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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.

GameCube re-release The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker is £49.99 / €59.99 on the Wii U eShop this Friday.

Action roguelike Wasteland Kings has been renamed as Nuclear Throne after inXile Entertainment worried people would think it was part of the Wasteland franchise.

FIFA 14 has entered the UK chart at number one, but launch week sales were down 24 per cent compared to FIFA 13.

Press X to roll out of the way of explosions! Press F to wave at hostages! Press forward to drive a car, and F to pick up the briefcase! And, I guess, if you get the time, left mouse button to shoot some people.

What a show it's been! Thanks to all who've come along and helped make it so special, and of course all those behind the scenes who've made it happen. I'm speaking a little prematurely, of course - there are still a few hours left to go on the last day of the Expo, and with a live podcast due up on the main session stage at 5pm there's still the potential for everything to go horribly, horribly wrong.

For me, the biggest thing happening in gaming this week was actually over on your side of the pond - the Eurogamer Expo. I love this kind of event: it's where gamers can get together, see and play new stuff, and (hopefully) have a great time. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it this year - but I really wish I could have been there. In the US, we have the PAX shows, but there's something special about London-based events. That might sound rather strange, but I've been to many shows in many different countries, and the most memorable ones for me have all been in London. It's a great place, and the crowds are always really positive and enthusiastic. I particularly remember some of the expos of the late 80s and early 90s, which were just brilliant. I'm glad EGX has picked up from where they left off and brought them bang up to date.

Precursor Games, developer of unsuccessful Kickstarter candidate Shadow of the Eternals, has disbanded.

Welcome to Eurogamer Expo 2013! This year's show is the biggest and most exciting we've ever put together, featuring first UK hands-on with PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well as pretty much every big (and small) game due out in the immediate future that you might be interested in.

Final Fantasy 14's initial launch was something of a disaster for Square Enix, temporarily tarnishing both a much-loved brand and the reputation of its developers with a product that felt unfocused and incomplete. Rushed out after an unusually short beta period where only a tiny part of the game was available for players to test (the promised PlayStation 3 beta test never materialised at all), the final release was plagued by game-breaking bugs, a convoluted menu system unsuited to modern MMORPGs, questionable design choices that made the experience frustrating to play, and an unoptimised graphics engine that led to poor performance on a wide range of PCs.



Is it possible to cheat on a console? I don't mean entering the Konami Code or exploiting Game Genie-enabled shortcuts. I'm talking about the rather old-fashioned idea of digital monogamy, of staying true to one machine. Perhaps it's just a cultural hangover from declaring loyalty to either the ZX Spectrum or the Commodore 64, the sort of thing that happened a long time ago in a playground far, far away. Yet it became a pressing issue, personally, in 2002.

Dying Light developer Techland has said its upcoming zombie survival game will be of a higher quality than Dead Island, its first crack at the genre that launched with a number of rough edges.

Polish studio CD Projekt Red has everything going for it as it builds to a Witcher 3 crescendo in 2014. But there are concerns - concerns about it being open world and perhaps flabbier and more unfocused as a result.

The rise of smartphones and tablets has subtly altered the definition of portable interactive entertainment. Once the sole preserve of console makers such as Nintendo, Sega, Atari, NEC and SNK, control of the "mobile gaming" market is slowly but surely being usurped by the likes of Google and Apple.

Hello Eurogamers. It's Eurogamer Expo week and as you read this, we're probably busy sprinting around the show floor playing games and chatting to developers. Keep an eye on Outside Xbox over the course of the weekend for more videos from the show as it happens and tune into our After Show Party livestreams at 7pm today and tomorrow.

CCP's sexy little Oculus Rift dogfighting game Eve: Valkyrie can be played without a virtual reality headset. People play it that way at the company's Icelandic HQ, CEO Hilmar Petersson told me - because there are only a few headsets to go around. "So I mean it is possible," he said.

Over the course of three announcements this week, Valve finally set in stone its vision for taking over the living room, first with the reveal of SteamOS, then later with Steam Machines and a new, somewhat eccentric controller. It's news that's been signposted in interviews with Gabe Newell over the past couple of years, but the ramifications are far-reaching. Here, Eurogamer's writers respond to what the news means, and where it's taking Valve.

Prior to its closure earlier this year, LucasArts had been working on an HD remake of Tim Schafer and Dave Grossman's point-and-click adventure classic Day of the Tentacle.

UPDATE# 2: The first of four documentaries covering the development of Mighty No. 9 has been publicly released.

Back in 2003 Namco announced a game based on John Carpenter's Snake Plissken license tentatively called Escape. The title never saw the light of day, but now a former developer on the project has released a trailer for the Snake Plissken game that never was (thanks, Kotaku).

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs is a pretty gross game, as one would expect of a horror title set in a grand guignol borderline Lovecraftian rendering of 1899 London. But there's one scene so disgusting that its developer, The Chinese Room, chose to nix it.

Platformer roguelike Rogue Legacy is coming to Mac and Linux "very soon," Cellar Door Games has told Joystiq.

Valve has revealed the controller it's been brewing up for the past year in honour of its upcoming line of "Steam Machines."

Putty Squad and The Pinball Arcade are PlayStation 4 launch titles, publisher System 3 has announced.

"Not everybody was born with a DualShock controller in their hands," remarked notable French game maker David Cage, pacing with emotion at the Eurogamer Expo today.

Naughty Dog has announced the release schedule for the long-awaited The Last of Us downloadable content.

Do you remember your wedding day? I certainly remember mine: the broken window, the cake trampled underfoot, the joy on my wife's face when I threw that huge gold ring over her wrist, like a hoop landing on a weighted bottle at a Coney Island concession.

UPDATE: Microsoft has now officially announced its upcoming Xbox Fitness service and confirmed its inclusion with Xbox Live Gold memberships until December 2014.

DICE has announced all the modes included in upcoming shooter Battlefield 4 ahead of the start of the beta on 1st October.