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Adam Foster tells me he's "faintly terrified" by the response to his old Half-Life 2 mod Minerva being released on Steam. Tens of thousands have downloaded it in a couple of weeks and he didn't expect that, he insists. But then he also didn't expect the chain of events that unfolded after he first released Minerva back in 2005. Back then he worked for the European Railway Industry doing web development and programming. Today he talks to me from within the hallowed walls of Valve.

"This s**t doesn't make sense, and that's okay!" Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon's creative director Dean Evans told us a few weeks back, and he's right. It really, really is. Blood Dragon's an unapologetic gaggle of heavy handed references and long play VHS tapes with the tracking out of whack, and it's all in the name of fun.

Watch Dogs and Assassin's Creed 4, two of 2013's most high profile releases, are coming to Microsoft's newly unveiled Xbox One.

Saturday night's alright for fighting, so the notorious welterweight Elton John told us, and he'd probably agree that Friday night's perfect for staying in and watching someone play video games on the internet. Good news Elton! You're in luck because, Ian Higton's going to be playing through the demo of Naughty Dog's The Last of Us from 7pm BST.

Ahead of the release of MachineGames' Wolfenstein: The New Order, Bethesda has re-released id Software's seminal first-person shooter Wolfenstein 3D on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. The game first launched on those platforms in 2009.

Do you remember Bonanza Bros.? The Sega game was one of those classics that stands alone, and there've been few games like it ever since. I think it's fair to say that Tom Francis, PC Gamer writer turned developer, most likely recalls it. His game, Gunpoint, is a good deal smarter and more stylish than the 1990 Mega Drive game, but it's hard not to be reminded of it when looking at Gunpoint's cross-sectioned levels and its mini-heists that play out with no small amount of slapstick.

Indie platformer Toki Tori 2+ will finally see a Steam release on 2nd July, developer Two Tribes has announced.

Remember the wonderfully-named El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron, the Book of Enoch-inspired Japanese action game that released on these shores late 2011?

Microsoft has detailed a slew of changes for Windows 8 set to be introduced in the system's upcoming 8.1 update.

Shadow of the Eternals, the crowd-funded spiritual successor to GameCube classic Eternal Darkness, faces an uncertain future.

Sony boss Kaz Hirai has insisted the PlayStation 4 is "first and foremost" a game console.

The movements of a boat can never be entirely controlled. They are vehicles at the mercy of a greater master, one whose merest breath or motion invites peril. The waves have their own rules, and Leviathan: Warships' first lesson is simple: from a standing start, boats take bloody ages to hit a decent speed.

Mutant Mudds Deluxe, the enhanced Wii U version of last year's 3DS and PC platformer Mutant Mudds, is dated for 13th June in North America, developer Renegade Kid has announced.

The latest pay-what-you-want Humble Weekly Sale is Telltale-themed, featuring most of the beloved developer's greatest hits from the last few years.

As prophesied in March, Earthworm Jim creator Doug TenNapel has launched a Kickstarter for Armikrog, the "spiritual successor" to his 1996 claymation point-and-click adventure game The Neverhood.

Dutch indie studio Vogelsap's upcoming asymmetrical first-person PC multiplayer game The Flock is one of the more intriguing competitive games on the horizon. Its alluring central conceit is that players switch off between being creepy H.R. Giger-esque skeletal creatures and a humanoid being with a monster-burning ray of light.

Grand Theft Auto 5 is expected to sell an astounding 18 million units in its first year, according to financial services company The Cowen Group.

UPDATE: The Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic iPad port is available now on the App Store for £6.99 / $9.99 where it's a whopping 1.98GB download.

Fancy Pants Adventures and NyxQuest developer Over the Top Games is self-publishing its upcoming voodoo-themed roguelike Full Mojo Rampage, but prior to that it had been working on a couple of since-cancelled projects that received offers from publishers. The problem was the contracts for these were so undesirable that the Spanish indie studio decided it was better to cut its losses, reduce the company size, and focus on self-publishing its next game instead.

UPDATE: EA has told Eurogamer it is in the process of eliminating Online Pass from all its existing titles.

Download the digital copy of Killzone: Shadow Fall and you'll be able to start playing the game as soon as its first level and main menu are downloaded.

What happens when a crowd-funding campaign for an in-development video game promises features that are unlikely to ever materialise?

Crytek has announced The Lost Island multiplayer DLC for sci-fi schooter Crysis 3.

Acclaimed arty adventure Limbo will be available to download on PlayStation Vita next Wednesday, 6th June, developer Playdead has announced.

Journey developer thatgamecompany is releasing its 2009 flora-based breeze-'em-up Flower onto Vita.

A new Sony PlayStation 4 advert suggests the next-gen console will be out in the UK in 2013.

The Xbox One's Kinect will allegedly talk back to gamers, just as Knight Rider prophesied and Siri later manifested.

Xbox One will sit in your living room and burn through not the paltry 1.2 teraflops of computing power as was rumoured, but almost five teraflops - as much as the flagship £800 NVIDIA Titan graphics card. And then it will get faster and faster over time. At least, that's if the latest Microsoft PR campaign is to be believed. But how realistic is it to move game processing to "the cloud" and keep adding to the resources developers have available? Do Microsoft's claims have any basis in reality? Is this a tactical play to compete against the tangibly superior fixed-spec of the PlayStation 4 or is this really just wishful thinking?

Sony employees have acknowledged a campaign aimed at convincing the company not to restrict used PlayStation 4 games.

A reference to "War for Nosgoth" in a new AMD patch log has sparked speculation that Square Enix will soon announce its oft-rumoured Legacy of Kain reboot.