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Arkane Austin, the studio just finished with fantastique Dishonored DLC The Brigmore Witches, appears to indeed be the team rebooting Prey 2.

Super Crate Box and Ridiculous Fishing developer Vlambeer has announced its upcoming "post-apocalyptic action roguelike" Wasteland Kings.

Call of Duty: Ghosts' new dynamic maps let players set traps, destroy the environment and trigger game-changing events mid-match - but just how much scope is there to tear up the battlefield?

UPDATE: The 7 Days to Die Kickstarter has ended a rousing success, more than doubling its $200K goal.

Dead Island developer Techland has shown off a dozen minutes of its upcoming first-person open-world zombie adventure Dying Light (via IGN).

Update: Microsoft director of marketing Albert Penello has explained that the Xbox One delay was due to implementing voice support for various languages into the dashboard.

UPDATE: Runner2's Good Friends DLC is set to land on Steam on Thursday 11th July, where it will retail for $3.

This year's 3DS Castlevania adventure Mirror of Fate is slated for an HD treatment on PS3 and Xbox 360 in October, according to a leaked retailer listing for a Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Collection.

After I ask Infinity Ward executive producer Mark Rubin what it is about Call of Duty: Ghosts, exactly, that is innovative, he makes a "hmm" sound and thinks for a while.

Microsoft will be removing the option to purchase PC games over Xbox.com on 22nd August, when an Xbox 360 update will remove the much derided Microsoft Points in lieu of using various local currencies.

Gone Home, an engaging but frustratingly slight narrative game from new Portland indie outfit The Fullbright Company, announces its intentions quite clearly with its title and its setup. It's 1995 and you play Katie, returning to Oregon after a long trip to Europe to find your family's new home empty and an enigmatic note taped to the door. Where is everyone? Exploring the large, unfamiliar house, you search for clues to where your parents and teenage sister Sam might be - and what might have happened to them in the past year that won't fit on the back of a postcard.

Sony has announced PlayStation Vita Pets, a virtual canine simulator that looks a lot like Nintendogs.

Rockstar has shown off new footage of Grand Theft Auto Online - GTA5's expansive multiplayer offering - which will launch two weeks after the main game, on 1st October.

World of Warcraft patch 5.4 is "nearly here" and Blizzard has unleashed the trailer.

Kalypso has announced Tropico 5 for release in 2014 on PC (Windows, Linux), Mac and Xbox 360.

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is back on sale after more then a month in the dark following "contractual issues" with publisher Atari.

Nintendo's range of Skylanders-esque Pokémon is now available at UK retailer GAME.

Odin Sphere and Murimasa developer Vanillaware's latest brawler/RPG opus Dragon's Crown is slated to come to Europeon PS3s and Vitas on 11th October, publisher NIS America has announced.

Good news*! Companies signing up to Microsoft's Season Pass Guarantee - and the big names apparently are - will give you automatic access to Season Passes for Xbox One games that you've bought on Xbox 360.

Rayman creator and highly-respected game designer Michel Ancel has appeared alongside members of the Rayman Legends development team in a series of photos protesting the game's delay by company bosses.

Delaying Dragon Age 3 by a year meant multiple playable races could be reinstated to the series, BioWare has revealed.

In a shocking turn of events the Xbox One launch has been delayed until 2014 in eight countries.

'Trigger Happy' has always felt like a strange umbrella title for Steven Poole's games writing; he never seems to waste a bullet. Witness: his latest book kicks off by listing some of the cultural inroads games have made in the last decade or so. Slavoj Žižek has a Black Ops poster on his wall, Will Self and John Lanchester have written articles about games, and the V&A even included a few in a recent exhibition on British design. Specifics aside, it's an opener a dozen writers might have chosen, but only Poole would conclude this victory lap by kicking a little gravel into the stands. "And a surprising proportion of American teenage males say they want to be snipers when they grow up," he writes. "A dream that was surely nurtured by stealthy console-based ultraviolence."

Call of Duty players have long called for the addition of dedicated servers in the hope they would reduce lag and other negatives experienced during online multiplayer, but so far these wishes have fallen on deaf ears.

Veteran actor Charles Dance - best known as Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones - will be joining the cast of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, developer CDProjekt Red has announced.

Progress made ranking a character in Battlefield 4 on Xbox 360 and PS3 will carry over onto Xbox One and PS4, publisher EA has announced.

Call of Duty: Ghosts' Prestige Edition will include a wearable 1080p water resistant tactical camera, Activision announced at today's COD: Ghosts multiplayer reveal event.

Perhaps my favourite combat in any first-person shooter would be the tense cat-and-mouse skirmishes of Monolith's 2005 cult classic F.E.A.R. The cunning enemy AI, glorious slow motion and exaggerated particle effects that turned the most banal office into a warzone alongside my favourite video game shotgun ever combined to make this otherwise bog standard action game into a near classic. Now, a six-person studio headed by ex-Monolith devs is creating a new first-person shooter IP in Betrayer, which, for better or worse, sounds nothing like F.E.A.R.

Swords & Soldiers developer Ronimo is bringing its 2012 2D side-scrolling MOBA Awesomenauts to PlayStation 4.

There are big open-world games out there, some bigger than GTA5 - but there will be none stuffed with as much content, Rockstar believes.