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An amazing person called Mike Diva has done an amazing thing: made a trailer for Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon: The Movie - a film that doesn't exist.

There's a new Humble Bundle and this time it revolves around the work of Tim Schafer's studio Double Fine.

There's a role-playing game sale on PlayStation Network today with some enticing deals.

Capcom's annual financial results are in, and everything the company predicted in its April forecast pretty much came true.

Yesterday's Diablo 3 patch 1.0.8 contained a bug that enabled a gold duping exploit that some people, who should be ashamed of themselves (read: well done - can I have some please?), took full advantage of.

Duke Nukem 3D was good but Duke Nukem Forever wasn't, so I wonder what would happen if DNF received the DN3D treatment?

EA won't pay arms manufacturers for licensed digital replicas of their guns and war paraphernalia in its action games - Battlefield 4 - this year. But it will use them anyway.

Sony's suggested as much before, but now always-online has definitively been ruled out for PlayStation 4.

There's a great moment in an early Simpsons episode, 'Lisa the Vegetarian', when after watching an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon Lisa notes the violence carries a serious message. Bart counters that it's just about laughing at people getting hit, and as he moves to leave the room Homer slams open the door in his face. The twin poles of chin-stroking and gratuity, brought together by slapstick - and a perfectly timed punchline. Violence as entertainment, in a nutshell.

American McGee, of American McGee's Alice fame, is working on Kickstarters for both Alice: Otherlands and a game based on The Wizard of Oz.

A couple of months ago I wrote about a pretty great-looking top-down horror roguelike called Darkwood by the three-person Polish outfit Acid Wizard Studio. At the time the developer said it would likely bring its project to Indiegogo and sure enough, it has.

Despite its botched launch and less than stellar reviews, SimCity went on to sale a respectable 1.6 million units, according to EA's latest quarterly financial report.

Boss-hunting Vita-exclusive Soul Sacrifice will receive three free pieces of DLC, Sony has announced.

Frobisher Says developer Honeyslug is bringing its upcoming 2D sandbox curio Hohokum to PS4 and Vita.

Size Five Games - the indie developer behind Ben There, Dan That and Time Gentlemen, Please - has announced its latest project, Gun Monkeys, a procedurally-generated deathmatch platformer due this summer on PC, Mac and Linux.

The Krieg the Psycho DLC for Borderlands 2 will be due on 14th May, according to Krieg's official Twitter feed.

Video game shop-chain GAME, which this time last year was in dire straits, plans now on opening 18 new shops by July.

Techland's first new IP since the Dead Island series looks to recapture the magic of '90s PC gaming, evoking classics such as Quake, Hexen, Diablo and Heretic in its four player co-operative hack n'slash that's wrapped up in a dark fantasy setting.

If you've played any of the Splinter Cell series before Conviction, you likely don't need telling how good Spies vs. Mercs can be. A true classic from the last generation of multiplayer, Spies vs. Mercs was doing the whole asymmetrical thing before Nintendo took a stronghold on the concept, and it was doing it rather well. You're either one of the nimble-footed spies, clambering around maps in third-person view as you try and sneak your way to a series of data terminals that must be hacked, or you're the merc, a soldier lumbering around in first-person and keeping a gun trained on the shadows where your would-be-assassins lurk.

The recently announced Wii U version of Splinter Cell: Blacklist is not being handled by Ubisoft Toronto, the developer of the core version, and is instead being handled by Ubisoft's Shanghai studio.

The funkily-named Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix will be available in the UK from 13th September, developer Square Enix has confirmed.

Price: £60 Players: 2-6 Time: 120 minutes

UPDATE: Bethesda has announced Wolfenstein: The New Order, a first-person shooter due out on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and unspecified next-generation consoles at some point during Q4 2013.

Pre-order the Beyond: Two Souls special edition and you'll get an extra 30 minutes of playable story, publisher Sony has announced.

Sony's indie initiative continues, this time with the launch of an indie game category on the PlayStation Store.

Gothic role-player The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing will launch for PC via Steam on 22nd May, its developer has announced.

Price: £55 / Players: 2-5 / Time: 3 hours

An hour of new Star Wars: Battlefront 3 gameplay has been streamed online as part of the annual 4th May Star Wars fan celebrations.

Intriguing free-to-play Xbox 360 role-player Ascend: New Gods has been re-named Ascend: Hand of Kul, a new trademark listing suggests.

UK online retailer ShopTo is refusing to sell Activision games following a row over Call of Duty: Ghosts, Eurogamer can reveal.