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APB was an ambitious MMO built by Crackdown dev Realtime Worlds but it flopped, hard. The game died but was resurrected by Reloaded as a free-to-play MMO. We reviewed APB Reloaded last year and it wasn't very good.

People sometimes ask me if it's hard to write about the really bad games. It isn't. Those are the easiest to write about, as their obvious flaws create a natural shape for the review and demand to be explored. No, the hardest games to review are games like Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel. Games about which there is almost literally nothing to say. This is gaming as a plain cheese sandwich; blockbuster action as supermarket muzak.

Cart Life, a greyscale indie game about juggling a street vending business with personal commitments, and FTL: Faster Than Light, an action strategy game about keeping your spaceship alive while exploring the galaxy, have won big at this year's indie Oscars, the 15th annual Independent Games Festival.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist developer Ubisoft Toronto will help make the next Assassin's Creed game due after Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

The Walking Dead developer Telltale Games' next episodic series will be The Wolf Among Us, a tale based upon DC Comics' popular Fables franchise.

Beastie Bay will remind you a lot of other Kairosoft games, like Game Dev Story. During its simplistic monster battles, it will almost certainly remind you of Pokémon. But it most reminded me of a maths teacher I had in primary school who would use strange examples to make the subject more interesting: instead of apples and coins, it was dinosaurs and doughnuts. All that silliness would distract us all from the fact that we were doing boring old sums, and Beastie Bay uses similar misdirection techniques, with moments of calculated weirdness - and the occasional dose of cute - to deflect attention away from its systems. Which, when it comes down to it, are often little more than busywork.

Update: BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn - he who took over when Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka left - has confirmed that both Dragon Age 3 "and the next Mass Effect" will use Frostbite 3.

Oh to be on the cusp of a new generation of console gaming. What are they capable of? How real will games look?! One trend has been demonstrating the possibilities by rendering realistic faces in real-time. First there was Quantic Dream's Old Man, then there was Nvidia's Bald Man.

Double Fine's upcoming point-and-click adventure Broken Age has been teased in a haunting new trailer that shows off the game's hand-crafted visual style.

Update: Metacritic has responded to the panel by calling it "wildly, wholly inaccurate."

Having just an hour earlier listened to Sony delve deep into the power of the PlayStation 4, it comes as a bit of a shock to hear Battlefield main man Patrick Bach tell me that DICE is moving on from technology during our meeting at the Game Developers Conference.

Supergiant's 2011 action-RPG Bastion made a lot of waves with its stunning art direction, procedural narration, and inventive approach to combat difficulty. It was clearly a game that wanted to rethink the isometric dungeon crawler rather than blindly follow in the footsteps of what came before. At a glance, its follow-up, Transistor, looks content to simply do Bastion again with its familiar isometric perspective, colourful world and the gritty vocal chords of rising voice-acting superstar Logan Cunningham dropping cryptic bits of narration over a mysterious plot that slowly comes into focus.

Warner Bros. revealed an iOS variation of NetherRealm's upcoming DC-themed fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us earlier today at GDC.

Update #4: Hideo Kojima just tweeted that Ground Zeroes is the prologue section in Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain:

Terraria completes its leap from PC to consoles today with the launch of the long-awaited PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade version of the game. A simple 2D game of digging and building, it starts off bewildering and even by the time you're thoroughly in love with it you find it remains surprising, giving you that same sense of discovery and ownership dozens of hours later.

Skyborne shooter BioShock Infinite is available to download from the EU PlayStation Store, priced £49.99.

UPDATE: Microsoft has confirmed to Eurogamer that the Warzone mode found lurking with Gears of War: Judgment is a slice of code leftover from Gears of War 3.

Battlefield 4 showed us destroyable cover last night, and very boom boom pretty and bitty it was.

Players can expect a tough challenge from the Space Hulk video game, its creators have said.

Grand Theft Auto 5 developer Rockstar has shown a gallery of new screenshots of the game.

Everyone rejoice! Fiendishly compelling touch-screen RPG Knights of Pen & Paper is coming to PC and Mac.

PS4 lead architect Mark Cerny knew as far back as 2007 that "clearly we had some issues with PlayStation 3".

How on earth do you follow-up a game like Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo? From early 1991 to early 1994, Capcom released five iterations of the most important fighting game in arcade history. But instead of taking another ride on the cash cow rodeo, for the later half of 1994 Capcom decided to release two fighting games that were entirely devoid of Ryu and his street fighting buddies. One of these was X-Men: Children of the Atom, a game that laid the foundation for the Marvel vs. Capcom series, while the other was an entirely new proposition called Darkstalkers.

To begin with, Metal Gear's VR missions are little more than a lab-coated sort of field training. You're transported to some abstract, detail-less room and clinically led through the basics away from the noise and distraction of the game world. Each mission isolates a different aspect of the game (sneaking, sprinting, slicing and so on) and, through sparse instructions and with flickering sound effects, presents a challenge to lead you through apprenticeship towards mastery. By creating a safe place in which to fail and grading your performance, Metal Gear's VR missions act as a crucible in which to hone your technique and gain the necessary muscle memory for use in the 'real' game world, with its concrete and cardboard, its nooks and shadows.

Nintendo has teased an upcoming Wii U system update that will drastically cut system loading times.

A chunky new content patch has just gone live in Guild Wars 2. It's the Flame & Frost: The Razing update.

DICE shooter Battlefield 4 will be released this autumn for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A next-gen console release is certain. But it won't be coming to Wii U.

This import review of the US edition of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time was originally published in February. We present it again today to mark the release of the game in Europe this week.

At GDC this evening EA unveiled Battlefield 4, powered by Frostbite 3, with a 17-minute gameplay trailer.

UPDATE: The teaser trailer for Battlefield 4 has leaked online.