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Finally, a month after launch, SimCity has Cheetah Speed.

Update: Divinity: Original Sin has done it, the $400,000 mark has been passed. An enticing set of stretch goals are now dangled before you.

Obsidian's shared the first video of Project Eternity in action.

District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is still keen on making a movie based on Halo - but only if given control over it.

Former BioWare boss Dr. Greg Zeschuk thinks the next-generation consoles are unlikely to cure what he describes as a "sick market for old-school gaming".

I manage to reach halfway up the corner of the church before I get stuck. I can see where I need to go, but there are no firm handholds within reach. No, I'm not playing Assassin's Creed, though I half-wish I was. The church wall I'm clinging to like a fat spider overlooks Newhaven Harbour at the north end of Edinburgh. The old Gothic building houses the Alien Rock indoor climbing centre, its interior walls and vaulted ceilings covered in white plaster and fluorescent plastic climbing holds.

Muramasa Rebirth, the Vita remake of Odin Sphere developer Vanillaware's 2010 Wii hit Muramasa: The Demon Blade, has been dated for a 25th June release in North America, publisher Aksys Games has announced.

TimeGate Studios may have gotten a lot of flak for its role in co-developing Aliens: Colonial Marines with Gearbox, but when it wasn't being outsourced to tidy up the Dallas studio's red-headed stepchild, it made some pretty decent games like Section 8. Now it's revealed its next title, a PC-exclusive free-to-play third-person shooter called Minimum.

The former WayForward staff at Yacht Club Games announced last week that legendary Mega Man composer Manami Matsumae would be writing two songs for its upcoming Kickstarter-funded retro 2D platformer Shovel Knight.

A new system software update for the PlayStation Vita tomorrow will add a host of new features, including the ability to group games and apps into folders.

UPDATE 2: Further details have emerged about Batman: Arkham Origins. Notably that its main antagonist is Black Mask, who orchestrates a city-wide manhunt for Batman among Gotham's outlaw population.

Update: Ubisoft sent in the following statement to Game Informer:

LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule's Vita-exclusive papercraft platformer Tearaway has been dated for 25th October in the UK where it will be available as both a digital download and retail release.

Five years after its founding, Austin-based Armature Studio has finally announced a project all of its own - 3DS and PlayStation Vita adventure Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate.

Lost Planet 3 has been delayed two months to the end of August.

The rights to F.E.A.R. developer Monolith's decade-plus year old spy spoof series No One Lives Forever does not reside at Activision, said the publisher's community man Dan Amrich.

Irrational Games has released a gallery of alternate BioShock Infinite covers to download.

Are you working on an indie game that you would like to shove in the faces of thousands of PC and indie gamers? Then you've understood the headline above and your mouse works!

Towards the end of last year, Oli wrote an impassioned tribute to the double-A game, speaking out for the "dozens of great games that end each year as cultural flotsam on the beach of indifference."

The people behind Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist, the live action series officially sanctioned by Capcom, have launched a Kickstarter campaign.

The Halo 4 approach to multiplayer add-ons has been low-key compared to the bombast of its more earthbound shooter peers. Call of Duty and Battlefield have offered up themed packages, zombies, co-operative bonuses and whatever else might entice players into picking up that all-important season pass.

Draw Slasher is coming to PlayStation Vita, its developer has announced.

Tomb Raider publisher Square Enix has revealed that its internal sales expectations for the game's first month were nearly double its eventual 3.4 million haul.

If you're going to copy a game, why not copy Amnesia: The Dark Descent? Frictional's 2010 reductionist horror classic practically reinvented the genre that went from eerily unnerving slow burns like Silent Hill and Resident Evil to dimly lit shooters with a bunch of gory monsters, like the later Resident Evils or the Dead Space series. Amnesia realised these games are a lot scarier when you can't fight back, yet aside from Slender and the upcoming Amnesia sequel, A Machine For Pigs, we haven't seen many games follow suit.

Microsoft's decision to switch to new AMD chips for its next Xbox suggests that the upcoming console won't support Xbox 360 games, a new report has claimed.

I said we'd be back! Yes, several years after the Eurogamer Expo went north to Leeds for one year, Eurogamer's parent company Gamer Network has partnered with the Play Expo to ensure that gamers in the north can once again go hands-on with the latest games and hardware before they're released.

The licenses for some old Rock Band DLC songs are starting to expire. Some will be renewed but some won't, Harmonix explained, and the latter kind will disappear.

Former Fable developers are rebooting physics-based fighting game Rag Doll Kung Fu for iPhone and iPad.

Obsidian Entertainment, developer of Knights of the Old Republic 2, "would love to" pitch a new Star Wars game to Disney.

Today's Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon leak is by far the most substantial yet: more than half an hour of footage from the beginning of the game has appeared online.