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UPDATE: The Forza Motorsport 5 Car Pass - containing six monthly add-ons featuring 10 cars each - will cost $49.99 (about £31).

Valve has revealed the prototype of its very first Steam Machine, part of its line-up of computer/console hybrids designed to run Steam titles right on your telly.

Blockbuster has refunded a customer's £450 PlayStation 4 pre-order in-store after he protested outside the shop with a megaphone.

Times are changing, Dylan used to sing, and nowhere more prominently than in the burgeoning People's Republic of China. Once slave to idealistic convention and crippled by economic famine, Deng Xiaoping's audacious reforms have seen the country achieve the world's second-largest economy in little more than three-decades.

Ground Zeroes, the prologue to Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, will launch for PlayStations 3 and 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in spring 2014.

Call of Duty: Ghosts has found itself in the firing line of the next-gen console power war. With Infinity Ward's COD: Ghosts a next-gen launch title, the news that the PlayStation 4 version runs at 1080p resolution native, whereas the Xbox One version runs at 720p native upscaled to 1080p, was seen as a huge blow to Microsoft. This from a game series that over the course of the current-generation has become synonymous with Xbox.

Super Mario video games have always rewarded curiosity. It is perhaps this trait that Shigeru Miyamoto's series - now close to 30 years old - has valued in its players above all others, a tribute perhaps, to the designer's oft-repeated childhood experience of clutching a lantern in order to explore the local caves on the outskirts of Sonobe, the small Japanese town in which he grew up. It's also a trait that Miyamoto has seemingly passed on to his junior staff at Nintendo EAD Tokyo, within whose secretive, never-exposed walls some of the greatest video games of the past decade have been built.

Bugbear, the Finnish developer behind the FlatOut series and Ridge Racer Unbounced, is taking to Kickstarter for its new driving game, the brilliantly titled Next Car Game (I think that's probably a placeholder).

Warlords of Draenor could be the name of the next World of Warcraft expansion, which will presumably be unveiled this Friday at the opening ceremony of BlizzCon.

PopCap's Xbox One launch title Peggle 2 has been delayed until December, the developer has confirmed.

Six months of development later, Richard Garriott is ready to show what shape his new RPG Shroud of the Avatar is currently in.

As the autumn heavyweights enter the ring it's Ubisoft setting the pace, as Assassin's Creed 4 leaps to the top of the UK charts, leaving EA and Battlefield 4 with a cut eyebrow in second.

What a generation it's been! Well, it's certainly been the longest yet, and a look through our recent series on the games of the generation puts forward a fairly compelling argument that it can be considered one of the best. Look beyond the apathy engendered by horribly modern phenomena such as on-disc DLC, season passes and the anaemic annual series and you can see a pioneering spirit that has sometimes made the seventh cycle of video games feel very much like the first one: it's there in the one-man masterpieces such as Spelunky, just as it is in the many marvels in Dark Souls' design and the life-altering fantasies of World of Warcraft.

Just what kind of graphical leap is the upcoming generation really bringing us? Of course, years lie ahead for studios to tap into the fullest potential of the PS4 and Xbox One, but right now, launch window titles like Battlefield 4 give us the clearest barometer of where technical progress is being made. A cutting edge shooter that presses the 360 and PS3 formats harder than most with sandbox-style maps and destruction physics, it's inevitable that the next generation versions deliver more than just resolution and frame-rate boosts. Indeed, the overhaul is remarkable at points, though DICE still plays to the older hardware's strengths to deliver impressive results.

Every Sunday we dig an interesting article out of our massive archive for you to enjoy again or perhaps read for the first time. With a new Call of Duty out on Tuesday, this week we thought we'd take you back to Call of Duty XP, the 2011 event Activision put on in Los Angeles to celebrate the series. This article was originally published on 14th September 2011.

Chess has problems.

To understand how it ends, first you must go back to the beginning.

Wouldn't it be great if you could get a pre-launch taste of the next-gen visual experience using nothing more than your PlayStation 3 or PC? That's exactly what we aim to achieve with this new Digital Foundry series, Next-Gen Now. As 1080p60 captures finally start to roll in, we aim to deliver a selection of them to you in h.264 MP4 format, using an encoding profile designed to balance bandwidth with quality, allowing for smooth, high-quality playback of next-gen gameplay on a range of devices.

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"We can do everything Oculus can do and more," claims ex-Valve inventor Jeri Ellsworth as she tells me about her upcoming CastAR headset over Skype.

Warner Bros. has acknowledged the technical problems that have affected Batman: Arkham Origins, and vowed to fix them.

Ahead of the launch of Xbox One and the new and improved Kinect, Microsoft has published its revised Xbox Privacy Statement.

Just Add Water has released nine new screenshots of Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty. There they are down there.

Xbox One exclusive Ryse: Son of Rome has a season pass, Microsoft has announced, and it has to do with the multiplayer Gladiator mode.

That's it, we're done. Having brought you our pick of the games of the generation, today we bring you the final choice - the best game of the past console cycle, as voted for by Eurogamer contributors past and present.

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z launches on 28th February 2014, Tecmo Koei has announced.

Blur Overdrive, the mobile racer licensed from Activision, is out now on the App Store. There it's a free download for iPhone and iPad.

Don't expect a new Project Gotham Racing game any time soon.

For years I've been saying I've wanted a game where I could play as an overweight, slightly older female protagonist. Call it my weariness of alpha male space marines or my undying affection for Love & Rockets lead Maggie Chascarillo, but I've always felt that this is a thing that needs to happen. Whenever I tell people this they assume I mean some sort of experimental curio - maybe an "interactive drama" (whatever that means) like The Walking Dead or Beyond, or perhaps the sort of casual adventure game that gets marketed to stay at home moms who frequent Bigfish. But that's not necessarily what I'm after. Instead, I've always wanted a big, stupid action game starring a chunky badass lass.