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If everyone using a PlayStation 4 can quickly share videos or pictures of key plot twists or boss battle strategies in games, then there may be fewer secrets left for the wider community to cherish.

It's virtual reality, but you should see these people squirm when their heads get chopped off.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon voice actor and Eighties film legend Michael Biehn has hinted that a sequel to the bonkers downloadable shooter may be on the cards.

You can now add to the already gargantuan amount of money up for grabs at the Dota 2 International tournament by buying a "living" virtual book.

Zombie-fighting sequel Dead Island: Riptide has remained buoyant at the top of the UK all-formats chart.

Valve has been measuring salty sweat oozing from people's pores while they play video games.

Six months on from the launch of Microsoft's much-hyped Windows 8, the company remains modest of the operating system's success.

Will Wright, the celebrated creator of the SimCity series, has labelled the recent launch of the latest SimCity game "inexcusable".

If there were such a thing as video game outsider art, Deadly Premonition would be it. Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro's 2010 horror mystery is naïve, ugly, overreaching and often tedious to play. Its weird blend of detective thriller, open-world adventure, survival horror and surreal art piece often seems to have been beyond the means, not to say talent, of its creators to achieve. But there's an endearing artlessness to its pursuit of this impossible dream. It's an authentic and unselfconscious game, and the laughs, pathos and charm it possesses are real.

Update: Monaco will be out on XBLA on 10th May, according to the official Twitter feed. Hurrah!

Update 2: The Shadow of the Eternals crowdfunding campaign has begun on its official site.

Following Disney's acquisition of the Star Wars property from LucasFilm, the house of mouse has decided to license its Star Wars games to EA in a multi-year agreement.

Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time is now slated for a July release, developer Popcap has announced.

Nintendo is looking to expand its Wii U portfolio by adapting iOS software onto its fledgling console.

For several months a slew of rumours have suggested that Microsoft's mysterious upcoming console will require an internet connection at all times in order to play games, but a recently leaked internal document suggests that this won't be the case.

A PC version of Grand Theft Auto 5 was spotted on a couple of German retail sites.

The Sims 4 has officially been announced by EA.

"I like to tell people that I started making games because nobody could stop me," Travis Bulford quips as we chat over telephone. He speaks with practised ease, and with good reason - as arguably South Africa's longest-standing game developer he's well versed in discussing his career. Bulford founded Celestial Games in 1994 (he was a mere 19 at the time) and made his name two years later with the quirky platform game, Toxic Bunny. He's charted a course of fleeting highs and disappointing lows. The perfect man to speak to, then, about the dearth of big releases from Africa's richest country.

"It's like déjà vu only 20 years later," begins Ed Annunziata, the Bronx-bred man responsible for Ecco the Dolphin. He's talking to me about the reaction to The Big Blue, his ambitious underwater opus that sunk on Kickstarter. Last time he got a reaction like that was from Sega in a board room all those years ago.

At first glance Candy Box seems stupid. As an ASCII-based browser game, all it initially allows you to do is accumulate candies over time that you can either eat or throw on the ground. I'm not sure what the purpose of either of these is, but stick with it and before you know it you'll be able to purchase weapons, go on quests and buy items from the "candy merchant."

We're moving ever closer to the next-gen era where console games will be available to buy via digital delivery, day and date with the retail disc versions, but in the meantime it's Sony that is leading the charge in providing timely PSN releases of many of the latest PlayStation 3 titles. They're not cheap and you can't resell them, but download titles do offer up the enticing possibility of running your games entirely from hard drive, divorced completely from the much slower Blu-ray optical drive. So the question is, do PSN downloads provide a superior experience to traditional disc-based gameplay?

I'd never gone to war before.

Welcome to a sampler of highlights from a retro-futuristic week on Outside Xbox. Leg warmers are entirely optional. Though that applies every week, really.

One of the greatest silent films is also one of the hardest to watch. It's not the bum-numbing run-time of five and a half hours that makes Abel Gance's 1927 film Napoleon such a challenge, though, but rather its final reel, split as it is across three projectors in a triptych set-up that was hard to accommodate at the time of its release and is now next to impossible to replicate in contemporary screens, where you'd be lucky to find a single 35mm projector sitting next to the all-devouring modern digital models.

The Road Rash-inspired Kickstarter project Road Redemption will add Oculus Rift support if it can achieve $198K before its Kickstarter ends on 12th May.

The latest DLC to Fire Emblem: Awakening, Summer Scramble, has arrived in North America and Europe, but it seems to have a curious omission.

Rambo: The Video Game developer Reef Entertainment has detailed its upcoming licensed game as well as finally shown off its rendition of Rambo.

Popular pinball game, Pinball FX2, is coming to Steam on 10th May, developer Zen Studios has announced.

The tech wizards at Epic have created an HTML5 version of its Unreal 3 Engine tech demo Epic Citadel.

Ratchet & Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac will be releasing a demo of its upcoming third-person co-op shooter Fuse next week on PSN and Xbox Live.