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Deep inside Ted Terranova's head, he is scattering pins across a vast map of the world. "I was so excited that people in Japan and Singapore, in England, France and Germany, all over the planet, they'd all ordered these toys." he says. "It was just amazing that somewhere in all these countries there was one of my toys sitting on somebody's shelf. That blows me away." He pauses. Over Skype, I swear I can hear a creak as he leans back in his chair, taking it all in. "I'm just this dude that made these things. I don't want to sound corny, but it's really touching that someone sees value in the stuff I'm doing - when I'm just doing it mostly for myself because I think it's cool. The fact that other people think it's cool - cool enough to, like, buy into it? That's the biggest compliment."

Games, aimed at children, that include "commercially aggressive" in-app purchases are to be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading.

In a continuing series exploring the power of the PlayStation Vita, Digital Foundry talks to Ubisoft Sofia - developers of Assassin's Creed 3: Liberation. This Vita-exclusive title is a remarkable piece of work, successfully translating the full Assassin's Creed experience and the AnvilNext engine that powers it onto a mobile platform.

Most modern shooters go out of their way to provide a narrative justification for their eight hours of explosions and headshots. In 2008, Bizarre Creation's The Club barely even bothered.

Hello Eurogamers, welcome to the weekly update from Outside Xbox that remains 100 per cent microtransaction-free. Unless you want a diamond chisel, they're ten grand each. What for? You'll know when you need it.

If you put Castlevania, Diablo, Metroid and Zelda in a blender the result might look something like Chasm. Or a disgusting puddle of plastic and metal mush, but I'm an optimist.

OK, so perhaps there's just a certain level of exaggeration to the title of this article. After all, the strength of PC technology is its astonishing level of scalability, from the humble Intel Atom found in Windows 8 tablets, through dual CPU server set-ups all the way up to the Cray XK7 super-computer with 18,688 16-core AMD Opterons and an equal measure of Nvidia Tesla K20 graphics cards. But if money were no object and you were looking to construct an absolute top-end PC based on consumer level parts, the chances are that the system you'd create would be very similar indeed to what we have here: an Intel Sandy Bridge-E hex-core processor working in concert with three Nvidia GeForce Titans in SLI. That's what Nvidia thought when it commissioned this particular PC, sending it to Digital Foundry to assess what all that power translates into in terms of an actual gameplay experience.

While Road Rash creator Dan Geisler is left wanting to resurrect his MIA motorcycle combat series after EA holds the rights, a group of experienced devs at DarkSeas Games have been hard at work on the Road Rash-inspired Road Redemption, which just launched a Kickstarter.

Molleindustria won the Grand Jury Award at IndieCade last year for Unmanned, which took us through a day in the monotonous life of a drone pilot, and now it's made a game about corporate tax evasion.

Dark Souls has now sold more than 2.3 million copies worldwide, developer From Software has announced.

Sony has announced a pair of Invizimals games starring its brood of augmented reality monsters.

Eden Games, developer of Alone in the Dark and Test Drive Unlimited, is no more.

Defiance has contradiction built into its bones. A game that is also a TV show. A console shooter that is also an MMORPG. It's a game of rare ambition, eager to be all things at once. A game that would be a giant leap forwards, if only it could tie its shoelaces first.

Death Inc., the PC RTS whose Kickstarter failed earlier this year, is back from the dead.

It could've been over-inflated tyres combined with the rain on the road and a rogue gust of wind coming in off the Pacific Ocean, but the exact cause of the accident may never be known. Regardless, as Jeremy Soule's car hydroplaned into the oncoming traffic on Insterstate 5 that night, as the headlights rushed out of the darkness towards him and as his car began to roll, the only thought in his mind was that he didn't want anyone else to be hurt.

Nintendo will discontinue a bunch of online Wii services in June, the company has announced.

Ridge Racer Unbounded developer Bugbear Entertainment is working on a new instalment in Namco Bandai's iconic racing series. It's called Ridge Racer Driftopia, it's downloadable, it's free-to-play and it's due on PC and PS3 later this year.

Joshua Nuernberger and Wadjet Eye Games' cult-classic sci-fi noir point-and-click adventure Gemini Rue has launched today on iOS.

Codemasters has unveiled the multiplayer side of Grid 2, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008's sterling racer - and it's confirmed that it will be sticking to its guns regarding the absent cockpit cam, an omission that's disappointed many fans.

I'm at once reminded of old Hollywood stars being rolled out one more time. Not the ageing elite, the silver foxes whose wrinkles have become the service stripes of the industry, nor the bouffant divas who can still hit the high Cs. No, I'm talking about the really old ones, squinting, confused as they're thrust into the limelight yet again. Those who can't speak on the talk shows; those who don't sing, but simply stagger.

Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and The Flame is getting remade for smartphones and tablets, Ubisoft has announced.

Sega's 1990 cult-classic Mega Drive game Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse appears to be getting a remake this summer, according to a mysterious new trailer shown below.

University of Malta's Institute of Digital Games professor Pippin Barr has a knack for making very simple, very funny games that often provide quirky twists on conventional game design. Just take his unwinnable browser-based retelling of greek myths, Ancient Greek Punishment, for example. Now Barr has taken to parodying the indie scene by creating a host of free curios riffing off the latest scrappy charmers to penetrate the cultural zeitgeist in his Mumble Indie Bungle.

Update 2: Activision has released a trailer for Mob of the Dead, starring Ray Liotta, Michael Madsen, Joe Pantoliano and Chazz Palminteri as 1920s mobsters fighting zombies on Alcatraz. Get a load of its debut trailer below. It's the cat's meow!

"Enjoy your deaths."

A new trailer for Disney's monstrous undertaking, Disney Infinity, shows off its Toy Box mode wherein players can mix and match characters and assets from separate universes.

Draw Something, Zynga's popular Pictionary clone that you probably deleted from your phone sometime last year, is to be turned into a new Channel 4 game show.

Team members from Microsoft's defunct Inside Xbox video channel have launched Thank You For Playing, an interactive web series presented on a novel new site.

Bethesda has revealed the first gameplay footage of The Knife of Dunwall, Dishonored's upcoming story-based expansion.

Poor old Vita owners, stuck with their shiny machines without any games to play on them. Oh, what's that? There's one out this week? And it's one of dozens of curios and modern classics that's on the handheld? I should just shut up, download the new firmware and get arranging them all in neat little folders.