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Update: EA has clarified that it currently has "no games in development for the Wii U" in a statement to Kotaku.

Finnish indie developer Facepalm Games' gorgeous stop-motion Metroidvania puzzler, The Swapper, is now dated for a 30th May release on Steam.

By and large horror and competitive multiplayer don't work together as one is predicated on feelings of isolation and the other on quick rounds of action, but Indiegogo project Damned has a unique premise wherein one player inhabits an invincible ghost tasked with slaying up to four other players as they rummage around for keys to escape.

Remember Shaq Fu? How could you not? The 1994 SNES and Mega Drive fighter based on the fictional exploits of basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal is often cited as one of the worst games ever made. Well brace yourself, kiddos, as the aging b-ball star may be returning for another fighting game nearly two decades after setting the world on fire with his ironic cult classic.

Four UK members of LulzSec have been handed jail sentences for their part in the group's campaign of cyber attacks.

Vita-exclusive OlliOlli is a low-key auto-skateboarder that's a bit like Tony Hawk's but in pixely 2D - and you're not allowed to stop.

In the third of a short series of articles, Rich Stanton guides you round the world of Capcom's masterpiece. We've taken you through the pouch and the armour - and this week it's time to look at the weapons.

It hasn't been a vintage football season. Following last year's high drama, improbable triumphs and ridiculous injury-time comebacks, we've witnessed what happens after the Lord Mayor's show. The Premier League was won four weeks early by a side even its own fans would admit was hardly at its best. Two of the candidates for the usually nail-biting relegation battle were decided by playing out a goalless draw so lifeless as if to ensure neither side would be missed. Pundits talk of the Champions League upsetting the natural order of things, but this is hardly the first time Barcelona have suffered a shock defeat in the semis. A season that began with so much promise has been steadily petering out as it has progressed.

Metro: Last Light developer 4A games has shared some of the technological enhancements added to its bespoke engine since the release of Metro 2033 three years ago, going in-depth on its new approaches to DirectX 11, tessellation and anti-aliasing while promising a great gameplay experience across a range of hardware.

Sony has offered a glimpse behind the curtain at its mysterious new game Panopticon, a cel-shaded sci-fi adventure in development at SCE's Japan Studio.

Update: 4A Games creative director Andrew Prokhorov has responded, on GamesIndustry International, to Jason Rubin's account of Metro: Last Light's budget development, thanking him for his piece.

The question has been on everybody's lips since the rumours of a full Gran Turismo sequel on PS3 first emerged: why not PS4? Yesterday, it was confirmed that Gran Turismo 6 will launch on PS3 before Christmas this year, directly alongside - not to say competing with - the launch of Sony's new home console.

Ubisoft thinks the Golden Age of Piracy is a stronger theme globally than the American Revolution, but for the sake of being "prudent" has forecast lower sales for Assassin's Creed 4 than AC3 managed this past financial year.

It used to be MMOs now it's MOBAs, and EA has finally has one: Dawngate.

Earlier this year Just Cause 2 developer Avalanche Studios' CEO Christofer Sundberg tweeted a couple of blurry images thought to be from the yet-to-be-seen Just Cause 3 or possibly the Mad Max game the studio was allegedly working on. As it turns out, these were from an unannounced "steampunk-style game" that's been put on hold.

EA is going to discontinue its Online Pass requirement to access certain features in its future releases.

Capcom has added three zany new unlockable costumes to the console versions of Resident Evil: Revelations due 30th August on PS3, Xbox 360, PC and Wii U.

Update: Among the Sleep has shot past its $200K Kickstarter goal with a a current tally of $212,033.

There's been a lot of confusion over Precursor Games' Eternal Darkness successor Shadow of the Eternals. Formed by ex-Silicon Knights staff, many believe that it's simply a company in multimillion dollar debt that's tried to rebrand itself to avoid having to pay Epic for its licensing fees. Suspicion wasn't helped when the fledgling company started a Kickstarter in addition to its own crowdfunding campaign with a later deadline, suggesting the project was in trouble. So we decided to catch up with Precursor to see how it addressed these accusations.

Last week's GDC Battlefield 4 demo looked pretty spectacular, even when viewed via heavily compressed streaming video, so when we acquired a high-bitrate 1080p version of the trailer running at the full 60 frames per second, we knew we had to share it with you. The only problem: actually getting the footage to run smoothly on a webpage.

UPDATE: It's actually properly, properly official now. Gran Turismo 6 is heading to the PS3 this year, and it will feature 1200 cars and seven new tracks.

Ubisoft has released a very pretty new trailer for Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag. Behold, several minutes of new footage!

A team of CG artists from Bulgaria has put together a video envisaging how bang tidy games could look this upcoming generation.

Indie sandbox success Terraria is finally available to download from the EU PlayStation Store today, following its March release in the US, and it's release on Xbox Live Arcade.

DC Comics and 5th Cell crossover Scribblenauts Unmasked has been officially confirmed in a new trailer.

The next Scribblenauts adventure will include DC Comics superheroes and villains such as Batman and Aquaman, a report suggests.

The Wii U GamePad has been reverse-engineered by the developers behind the Dolphin GameCube/Wii emulator, with the controller's functions completely simulated on PC. When we heard the news on Twitter, we contacted developer Pierre Bourdon to find out more. In hacking the GamePad, we reasoned that the developers would have extensive information on how Nintendo's innovative controller actually works.

Remastered masterpieces ICO and Shadow of the Colossus top the freebies list for PlayStation Plus subscribers in June.

Guerrilla Games has released its own post-mortem for the Killzone: Shadow Fall demo revealed at the PlayStation Meeting, giving a range of insights into the power of the PlayStation 4 and its fundamental approach to the new hardware. A range of stats is included, including the fact that the demo used around 4.6GB of memory, with 3GB of that reserved exclusively for graphics.

Mark Long, CEO of Hawken publisher Meteor Entertainment, loved a piece of comic art from the game so much he blew up a print to frame and hang on the out-facing wall of his office. It's the first thing workers and visitors see when they enter the building, and the last thing they see when they leave.