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To me, the best puzzle games feel like they've been discovered, not designed. Like they've always been there, waiting for someone to come along and uncover them. In the world of puzzle games, developers like Drop7 co-creator Frank Lantz are scientists or explorers, unearthing perfect gems which shine with a complexity that unfurls from a set of simple rules which, once you've grasped them, feel like natural laws. Sokobond is one of these puzzle games - and fittingly, when you start playing it, it feels like a game you've discovered, too.

Earlier this year one-man indie developer Robit Studios, aka Stephen Orlando, announced that he was remaking his beloved freeware 2D exploration title, Treasure Adventure Game, as a commercial release, Treasure Adventure World. For the remake, he's collaborating with a couple of other indie developers at Chucklefish to spruce up the art and sound, and now the trio has announced a pre-order campaign for the fruits of their labour.

The Wikipad's route to market has been convoluted and somewhat troubled. Originally pitched as an 8-inch tablet with glasses-free 3D capability and detachable gaming controls, it slowly morphed into the pared back product we have today. The 3D is gone and the display is now 7-inches from corner to corner, but the intention remains the same: the Wikipad is aimed at gamers who want the best of both the tablet and portable gaming worlds.

This is the story of how an artist adapts and refines his craft. It starts with a challenge. In a recent interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, The Wonderful 101's director Hideki Kamiya talked about his first wholly original project. "I began developing [Viewtiful Joe] when my boss at Capcom, Shinji Mikami-san, said, 'Try doing the design process by yourself.'" A Capcom star on the rise, Kamiya had previously directed Resident Evil 2 and Devil May Cry - but Viewtiful Joe was to be the first title he'd design from the ground up.

Early on Thursday morning, Blitz called an end to 23 years working in the video game industry. Founded by the Oliver Twins, two sparky developers who had made their name with the Dizzy series, Blitz never had a big game to its name but the studio had countless successes, and its work for the UK industry was priceless. Its legacy isn't perhaps in the games it produced but the games it helped make possible, and the people that Blitz helped establish careers.

Some might say that Nvidia's second generation Kepler is starting to look rather similar to the first. It's fair to say that at an architectural level at least, the new GeForce GTX 770 is to all intents and purposes a match for last year's GTX 680. There are value-added performance-enhancing additions, an improved chassis and cooling, but at the heart of the product is the same chip - codenamed GK104 - that powered last year's Nvidia flagship.

We're just three days away from the release of Grand Theft Auto 5 - closer to two if you're planning to attend a midnight launch for the year's most eagerly awaited game. At Digital Foundry, we're aiming to bring you our findings on both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game as soon as we can, but in the meantime we thought we'd take the time to pay tribute to its predecessor, not least because so much of what we do and the way we approach games today hails from the seismic release of GTA4 five years ago, and that Face-Off we produced at the time.

Diggs Nightcrawler developer Moonbot Studios wins fast food advertising.

Deep Silver and 4A Games' gritty, post-apocalyptic Russian shooter Metro: Last Light will be getting its third piece of DLC, the Developer Pack, on 17th September on Steam and Xbox Live. The PSN version will also be out the 17th in North America, but not until the following day in Europe.

Some of you may remember that at the start of 2011 I was promoted to the new role of Operations Director at Gamer Network, the company which publishes this website. The idea was that after a decade working solely on Eurogamer.net my responsibility would grow to include oversight of other publications and general management around and about the company.

2D action-RPG Hyper Light Drifter seemingly came out of nowhere yesterday on Kickstarter and has already acquired more than double its $27,000 goal.

New UK studio Incus Games has announced Three Monkeys, an audio adventure PC RPG designed for the visually impaired community.

Fable Anniversary has been delayed to February 2014, developer Lionhead Studios has announced.

Football Manager 2014 will launch on Thursday, 31st October, Sports Interactive has announced.

The battle is not yet joined. While Arma 3 is now available to buy, what you can download from Steam right now only represents an advance guard, a selection of showcase missions and equipment demonstrations. The main body is to follow, with the game's campaigns coming next month as a free add-on. There's the opportunity to join in multiplayer or download extra missions via Steam Workshop, but otherwise it's a slim offering and at the moment Arma 3 isn't a complete game. In lieu of a review, here are some first impressions.

On the day that Rush reaches cinemas in the UK, Codemasters has announced that the Ferrari 312 T2 that stars in the film at the hands of Daniel Bruhl's take on Niki Lauda is to feature in F1 2013.

These days it feels like everyone streams. The explosion of all online video content over the last decade is one thing, but videogame streaming is a more recent and unusual phenomenon - and one overwhelmingly tied to the Justin.tv spin-off Twitch. In June this year Twitch announced it had around 35 million viewers a month and this is important for one big reason; it makes eSports a viable career for a lot more individuals than ever before.

Star Trek director JJ Abrams was "emotionally hurt" by the franchise's recent disappointing video game tie-in.

Ubisoft's pushing all the right buttons when it comes to its digital releases, and on top of the wonderful looking Child of Light it revealed another imaginative new game earlier this week in the shape of Valiant Hearts. Harking back to the harrowing backdrop of the Great War, it tells the stories of numerous soldiers as they work their way through the hell of trench warfare.

UPDATE 2: Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has suggested the PS Vita TV device will be released outside of Japan - eventually.

UK games charity SpecialEffect has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a new eye-controlled games unit.

Today I'm very pleased to be able to reveal the full and final line-up of developer sessions for this year's Eurogamer Expo - and the good news is that even if you can't make it to the show, you can watch them all live on the Eurogamer YouTube channel.

On the face of it, Kingdom Hearts would appear to be a worthy subject for a remake. This was, after all, the unlikely crossover that spawned an enduring franchise - an action-RPG that, against the odds, managed to capture the hearts of two seemingly incompatible fanbases: Disney and Final Fantasy.

Frontier Developments has released a new video for Elite: Dangerous designed to showcase the space trading game's music.

UPDATE: Sniper Elite developer Rebellion has invited former Blitz Games staff to apply for some 50 open positions at the Oxford-based studio.

Microsoft is developing its own virtual assistant for Windows Phone, PC and Xbox which will rival Apple's iOS butler Siri, new reports suggest.

The CEO of Hi-Rez, developer of Global Agenda, Tribes Ascend and the upcoming MOBA, Smite, has offered candid feedback on the ups and downs of the US studio's history in the hope of addressing what he describes as "misinformed conclusions" about the company.

First-person shooter Payday 2 has sold 1.58 million copies - and Starbreeze has hailed the game as a success.

Telltale Games has a lot to live up to. Once a niche studio content with making a small subset of gamers happy with its whimsical take on Sam & Max and Back to the Future, the small studio got thrust into the limelight after its critically acclaimed episodic take on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead won loads of "Game of the Year" awards (including taking top honours at the VGAs, a silly, albeit widespread awards show that typically only recognises triple-A titles).

UPDATE: The Timeshock virtual pinball table has been funded and stretch goals have been added for various console versions.