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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.

Xbox Live Arcade smash hit State of Decay has been updated with a new bug-killing patch that addresses a number of significant issues.

Batman: Arkham Origins publisher Warner Bros. has revealed details of the game's PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 Collector's Editions, which will cost £79.99 and be released alongside regular versions of the game on 25th October.

Brothers is a game of moments: moments of quiet beauty, moments of joyful levity, moments of cloying dread. There's one moment that stands out above all the others, though. It's one of those moments, the ones you'll remember in years to come, a moment of revelation where you suddenly see how various threads of the game have woven together. It's also a moment that's very difficult to talk about, as it comes very close to the end of Starbreeze's compact adventure, and its details are tangled in potential spoilers.

Next to my desk I keep an old pocket watch. It's not there for any practical reason; I sometimes wind it up, but more often I turn the cool oblong over in my hands, following the engraving on the case and marvelling at the inner workings. It keeps time perfectly, if required. But I keep it because it feels like treasure.

Elder Scrolls and Fallout publisher Bethesda has said that it has no plans to support Wii U due to "hardware" issues.

Saints Row 4's a thing, then. A very noisy, energetic and mad thing, and an extension of a series that's never really been known for subtlety. If anything Saints Row 4's like an unhinged version of its predecessor - not surprising, perhaps, given that it started life as a slice of absurd DLC - but anyone who's played Saints Row 3 will know that's no small achievement.

Sony can no longer guarantee that if you pre-order a PlayStation 4 in the UK you'll get it at launch.

Amazon.co.uk has opened a digital download service for PC and Mac games.

Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party is yet another corridor-heavy third-person shooter with snap-to cover and an apocalyptic storyline. Okay, that's all lies. It's actually a party game that uses the Wii U GamePad while ignoring the television entirely.

The original Dragon Age: Origins allowed players to pick from one of several races as they began their journey, but its divisive sequel, Dragon Age 2, set players in the prescribed role of a human named Hawke. The third title in the franchise, Dragon Age: Inquisition, will see the return of multiple player races.

There's a brand new Project Eternity screenshot in town, released to illustrate how similar concept art and final product are turning out to be.

Assassin's Creed's debut on next-gen consoles will bring - among other new features - more intense environments that, Ubisoft says, will allow for greater immersion. "When you get into a bush in stealth mode you really feel like you are hidden there in this next gen bush," Assassin's Creed 4's associate producer Sylvain Trottier told Eurogamer. Quite.

Two-person Swedish indie outfit Cockroach Inc. has released the fourth episode in its psychological claymation-based point-and-click adventure series The Dream Machine.

Klei Entertainment's excellent 2D stealth game Mark of the Ninja is getting its first bit of DLC with the Special Edition add-on, due 16th August on XBLA and Steam. [Editor's note: We were originally mistakenly informed that it would be coming out the 15th. We apologise for the error.]

UPDATE: The Deep Silver Humble Bundle just sweetened the pot further by adding Metro 2033, Sacred Citadel, and Risen as the offer enters its second and final week.

I thought I was bored of shooting things in the face, but then I played Payday 2, a first person shooter where it's not just about planting bullets in bad guys. There's a quite dazzling world of possibility, actually, all set in the relatively humdrum world of the modern crime heist. Hooray, basically.

Spelunky! We love Spelunky. Derek Yu's 2D platform roguelike was a hit on Xbox Live Arcade last year after it was given a glossy makeover for its console debut, and anyone on the Eurogamer team who hadn't already fallen in love with the lo-fi PC original certainly fell for it on 360. Lewis Denby paid tribute to its "astonishing creativity" and "spectacular depth" in our review, before Ellie named it her game of the year. We even recorded a podcast devoted solely to extolling its virtues.

Upcoming point-and-click adventure Lilly Looking Through may not be especially well known, but that didn't stop it from nearly doubling its Kickstarter goal last year. And it's no wonder, given its exquisite visual style by artist/game designer Steve Hoogendyk and his wife Jessica, both of whom worked in Hollywood on such franchises as Harry Potter and The Chronicles of Narnia.

Some staff at Saints Row studio Volition were uncomfortable with former publisher THQ's emphasis on porn actresses when promoting the series, a producer has revealed.

England have just retained the Ashes, and, lo and behold, a new cricket game has been announced.

Paradox has announced War of the Vikings, the follow-up to War of the Roses due out on PC in early 2014.

Blizzard will add Connected Realms to massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft some time after the release of Patch 5.4.

It will take around half an hour to sail across the naval open world of Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag, Ubisoft has told Eurogamer.

Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft has said it has ideas in place for the series' eventual ending - whenever that might be.

Assassin's Creed 3 divided people - Tom liked it, and a fair few of you agreed with him while a few more didn't - but there's one thing that everyone's settled on: the naval sections were a clear highlight.

You probably already knew that sticking sharp things in endangered species was going to be a thing in Assassin's Creed 4 (though you can forgive Kenway a little, as back in his day they weren't quite so rare) so now here's a chance to see something a little more deserving of a forceful prod. Sharks, the gits of the sea, can be stabbed up and chopped to bits just so our charming pirate can make a nice new purse.

Jeremy Soule, the celebrated Elder Scrolls composer and now music director for Sony Online Entertainment's upcoming EverQuest Next, believes video games have the potential to overtake the likes of Facebook and become the dominant medium for online social interaction.

The eighth DLC pack for DC Universe Online, titled Sons of Trigon, will be released in autumn this year.