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Four years after its bizarre unveiling at E3 2009, Nintendo has finally given the world an update on its off-the-wall pulse-sensing Wii Vitality Sensor.

Project Eternity isn't a one-off trip down memory lane nor a mere Kickstarter curio for Obsidian Entertainment, it's a series in the making - a potential future upon which the studio could be based.

Spoiler alert: This article refers to some plot points in The Last of Us, including the game's ending.

Nintendo's 3D Mario games are rare and precious things, carefully crafted as showcases for the platforms they were released on. Everyone remembers their first steps across the lawns of Princess Peach's Castle, or the first time they explored the gravity-defying underside of a Mario Galaxy planetoid. Even the hub world of Nintendo's under-appreciated Mario Sunshine, the sun-bleached stone plazas and loose sewer covers of Isle Delfino rattling beneath Mario's shoes, has burnt itself into our collective consciousness.

Sky's Now TV is available on PlayStation 3.

Farming Simulator, the farming simulator, is coming out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the first week of September, and this is the trailer.

Microsoft has opened its public beta registration for this year's major Xbox 360 system update.

Traditional MMOs have gone out of fashion lately. It used to be that every gaming brand had exciting untapped MMO potential and every publisher wanted an MMO in its stable, but the gold rush inspired by World of Warcraft yielded little precious metal, and a lot of publishers got burned in the process - especially Electronic Arts with Star Wars: The Old Republic - while the term "MMO" has become taboo when discussing a new breed of games that includes The Division and Destiny, even though in many respects they are both massively multiplayer and online.

You can now link your Steam account to Twitch and receive item drops as you watch tournaments.

Blizzard is considering adding in-game micro-transactions to massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.

Final Fantasy 10 HD and Final Fantasy 10-2 HD will support cross-saves, Square Enix has announced.

UPDATE: The PlayStation Mobile version of Tokyo Jungle will launch in North America next week, alongside the previously revealed Japanese release.

Polytron will patch the Xbox Live Arcade version of Fez, Phil Fish has announced.

Knights of the Old Republic is one of those games. The ones that won't go away, the ones that sunk their claws into the right audience at the right time and left a mark that isn't easily erased.

UPDATE #3: It's Friday, which means a final day of deals in Microsoft's Ultimate Game sale.

Birmingham's NEC was a strange old place last weekend. It wasn't necessarily the livestock show that took up one of the halls; I didn't get to check that out, though in my head it involved a fine heffer rotating slowly on a plinth, bathed in glorious light and surrounded by fawning farmers. It wasn't the many LED road signs pointing to Middle Earth; I did check those out, and they led to a car park that hosted a single Ginsters delivery van, somewhat disappointingly. It was that sitting alongside these was the dark half of Hall 9, where Rezzed had set-up shop, and where there was a fine selection of much of what's making gaming so exciting right now.

UPDATE: Microsoft's UK distributor Gem has told Videogamer that its product listing in this week's MCV magazine which claimed Xbox One would come with a headset was a mistake.

So, Dark Matter's a new indie Metroidvania-styled game. Wait, come back! Developer InterWave's promising to distinguish itself from the thickening crowd of similar games by putting a slant on the adventure side of exploration, as well as throwing in a handful of novel mechanics - and with the well-received Nuclear Dawn under their belts, it's a promise they should come good on.

Petter Mannerfelt and Nicklas Cederström from Massive Entertainment sat in a dark corner of Ubisoft's E3 stand, wincing. The room was weird: a prefab triangular closet with a few chairs, no lighting and no roof, it was at once secluded and under constant, bone-shaking sonic bombardment from the synthesised thump and crash of trailers and Just Dance routines roaring out of the loudest sound system on the show floor. In the suite next door, Massive's game The Division was being demonstrated to showgoers through wireless headsets. It was the only way to be heard. Cederström said that after a day talking to reporters on the stand, their throats would be so raw they'd have to communicate with each other using hand gestures.

Gran Turismo's long taken a battering for deficiencies in its artificial intelligence. For years the game's AI drivers were renowned for slotting into single file moments after the start and dutifully following each other round in an automotive conga line. And within hours of the recent GT6-powered GT Academy demo appearing, there was already a video of five AI cars performing a comical 'after you, I insist' routine to try and get around a parked player.

UK retail giant GAME has been spotted promoting a SNES emulator in its advertising for new Android-based console Ouya.

Synth-pop artist Vincent "Kavinsky" Belorgey is starring in what could be the coolest musician-licensed video game since Michael Jackson saved children from gangsters in Moonwalker.

Alice: Madness Returns developer American McGee has defended fellow Kickstartee Double Fine's push for more funds while adding a new $100,000 stretch goal to his own crowd-funding campaign.

Hotline Miami! The best game loosely inspired by a Ryan Gosling film, at least until Quantic Dream gets round to doing the adaptation of The Notebook they're destined for. And it's getting a sequel! Hotline Miami 2 is a more downbeat companion piece to Dennaton's original, and it's going to mark the end of a series that's burnt blindingly bright over two short instalments.

There are some ideas so ludicrous, yet so strangely perfect, that you wonder why nobody thought of them before. Case in point: why not squeeze a JRPG into Breakout? That's what Wizorb does, and the result is quite wonderful.

State of Decay developer Undead Labs has confirmed that its open-world survival horror game won't get multiplayer, despite the studio's desire to add it.

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has discussed the company's decision to region-lock games on its home consoles and handhelds.

Ex Xbox boss Don Mattrick will earn over $19 million in his first year at Zynga.

UPDATE: Apparently the Deathstroke DLC is coming to Wii U after all.

Guild Wars 1 slapped the established face of the MMO genre in 2005 by requiring no monthly subscription. You bought the game and that was that. This was a time before micro-transactions, so the way publisher NCSoft and developer ArenaNet made money was by releasing significant paid standalone add-ons and eventually an expansion pack.