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Foul Play, out today on XBLA and Steam, is a side-scrolling brawler with a cute twist - it's all played out on a stage as you, an English gentleman explorer, enact the story of your adventures with the aim of pleasing the audience with your combo skills. It's from UK developer Mediatonic, makers of the entertaining WTF?, Monsters (Probably) Stole My Princess and the Amateur Surgeon games.

Team Colorblind's Ben Ruiz loves beat'em ups. Bayonetta, God of War, Devil May Cry - you name it and he's played it. But as much as he loves the genre, Ruiz wants to do things a little differently. So he's taking matters into his own hands by creating a brawler (of sorts) that's as esoteric as they come.

When Marion Tinsley, the world number one, played checkers against Professor Jonathan Schaeffer's checkers-playing program Chinook for a series of exhibition matches in 1990, he declared: "I feel like a teenager again."

Gran Turismo 6 will receive a sizable day one patch upon its release this December, with updates set to roll out in a support period scheduled to last 12 months.

Remember Dante's Inferno, EA's 2010 God of War style action game? Some people want to make a movie based on it.

DICE is looking into adding Kinect features to the Xbox One version of shooter Battlefield 4.

UPDATE: Sega has confirmed it has bought Index.

Back in March EA's CEO John Riccitiello stepped down, leading the coveted position open for all to vie for in a Game of Thrones-esque situation, only with ostensibly less murder and dragons (but not less Dragon Age).

Diablo 3's much derided Auction House - a system that enables players to purchase loot with either real world currency or in-game gold - will cease to exist after 18th March 2014.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, the fifth game in the main series of Ace Attorney titles, is slated for released on 24th October, publisher Capcom has announced.

Last week the former Relic, Riot, Volition and BioWare devs at the newly found Canadian startup studio Hinterland announced that it would be bringing its first-person survival sim The Long Dark to Kickstarter and now the campaign's gone live.

Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune's spiritual successor to the blue bomber, Mighty No. 9, will be coming to PS3, Xbox 360, and Wii U after all, following its $2.2 million Kickstarter stretch goal.

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Bethesda has released a new video for The Evil Within, the survival horror game created by Shinji Mikami, to coincide with the beginning of the Tokyo Game Show.

Images have surfaced showing what the cancelled Turok 2 looked like.

The Creative Assembly has released the much-anticipated second patch for strategy game Total War: Rome 2.

Californian developer Red 5 has axed 10 per cent of its staff ahead of the release of MMO shooter Firefall.

UPDATE: EA has clarified exactly when you'll be able to play the Battlefield 4 open beta.

Over at the EU PlayStation Blog Sony has announced the new games PlayStation Plus subscribers can download free for October - and it's an impressive list.

Microsoft has revealed that Xbox One launch title Ryse is not running at native 1080p.

Final Fantasy: Agito "will definitely be localised", Square Enix's Hajime Tabata told our North American friends USGamer at the Tokyo Game Show today.

Square Enix has resumed sales of the digital version of Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn.

On the day Grand Theft Auto 5 releases, Volition has announced the GAT 5 downloadable content for Saints Row 4 - and made it free for one day only on PC.

Activision has announced the Call of Duty: Ghosts next-generation upgrade plan.

Jon Shafer strikes me as a rather serious character - in photos, the 28-year-old designer looks like Woody the Cowboy's dutiful younger brother. For the last few years Shafer's been involved in a rather serious business, too. At Firaxis, he's crammed huge handfuls of human history into the controversial hexes of Civilization 5. Now, freshly incarnated as an indie at the helm of Conifer Games, his own micro-studio, he's holed up in a house in suburban Detroit with a few friends, and he's busy plotting the downfall of Rome.

The engine noises in the release version of Gran Turismo 6 likely won't see a significant improvement over those in Gran Turismo 5 - though series creator Kazunori Yamauchi hopes to improve them in a post release patch.

Grand Theft Auto games are always full of satirical digs at staples of modern life, so why should our present obsession with online shooters be immune from parody?

Hopefully by now you've read my Grand Theft Auto 5 review and discovered that, against all odds, I'm a huge fan of it. While you wait to get your hands on the game - or perhaps while you sit at work later this week daydreaming about playing it again when you get home - why don't you join me for a quick tour of the city of Los Santos?

There's something about Samurai Gunn that brings the samurai film Yojimbo to mind. Back in 1961 Akira Kurosawa told the story of a wandering ronin who stumbles into a turf war between two rival gang lords attempting to claim a small village in feudal Japan, and it went on to inspire Sergio Leone's famous string of spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood's nameless anti-hero. It's not the backdrop of Samurai Gunn, a fast, bloody 8-bit indie, that reminds me of Yojimbo, though. It's more the central theme of rivalry.

This will be music to some of your ears: the lead designer of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, making a Kickstarter-funded, hardcore, tactical, co-op shooter and namechecking Rainbow Six and SWAT while he's at it. CLEAR!