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UPDATE: Upon hearing the news that the Xbox One will be entirely functional without the Kinect even plugged in, many of you assumed that it would be only a matter of time before Microsoft flip-flopped on it's decision to include the motion-sensing camera with all consoles for a whopping £429.

This year's new Football Manager game will be on Linux for the very first time - goal! That's as well as Windows and Mac, and all three versions are due out before Christmas.

UPDATE: Nvidia's European PR manager Ben Berraondo has issued Eurogamer with the following statement - it appears mentioning GTA5 was an error.

Someone somewhere's decreed this week to be multiplayer reveal week. Rockstar's doing its duty with Grand Theft Auto 5's online modes tomorrow, and Activision's doing much the same today with the first look at Call of Duty: Ghosts' multiplayer. Never ones to do things in half-measures it's flown half of the games press to Los Angeles to see it up close. Wesley Yin-Poole's our man on the ground, and he'll be bringing you impressions and interviews early tomorrow.

There's a JRPG causing a commotion on Kickstarter. It's called Project Phoenix and, in days, it's rocketed past its low $100,000 goal to raise more than $300,000 - a pace that should take it past $1 million before all is said and done.

Happy Nintendo day! Now the shouting's done between Microsoft and Sony - with a little chorus on either side supplied by Ubisoft and EA - it's time to sink back and enjoy the relatively mellow charms of Nintendo's E3 slate. There's no conference this year, though the Nintendo Direct that's kicking off at 3pm BST this afternoon is pretty much a like for like replacement.

Microsoft has apparently built Xbox One to know when it's overheating and be able to do a couple of things about it.

Thomas Was Alone creator Mike Bithell has taken the wraps off of his second project.

Toronto might be Canada's biggest city, but when it comes to games development it's always played second fiddle to Montreal, its more cosmopolitan, Europe-leaning compatriot. The Ontario capital certainly isn't as pretty as its Quebec counterpart either, and as in the films of one its most famous sons David Cronenberg there's a sterility to its streets and buildings smeared with the faintest hint of something going on beneath - such as the drama that's resulted from the alleged meeting of a crack pipe, a mobile phone camera and the city's abrasive mayor Rob Ford.

Gods Will Be Watching, a game born in 72 hours at a game jam, now has a publisher and now has a PC and mobile platforms release date of spring 2014.

CD Projekt Red has produced a brutal new cinematic for The Witcher 3 to highlight the morally ambiguous tone of the game, and series.

GameStop has announced that it will start selling out of print "vintage titles" in its stores, like Metroid Prime Trilogy. There's only one problem: It lists used copies of Metroid Prime Trilogy at a whopping $84.99, while the recently restocked allegedly used copies of Xenoblade Chronicles go for $89.99. To put this in perspective, both titles retailed for $49.99 upon release and the latter was a GameStop exclusive.

Telltale Games has shown off the first footage to its The Walking Dead successor: Fables: The Wolf Among Us (via IGN).

Ambitious, surreal stealth adventure Tangiers has ended its Kickstarter campaign at £42,006, having achieved its minimum £35,000 goal.

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag game director Ashraf Ismail has shown off seven minutes of the upcoming open-world pirate adventure in a new developer walkthrough (via IGN).

UPDATE: The Wii U port of Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is now set for a 22nd August release in Europe and Australia, developer Black Forest Games has announced.

Shenandoah's only gone and announced a sequel to Battle of the Bulge, called Drive on Moscow.

Last December Wii U owners got to try their hand at Ubisoft Montpellier's upcoming platformer Rayman Legends for the first time in a downloadable demo, and as of tomorrow Xbox 360, PS3 and Vita users will be granted the same opportunity.

Autobiographic raising a kid with cancer simulator, That Dragon, Cancer, will launch first on Ouya in the second half of 2014.

Daud is not supposed to be a squeamish man: he is, after all, the assassin who drove a knife into the heart of Dunwall's Empress and made off with her quivering child during the opening scenes of 2012's Dishonored. Even so, the first time you encounter a Brigmore Witch - a siren riddled with varicose veins and black magic - you'd be forgiven for letting out a spindly yelp. These shrieking, teleporting hags are perhaps the most upsetting antagonists yet in Arkane's stealth action game (of which The Brigmore Witches is the second major expansion), not least because they are led by that most alarming of creative fiends: the mad painter.

Activision wants you to know that 100 million people have played Call of Duty since the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare in 2007 - the game that fired the series into the stratosphere.

Trough what you're doing and listen: Farming Simulator arrives on PS3 and Xbox 360 in UK shops on 6th September.

Mike Bithell first came across Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series as a not so innocent 12-year-old. A friend of his dad's passed him the PC version of the first game in the series with word that you could catch a glimpse at a nude girl if Solid Snake positioned himself perfectly in an air duct. Ask any hardcore Metal Gear fan what I'm talking about. They'll know.

It's not clear what's going on at beleaguered Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and SOCOM developer Slant Six games, but things do not look good.

Pivotal Dragon Age 1 party member Morrigan will not join your team in Dragon Age: Inquisition, BioWare has revealed.

A year ago, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare was an $85,000 Kickstarter success. Not a big name, not a big pot of cash. Today, however, the bloody and brilliant multiplayer medieval first-person slasher has sold more than 1.2 million copies - and it's £19 a pop on Steam.

Simon Read was ready to give up. He'd tried for years to make a living from New Star Soccer, and he'd been through thick and thin and out the other side. But this time something was different. Normally he'd proclaim to his wife that the next version of the game would be the one, but not this time. This mobile version of New Star Soccer was nothing more than an experiment. Even worse, he realised that this time it was a last hurrah.

"Warty and slightly shonky in places, but built on rock-solid foundations." That was the Eurogamer verdict on the first Payday when Rich reviewed it back in 2011, and it's a conclusion that applies equally to its sequel. Despite a couple of years to tidy things up, with help from the FPS innovators at Starbreeze, developer Overkill has delivered a game that is only slightly improved - and not always in the areas that needed it most.

Let's get a quick test out of the way.

Xbox One controllers will be compatible with PCs at some point in 2014, Microsoft has announced.