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Update: This story is now official, and the Major Nelson podcast mentioned in the original report is now online.

So many Worms! It always astounds me how many instalments of the strategy series Team 17 manages to pump out - I counted 15 of them when looking up how many there have been since 1995 - but I guess it means there's still an audience for them somewhere.

The 16th of December is All Trap Day, a vital date in the Canadian calendar, on which citizens take to the woods and defeat a variety of ungodly fiends using only hanging nets, spikes and those grinning spring-loaded clamps that come studded with sharp metal teeth. It's entirely possible that you haven't heard of this national holiday, of course, because I only invented it a week ago in a bid to make things even harder for myself. Still, I practise it religiously - practise being the operative word since, on the 16th of December, an all-trap approach doesn't really appear to be possible.

The Alienware X51 is back, in a newly revised "R2" edition. The closest thing you'll get to a high-power PC in a console-like form factor, the X51 packs unfeasibly high levels of gaming power into a very small space, with the new revamp boasting an upgrade to Intel's fourth generation Core "Haswell" processors along with a significant bump in graphics power. The previous top-end GTX 660 has been replaced with its rather more powerful GTX 670 sibling, moving the X51 into a new league of gameplay performance.

World of Tanks developer Wargaming.net has bought the Total Annihilation and Master of Orion franchises from Atari, it has confirmed.

Gameplay footage from Whore of the Orient, the next project from L.A. Noire creator Brendan McNamara, has leaked online.

PixelJunk Monsters developer Q-Games has announced a 26th August release date for the title's buffed-up Steam version.

As suspected, Ace Combat Infinity is only for PS3 and is free to play. Will Xbox ever get a look-in? Doesn't sound like it; Namco Bandai responded saying the game was exclusive to PS3.

Microsoft has revealed Xbox Enforcement United, a new set of moderation tools for select members of the Xbox Live community.

The Oculus Rift version of space combat game Strike Suit Zero is now available to all.

Konami has been quiet on the prospect of a sequel to Platinum's superb action game Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, but a survey gathering feedback on the game asks fans if they'd be interested in it.

Got a few hours spare? Bethesda's got you covered with a new Elder Scrolls Anthology pack for PC.

Blizzard's Project Titan probably won't be a subscription MMO, the company has said.

Breath of Fire publisher Capcom has announced that the series' classic second instalment will be relaunched on Wii U Virtual Console.

Pre-orders for Call of Duty: Ghosts are down compared to pre-orders for last year's game, Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 - and Activision reckons it knows why.

The scrolling shoot-'em-up, or shmup as it is sometimes lip-smackingly known, is perhaps gaming's most conservative genre. This is a style of gaming that has its roots in the very earliest days of the arcade, found its ideal form not long after and has resisted any attempts to deviate from that formula in the decades since.

While Fez 2 was unceremoniously cancelled over the weekend, developer Polytron's producer Marie-Christine Bourdua confirmed that the studio has more projects to reveal, some of which it's collaborating with Sony on.

Hate Plus, Christine Love's sequel to her cult hit Analogue: A Hate Story, is now set for a PC, Mac and Linux release on 19th August. It will be priced at $10 (about £7).

Papers, Please, a dystopian adventure game/survival sim about immigration, is due for release next week on PC and Mac on Steam, GoG, and the Humble Store for £6.99 / $10.

First-person Nazi-shooting romp, Wolfenstein: The New Order, has been delayed until next year, Bethesda has announced.

UPDATE: Microsoft has responded to my concerns that muting random strangers would damage their score. Apparently its weight is negligible and only becomes an issue if thousands of people are always muting the same person. According to Microsoft, this algorithm is quite cautious about jumping to conclusions, and - as noted in the original story - it factors in the complainant's behaviour, so if some troll is haphazardly dishing out negative feedback the system will devalue their say.

Meridian: New World is one of the more polished looking real-time strategy games on the horizon - and shockingly, it's being made by one man.

Tomb Raider publisher Square Enix has just confirmed a next-generation follow-up to Crystal Dynamics' recent series reboot.

The Drowning, the iOS freemium first-person shooter you can play with two fingers, has released on the App Store.

UK publisher Ghostlight has asked for help getting niche DS role-player Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 released in Europe.

Turbine's a good developer and DC superheroes are pretty snazzy, so the new MOBA Infinite Crisis, in theory, could turn out OK.

The creators of a free fan-made Halo game for PC reckon they're safe from a shut down by Microsoft's lawyers.

The original Flashback was, I think a fair few of you will agree, something of a gem, a slick slice of 90s action that hasn't really dated thanks to its gorgeously smooth rotoscoped animation. So it's with equal parts excitement and trepidation that I learnt of a remake, with French developer Paul Cuisset returning to his creation after over 20 years.

Right then! We're very happy today to be able to start talking about the many amazing things that will be happening at the Eurogamer Expo, which is taking place next month ZOMG at Earls Court in London.

Apple is apparently ramping up production in order to turn out, this autumn, a new iPad Mini with a Retina-resolution display.