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SECOND UPDATE: It's happening! Ian's managed to get on top of the technical difficulties (in other words he had stern words with Virgin Media and they sorted out his internet connection) so we're back on for a 5.30pm BST start. Don't go outside! It's horrible out there anyway.

ArmA dev Bohemia announced a Mars exploration simulator called Take On Mars at E3 a few weeks ago. Now there's a video.

What's the meanest, most brutal driving game around? There was a time when, fresh from a stint in the untamable Ferrari 312 around classic Spa in Grand Prix Legends, I would have told you that it's always been Papyrus that have been the masters of cruelty, happy to nonchalantly flick you off the track should you be so absent-minded as to not get enough temperature in the brake pads. Then there have been other times when trying to duck and dive through the blandly realized British countryside that I'd tell you that it's Richard Burns Rally that's the real bastard - get a hundred yards down any of those roads without scoffing the scenery and you can consider yourself a pro.

Nearly 15 years later, Valve's thrown a Half-Life 1 modding team a bone - Sven Co-op is to become a free, standalone game.

Downloadable Wii U game Pokémon Rumble U will hit the European eShop on 15th August.

Sony has revealed its August line-up of free content for PlayStation Plus subscribers, which includes Need for Speed: Most Wanted and 2K mob adventure Mafia 2.

Nintendo has trademarked two bizarre game names which point to a revival of cult Dreamcast virtual pet title Seaman, which starred a fish with a man's face.

After a wobbly gestation, 2K Marin's reworked shootery stab at the XCOM licence - The Bureau: XCOM Declassified - is finally in convincing form.

EA Sports has secured the official license for 19 Brazilian clubs for use in FIFA 14 - that's nearly twice as many as FIFA 13 had.

Most independent developers would likely be horrified if implicated in a console war. In the last year or so it's become clear they might have no choice; independent games could prove vital to who triumphs in the next-gen race.

Imagine being 19 years old and coveting a job at Bethesda Game Studios, renowned maker of The Elder Scrolls series of RPGs and Fallout 3. What would you do? How could you get this most prestigious developer's attention?

Kinect will aid local tournament play with fighting game Killer Instinct, Microsoft has said.

State of Decay, the terrifyingly successful open-world Xbox Live Arcade zombie game, will be released on PC before the year is out.

Some of the key people behind controversial simulation game SimCity have left Maxis to found an independent studio.

Twisted Metal co-creator David Jaffe's next project is Kickstarter hopeful MotorGun, a car combat game for PC and Mac.

Racing game Forza 5 was announced during Microsoft's May Xbox One reveal event as a launch title that would make use of the power of the cloud.

Sony has signalled the end to online support for tactical shooters SOCOM and MAG.

Price: £25 / Players: 2-4 / Time: 60 minutes

UPDATE: American McGee has now launched the Alice: Otherlands Kickstarter to develop animated films based on his dark game series.

Saints Row 4's voice talent includes ridge-headed Worf from Star Trek and Barney Stinson from How I Met Your Mother: aka Michael Dorn and Neil Patrick Harris.

Which licence will TT Games Lego-ify next? The Lego Movie licence!

Sony experimented with a PlayStation 4 controller prototype that could detect how much you sweated while playing a game.

UPDATE: The Classic Edition of F1 2013 is £10 more than the standard edition.

Dishonored: The Brigmore Witches, the final add-on for Bethesda's excellent stealth adventure, arrives for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 13th August (and the day after that for PS3 in Europe).

Jim Walls, creator of classic Sierra series Police Quest, has returned with a Kickstarter for a spiritual successor.

Apple is preparing a $280 million offer for motion-sensing firm PrimeSense, whose technology Microsoft currently uses in Kinect.

Etrian Odyssey 4: Legends of the Titan comes out in Europe on 30th August 2013.

KOTOR is a bit cheaper on Steam at the moment and costs £4.68.

Plants vs. Zombies 2 launched last week on the Australian and New Zealand App Stores, and I've been playing it over the last few days. Since this is a soft launch, however, it feels safe to assume that EA is still doing the final balancing on this free-to-play game's monetised elements before the rest of the world gets to try it out. Rather than go straight to a review, then, we thought it would be best to provide a sense of where the game is at the moment, with a particular eye on how the new business model affects the overall design. The basic structure of this tower-defence sequel presumably isn't going to change that much in the weeks that follow, but the vital details of its economy and how that affects the flow of the missions just might.

UPDATE #2: Assassin's Creed 2 is now free to download and keep forever for every Xbox Live Gold subscriber.