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Ambient Studios, the Guildford-based developer of Death Inc. and Monster Meltdown, has shut down.

Sony has released a new PlayStation 4 video that showcases the DualShock 4 controller.

Bethesda has announced the heavily-rumoured Skyrim: Legendary Edition.

Ageing Wii shooter House of the Dead: Overkill has been resurrected for release on iOS devices.

A range of officially licensed BioShock Infinite fine art is now available to buy.

A shop poster has added to the growing evidence that Battlefield 4 will see the return of Commander Mode.

The Hollywood difference in Beyond: Two Souls, which stars Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe, will be "striking", Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere believes.

I never really got to appreciate the game over screens of Dishonored in my first couple of playthroughs, where ghosting through the towering squalor of Dunwall was as effortless as it was, more frequently, clumsy. There's an uneasy intimacy I have with them now, though. I think over the few hours of The Knife of Dunwall, the first truly substantial DLC for Arkane's 2012 wonder, I spent more time staring at their austere, swirling art cursing my luck or stupidity than I did exploring the strange new locations the standalone campaign presents.

The SimCity community have criticised the recent - and hotly-anticipated - update 2.0, and proved its point with some hilarious videos.

EA Partners, the part of EA that publishes games made by external developers, is shutting down.

UK supermarket Tesco listed and quickly removed information on an unannounced Call of Duty game, Call of Duty: Ghosts, on its website.

Large-scale press conferences broadcast live on the internet mark the bombastic beginning of each E3 show. Every year Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony executives appear on-stage at some gargantuan Los Angeles venue to announce new games and, sometimes, new consoles.

Mark of the Ninja and Shank developer Klei Entertainment's most recent PC and Mac offering, Don't Starve, has graduated from beta and been released to the masses as a "complete game" on Steam and GoG.

Lost Spirits of Kael is one of the more intriguing indie games on the horizon. It's a 2D hand-painted affair in which your avatar, a painter named Vincent, is lost in a haunted forest and must find his way out by leaving a trail of his own blood.

Microsoft has finally confirmed when and where it will be unveiling its upcoming console. On Tuesday, 21st May, it will hold a special press event on the Xbox Campus in Redmond, Washington at 10 a.m. PST, so 6p.m. in the UK.

Amanita's fan-favourite point-and-click steampunk adventure Machinarium finally has a set release date for European Vitas on 1st May, Sony has announced. It's priced at €5.99.

Activision's released a new video of its upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game.

Meanwhile, in Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings Online plods on through J. R. R. Tolkien's great fiction one hairy overgrown foot at a time.

Creative Assembly has released an 11-minute gameplay video of Total War: Rome 2, showing the game for the first time from the user-interface-overlaid perspective of you, the commander, the player.

Every good criminal needs an accomplice - someone who'll pull the strings and help drive the long con home. Monaco: What's Yours is Mine's choice of allies is wonderfully risky, though. The undercover operative it's employing is the imagination of its audience. Its inside man is inside the player's head.

After recovering from the last boss of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, you may need a cold shower. Yet as the credits roll the elation acquires a funereal tinge, a sadness that action movies have just been superseded. Revengeance is the future of high-octane entertainment, a game that blasts out of the gate and simply doesn't stop until the final strike hits home - though there's plenty of slow-mo along the way.

Capcom Japan has released a video showcasing multiplayer in Lost Planet 3.

The arrival of phones and tablets as gaming's new wild frontier has thrown up plenty of debate about the difference between iteration and imitation, but if you want a neat case study of how inspiration can make a game better, take a look at free-running platformer Vector.

It's not the greatest of accolades, but at least the recently released Double Dragon 2: Wander of the Dragons excels at something, even if that is just being seriously bad. Fumbled onto Xbox Live Arcade a few weeks back, it's a shambling, stuttering mess where the only real interest comes from wondering how exactly it managed to find its way onto the marketplace.

Batman: Arkham Origins will introduce a multiplayer mode to the series for the first time, a report has claimed.

The XCOM shooter announced three years ago has "evolved", 2K Games has confirmed.

Nintendo has missed its revised sales targets and shifted just 3.45 million Wii U consoles worldwide - but still made a surprise profit for the financial year.

Nintendo company president Satoru Iwata has absorbed the responsibilities of Nintendo of America CEO in a new expansion of his role.

Microsoft's relationship with indie studios remains strong, the developers of forthcoming XBLA title Max: The Curse of Brotherhood have insisted - and while it might seem that the platform holder is losing its grip on indie gaming as Sony attracts more and more developers to PlayStation, there's plenty going on behind the scenes to ensure that won't be the case come the next generation.

We hope you didn't invite a group of friends over to play Pocketwatch Games' upcoming top-down co-op heist game Monaco: What's Yours is Mine on XBLA tomorrow, because if you did, you may want to sit down. It looks like Monaco isn't going to make its expected XBLA release date of 24th April after all.