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Capcom has released a new video for Deep Down, and it makes it look like the fantasy game has a hint of horror about it.

F1 2013 publisher Codemasters has confirmed this year's version of the game will no longer require an Online Pass to access multiplayer features.

The announcement that Team 17's Superfrog was getting an HD re-release made me both very happy and strangely worried. I was very happy because I have enormously fond memories of the 1993 Amiga original, but I was strangely worried for, well, pretty much the same reason. Those fond memories would now be put to the test. I hadn't touched the game in 20 years and realised that, while I liked it, I couldn't really remember actually playing it.

Breasts are generally seen as a source of sexual stimuli for many straight men. Boob Jam, however, is an upcoming game jam that seeks to explore mammaries in all their non-sexual contexts.

It's very much the calm before the storm for Sony as it prepares for the launch of PlayStation 4 this Christmas.

12 months have passed since the glory of London 2012. Jessica Ennis is now appearing in skin care ads. Olympic Park is being dismantled, and gold medallist Usain Bolt is now available to purchase as a playable character in endless runner Temple Run 2.

The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog has said that team members were divided over the final game's choice of ending.

Grapefrukt's Rymdkapsel, a real-time strategy game about building a space station, goes out of its way not to go out of its way. There is no story; no explanation for the hostile red ships that swarm your matrix of corridors and rooms in periodic waves of escalating threat, nor for the monoliths in all four corners of the play area that you're asked to research. Even the name, which means "space capsule" in Swedish, is left unexplained. Developer Martin Jonasson wanted to create a strategy game that was neither fiddly nor stressful, and his solution was elegant minimalism.

Battlefield developer DICE's upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront reboot is due in summer 2015, EA revealed during a stockholders call today.

The upcoming indie platformer Project Maiden provides a brilliant subversive twist on the action/adventure genre. In most ways Project Maiden resembles a Mega Man game where you choose which order you'd like to tackle the various stages in, then go about surviving a bunch of side-scrolling platforming challenges. The catch is that instead of gaining a new power after felling each boss, you'll lose a power.

Recently resigned former EA CEO John Riccitiello is none too hopeful about the emergence of the free-to-play market, which he believes poorly influences game design.

UPDATE: TowerFall creator Matt Thorson has outlined the updates he'll be adding to the enhanced PC port of his competitive brawler. The most notable of which is an entire single-player campaign.

Beloved PSN "metroidvania" brawler Guacamelee is crossing over to Steam on 8th August in its enhanced Gold Edition.

Prior to its dark fantasy action/RPG hit Demon's Souls, developer From Software made the similarly sadistic first-person King's Field series. Now, YouTube user Soul Slasher has reimagined From's latest hit, Dark Souls, with this classic perspective in a new mod.

New Star Soccer is brilliant and was a brilliant success for Simon Read at long last (his full story coming soon).

UPDATE:Batman: Arkham Origins publisher Warner Bros. has explained its decision not to include a multiplayer mode in the game's Wii U version as it had decided to focus its efforts on the platforms with a sizable multiplayer audience.

Simogo, the developer behind the brilliantly creepy iOS horror game Year Walk, has unveiled its new project: it's called Device 6 , and it's "a surreal thriller, in which the written word is your map, as well as your narrator." It revolved around a girl named Anna who wakes up on a mysterious island with no idea how she got there - save for some strange memories regarding an unpleasant doll.

Is this the future of video games, or the past? One developer has crafted a video game tribute to 1984 arcade classic Paperboy using an Oculus Rift, Kinect and a pedal bike.

UPDATE: Microsoft has just confirmed the earlier reports that next month's free Xbox 360 Games with Gold titles will be Crackdown and Dead Rising 2.

UPDATE: Nintendo has responded to the report that its eShop would soon be available via PC and smartphones, by pointing to a statement on the matter dating back to October 2011.

Forrest Dowling, project lead on the newly released Clash in the Clouds DLC for BioShock Infinite, has shed some light on how Rod Fergusson helped Irrational Games finally finish and ship its ambitious story-driven first-person shooter earlier this year.

Sony has announced another huge sale of PlayStation 3 content - and now with some Vita and PSP discounts thrown into the mix.

Relic has added classic Company of Heroes map Langres to Company of Heroes 2.

While playing and after finishing The Last of Us, all I could think about was a book. When Naughty Dog began development Amazon must have seen a miniature sales spike for Cormac McCarthy's The Road; the mind's eye imagines a bulk order from California, and subsequent rows of well-thumbed paperbacks.

Tickets to Minecon 2013, this year's biggest gathering of Minecraft fans, will go on sale tonight, developer Mojang has announced.

Inside sources at Microsoft have spoken to Digital Foundry about why the Xbox One hardware is so large, and what the tangible benefits of the larger footprint are for the user.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will release an Xbox 360 headset adaptor for use with Xbox One.

Superman has enemies. Batman often has victims. Now the developers behind Batman: Arkham Origins want you to be one of those victims. Some of the time, anyway.

Leafing through adverts and reviews of football games going back 10 or 20 years, it's immediately noticeable how little has changed - superficially - in the way we describe them. The box blurb for FIFA 95, for example, boasts of its "fast gameplay" and "pinpoint give-and-go passes". Both phrases that will likely feature in any discussion of its descendant in 2013. This rather charming 1997 IGN review of ISS 64, meanwhile, speaks glowingly of the title's "responsiveness" while asserting that there's "no lag time like in FIFA". Sound familiar?

Just over 18 months ago, when a fair few of us were feeling stifled by a climate of stale sequels and tired genre retreads, finding an Actual New Game was a tough task. Looking for something that would "leave us brimming with wonder and excitement" left us with only a polite fistful of games - and one of those was The Last Guardian, which given its state of permanent limbo probably doesn't even count.