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The open world RPG yardstick is Skyrim. That's the game, the series, the success that The Witcher 3 has in its sights. And to listen to CD Projekt Red, you'd believe the Polish studio could better it.

Update: KnapNok artist Simon Gustafsson has clarified this "sometimes go outside" business by saying, "Yeah, I just wanted people to go outside more. I hope this doesn't cause any confusion" in an e-mail to Eurogamer.

Overkill's shooter sequel Payday 2 has properly broken cover, and we've a little video preview showing you the game in action for the first time.

I can remember when a new Sonic the Hedgehog game was the biggest story around. I remember live-action adverts, Sonic 2s-day, the disbelief at those first magazine photos of the Sonic & Knuckles cart. "Among Mario's clones," Shigeru Miyamoto told Edge magazine in the late 1990s, "Sonic is a good one." Originality was never the hedgehog's strong point. Even so, copying Temple Run seems a long way to fall from Super Mario.

The BioShock film that was once in production at Universal is definitely dead - and Irrational's Ken Levine has explained why he personally cancelled the project.

Hey it's that platform exclusive prequel with a single word suffix that everyone keeps forgetting exists. No, not Gears of War: Judgement - that's next week's offering - but God of War: Ascension, the one game that keeps reminding me how hard it is to spell Asencion. Ascencion. Or something like that.

A Schwarzenegger-sized Battlefield 3 multiplayer patch - 1.92GB - has appeared on Xbox Live.

Why produce one type of collector's edition for a game when you can make loads? Good old Ubisoft.

Between losing several of its key staff to a new start-up and suffering a high-profile flop, the past few years presumably haven't been the easiest for Starbreeze, the Swedish studio famed for muscular first person shooters such as The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and The Darkness.

Huge UK supermarket chain Asda, owned by Walmart, is apparently considering a deal to buy HMV. And not just some stores: The Sun reported that Asda/Walmart was looking at taking on the entire HMV brand and business.

Legendary developer Hideo Kojima has come up with an interesting idea for combating rising video game production costs: the video game pilot.

Dean "Rocket" Hall has shown, on video, DayZ Standalone zombies for the first time.

UPDATE: Valve has distanced itself from the Xi3 Piston, dubbed an unofficial Steam Box.

Sony will change a God of War: Ascension Trophy that had been accused by some of being misogynistic.

Monkey Island and The Cave creator Ron Gilbert has left Double Fine, the studio helmed by his on-again off-again collaborator of two decades Tim Schafer.

Konami has released a gameplay trailer showing off the first batch of DLC for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance due this week on PSN and Xbox Live.

Extend Studio and Orgio Games' PC platformer/shooter A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda is headed to XBLA in an enhanced edition entitled A.R.E.S. Extinction Agenda EX, publisher Aksy Games has announced.

After three delays the Scott Pilgrim vs. the World DLC that would add online co-op and the ability to play as Scott's sardonic roommate Wallace is finally coming out this Tuesday in North America and Wednesday in Europe on PSN where it will cost £3.99 / €4.99 / $4.99.

Cave Story creator Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya unveiled his upcoming iOS platformer Gero Blaster.

Last year a man won the "father of the year" award in the hearts of many a gamer when he changed all the pronouns in Wind Waker to transform the androgynous-looking Link into a girl so his daughter would have a positive female role model. This year another father has followed suit by reskinning Donkey Kong protagonist Jumpman (aka Mario before he was Mario) into Princess Pauline, while the moustachioed carpenter is now the dude-in-distress.

Halo 4's third multiplayer expansion, the Castle Map Pack, is slated for release on 8th April for 800 MS Points, Microsoft has announced. Access to the add-on is included with the Halo 4 War Games Map Pass.

Social game make Zynga - often accused of ripping off other's ideas - has insisted everyone copies everyone.

Spare a thought for the video game brother, forever cast in the shadows. Nintendo's placing the spotlight on the lesser sibling of its star duo this year, so DmC's first substantial DLC that puts Dante's brother Vergil on centre stage feels like it's part of a curious trend. Vergil's Downfall is a substantial if not entirely satisfying single-player add-on, retaining so much that made Ninja Theory's reboot a success while never really building on it in an engaging way.

Whoops! A Danish telly channel has been forced to apologise for using a screenshot of Assassin's Creed as a backdrop for a news report about the war-torn country of Syria.

There's a pleasing finality to calling a DLC pack "End Game". It's been well over a year since Battlefield 3 was released, and we can now look back over five expansion packs and truly appreciate how that core game has evolved and expanded. It's a view as impressive as anything conjured up by the Frostbite 2 engine over the last 16 months.

The decision for Ragnar Tornquist and Red Thread Games to use Kickstarter to fund a new Longest Journey adventure game was a good one - it's ended in emphatic success.

Crystal Dynamics has patched the PC version of Tomb Raider.

Tomb Raider is the UK's biggest launch of the year so far.

Maxis is slowly but surely getting SimCity up to scratch.

Humans have been chasing and pretending to kill each other for centuries. What are traditional playground games like hide and seek, if not a way to exercise flight-or-fight instincts that have grown dull since we moved away from the wild and behind domestic barriers of brick and glass?