut, and to the D-Day landings that starred in Infinity Ward's second game.

The PS4 version of Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls will get a few new features in addition to its spruced up 1080p visuals (that allegedly run at 60 fps), touchpad support and shorter load times.

At a panel at its BlizzCon convention in Anaheim, California, Blizzard revealed new features of Diablo 3's Reaper of Souls expansion that heavily ramp up the randomisation of the game and remove the need for players to endlessly retread the game's heavily scripted campaign acts.

The next World of Warcraft expansion is Warlords of Draenor, Blizzard has confirmed.

Blizzard has announced iPhone and Android versions of its collectible card game Hearthstone.

Beta sign-ups for Heroes of the Storm go live this evening, Blizzard has announced.

Stoic has finally slapped a release date on its gorgeous turn-based Viking adventure The Banner Saga. That date is 14th January 2014.

UPDATE: We've known for a while that Microsoft will include Achievements in Xbox One applications, but here's a first look at the awards.

Making Call of Duty is hard; hard for both Infinity Ward and Treyarch, the two studios Activision charges with sharing the responsibility of producing a new game in the gargantuan first-person shooter series each year.

id Software will pull Quake Live out of a browser and make it a standalone game by the end of the year.

The beta version of turn-based strategy RPG Blackguards is available to download from Steam now.

2013 may be the Year of Luigi, but 2009 was the Year of Tarantino-Inspired Games. I imagine the nervy film director playing the 2009 console game Wet, his trembling hand scrabbling for his small carved totem of Uma Thurman, the mantra 'this is forgettable this is forgettable this is forgettable' running around and around his head. Games haven't done Quentin Tarantino much of a service, really.

XCOM: Enemy Within is out next week, and it promises to expand on the glorious template of Enemy Unknown by adding stuff like mechs and gene-splicing for your brave alien-blasting soldiers to indulge in. Solid copy.

Microsoft has released a 12 minute Xbox One video that gives us our best look so far at what it will be like to use the system.

For many PlayStation 3 owners, their relationship with Home has been brief. They fired up the virtual world platform around the time of its public launch in late 2008, noticed a general lack of things to do, and went back to playing LittleBigPlanet.

BioWare has released the first images from its next Mass Effect game, which is currently in development at BioWare Montreal.

It's been a long time coming - over 10 years in fact - but now it's here: a new expansion for Age of Empires 2.

2D fighting game Legend of Raven will launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well as Vita, Nicalis has announced.

Creative Assembly has announced a Steam Machine version of strategy game Total War: Rome 2.

Disney has released its first Star Wars game since acquiring George Lucas' license last year and it's probably not what you would have expected. Entitled Tiny Death Star, it's developed by Tiny Tower creator NimbleBit and re-envisions the property management sim on the moon-sized space station.

Stylish neon retro action/adventure Hyper Light Drifter has shown off its basic combat maneuvers in a new trailer.

A new trailer for Diablo 3's first major expansion, Reaper of Souls, shows off a number of the upcoming add-on's new features.

Everyone knows Mario games are about jumping - from platform to platform and on enemies' heads. So it's a surprise to find a set of Mario levels where you can't do either.

Killzone: Shadow Fall has been demoed using PlayStation 4's Remote Play feature, which enables you to stream games to PlayStation Vita and play them away from the TV, Wii U-style.

The Company of Heroes 2 Victory at Stalingrad premium downloadable content launches next week, Sega has announced.

Whenever a new console launches, it's never long before someone takes a screwdriver to it and shows the world what's inside. With PlayStation 4, Sony has done it first.

Sony has filed patents that may relate to its PlayStation 4 virtual reality headset.

Do you remember that moment around eight years ago when you'd realised the next-generation had arrived? Perhaps it was peeking out the side-window of a Ferrari Enzo in Project Gotham Racing 3 and seeing the city pass by in a slick blur of motion. Maybe you had to wait a little longer to see the rain streaming down Marcus Fenix's impossible shoulders before he slammed them into a hunk of black concrete.