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Leisure Suit Larry Reloaded, a re-make of the first game in the cult classic series, launches in June on PC, Mac and Linux for £14.99.

Gransys, the green and not-so-pleasant land through which players hacked and thwacked in last year's grand fantasy adventure, Dragon's Dogma, displayed a certain anonymity despite its rugged handsomeness. It had to do with environmental cliché: those blanketed meadows, weathered cliffs and sinister forests stretch across all fantasy fiction from Middle-earth to Westeros, a tradition that Capcom's game all too eagerly followed. After 60 years of landscaped tributes to Tolkien's imagination in books, film and video games, there are few hills and valleys you could scatter with orcs that wouldn't feel wearyingly over-familiar.

Dragon's Dogma is a game soundtracked by screaming guitars and a hyperactive orchestra; a game whose story is told with showboating faux-Shakespearean flourish; a game set within acres of countryside scrawled with boastful castles; a game fronted by a hero whose heart has been plucked from his chest by a dragon's fingernails. Despite all of this, it is also a game that understands the value of understatement.

There's nothing like a healthy dollop of home-grown British games talent - and, would you believe it, there's a whole town-full slap-bang in the midlands.

The Rayman Legends Challenges app will be released for free on the Wii U eShop this Thursday, 25th April, Nintendo has announced.

Quantic Dream, the do-it-differently developer of adult thrillers Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, is "very interested" in the new DualShock 4 PlayStation 4 controller.

A mobile version of Games Workshop's fantasy board game Talisman will launch for iOS and Android devices on 25th April, publisher Thumbstar Games has announced.

A PlayStation Vita version of The Sly Trilogy has been spotted via a new ratings board listing.

Pow! Superhero fighter Injustice: Gods Among Us has knocked BioShock Infinite from the top of the UK all-formats chart.

SimCity goes offline tonight ahead of the release of the hotly anticipated update 2.0 patch.

You know what kills you in a zombie apocalypse? We all like to imagine it's the blaze of glory at the end of a hard day's survival - gravely wounded, sacrificing ourselves to trigger the explosion that lets our friends live to fight another day. But Dead Island Riptide holds the truth. The thing that gets you killed in a zombie apocalypse isn't holding them off while someone you love sprints for the chopper - it's losing your footing on a walkway or rooftop, or getting slashed to death while you're doing a three-point turn in a boat. When it comes to the end of the world, it's the boring stuff that really kills you.

While it's hard to ignore the big splash made by Nvidia's galumphing GeForce Titan, sales for such a high-spec card are inevitably made from only a fraction of the market. It makes for a spectacular showcase, but in reality the big money for these tech giants is elsewhere - specifically in nailing the absolute best performance-per-pound in popular games where an ideal price-tag for most GPU buyers remains within the £100-200 range. AMD thrives on its strong-hold over this bracket in particular, where the well-received HD 7850 currently retails for just £125, with the just-released 7790 model primed to strengthen this position in this sector at an even lower cost.

When you're around four or five or maybe even six years old, carpets suddenly become very interesting. They provide the topography for the varied worlds of your imagination: the gentle plains of the moon or Mars, the battlefields of ancient myth. As a kid, I spent an inordinate amount of time carefully getting out my various toys and arranging them on the carpet in the living room. My secret shame - I sensed it even then - was that, once the arranging was taken care of, I couldn't really think of much else to do with them, so I carefully put them away again. That's a classic weekend right there.

Hello Eurogamers. Here's your weekly sampler of outsidexbox.com, a mild-mannered website once bitten by a radioactive video game. With great power comes the great responsibility to tell you about this week's videos.

It's telling that last week Adam Orth found himself on the wrong side of public opinion after voicing his support for always online features, an opinion so badly received that he wound up ending the week no longer Microsoft Studio's creative director. It wasn't so much that he merely considered always online a good thing for gaming and consoles, but that he thought it was an acceptable step for both games and consoles to take, that the infrastructure was in place to support it, and we should just accept that as the way things are nowadays.

Update: I spoke to Do Not Touch co-creator Jonathan Puckey of Studio Moniker to gain a little insight into this experimental project. It went something like this:

UPDATE: New details have emerged regarding Shinji Mikami's newly announced horror project The Evil Within.

Third-person multiplayer shooter God Mode is out today on Steam and XBLA and will arrive next Tuesday for North American PSN users. It's priced at £6.99 /$9.99 / 800 MS points.

Team Meat co-founder and crazy cat man Ed McMillen revealed that his horrific child abuse-themed roguelike The Binding of Isaac has surpassed 2 million sales. Last we checked in June 2012, the game had sold 700K copies since its October 2011 release.

Among the Sleep, the first-person horror game starring a two-year-old, has arisen on Kickstarter, where it's already met roughly a quarter of its $200,000 funding goal in only a day.

Is this the future of video games? Footage of Valve shooter Team Fortress 2 being played on an omnidirectional treadmill and using the Oculus Rift VR headset has been posted online.

UPDATE: BioShock Infinite sold 878,000 units on console during the month, analyst firm Cowen announced. This figure does not include digital sales - on Steam, for example.

High street retailer GAME has secured the exclusive rights to sell digital copies of Wii U and 3DS games in its stores.

Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere revealed to a Digital Dragons audience in Poland today that PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain cost just €16.7 million to make - even with all those emotional polygons stuffed in.

Microsoft has announced the Call to Arms Map Pack for Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War: Judgment.

World of Tanks recently suffered a security "incident", Wargaming has confirmed.

A new update for Peter Molyneux's Curiosity app includes a tool to to re-grow its cube via the purchase of chipped-away cublets.

The Jak and Daxter Trilogy will release on PlayStation Vita in June 2013, Sony has announced.

When pioneering fighting games like Street Fighter and Tekken first showed up in western arcades all those years ago, each cabinet earned more than its weight in 20 pence pieces thanks to the solidity of their fighting mechanics. There were no combo trials or challenge towers to distract yourself with - only the gradual discovery of your character's hidden depths through a steady flow of opponents, be they human or otherwise. Even today, this hook keeps diehard enthusiasts coming back for more, but as the genre evolved alongside the console market one thing has become increasingly clear: single-player content can no longer be seen as an optional extra.

A pair of unreleased Sega Pluto prototypes have been discovered and detailed online.