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The seven-person Spanish indie outfit Red Little House Studios has shown off its debut title, Fleish & Cherry in Crazy Hotel, an Indiegogo-funded tribute to 1930's animation done up as an oldschool puzzle-based adventure game for PC, Mac and Linux.

The eighth official Humble Indie Bundle is among us and it's a doozy.

Sega and Nintendo's recently announced collaboration Sonic Lost World has shown off its first gameplay in its debut trailer below.

The Yakuza series has always been a PlayStation exclusive, but it was recently announced that in Japan there will be a Wii U release of the first two title's HD editions due this August.

The 2000 PlayStation hit Final Fantasy 9 will be 13 years old later this year, but that doesn't mean it doesn't still have some secrets. Just this week someone discovered an entire sidequest that had gone undiscovered for over a dozen years.

Dance-yourself-slim gym cult Zumba Fitness is headed to Xbox One.

PC puzzler and 2012 IGF finalist Gunpoint will be released next Monday, 3rd June, its creator has revealed.

The Next DRM will launch on the PlayStation Vita.

There's something excessively, charmingly melodramatic about American motorsports. When much-loved Brazilian Tony Kanaan took Sunday's Indy 500, it wasn't enough that he'd broken a 12-year duck in a race that saw 68 lead changes, nor that it was the fastest run in the event's 97-year history. Part of broadcaster ESPN's grand narrative revealed that, nine years earlier, Kanaan had given his good luck charm to an Indianapolis girl preparing for a life-and-death operation. On the eve of this year's race, he received a package that contained the charm and a simple note: "Here's your good luck charm back. You take it and win the Indianapolis 500."

Scrolls, the virtual card battling game from the company behind Minecraft, goes into open beta on 3rd June. It costs £13 / €15 / $20 and is available for PC and Mac.

Capcom's PC and console version of Resident Evil: Revelations has won the top spot in this week's UK all-formats chart.

Football Manager 2013 is the best-selling game in the series, developer Sports Interactive has announced.

Some of the creators of Rare's action platformer Conker's Bad Fur Day have created a Director's Commentary of the game over a decade after it released.

UPDATE: Ubisoft has confirmed the previously-spotted PlayStation Vita version of Rayman Legends.

"Welcome, Mr. Guest."

Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie, as it was originally known, concludes with an advertisement. Following the closing credits, we're told of a forthcoming live action movie based on the same game. "JEAN CLAUDE VAN DAMME" it exclaims in monolithic all caps, before revealing, with almost childlike boastfulness: "NOW FILMING IN HOLLYWOOD". Capcom's bragging notice, usefully included in this remastered re-release of the 1994 film, provides valuable context. Here is a game-maker riding a crest of popularity, now promoter to a clutch of video game characters who have broken out of, not only their home country, but also their medium. Street Fighter's going to Hollywood. Imagine.

In the latest of Digital Foundry's 60 frames per second video blog posts, our focus shifts to the first next-gen title from Infinity Ward - Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Finding an arcade game in the wild anywhere in the world is reason enough for celebration, be it a tired-looking Neo Geo cabinet too bulky for anyone to bother moving that's resolute in the corner of a chippie or a Numan Athletics that sits unplayed in a run-down casino, cast in the dreary blinking light of a dozen fruit machines. If you ever manage to stumble upon a Nave cabinet, however, consider it a red-letter day: there's only one in existence, and it's never ventured beyond the borders of Argentina.

Six months after it first went live, players have finally made it to the centre of 22cans' infamous Curiosity experiment, barging their way past 25 billion "cubelets" to discover the "life-changing" experience promised to the person who removed the last barrier.

Ubisoft is offering 15 randomly chosen players the chance to have their identity immortalised as a pedestrian in its upcoming open-world adventure Watch Dogs.

No single console gaming genre is as fiercely competitive as the first-person shooter, and whether it's Call of Duty, Halo, Crysis, Killzone or Battlefield, these are franchises defined just as much by their technological distinctiveness as they are by colossal budgets that run into the tens of millions. Into the fray steps the recent-recently Metro: Last Light from Kiev-based developer 4A Games. It lacks in mega-bucks investment, but despite that deficit, it aims to make up the gap in terms of good storytelling, atmosphere and simply exceptional technology.

Sometimes you discover excellence in totally unexpected places. When my dad purchased a shiny new Japanese Mega Drive in 1990, I was immediately overawed by the likes of Golden Axe, Super Monaco GP and Thunder Force 2, but it would be an obtuse and almost unfathomable action strategy hybrid with a crazy German moniker which would consume the vast majority of my time over that particular Christmas break.

This week on Outside Xbox, we saw the face of a new generation: the device Microsoft hopes will define our entertainment habits for the next 10 years. It looked like a VCR from the future for watching American sports. That's not to say the Xbox One won't have games, only that the TV-centric reveal event was short on buzz if you were hoping to catch some new videogames.

How about something a little different? A Digital Foundry Face-Off that serves us the usual HD platforms with a little extra Wii U spice - all lined up and compared to the original Nintendo 3DS release. It's a fascinating, one-of-a-kind comparison that should see the handheld hardware comprehensively out-classed, out-quaffed and generally out-done in every way. And yet, despite the enormous gulf in processing power (think of the 3DS as Dreamcast-level hardware with some more modern GPU features) we came away rather impressed with the vintage handheld game and it remains one of the most impressive technological showcases for Nintendo's portable system.

An early prototype for the Wii's controller was an accelerometer-equipped disc you gripped in both hands, with a huge star-shaped button in the middle surrounded by smaller buttons. It was made out of orange plastic, so Nintendo's hardware team nicknamed it the cheddar cheese. Surprisingly enough, no-one liked it. Cheddar cheese was simple enough to use, and accurate, but it looked weird - and Nintendo's developers thought it unsuited to the company's own software.

Microsoft has announced two new mice that are the first of its kind to include a dedicated Windows button.

A mysterious Halo-related project entitled Bootcamp has surfaced on the Korean Rating Board.

Microsoft has issued a patent that will award players - or should I say viewers - achievements for watching TV.

Last month the two brothers at Greenheart Games implemented a brilliant bug into pirated copies of their game, Game Dev Story, that made it so anyone playing a cracked copy would unwittingly fail due to piracy.

Excalibur Publishing - the company that brought us such bizarre curios as Train Simulator 2013, Camping Manager, and Police Force 2 - has announced its latest eccentric sim, Chemical Spillage Simulation.