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Sony's Santa Monica Studio has clarified its involvement with The Last Guardian and distanced itself from the heavily delayed PlayStation game, after reports early last year suggested the God of War developer was helping out on the title.

Maybe Sega didn't and won't acquire the Warhammer 40,000 licence after all, because Games Workshop has announced a W40K deal with someone else.

Nintendo's Wii U has had a torrid start to 2013. The struggling console sold around 64,000 units in North America last month, while Microsoft's ageing Xbox 360 managed 302,000.

My hero, it transpires, is a man named Grubby.

Maxis has promised to fix SimCity's silly Sims and traffic.

Every generalisation has its limits, but this one I'm going to risk: big-budget FPS games have terrible stories. One of the honourable exceptions is the work of Irrational Games, with a legacy that stretches back over a decade to 1999's System Shock 2. The twist in 2007's BioShock still, for my money, stands as the greatest 'wow' moment a shooter has pulled, and its combination (conspiracy?) of player mechanics as part of that narrative climax is - regardless of what comes afterwards - simply brilliant. So BioShock Infinite's story has a lot to live up to, even if it is in capable hands: Ken Levine, writer/creative director, alongside Irrational's in-house writer Drew Holmes.

UPDATE: The first photos of Nintendo's new range of Pokémon NFC toys have appeared online.

Badland, the iOS action/adventure from the ex-Trials Evolution devs at Frogmind Games, has been dated for a 4th April release, the developer announced on its official blog.

Update: Thief director Nicolas Cantin has clarified his comments about Garrett's new look, stating that the character only looks "less gothic" and more "mainstream" than previous internal designs, not compared to earlier games.

A fortnight ago publisher Ghostlight announced the European release date for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: Overclocked, a 3DS remake of the 2009 DS cult-hit Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor. Understandably, fans have been asking about its sequel, the DS-exclusive Devil Survivor 2, which was released in Japan in 2011 and in North America in early 2012.

Last year's PC platformer Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams is officially slated to come out next week on XBLA for 1200 MS Points. A PSN version is set to follow "a few days later," but no official date has been set.

Monster Hunter's the archetypal Japanese success story that never quite translates to the West, the stubborn difficulty and steep learning curve doing much to put off audiences over here. Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate sees Capcom doing its level best to address the gap, smoothing out the difficulty and introducing a camera system you won't have to cripple yourself to manage.

Lab Zero Games' noble effort to keep Skullgirls kicking is going strong with its record-breaking Indiegogo campaign having just risen enough to greenlight a second new character, Big Band.

UPDATE: A just-released new gameplay trailer for Call of Juarez: Gunslinger has shown off a number of the game's locales and characters.

Before Duke Nukem arose as one of gaming's crudest characters he starred in a couple of relatively innocuousness 2D platformers. The second of which, Duke Nukem 2, is heading to iOS this April to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist's night-vision mode has been shown off by developer Ubisoft in a new slice of gameplay footage.

High Voltage Software, the developer of cult Wii shooter The Conduit, is today releasing a new game.

Capcom has officially canned its in-development Mega Man MMORPG.

Activision is tooling a new Fast and the Furious console tie-in for PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360, leaked box art suggests.

The developer of Spec Ops: The Line is using Unreal Engine 4 to make a next-generation game.

UPDATE: Borderlands 2 developer Gearbox has now officially released its earlier teaser for the game's upcoming sixth playable character class.

You don't often get tales of high drama or years of development hell in the quickfire world of mobile gaming, but here's one. Ridiculous Fishing, over two years in the making, is a fleshed-out version of Radical Fishing, the crude but compelling Flash debut of Dutch indies Vlambeer. (You might know these die-hard arcade fanatics from the phenomenal Super Crate Box.)

UPDATE #2: Rebellion and 505 Games have confirmed a PC version of Sniper Elite 3. A press release sent this afternoon cited "current and next-gen platforms as well as PC".

The controversy around SimCity looks set to continue: a modder has tweaked the always-online game so it can be played offline indefinitely.

UPDATE: First screenshots of Drakengard 3 lie below, as revealed on the game's new official site.

American McGee, the quirky creator of the madness-themed Alice (in Wonderland) video games, would like to know if you'd like Alice 3, and if you would, would you back its development with your money on Kickstarter?

UPDATE: The British arm of online behemoth Amazon has matched Asda's discounted Wii U pricing.

Disney Infinity has been delayed to late August. It had been due out in June.

Two pieces of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance story DLC are due starting next month for PS3 and Xbox 360, Konami has announced.

Popular XBLA city-building game A World of Keflings is coming to Wii U later this year, developer Ninja Bee has announced.