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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.

Another year, another ridonkulous Steam Summer Sale. Between now and 22nd July a slew of games will have their prices dramatically slashed on a rotating basis.

UPDATE: Teleglitch: Die More Edition is now dated for 25th July on PC, Mac and Linux.

When appearing on the television's broad and restless canvas, Mario games tend to expand outwards and upwards as sequel follows sequel. On these screens Nintendo has taken us from the Island to new Worlds and, most recently, into Galaxies, a curve that has often reflected the series' own pioneering design trajectory. But on the handheld's small screen, Mario's pea-green horizons have tended to shrink. Having conquered the Land, Mario and his brother Luigi have been reduced to miniscule proportions in Bowser's Inside Story, tasked with questing about in the lizard guts and arteries. Now, in this latest entry to the Mario & Luigi RPG series, we enter Luigi's mind as he's besieged by cheese dreams in a new venture into inner space.

Microsoft's Xbox Live Rewards program - that gives players free MSP for doing such things as buying games, renewing one's Xbox Live Gold account, or getting older - is being phased out on 1st August.

I was listening to the Kermode and Mayo podcast the other day, during which the two were joined by Joss Whedon, who was there to talk about his recently released take on Much Ado About Nothing. Kermode affectionately referred to the film as a palate cleanser, and this description seemed to mildly irritate Whedon.

Capcom's remake of the NES classic DuckTales is due mid-August on PS3, Wii U and PC, with the XBLA version set for the following month. It will be priced at €14.99.

Microsoft is pitching the Xbox One to small businesses.

Epic founder and programming legend Tim Sweeney has predicted that we'll see photo-realistic graphics within the next 10 years.

Windows chief Julie Larson-Green has been confirmed as the new boss of Xbox as part of a significant reshuffle at Microsoft.

"I'm a self-taught engineer, a hacker, a maker, an electronics enthusiast. I'm from Long Beach, California. I like making things. My dad was a car salesman, my mum was a stay-at-home mum. I was home-schooled for a long time. I started taking community college courses when I was 14 or 15. In 2010 I started going to [California State University] and I was a journalism major.

You spoke and we listened. You asked why bother streaming mediocre games like Dark, and so we now present to you a stream of Ride to Hell, a game that is truly, truly awful. I think this is the fourth game in Eurogamer's history to scrape so low, meaning it joins the rather special company of FlatOut 3, Settlers DS and Ghostbusters on iOS. Good work Deep Silver!

After teasing a couple of screenshots over the the last year, Reef Entertainment has finally revealed the first gameplay footage of its Rambo game.

PlayStation 4 has a digital library that lets you play your games anywhere, Sony has revealed.

Ubisoft has released an update for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon that adds a garrison reset option.

Insomniac Games has announced Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus for PlayStation 3.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Vengeance DLC came out last week on Xbox 360 and now it's been dated for 1st August on PS3 and PC.

Mario and Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto is working on a brand new franchise.

Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness, the latest in Nippon Ichi's cult-favourite tactics series, has been dated for a 27th September release in Europe on PS3, publisher NIS America has announced.

UPDATE: Microsoft is claiming this price increase is an "unintended error" in the Xbox Live beta, and it will issue refunds to those affected.

Metro: Last Light will be getting its first bout of DLC next week with the Faction Pack, publisher Deep Silver has announced.

Ubisoft has released seven minutes of gameplay footage showing off its upcoming high seas adventure Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

UPDATE: Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection is now set for a September release in Europe, Konami has announced.

The PlayStation 4 will rekindle the diversity of games last seen during the PSone era, Sony has said.

Calm any fears that Deus Ex: The Fall is a cheaply realised iOS side story that doesn't amount to very much. In truth, it's an expensively realised iOS side story that still doesn't amount to very much.

Putt-Putt, the entity behind the chain of miniature golf courses so prevalent that its name has practically become synonymous with the hobby, is threatening to sue Minecraft developer Mojang over user-generated levels that allegedly infringe upon the "Putt-Putt" name.

Why did American illusionists and entertainers Penn & Teller make the excruciatingly boring 1995 video game Desert Bus, which takes a whole eight hours of unbroken concentration to complete, no pauses or mistakes allowed?

Update: Someone's hit go early - Deus Ex: The Fall is available now on the App Store.