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"Fun" is a weird and troublesome thing. Almost impossible to define, it's a lightweight term that lacks any real heft, yet it's come to be one of the most commonly used criteria for deciding if a game is any good. Is it interesting? Thought-provoking? Never mind all that: is it fun?

You might have read Dan's Papers, Please review and be curious, or you may just want to end your week on a bleak note - either way, we've got you covered.

Nintendo has announced the biggest change to Pokémon's evolution mechanic since the series' inception.

Project Spark developer Team Dakota has shown off an extended look at Microsoft's in-development world-creation game.

Card Hunter is a wonderfully genial sort of name for a video game - and the video game it belongs to seems suitably inviting, too. Blue Manchu's debut seeks to blend the collectible card game genre with the endless thrills of a good dungeon crawler, and if that doesn't sound cozy enough, it's also wrapping everything up in trappings that invoke the pizza-fuelled late nights of an '80s D&D session. I gather if you roll a double six, Judge Reinhold and Steve Guttenberg will appear and destroy you.

Cult Japanese beat 'em-up Senran Kagura Burst is getting a release in Europe next year.

Space simulation X Rebirth launches on 15th November 2013

id Software creative director Matt Hooper has joined Oculus Rift.

Heroes of Newerth developer S2 Games has announced a new free-to-play MOBA called Strife.

Had Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net, been born in an earlier, Colder era, he would have made a formidable Russian General. This graduate in laser physics cuts a commanding figure as he sits straight and vigilant in a white leather chair, fists resting for emphasis on the surface of vast, sweaty table. He gestures towards the wall behind, thickly papered with a world map. It's punctuated by a flurry of red dots, each one signifying the location of one of Wargaming.net's global offices. "Right now we are 1600 people," he says in a gloopy Russian accent. "We have bases in Sydney, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, Berlin, and so on. Probably the only untouched territories remaining are Latin America and Brazil. We are almost everywhere. And, of course, we have further plans."

Amazon is reportedly set to launch an Android video game console.

The PlayStation Vita has become something of a mecca for indie developers with such titles as Hotline Miami, Thomas Was Alone, Retro City Rampage, Lone Survivor, and The Binding of Isaac on (or coming to) the platform, but none of these ports actually enhance the experience beyond opening up the opportunity to play them in transit or in bed (which my cat and I strongly prefer).

Sword & Sworcery and Clash of Heroes developer Capybara's highly anticipated real-time roguelike Below is only going to be a timed-exclusive for Xbox One rather than a permanent installation on Microsoft's upcoming console.

UPDATE: Activision has revealed that Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's final DLC expansion will be Apocalypse, due on 27th August on XBLA.

Pre-order Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn and you'll get three days of early access to the game, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Microsoft will include an Xbox One headset with every console, the company has decided.

UPDATE: Arma 3 will finally be released on 12th September, developer Bohemia Interactive has just announced.

UPDATE: Sony has said that you won't need a PlayStation Plus subscription to use the PlayStation 4's game-recording function.

Imagine you discovered an amazing new food, and the first thing you tried to do was put it between two slices of white bread. Or what if you were handed a remarkable new musical instrument, and your immediate reaction was to see if you could make it sound like a guitar?

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed the secret behind Pikmin 3's hidden memos.

[Editors note: In case you missed it in the strapline, this article contains major spoilers for The Last of Us. Continue at your own peril.]

BioShock Infinite developer Irrational has revealed new details of Elizabeth's playable role in the second half of Burial at Sea, the game's upcoming Rapture-set expansion.

3D strategy game Cubemen 2 will be the first Wii U title to support cross-platform play with something other than another Nintendo product.

Zen Studios - of Zen Pinball fame - is releasing its rhythm-based brawler KickBeat on 4th September on PS3 and Vita.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons - Starbreeze's audacious fable about the importance of family and rope ladders - is heading to PS3 and PC (via Steam) on 28th August, publisher 505 Games has announced.

Police Quest creator and ex-cop Jim Walls recently attempted a Kickstarter campaign to create a first-person action/adventure spiritual successor to Sierra's classic point-and-click adventure series. Entitled Precinct, the project failed to ignite much enthusiasm with only $86K of its $500K goal funded with only 10 days to go. So instead of cancelling the project outright, Walls - along with his ex-Sierra cohort Robert Lindsley, and a couple other devs - decided to start a new crowdfunding campaign with a questionable structure.

UPDATE: Broken Rules' Martin Pichlmair has responded to my inquery about why the studio's moved its Chasing Aurora follow-up to PC after releasing its last couple titles on Nintendo consoles.

You don't slice through space in Galak-Z: The Dimensional. You tumble. It's a controlled kind of madness, really: a precision burst of the thrusters carrying you forward before you then pivot - facing up, down, backwards - to bestow showers of sparking laser fire on whatever most needs to be blown to pieces.

UPDATE #2: A list of 30 unmarked placeholder achievements for XCOM: Enemy Unknown has popped up on Steam. (Thanks, Wario 64.)

Legendary brain-box John Carmack has joined Oculus VR, the company behind Oculus Rift, as chief technology officer. He will apparently lead development from Oculus HQ in Dallas, Texas.