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

Company of Heroes 2 will expand with an extra mini-campaign for people who pre-order the game, new publisher Sega has announced.

SPOILER WARNING: Do not read this piece until you've finished playing BioShock Infinite.

THQ will start taking bids for its remaining IP from 1st April at a court-supervised auction.

Robert Bowling's attempt to raise money via Kickstarter for his new game, a 2D platformer called The Adventures of Dash, has ended badly.

At last week's GDC, Kojima Productions revealed its fifth entry in the Metal Gear Solid series, The Phantom Pain, also incorporating the previously announced MGS title Ground Zeroes. Precisely how the two fit together is currently uncertain, although Hideo Kojima himself has suggested on Twitter that Ground Zeroes acts as a prologue to The Phantom Pain and that the two are bridged by a period where the game's protagonist is left in a coma. Then again, Kojima is a master of misdirection, so who knows? The one link between the two we are sure on, however, is that they are both running on the ambitious new FOX Engine, initially unveiled with Ground Zeroes last year, and that the game is set to feature a radical overhaul of the traditional MGS gameplay set-up: Snake's new adventures take place in an ambitious series of open-world environments.

Update: The editor of Game Developer Magazine has offered some perspective on the survey that resulted in conclusions of sexism in our industry.

Update #2: HMV administrator Deloitte has now announced the deal, specifying that it will save 2643 jobs.

Update #2: An ESL spokesperson has gotten in touch about the video and, in the interests of fairness and balance, this is the organisation's take on it: "eSports events such as the recent Electronic Sports League European Finals are highly competitive and evoke a huge amount of passion and excitement among the participants. This is no different to sports such as football and rugby, where competitive spirit and banter are part of the mind games that take place between teams. The events are always conducted in a professional manner, and this film does not reflect the generally sportsmanslike behaviour we saw over the weekend."

Medieval 2: Total War developer Sega Studios Australia will close its doors later this year.

Quack open the champagne and farmer orderly line, Farming Simulator's console debut on PS3 and Xbox 360 has a release date. You should probably book that "first week of September" off work.

I'd ruled Neverwinter out and I shouldn't have. It's more significant than I thought.

The new boss of troubled Japanese publisher Square Enix has pledged he will hold a "fundamental review" of the company.

Sleep is Death and The Castle Doctrine creator Jason Rohrer won this year's Game Design Challenge at GDC in which he and several other industry luminaries were tasked with coming up with "Humanity's Last Game."

Update #3: InXile has shared a video of the Sagus Cliffs area in Torment: Tides of Numenera. It's another Unity tech test.

When I was a kid, I used to hang around the local arcades an awful lot, and pinball was what the men played. The machines were fascinating, but unapproachable for an eight-year-old: too big and constantly surrounded by chain-smoking malcontents. Every so often there would be the scary shunt noise, great big bangs snapping you out of a virtual reverie. Sometimes there'd be no-one around, though, and then I'd stare at the flashing lights and gaudy art, wondering if I should put one of my precious 20ps in. But Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles always won out.

Roger Ebert, arguably the world's most influential film critic, passed away this Thursday at 70. Ebert wasn't a video game critic, except for when he was, and I like to think he had more influence on our industry than many who worked in it.

Just as we predicted Star Wars 1313 was about Boba Fett after all, according to a source at Kotaku.

BlizzCon 2013 tickets will go on sale in two batches later this month.

WARNING: One more time, this ending analysis of BioShock Infinite discusses the game's ending.

Last month there was a minor uproar when Thief game director Nicolas Cantin appeared to indicate that the game's hero Garrett had been designed with more mainstream tastes in mind than those of the series' existing audience. As it turned out, he was actually discussing how the character had evolved during this Thief game's development, rather than claiming it was a shift away from the series' enduring values. "Our early design went a LOT more gothic - with black nails etc - but we thought that this wasn't true to the legacy of Garrett so we pulled it back a bit," Cantin wrote in an official forum update.

Eidos Montreal has told Eurogamer that there is "no competitive multiplayer" in the upcoming Thief reboot.

UK video game shop-chain GAME will soon sell an entire range of tablets in its stores.

Episodic master Telltale is no longer doing a series based on ye olde PC adventure game King's Quest. The licence has gone back to Activision.

At long last, we have a clear visual on the next major Battlefield title, with developer DICE unleashing a full wave of Battlefield 4 details last week in its whopping 17-minute Fishing in Baku trailer. Visually, this extended cut of in-game footage succeeds in its mission to dazzle like few other games can, and crucially it shows us what results the latest Frostbite 3 engine can achieve on both high-end PCs and, presumably, next-gen consoles. This isn't just about first-person shooters, however: with Bioware also keen to chip in that this technology forms the basis of follow-ups to its Mass Effect and Dragon Age series, its advances represent much more as we look to the future.

Raven Software has released the source code for vintage third-person Star Wars action games Jedi Academy and Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast.

Disney has ended internal development at LucasArts, effectively cancelling Star Wars 1313 and Star Wars: First Assault.

Last week's GDC reveal of Unreal Engine 4 running on PlayStation 4 hardware gave us a revised look at 2012's Elemental PC demo - at the time operating on Core i7 in combination with Nvidia's powerful GTX 680 - and after the dust settled we were curious to see how the two renditions compared directly. This should give us some idea of the ways in which Epic has reshaped its code to better suit the new console platform. Of course, it's early days and UE4 in itself is still in development, but the question remains - to what extent can PS4 match up to a top-end PC?

Sega has added disclaimers to its Aliens: Colonial Marines trailers after admitting they didn't accurately reflect the final game.

Bethesda has confirmed development of a "new version" of Doom 4, apparently planned for the next-generation of consoles - but the game appears to be a long way off.