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UPDATE: Rockstar has officially confirmed the existence of paid-for cash packs in Grand Theft Auto Online via a just-published blog post, and moved to reassure fans that the game has been balanced so these are not necessary to progress.

Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul may not have won a car when he appeared on The Price is Right in 2000, but he's shown them by becoming incredibly famous and starring in his own car chase movie, Need for Speed.

We've known for ages that Valve has been tinkering with the idea of releasing its own hardware and now, after years of speculation, Valve has announced the Steam Box. Or should I say Steam boxes?

Obsidian's highly anticipated RPG, South Park: The Stick of Truth, is now slated to come out on 13th December in the UK for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Co-op action puzzler Tiny Brains is set to be a launch title for PlayStation 4, publisher 505 Games has announced.

Ned Stark, Boromir, Sharpe, Martin Septim - Sean Bean's done it all. And now he's voiced a Train Simulator 2014 advert.

UPDATE: It looks like Injustice: Gods Among Us is going next-gen.

"THERE ISN'T TIME, NINA!"

Square Enix has unveiled Nosgoth, the free-to-play competitive multiplayer game set in the Legacy of Kain universe.

Thief publisher Square Enix has announced The Bank Heist, an exclusive mission for those who pre-order the game ahead of its February 2014 release.

Paradox Interactive is a strange company. Now, don't get me wrong, strange can often be a good thing and I certainly am not using this term pejoratively, but Paradox Interactive is strange. Its portfolio is a hodge-podge of critically acclaimed genre titles, surprise successes and widely panned, sometimes alarmingly broken disasters. The eccentric image it projects extends within as well as without, with would-be interviewees facing questions like "Are you a Stark or a Lannister? A Kirk or a Picard?" some of which may be delivered to them by a man who has used the title Vice President of Business Development and Manager of the Unicorn Division.

Sony has shown off a new look at its PlayStation 4 firmware and a close-up peek at the PlayStation App, the next-gen console's companion software for iOS and Android devices.

EA's plucky new CEO Andrew Wilson has made some management changes.

Batman: Arkham Origins developer WB Games Montreal has announced the game's Knightfall Pack, which will only be available on PlayStation 3.

Veteran Bungie developer Joe Staten has announced his departure from the company.

EA Sports is considering gameplay tweaks to FIFA 14 to address several attacking options that feel overpowered to people playing the demo and early access version of the game.

We've known for awhile that the Xbox One would allow peoples to capture five minutes of gameplay footage, but now Microsoft has confirmed that players will be able to upload clips to social sites like YouTube and Facebook.

UPDATE: Lone Survivor creator Jasper Byrne noted on his blog that the PC and Mac versions of the Director's Cut will follow shortly.

Hugely popular improvisational party game Cards Against Humanity is now available in the UK (via Fulfillment by Amazon) with a special new deck custom made for the territory.

Whenever a numbered Armored Core title rumbles onto the scene, there are two things you can be sure of: the mech combat game will feature more component parts than your average Lego set, and From Software will build upon its core with at least one expanded sequel. (Armored Core 3 was followed by no less than five games that built upon the same engine.) Every game tests the player's piloting and designing skills across one of the most consistently challenging legacies in gaming - and with Armored Core: Verdict Day, the follow-up to last year's Armored Core 5, From shows no signs of going soft.

Killzone Shadow Fall will contain six expansions following its release as a PS4 launch title and today developer Guerrilla Games detailed most of these add-ons that will be included in a Season Pass.

UPDATE: Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has belly-danced past its minimum Kickstarter goal of $400K. It currently has $416,045 with 10 days on the clock before its 4th October deadline.

When Sony unveiled PlayStation 4 way back in February there weren't many examples of how DualShock 4's touchpad and Move lightbar features would better the PlayStation experience.

UPDATE: Eurogamer's Ian Higton has been exploring the Ordnance Survey map for himself - watch his travels below as he takes in Stonehenge, London, Oxford and mispronounces everything around Eurogamer's home city of Brighton.

There's a new Guild Wars 2 update due to arrive on Tuesday next week. But before then - this week - there's an extended free trial and discounted game price to make use of.

Dark Souls 2 publisher Namco is setting you a challenge. Defeat the game's Mirror Knight boss on the Eurogamer Expo showfloor and you'll be eligible for some serious prizes.

Take an old idea and mix it with VR, with Oculus Rift, and it becomes new and exciting again. That's what exciting tech does.

At the gnarled and gore-encrusted heart of Hammerwatch is a combo system of pleasing simplicity. To trigger it, you must kill a bunch of enemies very quickly, and then once it's in motion, you can upgrade it in a number of straightforward ways - to deal 360-degree damage, say, or to heal. You can build it, too, by killing more enemies. It's action game design at its most basic, and it works.

Two new Wii U bundles have been unveiled by Nintendo of Japan, each containing games, accessories and a subscription to the console's new Karaoke service.

Here's an interesting idea: a game played on a telly within an Oculus Rift game.