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Mark Cerny and the development team at Sony's Japan Studio created a giant PlayStation 4 controller to simulate what it would be like to play console games as an eight-year-old.

Admittedly, the concept isn't all that promising. A zombie-themed auto-runner is an unholy union of two of the most tired trends in games right now, and that's before you consider the small matter of micro-transactions. Happily, it is a small matter thanks to sensible monetisation, while the game itself turns out to be a surprisingly smart little time-waster, suggesting someone at Pik Pok one day wondered how Left 4 Dead might play with the sprint button stuck down.

The four-car Drift Pack for Grid 2 is out now on PC (£3.99), PS3 (£3.99) and Xbox 360 (480MSP).

Sega is suing bankrupt publisher THQ for £630,000 over Company of Heroes 2 pre-orders on Steam.

Update: Looks like it works on other Conde Nast sites too. Try Wired.co.uk, for instance.

Dota 2 has launched properly after two years of beta, Valve has announced.

Scribblenauts Unmasked - A DC Comics Adventure is set for a 24th September release in North America on Wii U, 3DS, and PC, publisher Warner Bros. has announced

The Wii U's best drinking game, Spin the Bottle, is going to miss its estimated July release due to Nintendo's very thorough quality assurance process taking much longer than expected.

An American McGee game set in a twisted alternate version of Oz sounds like an intriguing prospect. One called "OZombie," however, not so much. As a result, the Alice creator is going to rename the game to something less groan-inducing.

In the days of yore i.e. circa 1999, the Marathon devs at Bungie were working on a game codenamed "Project Phoenix," before the studio was acquired by Microsoft and shifted all its efforts toward Halo, leaving the abandoned Phoenix unable to rise from the ashes.

Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn director Naoki Yoshida confirmed that the reason the MMO isn't coming to a Microsoft console is due to the hardware manufacturer's restrictive online policies that prevent cross-platform play.

Chasing Aurora and And Yet it Moves developer Broken Rules has announced its next title, an "aerial exploration game" called Secrets of Rætikon, due later this year.

UPDATE: As it turns out, developers can decide whether or not to employ the unusually bright rear-facing light bar on the Dualshock 4.

Fable developer Lionhead is giving you the chance to create an Achievement for Fable Anniversary.

Tough-as-nails puzzle platformer Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark sneaks onto PlayStation 3 and Vita on 24th July.

Square Enix has released a new video, below, that compares the opening of Final Fantasy 10 HD to the standard definition version.

It's just as easy to bash Ryse, Crytek's hyper-real, ultra-violent Roman Empire brawler, as it is to shield bash one of its barbarian enemies with a press of the Y button.

Blizzard will add in-game micro-transactions to its massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Side-scrolling indie hit Spelunky will return to its PC roots on 8th August, and be available for purchase on Steam and GOG.com.

Amiga Games Incorporated and more than 300 of its titles have been snapped up by a Los Angeles-based distribution company for $500,000 (about £335,000).

Apple has marked the five year anniversary of its iOS App Store by revealing the best-selling downloads across all of its platforms. And, unsurprisingly, Angry Birds features pretty heavily.

Lift London, the newest member of Microsoft Studios, is working on four projects, all of which are free-to-play on connected devices.

When the much beloved Castlevania legacy was handed off to Spanish developer MercurySteam (Clive Barker's Jericho), with Kojima productions supervising, there was a lot of backlash. Many complained about it eschewing the open-ended exploration that had become a series mainstay since 1997's Symphony of the Night and accused it of being a God of War clone. Others, like myself, remembered the series from its earlier, linear days and appreciated it for what it was. It may have owed more to Kratos than Alucard, but for my money, it was better than Sony Santa Monica's flagship mythological hack-and-slash.

rRootage Online is a version of the original PC rRootage, one of the finest productions from ABA Studios, which has one employee: the brilliant Kenta Cho. Cho's been making games for well over a decade now, mostly shoot-'em-ups, and gives everything he makes away for free; it's an attitude that he says comes from making the games he wants to play and having no interest in making money from them. In every respect he's a remarkable developer.

Call me naive, but I was quite looking forward to Dark. In the run-up to its release the developers - and people who had seen it - were making all the right noises, saying how this was a game that's taking the art of bloodsucking to the shadows. It helped that there were links being made to Vampire: The Masquerade, but any such links have seemingly been severed by sloppy execution and broken stealth, as Dan discovered in his review. Oh well - if you're a fan of Vampire: The Masquerade, we've got a little something for you tomorrow afternoon that should help ease the pain.

1666, the now on-hold project from Assassin's Creed co-creator Patrice Désilets, was being designed to make as big an impact as Ubisoft's annual blockbuster.

Despite being totally awesome, Ubisoft's Wii U launch game ZombiU was a massive commercial flop.

Borderlands and Brothers in Arms developer Gearbox Software is now creating a new franchise for release on next-gen consoles.

Sony has declared PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us a success with over 3.4 million sales worldwide.

Back when arcades were filled with bat-top sticks, adjustable racing seats and plastic machine-guns that you could pivot in place like an oversized joystick, making that one credit last as long as humanly possible was the ultimate goal. Conversely, arcade game manufacturers wanted your game to expire in a timely manner. Not so quick that you immediately lost interest and set off in search of something less punishing, but not so long that you could see the credits roll for the price of a sandwich. It was a balancing act, one that required subtlety, and nowhere were the scales more apparent than with the classic scrolling beat-'em-up.