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In our review of the GeForce GTX 770 we noted that Nvidia's second-generation "Kepler" graphics cards were all about boosting performance while increasing value - a noble sentiment for sure, but with a sticker price in the £300 region, that's still a hell of a lot of money to shell out for just one component of a gaming PC. The GTX 760, the latest addition to the product line-up, looks like a much more tempting proposition. Priced at £210/$250 (though expect the odd partner card at the £200 level), it offers most of the performance of the more expensive GTX 670, and in the process puts the £240/$300 Radeon HD 7950 in a very difficult position. Could we have found a new enthusiasts' favourite?

While Killzone: Shadow Fall and Infamous: Second Son led the charge for PlayStation 4 at this year's E3, the gameplay reveal of Bungie's brand new sci-fi shooter, Destiny, was one of the main high points in Sony's press conference. This mega-budget multi-platform title aims to redefine the FPS genre through the introduction of a persistent open world, where the line between campaign and multiplayer blurs into a single, cohesive gameplay experience. Destiny has the next-gen graphical bells and whistles we expect, but it's the scale and scope of the core MMO-meets-FPS concept that truly sets it apart from the competition.

Happy Gran Turismo 6 day! I'm sitting here wearing my special racing boots, practising heel and toe on the Thrustmaster pedals underneath my desk as I count down the hours to 5pm when I can finally play a slice of Polyphony's latest. Lord I wish I was joking. The Gran Turismo 6 demo isn't the only notable download today, of course, and there are probably a fair few of you who don't go all dewy-eyed at the scent of burning rubber getting excited about something else entirely. So, to you: happy COD BLOPS 2 DLC day!

You can't not have heard about World of Tanks, the historical, simple, free-to-play competitive online game that put Belarusian developer Wargaming.net on the map, and all over the map, so big and powerful it has become.

The Xbox 360 edition of Grand Theft Auto 5 will come on two discs, developer Rockstar has announced, but you won't need to swap them during gameplay.

Not long ago, in February 2012, publisher NCSoft said during a conference call that Guild Wars 2 was "in the preparation stage" for console.

Flower and flOw developer thatgamecompany has finally started to receive royalties from last year's indie darling Journey.

UPDATE: Saints Row developer Volition is making changes to the game's Australian version - namely, removing the "Alien Anal Probe" weapon which last month saw its release banned by the country's censors.

Microsoft will launch a special edition Gold Chrome Xbox 360 controller in the UK this August, the company has announced.

So then, Don Mattrick has left Microsoft's Xbox division and taken over at Zynga, where founder Mark Pincus will step away from day-to-day running of the company so he can focus on product development.

If you pre-order Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy 13 you can dress Lightning as Cloud from Final Fantasy 7.

Square Enix has recorded more than a million beta registrations for A Realm Reborn, the revived version of failed MMO Final Fantasy 14.

Hate the laborious task of typing in those 25 digit codes on Xbox 360? Hate no more, because on Xbox One you'll be able to scan a QR code using the new Kinect instead.

Those who pre-order Call of Duty: Ghosts will get the multiplayer map Free Fall, Activision has announced.

UPDATE 2: Darkspore has returned to Steam.

I remember the first time BioShock Infinite was shown off. When I first heard the hardened, yet gentle tones of protagonist Booker DeWitt, it sounded suspiciously like an older, more grizzled Nathan Drake. I thought it was Nolan North. Other people I spoke to thought it was Nolan North. It wasn't Nolan North.

Telltale's latest addition to its The Walking Dead saga, 400 Days, is out this week on PC, Mac, XBLA, and North America's PSN.

Drakengard 3 - or Nier 2 as I like to call it - has received a Japanese debut trailer.

A series of new details have emerged explaining just what D4 - the mysterious new Xbox One-exclusive from Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka "Swery65" Suehiro - is.

Mutant Mudds and Dementium developer Renegade Kid has regained the rights to its 2009 DS first-person sci-fi shooter Moon.

Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment's Rise of the Triad remake is due for PC on 31st July, where it will cost £11.99 / $14.99.

Microsoft's free Xbox companion app has been downloaded more than 17 million times across its Android, iOS and Windows Phone versions.

Microsoft has a credibility problem. Xbox One launches in less than six months and yet its E3 press conference featured visibly poor performing software and a bunch of games actually running on PC-based surrogate hardware. We're told that these computers are either "target hardware" or "debug environments" but debate still surrounds the technological make-up of this kit - photos from E3 have emerged showing watercooled CPUs with Nvidia GeForce hardware, a world apart from production Xbox One silicon. We have reports of games crashing to Hewlett Packard branded desktops, stories of crashed game executables being terminated from the Windows Task Manager, and a conference reveal replete with the groan-inducing chicanery of "in-engine" footage and CG trailers.

While the chance of Double Fine making a Psychonauts sequel remains slim, the kooky folks at Swedish studio Zoink are working on the closest thing to Tim Schafer's masterpiece with Stick it to The Man, a psychedelic 2D puzzle/platformer about a strange psychic fella who can hear people's thoughts and manifest them as stickers. Or, as protagonist Ray puts it, "I've got a pink spaghetti floating out of my head!"

Award-winning PC adventure Proteus will be released on PlayStation 3 and Vita this autumn, developer Curve Studios has announced.

Microsoft has suggested that Windows 8 apps may come to Xbox One.

UPDATE: Nintendo has told Eurogamer that it will continue to fight for the WiiU.com domain despite its defeat via the WIPO, and continue looking at other legal options.

CD Projekt Red didn't have a presence on the E3 2013 show floor, but it didn't matter a jot. The Polish developers stand alone and do things their own way, financed by their parent, a local distributor, and their subsidiary, the digital games platform GOG.com. They've made an international success out of games based on Polish culture - the Witcher series of dark fantasy novels by Andrzej Sapkowski - and developed in Warsaw. They'll choose a publisher for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt when - or if - it's convenient to them. They certainly didn't need anyone's help getting their next-generation, open-world role-player into Microsoft's Xbox One showreel, or attracting journalists and executives to the small, buzzing suite upstairs at the LA Convention Center where they were happy to serve beers (Tyskie, naturally) at 10am.

UK developer Jagex has confirmed 13 people have been made redundant from the Transformers Universe team.

Dust 514 developer CCP Games has announced it will shift to a more regular, near-monthly update cycle for its PlayStation 3-exclusive EVE Online spin-off.