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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.

Sony has relaxed its Video Unlimited digital rights management policy on PlayStation devices.

There are still people playing famed eight-year-old MMO Guild Wars 1, and developer ArenaNet has no intention of abandoning them.

Diablo 3 launches 3rd September on PS3 and Xbox 360, but it won't arrive on PS4 (and presumably Xbox One) until 2014, Blizzard has said.

The developer of wonderful robbery simulator Monaco has expressed his disappointment at sales of the game on Xbox.

Gareth Bale joins Lionel Messi on the cover of FIFA 14, EA has announced.

I have lost count of the cups of tea that have gone to waste at Firaxis' expense. The Civilization 5 developer is responsible for dozens left half-finished and forgotten, their heat dissipating as the decades roll by and Leonard Nimoy's honeyed tones note the founding of another milestone in human history or landmark feat of ingenuity. Scores more have gone cold as the music from that Hovis advert induces a Zen-like state and centuries run into hours and millennia stretch into days.

Microsoft has issued a worldwide price drop for its struggling Surface RT tablet.

Cube World could very well be this year's thing. And by 'thing' I mean phenomenally successful indie hit that captures everyone's imagination.

It hasn't, by any standards, been a classic year for F1 so far. Sebastian Vettel's on course for a fourth consecutive title, and while the sport hasn't quite plumbed the depths witnessed during the last period of dominance by a German driver it's been at its weakest for some time, the racing only kept interesting as the playground politics seep onto the track in action that's blandly artificial. So it makes some sense, then, that the debut of this year's tie-in game shifts the focus away from the contemporary tedium of fast-degrading tire compounds to an era that's more famous for its full-blooded exploits. For the first time in Codemasters' tenure on F1, classic cars are making an appearance.

Xbox One's now-dead Family Sharing feature may return to the console post-launch, depending on the public appetite for it.

Warner Bros. has released a new video for the upcoming open-world Mad Max game, and it shows in-engine footage for the first time.

Former Blizzard artist Tyler Hunter has shown off a new trailer for Rack N Ruin, the open-world action game in development at his indie studio LifeSpark Entertainment.

Sony has ditched its appeal over the fine it received for the PlayStation Network hack of April 2011.

At the Evo 2013 fighting game tournament Microsoft showed off a new trailer for Killer Instinct, revealing Glacius and teasing Chief Thunder.

Capcom has announced Ultra Street Fighter 4 for release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in early 2014.

Elite developer Frontier has raised £4 million after putting shares in the company up for sale.

Half-Life developer Valve has announced Pipeline, a new website aimed at helping high school-aged teens get into the game industry.

Martian Manhunter is the fifth downloadable character for fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Singaporean player Xian has been crowned Street Fighter 4 Evo 2013 champion after defeating Japanese player Tokido in the grand final.

Combining scores of characters from a range of Japanese video game series, themselves pulled from the back catalogues of three major publishers, tactical RPG Project X Zone is perhaps the best-populated fan service game ever made.

At E3 2012, Watch Dogs kickstarted the next generation of gaming long before the PS4 or Xbox One had even been announced, joining Star Wars 1313 as one of the defining moments of the show. A short gameplay walkthrough demonstrated a highly detailed world with a slew of impressive visual effects, animation and physics work that added an extra level of realism not possible on current-gen console platforms.

There has been a lot of discussion lately, which we only seek to encourage here at Eurogamer, that perhaps it would be a good idea if slightly less than absolutely all video games were built around the adventures of men.

The arrival of the next generation in console systems is hugely exciting for Digital Foundry. Sony and Microsoft are effectively pressing a giant button that resets everything we know about consoles and, for us, the race is on to find out exactly what's inside the new hardware, what it's truly capable of, how it compares with the current state-of-the-art in gaming technology, and how the platform holders have customised their designs to give their machines the edge over the competition.

Being games industry experts and champions of the obscure, we're tipping little-known crime sim Grand Theft Auto 5 for big things come autumn. For that insider buzz and the rest of the week's best videos from Outside Xbox, read on, dear Eurogamer.

There's always been something compelling about the idea of Apple taking an active interest in video games. Steve Jobs used to talk about how Apple existed "at the intersection of technology and liberal arts", which would be an appealing philosophical position for any console manufacturer, and its insistence on controlling "the whole widget" - hardware, software, operating system, network - so it can guarantee a consistent user experience would also work nicely.

Stylish cel-shaded fighter Skullgirls is coming to PC on 22nd August, developer Lab Zero Games has announced.