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Ubisoft's got a fair few digital games bubbling along in the background, and doubtless the one that shines most brightly is Child of Light. A JRPG inspired adventure from Ubisoft Montreal, it's a delicate and quite beautiful looking game that's wowed anyone who's come into close contact - and queues to play it at a recent press event stretched on for a two hour long line.

There's an episode of Californication where David Duchovny's writer character is asked to provide a treatment of a screenplay by rapper Samurai Apocalypse (wonderfully played by the Rza). The script in question is called Santa Monica Cop. "Oh, like Beverly Hills Cop?" the Duchovny character asks. "Nah, man. It's Santa Monica Cop!" Apocalypse deadpans. This pretty much sums up my interview with Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune about his new Kickstarter project, the recently launched retro throwback Mighty No. 9.

These days it's easy to slap together a marketing pitch by describing a game as a mix of other games. "The Binding of Isaac meets Silent Hill" someone might say of Darkwood, or "it's Doom meets Spelunky" one could say of Paranautical Activity. It's a cliche, but it works. Now indie developer Suppressive Fire Games has described its upcoming adventure Bloody Alloy as "A 2D, urban sci-fi Metroidvania featuring the combat mechanics of Dark Souls as applied to gunplay plus the dynamic speed of Vanquish." I'm listening.

So Ferrari's about to field two world champions for the first time in 60 years. I'm still not quite sure what to make of that - having two top-tier drivers in the same team never really works out, and the pairings of Prost and Senna, Mansell and Piquet or Hamilton and Alonso all proved counter-productive. I can't help but feel that Alonso's chances of getting the title he deserves for Ferrari have been slimmed drastically now that Raikkonen's arrived, but there'll at least be fireworks next year.

Valve will be adding a new service entitled Family Sharing to Steam, allowing users to share a game with household members across multiple accounts.

Dead Rising 3's co-op character, Dick, has been revealed.

UPDATE: The Project Phoenix Kickstarter has ended a colossal success, raising over 10 times its original $100K goal with a total of $1,014,600.

Today we're happy to reveal that Bethesda Softworks is returning to the Eurogamer Expo in a big way this year, bringing along The Elder Scrolls Online and Wolfenstein: The New Order for their first playable outings in the UK.

Classic puzzle platformer series Lemmings will march onto PlayStation Vita in the form of Lemmings Touch.

Rockstar has released new details of Grand Theft Auto 5's expansive multiplayer mode, GTA Online.

Developers have criticised Ouya after it failed to appropriately address concern around its controversial game development promotion.

Apple is calling the iPhone 5S its most forward-looking design yet, and it's not kidding - the A7 processor at the heart of the new device is the world's first 64-bit smartphone CPU. Apple has evolved mobile architecture in a new direction, beating ARM's own 64-bit designs to the market in the process. On top of this potentially revolutionary advancement, it is promising the now customary 2x boost to both CPU and GPU power.

UPDATE 2: The PES 2014 demo is available to download now from the EU PlayStation Store. It goes live on Xbox Live in the UK tomorrow.

A demo for Diablo 3 is available to download now from the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3 and Xbox Live for Xbox 360.

UPDATE: Soulcalibur Lost Swords will be released in Europe, Namco Bandai has confirmed.

My first cub perished in the noonday sky, which is no place for a badger to die. We ran through the long grass, hiding from a predator in the clouds, its winged shadow black and circling. It knew we were somewhere down here, scuttling about. But long grass is good at keeping secrets; it only talks in whispers. Then the long grass ended and there was no way to reach the safety of the hollow log without first making a terrified dash from cover. My first cub, slow with infancy and hunger, was last in line. He squealed and squealed as the talons broke his fur. Staring out from the end of the log, we watched him die in the air. And then there were five.

There's an officially licensed King of Fighters MOBA.

UPDATE: EA Sports has released the revised FIFA 14 UK cover, complete with Gareth Bale in Real Madrid's trademark all white kit. He's doing a different, less enthusiastic pose than he was on the original version. Perhaps Ronaldo has the ball.

Guerrilla Games has ditched experience point gain for Killzone Shadow Fall's multiplayer.

An intrepid Game of Thrones fan has re-created the fantasy book series and TV show as an 8-bit platformer.

The Fall is a new indie game influenced by Metroid, Monkey Island and Limbo.

I dreamt about Salty Bet two weeks ago. I've only ever dreamt about one other game in my life. That was Ocarina of Time, and I was 12.

On the last night of the world, things are surprisingly quiet. There's the occasional alien invasion, just for old time's sake. In hidden laboratories, mad scientists who haven't heard the news that City of Heroes is to be shut down at midnight continue their plans to conquer a doomed world. Civilians find themselves alone in empty streets. "Where's a hero when you need them?" they sigh.

Two years ago a handful of the original developers of River City Ransom announced that they were working on a sequel to the 1990 NES beat-'em-up/RPG hit. That project never came to fruition as developer Miracle Kidz put it on an indefinite hiatus in October 2012, but now the five-person mostly Canadian team Conatus Creative has purchased the license for the fan-favourite series and has launched a Kickstarter to create its own official sequel to the cult classic with River City Ransom: Underground.

We all love Reilly, aka Colin, aka the Call of Duty Dog, because grunting, slobbering canines are way more adorable than grunting, slobbering homo sapiens. But they're also more badass. Way more badass. For example, the Call of Duty dog single-handedly takes down an enemy helicopter at 1:28 into the new trailer for Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Lactose intolerant beware, the latest Tesla Effect trailer is the cheesiest thing this side of a manicotti topped with parmesan.

Mark of the Ninja and Don't Starve developer Klei Entertainment has just launched the paid alpha for the PC version of its upcoming turn-based strategy/stealth hybrid Incognita.

Chair Entertainment co-found Donald Mustard announced Infinity Blade 3 today at Apple's press conference, where it debuted its upcoming lineup of phones.

Apple has announced two upcoming phones today: the iPhone 5S and the iPhone 5C.

Grand Theft Auto 5 launches in exactly one week, but its world map has already leaked online.