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"The biggest thing in terms of the number of compute units, that's been something that's been very easy to focus on. It's like, hey, let's count up the number of CUs, count up the gigaflops and declare the winner based on that. My take on it is that when you buy a graphics card, do you go by the specs or do you actually run some benchmarks? Firstly though, we don't have any games out. You can't see the games. When you see the games you'll be saying, 'What is the performance difference between them?' The games are the benchmarks." - Microsoft technical fellow, Andrew Goossen.

Swords and shields fighting game SoulCalibur 2 HD Online launches on 20th November 2013, Namco Bandai has announced.

With the Xbox One on the horizon, what next for Gears of War, the Microsoft exclusive series that helped define HD gaming on Xbox 360?

A World of Keflings and Iron Brigade are your next free Xbox 360 Games with Gold titles, Microsoft has announced.

It's Halloween, and quite fittingly I'm a little terrified. The kids of Lewisham aren't dissuaded from acts of random terrorism by a fistful of sweets, so tonight I'm turning the lights off and cowering in a corner hoping they don't come knocking on my door. Fun!

Players of fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game Runescape can donate their in-game gold to real world charity.

When Sony delayed Evolution's racer DriveClub out of the PlayStation 4 launch lineup into 2014, it replaced it with indie game Contrast.

The fancy pants premium edition of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 comes in Dracula's tomb.

The Battlefield series has always been a cartographer's dream. Whereas other shooter franchises are content with densely packed arenas in which players can scurry about like well-armed lab rats, head-shotting each other over each piece of cheese, Battlefield maps have always felt like, well, like maps. Actual places, theatres of war, where terrain and elevation can play a tangible role in victory - or defeat.

Namco Bandai has released a whopping 27 screenshots of From Software's Dark Souls 2. There they are in a nice grid gallery, below, for your viewing pleasure.

The Call of Duty: Ghosts single-player campaign requires a 3GB install on Xbox 360, Activision has revealed.

Amid the doom and gloom surrounding Capcom, a beacon of light: Monster Hunter 4.

Free-to-play shooter PlanetSide 2 launches on PlayStation 4 in early 2014, Sony has said.

The pressure on PlayStation 4 to perform this Christmas is high, as a bad quarter scythed Sony's annual profit forecasts by 40 per cent.

UPDATE: The Android version of Sorcery! Part 1 will be released in December, developer Inkle has told me.

Over the course of last week and this one, we're bringing you our pick of the games of the generation. Today it's Dark Souls.

100 more titles have been accepted onto Steam via Valve's voting service, Steam Greenlight.

Capcom has detailed the Season Pass for its Xbox One-exclusive open-world launch title Dead Rising 3.

Sony has revealed the full lineup of launch titles for the PS4 on the PlayStation Blog. Unfortunately, it's only listed the lineup for North America, but it should be very close, if not identical, to what comes to Europe upon the PS4's 29th November launch.

UPDATE: Oculus Rift creator Palmer Luckey has issued a correction on Reddit stating that there'd be only version of the Oculus Rift that would support both PC and Android, not two different versions as VentureBeat reported.

SCEA, Social Media Manager Sid Shuman has laid out the most comprehensive PS4 FAQ to date on the PlayStation Blog, assuaging some worries while confirming others.

Infinity Ward has announced the resolutions of the next-gen versions of Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Mutant Mudds Deluxe, the enhanced version of Renegade Kid's 2012 3DS eShop platformer, will be coming to PS3 and Vita.

Introversion's penitentiary running sim Prison Architect has added what the developer calls a "Halloween egg," i.e. an Easter egg on Halloween. While the developer wanted people to stumble upon its quirky, potentially copyright-infringing holiday-themed joke unawares, creator Chris Delay ultimately decided that he wanted people to see it before Halloween is over and it gets removed.

The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has made it abundantly clear there will be no DRM associated with The Witcher 3 on PC, if bought in a box or from game-download shop GOG.com (Steam is its own kind of DRM, and The Witcher 3 will definitely be on Steam).

UPDATE: The CGI Heavenly Sword movie will launch as a digital download in spring 2014, its producer has confirmed via the US PlayStation blog.

65 million people are now using Steam, Valve has announced, a rise of 30 per cent from this time last year.

Telltale Games has finally spilled the beans on its highly anticipated second season of its rendition of Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead comic book series.

Eight re-mastered titles from Sega's back catalogue will soon be available to download from the Nintendo eShop on 3DS.

Dead Island developer Techland has delayed its gothic co-op hack-and-slash Hellraid until next year.