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The first wave of Dark Souls 2 beta testing begins on 12th October, publisher Namco Bandai has announced.

A new challenger to Netflix and LoveFilm has appeared - meet Wuaki.tv, a streaming video service from the parent company of Play.com.

The ability to trade and loan digital games on Xbox One will be implemented at some point, Microsoft hopes, despite the earlier furore surrounding the console's DRM plans.

UPDATE: Ubisoft has clarified that the missing content in the Vita version of Rayman Legends will be added at a later date as a free patch.

So farewell then, Ultima. The title of developer Mythic and publisher EA's new entry in the series, an iOS-exclusive, free-to-play MMORPG-lite, is Ultima Forever. These words you can visualise chiselled on a gravestone. Make no mistake; this game has the surface of a vibrant fantasy, but it is a grasping and shallow product.

Tucked away in the middle of PAX Prime's Indie Megabooth there's a monitor covered in fake blood with a camera above it seemingly looking at viewers. On the monitor a series of disturbing horror vignettes plays before being interrupted by an 80s-looking Cronenberg-esque eye icon called Camdrome.

Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat has released the opening cinematic to its upcoming "crazy cat lady simulator" Mew-Genics.

UPDATE# 2: Paranautical Acivity's Kickstarter has ended a success, raising $12,540 with a goal of only $10,000.

Described as a "psychological horror" game on Wikipedia - as opposed to a non-psychological horror game, presumably - Outlast is about an intrepid journalist who breaks into a not-so-abandoned mental asylum in search of a story. It's one of a number of games appearing at the moment that aims to reinvigorate the listing survival-horror genre and we're pretty excited about it. So excited, in fact, that Ian is going to live-stream the game today at 5pm BST, which is 6pm in Euros.

If carrying the weight of a beloved gaming franchise on his shoulders is a burden, Miles Jacobson certainly doesn't show it - in fact, if anything, listening back to my visit to Sports Interactive's head office, it was the interviewer that seemed under pressure.

Microsoft has revealed that the Xbox One final production hardware features a 9.375 per cent increase to CPU speed, with the eight-core AMD processor now running at 1.75GHz - 150MHz faster than the beta hardware.

All eyes have turned to the next-generation and, in Microsoft's case, Xbox One, due out alongside the PlayStation 4 in November. But according to one senior Xbox executive, the eight-year-old Xbox 360 has plenty of life left in its old bones.

When Black Rock and Bizarre Creations shut down in 2011 on the back of dismal sales for Split/Second and Blur, a lot of us forecast doom and gloom for arcade racing. Two years later, though, there are still plenty of developers trying to make it work. EA still has the Need for Speed, even spinning up a studio in Gothenburg to focus on it, while Bugbear Entertainment has just announced a new racing game due out in early 2014.

Killzone: Mercenary is a game defined by its platform. Not in the sense that it makes such unique use of the Vita's features that it could only ever have worked on Sony's portable powerhouse, but because everything it gets right is sweetened by the addition of the phrase "but on a handheld" at the end.

UPDATE: Apple has officially announced its 10th September iPhone event, confirming earlier reports that the company would hold its next big pow-wow on that date.

Gone Home is a critic's dream game. I liked it a little more than Oli did, a little less than most other reviewers, but whatever you think of it, there's plenty of thematic meat to chew on, some brilliant writing, and a particularly progressive bit of character development (which shouldn't really be considered progressive but, in terms of video games, it absolutely is). More importantly, it's over in two hours. You can get a review and a couple of features out of that, easy, with a total time investment far less than that 6/10 action game you trudged through for 20-odd hours a couple of months back.

Rockstar has employed real-world gang members and criminals to provide hours of voice acting in Grand Theft Auto 5.

Microsoft declined to publish Playstation 3-exclusive Heavy Rain after concerns about its child kidnapping storyline.

Sony has released an extended trailer for eye-catching PlayStation 4 exclusive Rime.

Korean summers are a torrid affair. The wide, New York-style avenue leading downhill from Yeoksam to Gangnam is fuzzy under a blue haze of swirling water vapour. Streets bake, buildings drip, people are threatened with evaporation.

UPDATE: PlayStation 4 will support four controllers, Sony has confirmed, in response to reports that Xbox One supports eight.

Stock of Microsoft's Xbox One Day One Edition is now running low in the UK, a survey of UK retailers suggests.

Sony plans to enter the virtual reality gaming space in a big way with PlayStation 4, Eurogamer can reveal.

Quirky horror title Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut arrives for PC on 31st October, the game's Steam listing has revealed.

The organisers of the Eurogamer Expo (spoiler: that's us) have announced that tickets for this year's show have sold out earlier than ever before, despite those same organisers (still us) offering more tickets than in any previous year. Woo!

In ancient times, when cartography was more art than science, a map was a portrait of an empire. An abstraction of its authority in which complexity and diversity were swallowed in one mass of colour, it was painted with an ease that belied the incalculable efforts demanded in swallowing such territory. It was a snapshot of the glory of a realm; a chance for it to puff itself up in front of its peers and coyly ask, "Do my borders look big in this?"

Skyrim and Fallout maker Bethesda has gone on the record to say it's not making any games for Nintendo platforms.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is perhaps the most genuinely creeply horror game of recent years. "It's a brave experiment in the genre... and stops at nothing to make you truly, deeply uncomfortable. And after a hard day at school or the office, isn't that all we really want?" wrote Quintin in our review.

There's a Space Hulk first-person shooter in development - and its teaser trailer has just been released.

There's more than one elephant in the room when it comes to the console release of Diablo 3 - Blizzard's first venture from PC since developing Lost Vikings 2 back in 1997. The main one, in a surprise turn, is to question why it took so long, given just how comfortable the pairing is between the series' hack 'n' slash gameplay and the direct character controls possible with the PS3 and 360 pads. Skill and equipment menus are mapped to a convenient rotary dial, while combat is spiced up via a rolling dodge mechanic that feels very natural. Blizzard's custom engine also arrives in full force on both current-gen platforms, but with a PS4 release inbound for 2014, are there any drawbacks here which might warrant holding out for a next-gen version?