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Editor's note: Our review of Defiance, the game, released last week, is currently underway; as with all massively multiplayer games, we only review from public servers after launch, and take our time. In the meantime, here's a look at the first episode of the TV show that ties in with it, due to hit screens next week.

Fuse doesn't have micro-transactions or an online pass, developer Insomniac Games has confirmed.

Knights of the Old Republic 2 lead designer Chris Avellone has praised, to Eurogamer, the efforts of voluntary The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod (TSLRCM) team.

Don't expect more updated versions of classic Capcom fighting games, the publisher has said.

Christine Love, creator of such interactive fiction works as Digital: A Love Story and Analogue: A Hate Story, has announced a sequel to Analogue with Hate Plus, due this summer on PC and Mac.

Video games are often about choice. Do I cure the genophage? Should I save Doug or Carley? Who should I sleep with? Often these choices have unexpected outcomes and it's not until the end that we realise what shoulda/coulda/woulda been. Daniel Benmergui's upcoming experimental puzzle game Storyteller is different though. It allows an entire story to play out in the space of a few comic book-esque panels confined to one screen. It's the player's job to rearrange all of its components to orchestrate the outcome of your choosing.

The team at Double Fine Studios who made Kinect Party has shifted its gears into experimenting with a new form of motion control with the Leap controlled music score-attack game Dropchord.

Update #2: The patch is now out on Xbox Live, too, which is nice. Confirmation comes by way of The Elder Scrolls Twitter account.

Microsoft will reveal its next-generation Xbox at an event on 21st May, multiple reports have suggested.

Context matters. Out of context I can say that one of my fondest memories of this past GDC involves giving orders to a blindfolded woman crawling on all fours. Despite what you might think, this transpires on the GDC Play showfloor as part of the Danish and Swedish collaborative experimental Wii U party game, Spin the Bottle, "an innocent game for innocent children."

Microsoft has announced it will focus all of its TV resources on a new, cloud-based entertainment platform for Xbox.

Book of Unwritten Tales developer King Art has successfully Kickstarted a turn-based strategy game inspired by the wonderful Advance Wars.

Pocket-sized Android gaming console GameStick has been delayed. The end-of-April original release date has now become end-of-June.

Stylish and simple, there's much to recommend in this free episodic point-and-click game from Danish indie studio House on Fire. An elegantly constructed time-hopping adventure, its only weakness is a fondness for puzzles that are just a little too easy.

Nintendo has announced a delay for its new Brain Training game, just days before its expected release date.

Game designers - particularly, you could argue, those who are eyeing up Kickstarter - have always been interested in the money in your pocket, but there's a moment towards the end of the pitch video for Tiny Games when the precise nature of that interest gets a little weird. Sarah Butcher, a producer at Hide&Seek, the company that's making Tiny Games, suddenly grabs a handful of loose change, holds it up to the camera and then asks you to try and guess at the figure it adds up to. Estimating the cash you carry around could be a game, she suggests, and you could grade players on how close they get to the correct answer.

Ubisoft's bonkers and still unannounced Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon will star '80s action man Michael Biehn.

Richard Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar Kickstarter has ended, and it's been a big success.

The brilliant BioShock Infinite has held its place atop the UK all-formats chart for a second week running, despite a strong launch for sci-fi shooter Defiance.

A website for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon went live yesterday while we were all laid low with chocolate-based bank holiday regret, but despite the timing this doesn't look like an April Fool's joke - it comes on the heels of various leaks and seems to be a downloadable game spinning off from last year's amazing Ubisoft Montreal open-world FPS.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - probably a spin-off downloadable game if the rumours are true - has been spotted again. And this time it's the Achievements that have leaked.

What could be a new Far Cry 3 spin-off has been uncovered by a number of leaks.

You can't buy the Xiaomi MI2 outside of China, but as smartphones go it's such a remarkable product that we felt that it was worth some serious coverage. Indeed, Xiaomi itself is a fascinating company: little-known outside its homeland, it commands the same kind of reputation and customer commitment that Apple enjoys in the West. There's certainly a synergy in terms of company ethos: Xiaomi builds great products, satisfying and indeed exceeding the expectations of its ever-growing fanbase. The MI2 exemplifies that philosophy. On a physical level, it offers up a state-of-the-art product that holds its own against the likes of the HTC One, but it packs all of that power into a much smaller, more iPhone-like chassis. This is backed up by an innovative, custom OS that ranks as one of the best Android experiences money can buy.

It would be hard not to begin with Elizabeth. Your computer-controlled female co-star is convincing enough that she becomes one of the most normal things in BioShock Infinite, a tightly wound first-person shooter where you summon fire and lightning from your fingertips as you fight your way through an impossible city suspended in the clouds. And like Andrew Ryan - the idealist who built Rapture, the city under the ocean that dominated the first BioShock - she is a constant presence.

Welcome once again to your weekly update from Outside Xbox. First on the video playlist is Show of the Week featuring Battlefield 4, which looks so realistic it's already given Mike post-traumatic stress disorder. Watch on for BF4 details, along with our feature wishlist for DICE's next military manshooter.

According to Square-Enix, Tomb Raider had a disappointing launch. Tomb Raider sold 3.4 million copes in its first month. These two sentences don't belong in the same universe, never mind the same paragraph. In light of this and other complications that saw the company post a $138 million loss for the year, it's currently planning a review of itself. Much like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, presumably this will read "Good gameplay, really dumb bosses."

Update: The final Torment: Tides of Numenera tally has come in and it's ended at $4,188,927.

Update: Microsoft has responded to Orth's tweets with the following statement/apology (via Major Nelson):

EA chief operating officer Peter Moore has responded to over a quarter million voters naming EA the "worst company in America" for the second year in a row on Consumerist's annual poll.

Update: Sega has revealed that the Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines has been canned.