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The Sims 4 developer Maxis has confirmed that the game won't include any SimCity-style always-online features.

Infinity Ward has confirmed dedicated servers for the Xbox One and PC versions of Call of Duty: Ghosts, but what about other platforms?

In the beginning was the word. Words made the world and everything in it. Words made oceans surrounding a slope-backed island, and they made the steep, jutting rock of the island itself. They made a game, of sorts, and they made the landscape for the game to play out across. They made the characters in the game - all but one of them - and they provided puzzles for that final, missing character to work their way through. The end result? The end result is a game that has its developer laughing and shrugging as he tries to explain things to me. "It turns out that it's one of those games that is surprisingly hard to talk about."

Sony has shown off a colourful pair of PlayStation 4 controllers that will be available alongside the console's standard black option.

PlayStation 3-exclusive Beyond: Two Souls will include a co-operative Dual Mode, developer Quantic Dream has announced.

Five years ago I met up with Shuhei Yoshida at Gamescom's last year in Leipzig and asked him the same question he's been getting in pretty much every interview since: what's happening with the Last Guardian?

Sony's Gran Turismo movie will tell the story of how GT5 gamer Lucas Ordóñez became a real-life racing driver.

Lionhead's recently-announced multiplayer adventure Fable Legends for Xbox One is the only game in the series currently in-development, the developer has said.

I guess it's no secret that I didn't like the original Xbox One pitch. I appreciate the convenience of digital marketplaces and I play a lot of online games, but it was naive to expect people to swallow an always-online console with licence-only ownership without offering any tangible justification for making those changes. I felt Microsoft was pushing us towards those things not because it found compelling arguments in game design, but because it found compelling arguments on its corporate roadmap.

FIFA is coming to the Vita for the third year in a row with FIFA 14 - and it'll essentially be the same game that accompanied the launch of Sony's handheld.

In May 2013 Microsoft teased a new entry in the Crackdown series with a tiny image shown during the company's Xbox One reveal event, but we haven't heard anything about it since - despite some hoping it would be announced at Gamescom this week.

Divinity: Dragon Commander doesn't possess much nuance, but what it lacks in subtlety it makes up for in... well, everything. The sheer quantity of ideas that have been shoehorned into this game is amazing. It's the party punch you once made where you poured in everything you could think of and it actually tasted pretty good. This is a game in which you can make a half-dragon with a jetpack marry a living skeleton - and that's what you do when the action isn't happening.

Microsoft's big Gamescom announcement this year was the news that people who pre-order Xbox One in Europe get FIFA 14 free, but the game's executive producer David Rutter has denied that the bundle was thought up by the platform holder to help ease price concerns after E3.

Reef Entertainment, the publisher behind the upcoming Rambo game, has acquired the exclusive console video game rights to The Terminator and its sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Dead Island's MOBA spin-off, Dead Island: Epidemic, is being developed by Stunlock Studios, the Swedish developer behind Bloodline Champions.

Sony Japan Studio's upcoming melancholy curio Rain is now set to arrive on European PS3s on 2nd October for €12.99, Sony has announced.

Last night, during Sony's Gamescom press conference, Sony Computer Entertainment boss Andrew House took to the stage to criticise Microsoft for backtracking on a number of its Xbox One policies since the E3 trade show in June.

The first day of Gamescom's about to wrap up with Phil Spencer's keynote, which is taking place from 7pm local time - and that translates to 6pm BST in the UK. After the stealth conference Microsoft held yesterday it's fair not to expect much in the way of news, but after Andrew House's pointed dig at the Xbox One's more fluid policies we may at least get a little corporate fisticuffs. There's no stream, unfortunately, so Martin Robinson will be here to fill in the details. And if all else fails he'll be sure to fill you in on the interior decor of the Tanzbrunnen in which the keynote's taking place. It'll be fun!

PlayStation Plus subscribers can now join Vita shooter Killzone Mercenary's open beta.

UPDATE: Yesterday's announcement of Minecraft for PlayStation 4 was not the whole story - Sony has now confirmed that all of its current platforms will see the mega-selling sandbox.

UPDATE: UK retailers have begun updating their PlayStation Vita prices following yesterday's price drop announcement. First up is Zavvi, which now lists the Vita's Wi-Fi model £143.99.

Flashback's title screen allows you to play through the original 1992 game in its entirety. A generous move on the part VectorCell, developer of this remake, you might think, but the message is obvious: Look how far we've come. The idea is that we have a quick play of the original and then find out what a difference two decades' worth of improvements in game design and technology can make.

Blizzard has announced Reaper of Souls, the first expansion for Diablo 3, at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany.

Here we go then! Sony is the only platform holder putting on a big Gamescom press conference this year and with any luck we are going to learn the PlayStation 4 release date. Plus, it wouldn't be Sony at Gamescom without a bunch of weird new games to salivate over.

Guten tag and wilkommen to the first of this year's Gamescom press conferences, starring our old friends the Electronic Arts. EA has promised that its GC 2013 conference will include the unveiling of The Sims 4, as well as updates on Battlefield 4, Command and Conquer, FIFA 14, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare and Need for Speed: The Rivals.

A sequel? Not quite. Instead - and this is weirdly appropriate, given the ground it covers - think of this as more of an augmentation.

Sony has announced LittleBigPlanet Hub, a new free-to-play game in the sandbox series for PlayStation 3.

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 5 will let you smoke bongs and once again visit prostitutes, a new ESRB rating for the game has revealed.

Last night Sony announced the PlayStation 4 release date - 15th November in the US and 29th November in Europe - as well as a PlayStation Vita price drop and an additional PS3 price adjustment.

Hackers have gained access to around 120,000 transaction records stored on the servers of popular MOBA League of Legends.