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Western RPG developer Obsidian is collaborating with Russian developer Allods Team to make an MMO called Skyforge.

The Queen Zenobia, a cruise ship now infested with bio-organic monsters, often goes out of its way to evoke the atmosphere of Resident Evils past. Its gloomy, gore-soaked corridors are contrasted with a sumptuous ballroom, an abandoned casino and a barnacle-encrusted luxury spa, with progress hidden behind doors barred by crests and seals with nautical motifs. It's no accident that the locations explored by Jill Valentine and her companions in this addition to the canon often feel like they could have been lifted from Raccoon City, circa 1998.

"You once again prepare to enter... the world of survival horror." Those were the days. Lately, Resident Evil hasn't had much of either.

Arc System Works has announced a new game in the Guilty Gear series - considered by some to be the best fighting game franchise.

Koch/Deep Silver's new buy Metro: Last Light has stolen first place in the UK video games chart from Dead Island: Riptide, the publisher's other game.

When Sony Ericsson became plain old Sony in 2011, the Japanese company made it clear that it was deadly serious about becoming a key player in the Android arena. As with all transitional periods, it's taken a while for the company to totally shake off the dust from the old days. The Xperia Z is the first handset that is 100 per cent Sony; compared to its predecessor the Xperia T, this latest effort certainly feels like it has been crafted with a different design philosophy in mind - gentle plastic curves and rounded edges have been disregarded in favour of tempered glass and stern, straight edges.

Wikipedia has just informed me that, back when the Xbox 360 launched in 2005, European early adopters had 16 titles to choose from.

Outside Xbox awaits next week's unveiling of a new Xbox with mingled excitement and trepidation, as if Tuesday 21 May were Christmas and Judgment Day rolled into one giant green Microsoft presentation. With the PlayStation 4 already out in the open, it's Microsoft's turn to impress - or to trip on the first hurdle in the next-gen race.

Gran Turismo creator Kazunori Yamauchi is - was - a man obsessed with reproduction. With fidelity, curation, collection and simulation. He has run his studio Polyphony Digital and its mighty racing series as a combination of science lab and museum, fastidiously digitising the curves and characteristics of hundreds of cars and courses for posterity while pushing the graphics and handling to ever greater levels of verisimilitude.

It's perhaps a little ironic that the creators of some of the most beautiful console games ever made so very rarely promote their games using actual in-game footage or screenshots. For Polyphony Digital, the trend continues with Gran Turismo 6, where its beautiful concept trailer - in common with the majority of its previous videos - looks for all the world like an offline render, downscaled to 1080p from an unimaginably high resolution, based no doubt on the most high-detail versions of its in-game assets.

Pop quiz: can you name a major new DC or Marvel superhero character from the last twenty years? Not a supporting character, and not a new identity for an existing character, but a completely new creation that has taken its place alongside the likes of Batman, Spider-Man, The Hulk and Superman in the pop culture pantheon. It's harder than it sounds. You'd probably have to go back to Wolverine, introduced in the pages of The Incredible Hulk in 1974 and popularised in the pages of X-Men, for your answer. Why is this? Because the business practices of the comic book industry made it inevitable.

Monkey Island and The Cave creator Ron Gilbert has issued a trailer for his upcoming iOS match-three puzzler Scurvy Scallywags in The Voyage to Discover the Ultimate Sea Shanty: A Musical Match-3 Pirate RPG (or SSITVTDTUSS:AMMTPRPG for short, as Gilbert calls it on his blog).

Tangiers looks unlike anything I've seen. A surreal stealth game by two-person Bristol-based indie outfit Andalusian Games, Tangiers is set in an abstract landscape that resembles a mix of Silent Hill's grey palette and featureless monstrosities with Dark City's morphing noirish urban sprawl and a hint of Zeno Clash's delirious wilderness thrown in for good measure.

As Valve is chopping up its lists of games that get past Greenlight into smaller, more frequent batches, it's announced the latest six titles to make it onto the service.

Update: Pre-orders for Shield have been moved ahead from 20th May to 17th May - that's today!

With Arrested Development only a week and a half away from its 26th May return after a seven year absence, the world is in the midst of David Cross fever with everyone's favourite analrapist (a mix of analyst and therapist) Dr. Tobias Fünke making the rounds. The character's official Youtube channel contains a "sizzle reel" of the aspiring actor's works that he insists others, particularly Ron Howard, use to superimpose into their movies.

Vita exclusive Killzone: Mercenary will release in the UK on 6th September, Sony has announced.

UPDATE: EA has confirmed to Eurogamer that FIFA 14 will not release on Wii U.

One of the more striking differences between Mario and Donkey Kong is that the gorilla still carries the swagger of an ex-villain with him. He barges, charges and pummels his way through his levels, he's a friend to the hit-pause and the shoulder slam, and his Yoshi stand-in - for the few glorious moments that you generally get to enjoy him - is a grubby little rhino who looks like he might have spent some serious time in the big house. Donkey Kong games feel heavier than Mario games - slower when turning, deadlier when they've picked up momentum. The art's a touch less charming, but to make up for that you get a world of taut drum skins ripe for pounding, hobbling crabs ripe for pounding and, well, anything else that could conceivably be made ripe for pounding, really.

Sega and Nintendo have joined forces for the release of three Sonic games exclusively on the Wii U and 3DS.

Nintendo has revealed release dates for a number of upcoming Wii U games, including Pikmin 3 and Platinum's The Wonderful 101.

Update #4: Chloe Sagal posted false information on Indiegogo, Eurogamer can confirm. She was attempting to raise money for gender alteration surgery and not to remove metal shrapnel from her body as she had declared.

The PS Vita version of Ratchet & Clank: QForce launches on the PlayStation Store on 22nd May, Insomniac has announced.

The Elder Scrolls Online is having a tough time winning over fans of the single-player series. By design it's erected walls and boundaries to work as an MMO with thousands of heroes and not just one. But at the same time it has to look and feel like Elder Scrolls otherwise what's the point?

One does not simply get rid of purple Jason Vorhees from dire NES game Friday the 13th forever.

The mystery person who made Defense Grid 2 possible after it had fallen short on Kickstarter is serial games-investor Steven Dengler.

SimCity's new DLC add-on has been prematurely revealed.

New DLC for Gears of War: Judgment has been announced.

The Last of Us is shaping up to be one of the PlayStation 3's finest looking games, continuing the impressive work Naughty Dog carried out with the Uncharted series.

Nintendo has decided to actually follow through on YouTube copyright infringement policies and is seeking ad revenue from user channels that feature Let's Play videos of the publisher's games.