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Deadlight developer Tequila Works is making a massive transition from its gritty, 2D zombie platformer to the bright, cel-shaded open-world adventure Rime.

UPDATE: Sony has since released a full list of its newly announced roster of indie games coming to PS4 and Vita.

Housemarque, the Finnish developer behind the Super Stardust series and Dead Nation, has announced its upcoming PS4 arcade shooter Resogun.

Over the spring EVE Online developer CCP constructed a tech demo called EVR that imagined what the space MMO would look like if it were a dogfighting game that used the Oculus Rift. Those who played it were impressed, so the developer decided to flesh out this proof of concept into a full game entitled EVE: Valkyrie.

PES 2014 will go on sale in the UK on 20th September for PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, Konami has announced. The PS3 version will be available digitally in addition to the boxed release.

Konami has announced that Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 will be released on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on 28th February 2014.

Yesterday Microsoft announced its Xbox One self-publishing program and with it opened up its marketplace to a raft of independent developers who previously were unable to get their games onto the Xbox platform.

FuturLab has announced a sequel to its brilliant shoot-'em-up Velocity. The new game's called Velocity 2X, and it's headed to PS Vita and PlayStation 4 next year.

Volume, the next game from Thomas Was Alone developer Mike Bithell, is a timed PlayStation 4 and Vita exclusive.

Microsoft and EA Sports have confirmed yesterday's rumour that pre-ordered Xbox Ones in Europe will include a digital copy of FIFA 14 at no extra cost "while stocks last".

Apotheon is the upcoming 2D "Metroidvania" set in ancient Greece by Alientrap, the developer behind the action/platformer Capsized.

We already know that Assassin's Creed 4 aims to build on the impressive naval battles of its predecessor by allowing Edward Kenway to fully submerge himself and probe the bottom of the ocean, but as you'll see in this video interview with producer Arnaud Vaudour, Ubisoft intends for these dives to be much more than throwaway distractions.

Assassin's Creed 4 isn't even out, and we've already unearthed an easter egg within it. Ian Higton picked up the little secret (don't worry - it can't really be considered a spoiler) during his recent travels, and it's kind of tied in to where he headed.

Among its many announcements this morning, Microsoft has unveiled the list of Xbox One titles that will be available to buy on launch day.

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare, the new third person multiplayer console offshoot for Popcap's popular franchise, is launching on Xbox One first, with an Xbox 360 version to follow. There's no news just yet on when to expect PlayStation or PC versions, should there be any.

They got me in Royal Fitchet in the end. It was between this little cluster of scruffy houses and the thin high street of Odd Bottom on-the-end that the pipe-smoking robots first appeared, marching in an unbroken line over a soggy horizon and sending me running for cold shelter, past a placard politely requesting passers-by to 'Please Drive Slowly' where the letters 'r' and 'v' had ominously dropped off. A couple of angry cracks of rifle fire later and I was left bleeding out in the shadow of Fitchet's war memorial, thinking I should have swallowed down a spoonful of marmalade when I had the chance.

UK supplies of heist shooter Payday 2 will be replenished in the coming days, publisher 505 Games has promised.

EA's digital download service Origin will now offer customers a free 24-hour return policy on any of the publisher's games.

"Strategy games are just not contemporary." So said 2K Games boss Christoph Hartmann back in 2011, when discussing the push to reboot the beloved X-COM series.

UPDATE: Spelunky on PSN has now been confirmed for Europe next Wednesday, 28th August, the developer announced on Twitter. I can dig it.

Pid developer Might & Delight is releasing its upcoming survival badger game, Shelter, on PC and Mac on 28th August.

Good Old Games, or GOG for short, is going after Steam Greenlight in a big way by launching a new indie submission service that seems to take all the criticism leveled at Valve's feet into consideration.

The much anticipated first-person horror sequel Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs may have missed its Halloween 2012 deadline by the better part of a year, but we'll finally be able to get our grubby mitts on it come 10th September when thechineseroom and Frictional's sequel launches on PC, Mac and Linux.

With the Oculus Rift's implementation making the rounds from the largest triple A studios like Id (Doom 3) to the tiniest indies like Owlchemy Labs (Snuggle Truck), it can become rather hard to keep track of what games do and don't support the VR headset, let alone the fact that few developers have experience making games for VR that don't make you want to hurl.

Among the many charms of Splinter Cell Blacklist - due out this Friday on PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii U - are a range of side missions that you can play solo, split-screen or online that really showcase the game at its best. The campaign tends to ram the story in your face every 10 seconds, but in these entertaining diversions you're generally left to get on with things, glorying in the systems and scheming your way to victory.

Minecraft creator Marcus "Notch" Persson's 0x10c will now be worked on by the game's community after the sci-fi sandbox was officially put "on ice".

Dragon Age publisher EA has announced Heroes of Dragon Age, a new combat-focused free-to-play mobile spin-off set in the world of BioWare's RPG series.

The PC version of Batman: Arkham Origins has ditched Microsoft's Games for Windows Live service in favour of Steam, publisher Warner Bros. has confirmed.

WildStar, the sci-fi online world due for release in spring 2014, will fly in the face of massively multiplayer fashion by charging a subscription, developer Carbine has announced. But there's a twist: you'll also be able play for free by trading in-game currency for game time with other players.

3DS adventure Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate is being re-released in HD for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.