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The promise was grand and manifold: a real-world locale, a vehicle list filled with exotica, thousands of kilometres of open road and a thriving population of actual humans to race against. For the most part, Test Drive Unlimited delivered on its promises, but Eden Studio's greatest game set a milestone that few racing titles even dare to attempt: allowing virtual driving to be an open-ended, self-determined and leisurely pursuit.

Forgive the whiff of rotting flesh, but we've found ourselves with a rather zombie-centric week on Outside Xbox this time. Still, everyone loves zombies right? At least until the default videogame enemy wheel of misfortune swings back around to Nazis again.

The gaming calendar's full of days worth celebrating, and days worth excitedly waiting sleepless for, but there's always one special date I mark out with a bright yellow marker pen pulled from a beaten-up metal Mario pencil case. Nintendo's traditional LA conference every year hasn't just been the highlight of E3 - for many years it's been E3, the very epitome of all that's wonderful, surprising and exciting about that one hectic week in June.

Polish developer Techland is back, once again utilising its own Chrome Engine 5 to bring Dead Island's lush tropical environments to life. Attractive, expansive and dripping with detail, Riptide is an effective work-out for the bespoke technology, also seeing an increase in overall enemy count and better realising a world overrun by flesh eating monstrosities. The studio has also taken on-board criticism levelled at the first game in other areas: Dead Island Riptide is a noticeable more polished release, with far fewer of the infuriating glitches that previously tarnished the experience. The result is a smoother, more complete journey into the zombie apocalypse.

What do you get if you combine Eve Online with the Oculus Rift? A loud enough whoop to knock the roof off this year's FanFest in Reykjavik, followed by the kind of queues God himself has never seen to have a go. I'm actually writing this in advance of the announcement, but I'm quietly confident. One of the most beautiful space games ever. Virtual reality. 1500 people who travelled to Iceland to celebrate Eve Online. There will be whooping.

UPDATE: Lucid Games has clarified that an iOS version of Jacob Jones and the Bigfoot Mystery will be released on the same day as the Vita version.

The Wii U's downloadable Virtual Console service goes live in Europe tomorrow, 27th April, Nintendo has announced.

Now TV, the streaming video service operated by Sky, has come under fire for failing to send customers the free Microsoft Points they were promised.

Captain's Blog, stardate -310565.86: Namco's just released an underwhelming Star Trek game, and we want to usher in the weekend by sharing it with you in all its mediocre glory.

When people find out I'm a surgeon, they always ask me what the hardest part of the job is. It's breaking the news, right? You know: the waiting room, the expectant family, the nervous shuffling of feet.

What would it feel like to shunt the moon around in the sky? Or rather, how should it feel? This is one of those weird, tantalising sorts of questions game designers have to deal with on a daily basis. Designers like Sergey Mohov in fact, who's part of the team making Lune - a game that's about, y'know, shunting the moon around in the sky.

Nintendo's long-awaited Wii U system update has gone live, bringing with it improved console loading times and a number of other features.

Sony has finally enabled the ability to queue PlayStation 3 and Vita downloads from your browser.

Hidden Path Entertainment took to Kickstarter to fund a beefy expansion for renowned PC tower defence game Defense Grid, asking $250,000.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive developer Valve has announced Operation Payback - a collection of seven top-rated community maps now available on official servers.

UPDATE: Devil Summoner Soul Hackers for the Nintendo 3DS will launch in Europe this autumn, NIS America has announced.

Valve has announced the third DOTA 2: The International championships.

The XCOM first-person shooter is, officially, no more. It is now, officially, The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, a third-person shooter.

CD Projekt Red has decided against having multiplayer in The Witcher 3, explaining to me that it has "no place" in a "strongly story-driven game".

Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by the creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has insisted it is business as usual amid widespread layoffs at publisher EA.

Star Trek doesn't belong in the modern games industry. Gene Roddenberry's idealistic space-faring parable was driven by big, heartfelt beliefs: multicultural co-existence, diplomacy, strategy and an unquenchable thirst to find new things and understand them.

Valve has just announced that it will be adding subscription-based games to Steam. [Editor's note: As some users pointed out, Steam has had subscription-based games before, but this is the first time the payments have been handled via Steam.]

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Uprising DLC that came out last week on Xbox Live has now been given a 16th May release date on PSN and PC, Activision has announced.

Spicy Horse, the Shanghai-based studio founded by Alice developer American McGee, has revealed its latest upcoming project, a card combat RTS hybrid tentatively titled Hell Invaders.

Monsters At my Condo developer PikPok and Adult Swim Games have released Robot Unicorn Attack 2, the sequel to what our Kieron Gillen called "undoubtedly the greatest game of all time which features a Robot Unicorn" (unless you count its Heavy Metal spin-off).

The Ace Attorney HD Trilogy - a spruced up iOS and Android remake of the original Phoenix Wright series - has been delayed until July, Capcom has announced.

It's a hostile world out there, and if the countless creatures out for your blood don't bring you down then the harsh environment surely will. Lost Planet 3's Jim Peyton knows it, and so too does producer Andrew Szymanski, a man who's spent the past year weathering the storm of development, and the storm of negativity that's kicked up when you announce that you're handing the keys to a well-loved franchise over to a studio whose reputation still lingers in the gutter.

UPDATE: Stealth Bastard on PlayStation shall be known as Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark, Curve Studios has announced.

I'm more excited about Camelot Unchained than any other MMO in development. Freeze the image that popped into your head when you read "MMO" - what did you think of? Did you picture an astronomically expensive game taking ages to make and desperately ticking boxes to satisfy an audience as large as World of Warcraft's? Throw that image away, because Camelot Unchained is quite the opposite.

Microsoft will release its new under-wraps Xbox console in early November, a fresh report has suggested.