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Has Sony given up on Vita? The big spend on big games appears to be over, save Killzone: Mercenary, and last week Sony predicted just 5 million Vita and PSP sales - combined - for the financial year ahead, which is significantly fewer than it managed during the year just ended. In other words, Sony expects things to get worse.

There's something overwhelming about setting foot in one of Tokyo's video game arcades: first the wall of noise hits you, followed by the cool stale air and then the blasts of colour and movement that sit beyond row upon row of players sitting perfectly still. Japanese arcades have weathered the industry's many storms, and even though that's left them looking a little dog-eared, they continue to be busy and exciting destinations.

Last month I wrote about Chasm, a crowdfunded roguelike that looked like a mix of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Spelunky, and this weekend its Kickstarter ended shooting past its $150K goal with an extra $41,897. Not too shabby.

EA is developing a variant of its exclusive Frostbite Engine for mobile devices.

Put your name down for a copy of Rayman Legends at GAME and you'll get one of three character skins, depending on the game's platform.

In-development World War 2 tanks-planes-and-ships MMO War Thunder will come to PlayStation 4 this "holiday 2013 season", developer Gaijin Entertainment has announced.

Trion Worlds' subscription MMO Rift has finally capitulated and will become free-to-play from 12th June.

It took a handful of years and a couple of publishers, but 4A Games' Metro Last Light is finally here. An ambitious follow-up to the much-loved 2010 original, its attempt to broaden the appeal of the original's blend of miserablist exploration and environmental exposition left Rich Stanton a little cold - although there's still plenty left to enjoy.

WWE 2K14 will be released in the UK for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 1st November, 2K Sports has told Eurogamer.

Bethesda's slopped out a batch of screenshots from MachineGames' only-just-announced Wolfenstein: The New Order.

Ubisoft is currently prototyping a sequel to its well-received Wii U survival horror ZombiU.

A man suspected of involvement in the 2008 PSN hack - the one Howard Stringer apparently didn't know about - dodged the harshest sentences attached to such a cyber crime by smashing his PCs and hiding his hard-drives.

UPDATE: Nintendo has released a fresh slice of Pokémon X and Y gameplay footage which demonstrates the new features and Pokémon breeds revealed yesterday in CoroCoro magazine.

Remember the game where you slid a paddle along the bottom of the screen, rebounding a ball into blocks above, breaking them with each successful hit? That game is Breakout, and it's 37 years old.

"The Poppenkast is basically a community of people who are doing some kind of games related stuff." Jan Willem Nijman, one half of Vlambeer, pauses, taking a breath as if he's going to continue his sentence, before letting it stand as it is. For the past five minutes he's been trying to explain what the Poppenkast is in a single sentence, and for the past five minutes he's been struggling.

BioShock Infinite sold "significantly" more copies in its first month than either the original BioShock or BioShock 2.

Syfy telly show Defiance will return for a second, 13-episode series in 2014.

Despite being visually scaled back to work on hardware that is considerably weaker than Xbox 360 or PS3, games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Assassin's Creed: Liberation and Need For Speed: Most Wanted prove that the PlayStation Vita is capable of faithfully bringing triple-A console blockbusters to the small screen. However, the spectacle of playing expansive, big budget titles might not be the best fit for a portable gaming machine: recreating a similar level of detail is likely to have a considerable impact on performance, while the underlying gameplay mechanics may not gel well with the shorter play-times associated with gaming on the move.

Ultimate Badass Savages? These guys don't sound like they're going to go down easily. Yet with Krieg the loveable psycho - he's Borderlands 2's latest class, and I added the loveable bit myself - they're despatched in a matter of seconds. This is because of Krieg's action skill - a neat little piece of classic Borderlands design called Buzz Axe Rampage. Press that bumper button, and Krieg produces his signature psycho axe. Melee power and movement speed are both given a serious boost, and he can even lob axes around like some kind of deadly and deranged hot dog vendor, pacing the bleachers at the world's bloodiest ball game.

For the last three years, 2K Marin's take on the XCOM universe has been surrounded by all the mystery, fear and excitement of a UFO sighting. We last saw it back in 2010, coming back wide-eyed with wonder rather than filled with dread that the strategy of the '90s original was being lost in the first-person reboot. Despite the worries of the hardcore, and despite some of the skepticism from fans of the original, there's always been a spine running through 2K Marin's game that's indebted to X-Com creator Julian Gollop's original vision.

Indie developer Kent Hudson's dilemma-heavy supernatural drama The Novelist may sound a lot like Stephen King's The Shining at first glance. An author brings his wife and young son to a remote estate where he can work on his masterpiece, but little does he know that there's a ghost in the house. Unlike King's cult-classic, the disembodied spirit in the Novelist is a benevolent ghost controlled by the player with the goal being to help protagonist Dan Kaplan finish his book while still retaining a deep, meaningful connection with his family.

Ace Attorney 5, the next game to star series stalwart Phoenix Wright, has been redubbed Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies where it will be available as an eShop-only digital download when it comes to 3DS this autumn in Europe and North America.

The ex-Silicon Knights devs at Precursor Games have added an actual Kickstarter to supplement its Shadow of the Eternals crowdfunding campaign.

Back in the 90s Sierra published a series of physics-based puzzlers in its The Incredible Machine franchise. The series has laid dormant since 2001's The Incredible Machine: Even More Contraptions, but the creators of the franchise - Jeff Tunnell, Kevin Ryan and Brian Hahn - have joined the fine folks at Spotkin to create its just announced spiritual successor Contraption Maker.

A slew of new details regarding MercurySteam's highly anticipated Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 have emerged over a pair of previews from OPM UK and OXM UK (via Gaming Everything).

Some games seem bad because they are. With Metro: Last Light, it's more a question of expectations: what do you want from the Metro series? For me, it's a scary and dark post-nuclear Russian underground, a first-person survival horror-slash-shooter with scarce resources and terrifying scenarios. There's a bit of that, to be sure. But if you also want tits, QTEs and hand-holding companions, then congratulations - you're part of the wider audience this game is looking for.

Meltdown London, the UK's first eSports bar, will open in the capital next month.

The Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt Red has released its RPG-creation toolkit for users to tinker with.

Much-loved SNES adventure Super Metroid will be available from the Wii U eShop this Thursday for just 30p, Nintendo has announced.

Mouldy-looking Dead Island: Riptide has perched itself atop the UK all-formats chart for a third week running.