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There's a new batch of games on the way for the NeoGeo X console, released last Christmas, which opted not to have an online store to sell games but to pack them up and sell them the old fashioned way.

Nintendo has announced that UK 3DS owners will now be able to connect their handhelds to the internet for free at any O2 Wi-Fi hotspot.

Some games don't do themselves any favours, do they? Summoner Wars might as well be called Generic Nerd Game, and it's a real pity - all of the imagination and skill are in the product and not the presentation. I say this not for mockery, but because I'm always advocating games of this ilk - and in the pub, Summoner Wars is universally met with a lack of interest.

Nintendo 3DS game Harvest Moon: A New Beginning launches in Europe during the third quarter of 2013.

Europa Universalis 4 launches on 13th August 2013, Paradox Interactive has announced.

An ex-employee of Draw Something developer OMGPOP has described the atmosphere within the studio when Zynga broke the news that the developer was being closed and all of its workers being fired.

UPDATE 2: PES 2014 will not release on Wii U.

Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer has personally toured a series of Hollywood executives to present Xbox One and call on studios to create new and exclusive TV content for the platform.

Update #2: Eve Online players have been compensated with 50,000 free, unallocated skill points to do what they will with. That gift is only for people with fully active Eve accounts. Trial users will get an extra seven days free play time.

Blizzard has added Spawning to its real-time strategy game StarCraft 2.

Precursor Games has pulled its Kickstarter campaign for Shadow of the Eternals, the episodic spiritual successor to cult classic Eternal Darkness.

DuckTales: Remastered will come out on PC, Capcom has confirmed.

Curiosity was, its makers insist, an experiment. It ran from 6 November 2012 until May 26 2013 when Bryan Henderson, who'd downloaded the app around an hour before the close, tapped away the final cubelet and discovered what was inside the cube. A video, soon enough shared, outlining the plan for Henderson to be the presiding deity of 22Cans' next game Godus. "It is the ability to be a digital god," said Peter Molyneux. Or in other words, the prize is another promise.

Chris Hecker's classic-in-the-making asymmetrical multiplayer game SpyParty has finally entered open beta after being in closed beta for over two years.

In case Killer is Dead wasn't crazy enough already, the recently announced Japanese DLC, Beauty & the Beast & The Lingerie, will feature a unicorn and and vampire.

The Last of Us' multiplayer has been a rather confusing affair with little said about it only a fortnight before the game's launch on 14th June, but today I caught up with its multiplayer designer Erin Daly to explain exactly what it would entail and what makes it different from other third-person competitive shooters.

Update: Ska founder James Silva has responded to this bizarre turn events further by stating to Eurogamer, "I should add that I'm totally giving the guy the benefit of the doubt and saying he probably didn't mean to come across quite the way he did with that restoration of justice stuff."

The 10th annual Into the Pixel art exhibition will show off a selection of the best video game concept art from the past year at this year's E3.

Capcom and French developer Dontnod's Remember Me seems set for a strange fate. Sure to be forgotten in the rush to pore over the new consoles as they flash their wares once more at E3 next week, what at first glance seems like an average action yarn has all the traits to ensure it's the kind of thing we'll all recall fondly in years to come. A future cult classic, in other words, being sent off to that strange heaven where the likes of PN03 and Binary Domain reside.

Virtuix's Omni, a treadmill device that converts your footsteps into in-game movement, has been funded on Kickstarter in a matter of hours.

It started in earnest a few weeks back. On a bright Saturday morning in mid May, I awoke to a list I had written the night before: Find washers, fix tap, buy apples, sell apples. An innocent enough agenda, but I knew. I knew those apples I was selling weren't the same apples I'd be buying at the local Co-op. I knew the madness had begun.

The Blood Bowl: Star Coach open beta is now live through Steam.

Rock Band and Dance Central creator Harmonix has announced its next project: motion-controlled rhythm game Fantasia: Music Evolved for Kinect on Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

The Company of Heroes 2 open beta begins today and runs until 18th June, Sega has announced.

Swedish indie developer Zoink has revealed the intriguing-looking Stick it to the Man for PlayStation 3 and Vita.

Update: Xbox Live's Larry Hryb, he who styles himself Major Nelson, has announced the Fable 1 HD remake as Fable Anniversary. Lionhead's Ted Timmins, lead designer, joined him on his podcast to share details of the game.

UPDATE: Double Fine's Massive Chalice has successfully reached its $725,000 Kickstarter funding total in less than five days.

If you ask me, sound design is such an underrated facet of a good puzzle game. Think of Game Boy Tetris and the wonderfully weird little squiggle it treated you with for clearing four lines at once. Or the original Puzz Loop's snooker-ball clacks, Bejewelled's clinking gems and Drop7's porcelain crack. It's a big part of what keeps you coming back - if you think about it, a lot of puzzle games are essentially about tidying up, and the pops, bangs or jingles that reward you for a job well done are the game equivalent of being handed a sheet of bubble wrap after hoovering the spare room.

Wargaming, developer of World of Tanks, has said it will remove all "pay-to-win" purchase options from its games.