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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Retro Studio's latest take on Nintendo's iconic platform series, has been delayed, with a final release set for February 2014.

A Link Between Worlds, the spiritual successor to the SNES classic Link to the Past, has been set for release on November 22nd for the Nintendo 3DS - and its new dungeon system has been explained for the first time.

Pikmin 3 is getting paid DLC, with the first pack hitting the Wii U's eShop today. An update introduces a new and free map, with a 'Collect Treasure' stage pack that bolts three levels on to the game's Mission Mode available for £1.79.

Dust 514 is currently exclusive to PlayStation 3 but there's nothing - no signed piece of paper - apparently stopping developer CCP putting the game on another platform, even a rival one.

Nintendo has announced a new Kirby game for release on the 3DS.

Nintendo will stop manufacturing Wii consoles in Japan soon.

Rain is a game about sacrifice. It's about a boy who casts off his physical form to save a ghostly girl from the monsters pursuing her through the drizzly streets of a sleeping city. It's also about a potentially promising psuedo-stealth puzzle-platformer that has undermined its mechanics somewhat in the service of the cinematic ambitions of a fairy-tale narrative. That narrative, in turn, is bent out of shape so that the developers can recreate a single image over and over, throwing boy and girl together and then separating them again to frame that magical moment where he suddenly spies her in the distance and silently implores her to wait.

Thief is another example of a cross-generational game - one available for PS3 and Xbox 360 as well as PS4 and Xbox One (and PC).

PlayStation 3 exclusive Beyond: Two Souls is censored in Europe, Sony has confirmed.

"There is no shop."

Nintendo 3DS farming RPG Rune Factory 4 releases in Europe in spring 2014, MarvelousAQL has announced.

You can rate each mission in Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Ubisoft has revealed.

An alpha version of War of the Vikings, the follow-up to War of the Roses, is available now from Steam Early Access.

Square Enix life president Ian Livingstone has left the company.

Nintendo is rolling out a new Wii U system update that adds Wii remote play - but there's a catch.

Maxis has asked SimCity players to help it create guidelines that will govern mods.

It's hardly a shock to hear that Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will put you in mind of Magic: The Gathering, but perhaps more surprising is the sheer extent to which it will make you think about PopCap games, too. Blizzard's latest is virtual card battling at its most physical and also its most ingratiating.

In July 2012, Rockstar released this screenshot:

Dark Souls 2's beta has been released in Japan and you know what that means: Let's Play videos!

Surgeon Simulator 2013's alternate-reality game Codename: Trisha has been cracked. The reward: alien surgery.

UPDATE: October's second free Xbox 360 game will be 2007 hit Halo 3, Microsoft's Major Nelson has just confirmed.

Retro/Grade developer Matt Gilgenbach's disarmingly personal psychological horror affair, Neverending Nightmares, managed to squeak past its $99K Kickstarter goal with $106,722 mere hours before the deadline.

Ubisoft has stamped a release date on the PC edition of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag - it launches on 22nd November.

It's the biggest, busiest Assassin's Creed so far - but after an annual onslaught of games, is anyone really bothered any more? Turns out they are, actually, and Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag's open seas setting is a breath of salty fresh air that gives the series the kick up the behind it really needs.

Microsoft has announced a 75-city world tour for Xbox One, with dates planned for London and Dublin in November.

Charming Double Fine adventure The Cave will launch for iOS devices on 3rd October, publisher Sega has announced.

Crytek boss Cevat Yerli has addressed concern from some quarters about Xbox One exclusive Ryse's native resolution, saying the game will use the console's upscaler to achieve a "full HD experience".

Sony-owned studio Guerrilla Games has confirmed it has begun work on a new IP now that some staff are finished with PlayStation 4 launch title Killzone: Shadow Fall.

Sony's PlayStation executives hope with PS4 this time things will be different. This time, Sony launches alongside Microsoft, not 16 months afterwards like with PS3. This time, Sony is cheaper than Xbox, not hundreds of pounds more. And this time, Sony is taking a gamer-first approach - and that, it seems, is translating into real world business.

Batman: Arkham Origin's upcoming Initiation DLC will move the game's setting to Asia for an extra slice of origin story.