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The latest batch of accepted Steam Greenlight titles has been announced and it's a doozy with 35 games - and a couple of non-games - coming to Valve's portal.

UPDATE: The CastAR virtual and augmented reality headset has surpassed its $400K Kickstarter goal. Its current tally lies at $417,192 with 29 days to go before its 14th November deadline.

Wintry first-person survival sim The Long Dark has scraped by its Kickstarter campaign with just enough resources to get by - and maybe just a tiny bit extra for a rainy day. Developer Hinterland asked for $200K (CAN) and received $256,217 (CAN).

Mighty Switch Force 2's Wii U port is slated to come to the European eShop on 25th October, developer WayForward announced on Twitter.

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox Live users won't be able to use their real names instead of Gamertags upon the Xbox One's launch on 22nd November.

Top downloadable titles Flower, flOw, Escape Plan and Sound Shapes will all be available for download on PlayStation 4 at the console's launch.

Velocity went down a treat when it came out last year, and when it was repurposed for the Vita not long after it became one of the best reasons to own Sony's handheld. So it wasn't too much of a surprise to learn that there was a sequel in the works - though it was nice to find out that FuturLab's really pushing itself for the follow-up. Building on the fast-paced, quick-witted shooting of the original, Velocity 2X transposes its teleporting mechanics to on-foot sections for some supplementary Turrican-style thrills.

Borderlands 2's DLC schedule will resume next week in time for Halloween (and all the new game owners who have just picked up the recent Game of the Year edition) with the Headhunter 1: TK Baha's Bloody Harvest add-on.

Starting today, with Peter Molyneux's Godus, Eurogamer is introducing alpha and beta reviews: reviews of games that are still in development but are already being offered for sale or funded by micro-transactions. Alpha and beta reviews won't carry a score and will acknowledge the games' incomplete status, but will still be a thorough examination of a game's qualities and offer a preliminary verdict on them.

Can you remember as far back as the hazy summer days of August? Things were simpler than - they were certainly brighter - and for a couple of days everyone got excited about the Leap Motion Controller, a Kinect-like device that promised low latency input. Well, when I say excited I mean mildly interested, until it became clear that it wasn't quite the future of motion control.

When Ubisoft announced it was making November a little quieter by delaying Watch Dogs there was at least one guy jumping for joy.

One of the simplest rewards in GTA 5 is the clicking of a free-wheeling BMX as you glide down a giant hill. It may have (once upon a time) cost me actual health to get to the top of it, but mounting the summit and beginning that leisurely cruise to the bottom is a blissful thing.

We've known for some time that Nintendo's dual-screened 2DS handheld actually only has one single screen.

SimCity developer Maxis has shown off a detailed look at its upcoming Cities of Tomorrow expansion, which will add a range of futuristic technology to the game.

Apple has scheduled a press event for 22nd October in San Francisco where it is expected to reveal a new range of iPads.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist and Rayman Legends have both failed to meet Ubisoft's sales expectations, the publisher has admitted.

Metro: Last Light has launched its fourth and final piece of DLC today with the Chronicles Pack. It's currently available on Steam and NA PSN, but will be out worldwide on XBLA tomorrow, when it will presumably hit the EU PSN too.

UPDATE: Amazon and GameStop have both confirmed that they will offer those who've pre-ordered the Watch Dogs PS4 bundle the option to receive just a PS4 instead upon the console's launch next month.

Ubisoft's upcoming open-world racing game The Crew has been delayed from early 2014 until Q3 of next year on PS4 , Xbox One and PC.

Psychonauts and Brutal Legend developer Double Fine has released an alpha version of its upcoming social management and base-building sim Spacebase DF-9.

Last year developer Nomad Games released Talisman Prologue, a single-player virtual variant of Games Workshop's fantasy board game Talisman. Now, Nomad has just launched its multiplayer successor Talisman Digital Edition on Steam Early Access.

Heroes of Dragon Age is a beefy Android and iOS tablet and phone game that's coming out in a few weeks - "very soon" this autumn, according to the game's producer Tim Lander, who spoke to me on the phone earlier.

Abandoned Territories, the first slice of DLC for Naughty Dog's fantastic The Last of Us, will arrive on the EU PlayStation Store tomorrow.

3D racer Angry Birds Go will arrive worldwide on 11th December, developer Rovio has announced, with iOS and Android launches expected on day one.

Nintendo has trumpeted a terrific two-day sales total for Pokémon X and Y: more than four million copies of the games were shifted over their opening weekend.

Dishonored wasn't the only game to get a Game of the Year Edition last week; Borderlands 2 also saw the release of a complete edition featuring all the DLC campaigns and other add-ons, including two character classes, the Mechromancer and the Psycho. Here we present our original review from 18th September last year with, down the left-hand column, links to reviews of all the DLC and some further reading.

The Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 4 will include a 14GB install option for optimal performance, and developer DICE reccomends you use it.

Game-creation sandbox Project Spark will not need an Xbox Live Gold subscription to access, Microsoft has clarified, a change from the company's previous stance on free-to-play releases.

Marvel's superheroes have faced many seemingly insurmountable challenges over the years: the world-devouring Galactus, the fiendish schemes of Doctor Doom, the mad titan Thanos. But can they survive - deep breath - the horrors of Free To Play?

Warface, the free-to-play online shooter made by Far Cry and Crysis creator Crytek, sheds its beta stabilisers and goes live this Monday, 21st October, which was news to us.