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

League of Legends has been a big deal in the eSports community for years with a total of $8 million being distributed to various players throughout its third season, but only now has the US government deemed League of Legends a professional sport.

Remember the Power Glove? How could you not? Nintendo's officially licensed experiment in wearable controllers was developed by Mattel and released in 1989 where it became a pop culture sensation, mostly for how bad it was. In fact, it's most iconic moment was in the 1989 Fred Savage film The Wizard where dickish video game guru utters the now famous words, "it's so bad!"

Precursor Games is relaunching its Kickstarter for Shadow of the Eternals on 25th July, the developer has announced.

UPDATE: Square Enix has apologised for not communicating the jailbroken restriction in advance and plans to rectify the matter with an update "in the near future" that will remove it.

Pretty much every horror shooter these days ends with a space station smeared with blood and littered with organs. But what happens after that? Runestorm's Viscera Cleanup Detail envisions this scenario in excruciating detail as you don your best Breaking Bad gear to scrub away the stench of decay.

Elite: Dangerous producer Michael Brookes has revealed the first in-progress screenshots of Frontier Developments' resurrection of the space trading and combat series.

The annual Steam Summer Sale continues to spread joy, mirth, and guilt about not possibly having time to play all the stuff you're buying.

The upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U & 3DS will receive Pikmin protagonist Captain Olimar along with his merry band of Pikmin, Nintendo has announced.

Outside Xbox's Mike Channell and Martin Robinson (sorry, talking about myself in the third-person again) really like cars. Like, an awful lot - as you read this I'm off salivating over some vintage examples at Goodwood while Mike is an all likelihood poring over his gallery of pictures of Porsche 962s wondering which one will be his desktop image today.

Vita-exclusive Killzone: Mercenary is now accepting sign-ups for a closed beta of its multiplayer.

While gingerly picking my way through the alchemical laboratory at the centre of a ransacked mansion, carefully hunting for clues, I found myself facing a large, glowing stone the size of man. I stepped closer, carefully examined the surface of this gigantic oddity and read the description that this quest's creator had left for me.

The hacks keep on coming: this time it's Konami's turn.

EA has closed German real-time strategy specialist Phenomic.

Released late last month, Deadpool is a game that revels in its source material - filling itself to the brim with fourth-wall-breaking self-referential humour, for instance - but does a slightly lousier job with the video game stuff going on around those fun moments. It's an interesting mix, though, and although Dan half warned people off it in our review, in some respects it's worth a look. Perhaps to the extent that, dun dun dun, you might want to watch a live stream of it.

There are no major updates planned for free-to-play shooter Tribes Ascend in the next six months, developer Hi-Rez Studios has confirmed.

Eurosport is now on Xbox 360, Microsoft has announced.

I'm not quite sure how a fatter, good-eyed Snake Plissken got in this 60s biker gif slideshow, but his name is Jake and he's turned up and it is really difficult to get him to ride a motorbike. And this is a game about a man whose job, in this video game, is to ride a motorbike.

Yes, Worms 4: Mayhem released eight years ago, and before that Worms 3D came out, but that hasn't stopped Team17 from announcing Worms 3 for iOS.

Troubled RTS MMO End of Nations has reappeared as "the first MOBA RTS", according to its website.

Arma 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has been hacked.

While Wasteland 2 is a primarily crowdfunded effort, developer inXile Entertainment has partnered up with Dead Island publisher Deep Silver to handle the highly-anticipated sequel's distribution.

Update: In addition to the position we're advertising for a Lead Graphic Designer (see below), we are also trying to fill Web Designer/Developer paid intern positions, so if you like scribblin' and codin' and fancy getting some experience of such things in our company, investigate the ad and apply.

Mike Singleton's classic 1980s fantasy role-playing game The Lords of Midnight has been released on Windows PC.

A one versus one mode has been added to God of War: Ascension as part of the free Versus 1.09 Update.

Capcom has let go a number of employees from its US office.

"You kill him?

Infinity Blade: Dungeons has been officially cancelled.

Sony has earned a reputation for its brilliant follies. Where else would you go to find a semi-interactive miserablist murder mystery like Heavy Rain, or a shagging and shopping simulator like Tokyo Jungle? Even in such esoteric company though, Puppeteer stands out as something truly daring; a side-scrolling platformer with a sizeable budget and a price-tag to match, it's an attempt to revive on a grand stage a genre that's only been kept alive this past generation in the hands of Nintendo and a scattering of indies. Who could this game possibly be for? It turns out that Puppeteer has been created for a very particular audience.

Second Life developer Linden Lab has purchased the popular indie game portal Desura.