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Always a halo product for the PlayStation brand, Gran Turismo's reputation as the top-tier console racer has remained the same since its debut. Developer Polyphony Digital's not shy of reminding you of its status either, subtitling Gran Turismo 5 as the "real driving simulator." It wasn't quite received as such at launch, but Gran Turismo 5 maintained its godlike aura by virtue of its peerless handling simulation and that staggeringly vast 1,083-strong car catalogue.

It says a lot about how far Samsung has come when the launch of its latest flagship smartphone attracts the same feverish levels of interest from tech-heads as the release of the next iPhone. The Korean manufacturer has taken Google's often-unfashionable Android operating system and given it the world-leading device it so badly needed to assert its dominance over iOS; tellingly, many consumers now get more excited about the next 'Galaxy' rather than the next 'Android'.

Welcome to your weekly roundup from Outside Xbox. Imagine it as a selection box of video treats. A good selection box, nothing with coconut in it.

Microsoft's successor to the Xbox 360 appears to be called Xbox Infinity, according to a report by The International Business Times.

So Star Wars is back. It never really went away, of course, as the dozens of Clone Wars lunchboxes I see during the daily school run will attest. However, with the brand sold to Disney, a new movie trilogy on the way and the game rights now shunted over from the ashes of Lucasarts to Electronic Arts, there comes a sense of a definitive fresh start after the vague and directionless malaise that seeped in post-prequels.

You've been kidnapped. Knocked out and set in a trunk to wake up in a dimly lit underground bunker. You somehow break free from your captors and stumble outside. Taking a look around, you realise you could be anywhere. You scour the landscape for clues: the language of the street signs, the flora, the architecture. Where in the world could you be?!

Half-Life 2 now has official support for Oculus Rift, or at least a beta for it anyway.

Road Redemption, the unofficial spiritual successor to Road Rash, has met its Kickstarter goal of $160K with two days left on the clock.

Gears of War Judgment has previously received free DLC due to a partnership with men's magazine Maxim and now the two are partnering again for another add-on, this time in the form of the Dreadnought multiplayer map for OverRun Mode due on 15th May.

It's early on in Ubisoft's new Watch Dogs demo that the action pauses and we see a static camera angle of a leafy Chicago junction. We're watching the game running in real-time on PlayStation 4, on a dev kit that's scurried away under personal guard as soon as the playthrough is finished.

The week before Danny Bilson left THQ in May 2012, he still had hope. He had a plan: Darksiders 2 from Vigil. Metro: Last Light from 4AGames. Company of Heroes 2 from Relic Entertainment. Enter the Dominatrix, the standalone expansion for Saints Row the Third, from Volition. South Park: The Stick of Truth, in production at Obsidian Entertainment. Homefront 2 at Crytek UK. And then there was the unannounced stuff: the next-gen game from Turtle Rock we now know is called Evolve. Patrice Désilets' 1666 at THQ Montreal. The portfolio is long and impressive.

Wargaming has filed a lawsuit against an alleged World of Tanks copycat that it labelled "disturbingly similar" and claimed featured both historical inaccuracies and fictional tanks dreamt up specifically for the World of Tanks game.

Aliens: Colonial Marines was one of Sega's best-selling games last financial year (ended 31st March 2012) despite being absolute pants.

What if you could buy the graphics tech that's set to feature in the next generation Xbox and slot it into your existing PC? That's the scenario being suggested by some with the Radeon HD 7790 - a circa £115 card that counts as the first product release by the company this year. Based on leaked details of Microsoft's "Durango" console's GPU, there are more than a few curious design overlaps with this budget-conscious 7790, suggesting a shared origin in the architecting phase - a situation that could prove revealing of the kind of ballpark performance we can expect on the hardware's launch, where PC ports are the most likely scenario for cross-platform titles.

It's no great surprise that the Pokémon are, traditionally, speechless creatures. The series aims to recreate the sense of joy that its creator Satoshi Tajiri experienced during lingering childhood summer holidays when he would head from his family home on the outskirts of Tokyo to search the surrounding undergrowth in search of mini-beasts, cataloguing each one he caught in a notepad bought for him by his parents. The joyful sense of disciplined collection and classification Tajiri hoped to conjure in his game would dissipate if the monsters could talk.

Eternal Darkness and Too Human developer Silicon Knights is "definitely alive," despite Epic Games' $4.45 million dollar lawsuit against the studio for Unreal Engine 3 licensing fees that resulted in all copies of Too Human and X-Men: Destiny to be recalled.

Bennett Foddy, creator of such abstract pieces of interactive physical comedy like QWOP and Pole Riders - has taken to bringing his quirky, maniacal approach to chess in Bennett Foddy's Speed Chess, a 16-player real-time version of the age-old classic.

In a case of comically long-term planning, EA has secured the rights to domains for www.battlefield13.com to www.battlefield20.com.

TimeGate Studios, the developer behind Section 8 and part of Aliens: Colonial Marines, was allegedly shut down earlier today, according to a couple of anonymous sources at Kotaku.

Hard Reset developer Flying Wild Hog is developing a new Shadow Warrior game with Hotline Miami publisher Devolver Digital.

Sleeper hit iOS puzzler The Room has accrued over 2 million sales since its September 2012 launch, Fireproof Studios commercial director Barry Meade announced at today's Game Horizon conference, as reported by Joystiq.

A six minutes developer walkthrough of Saint's Row 4 has emerged, showing off the loads of new content in Volition's bats*** insane sequel.

Capcom expects Lost Planet 3, due out 30th August in Europe, to sell 1.2 million copies.

Total War: Rome 2 will be released worldwide on Tuesday, 3rd September, Sega has announced.

THQ's former frontman, the lively and entrepreneurial Danny Bilson, has announced an ambitious new project at the GameHorizon conference in Newcastle today.

Incredibly popular, incredibly big, 12-year-old browser MMO RuneScape could be released on tablets before the end of the year.

In the second of a short series of articles, Rich Stanton guides you round the world of Capcom's masterpiece. Last week we spoke about the all-important pouch - and this week it's all about playing dress-up.

Whatever doubts you had about open-minded Android console Ouya after its record-breaking $8.6 million Kickstarter campaign, it's definitely convincing somebody, because a further $15 million has been raised for its cause.

Level-5's upcoming first-person survival horror game for the 3DS eShop, The Starship Damrey, is now slated for release on 16th May in Europe and North America.

It sounds like PlayStation 4 has been and will be a more profitable piece of hardware for Sony than PlayStation 3.