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Update: The release date for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor: Overclocked has been brought forward a week. It's now set to come out on 29th March.

Source code playground Garry's Mod has raked in $22 million in seven years, creator Garry Newman has revealed.

Is Dead Space alive and kicking or dead as a dodo? Whatever the case, this week's drama over the future of the sci-fi horror series hasn't put a spanner in the works of Dead Space 3.

US retail giant GameStop has moved to remind Microsoft and Sony why it reckons always-online consoles that don't play second-hand games are a bad idea.

Raspberry Pi - the $25 credit-card sized computer - features an advanced graphics core that outperforms the GPU in iPhone 4S by a factor of two to one "across a range of content", according to claims made by the manufacturer in a new Digital Foundry interview published today on GamesIndustry.biz.

Capturing high definition video typically requires a moderately powerful PC, a bespoke capture card and a hard drive big enough and fast enough to deal with multi-gigabyte files that can account for just a few minutes of footage: fine for the technologically literate with cash to spare, but not so easy for those simply looking for a way to easily and cheaply record some HD action from their games machines. Enter the Avermedia Game Capture HD - an all-in-one "plug and play" device that records video from any current generation console directly onto hard drive or even a USB stick.

Since its rise to fame with the launch of the original iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone touch-screen has become one of the most intuitive and accessible of gaming interfaces. It has transformed previously disinterested individuals into rampant gaming addicts, and offers a control language so pure that everyone from the youngest tot to the oldest grandparent can grasp it.

When you're gunning for commercial success in the mobile phone arena it often pays to cover all of your bases, and that seems to be part of HTC's battle plan for this year. Bruised and bloodied by disappointing financial results of 2011, the Taiwanese manufacturer is on the resurgence, keen to claw back market share lost to the likes of Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson. We've already seen the blisteringly fast HTC One X - powered by NVIDIA's Tegra 3 quad-core CPU - and now it's time to cast a furtive eye over the remaining two members of the brood: the One S and One V, both of which are running the latest version of Google's mobile OS.

Raspberry Pi: a complete, credit card-sized computer for just over £20. The concept is intoxicating, the possibilities endless. Potentially, what we are looking at here is a revolution in entry-level computing and programming, a completely open platform gifted by a not-for-profit charity to the next generation of coders, engineers, enthusiasts and innovators. Born in Britain, Raspberry Pi could genuinely be the next "big thing" for home computing and so much more.

A recent patent filing suggests that Microsoft's next console is based on the idea that it can be scaled up - or down - over time, leading to speculation that the current notion of a console lifecycle could be replaced with rolling hardware upgrades.

It's one of the most bizarre next-gen console leaks yet - a story so strange we still struggle to believe there's any truth to it whatsoever. When a Microsoft Durango devkit appeared on an obscure developer forum - for sale at $10,000 no less - nobody quite knew for certain what on earth was going on. The shots depict an anonymous-looking PC tower case, attached to a cheap display and running Matrix-style datastream graphics over an unconvincing debug launcher. The obvious conclusion drawn by many was that it was an unambiguous fake. Intrigued, Digital Foundry reached out to the source of the leak, and followed up the story with multiple developers working on next-gen projects. The uniform response was startling: apparently, these shots are the real deal.

When Google announced its Chromebook concept back in May 2011, it was met with derision and scepticism from many sectors of the technology world. Early Chromebooks were running Google's bespoke Chrome OS were large, expensive and rendered useless when disconnected from the internet. However, the concept has evolved - and quickly. Samsung's Series 3 model, which launched at the end of 2012 and powered by the exact same processor found inside the Google Nexus 10 - is sleek, cheap and runs offline applications. After an awkward start, Google's new OS seems to be finding its feet, and may make you reconsider your next tablet or netbook purchase.

Genuine positivity surrounded the announcement of Microsoft's first foray into modern day mobile hardware. In Surface, we had a product that seemed to possess the build quality and production refinement we'd typically associate with an Apple offering, combined with a desktop-level operating system and reasonably powerful specs. Surface - particularly the Intel-powered variant running Windows 8 Pro - looked like a genuine contender. However, the iPad-challenging RT variant didn't look quite so convincing, and now that the final product is in our hands, we'd go further by saying that it is a largely disappointing offering that under-performs in almost every way that matters. Not only that, but it is at least a generation away from competing against Apple's current products - let alone its future hardware.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's VR Missions DLC releases next week, Konami has announced.

Update: To The Moon 2 is in fact not real but a new game called A Bird Story, developer Freebird Games has announced. It's due out mid-2013.

What next for axed End of Nations developer Petroglyph? Kickstarter, would you believe, and a game called Victory.

PlayStation Vita's recent Japanese price drop has seen a huge rise in weekly sales - but the struggling handheld still failed to topple Nintendo's rampant 3DS.

The endless runner keeps on running: this time it's Hitman developer IO Interactive's Mini Ninjas.

Graphics company Nvidia has apologised for a number of issues with Tomb Raider's PC version.

Sonic Dash, the Sonic the Hedgehog endless runner, has launched on the App Store.

Last night the Kickstarter for Death Inc., the strategy game from Ambient Studios, failed having made £122,711 of its £300,000 goal. But today the developer released a different game: iPad puzzle title Monster Meltdown.

The Gore Verbinski Kinect game Matter has been ditched by Microsoft.

Update: It's better than we thought! It turns out that Telltale is aiming to release Season Two of The Walking Dead this autumn not next.

Update 2: EA has accused VideoGamer of fabricating its Dead Space story, but the media outlet isn't taking these allegations lightly and claims that EA knew about the story in advance and was given an opportunity to deny it prior to publication, but for whatever reason, didn't.

Roguelikes must feel like chemistry sets to designers - they must feel like the cool ones you got as a kid which allowed you a limited creative licence to meddle, to blow things up, to set things on fire. I suspect that this kind of playful tinkering is where 99 Levels to Hell was born, with the developer taking an existing roguelike design template as a starting point - specifically Spelunky's brilliant twist on the roguelike as platformer - before tweaking, rearranging and then standing back to see what happened.

New footage of the surreal dadaist first-person brawler Zeno Clash 2 has emerged in the recently released trailer below.

The third game in the first-person point-and-click puzzle adventure series The 7th Guest is currently in development for PC, Mac, iOS and Android.

Update 2: Torment: Tides of Numenera has already achieved its $900,000 Kickstarter goal in about six hours. That's got to be some kind of record, right?

Ubisoft has previously teased a patch for Far Cry 3 that would allow players to reset outposts, tailor the HUD, and add an extra hard difficulty setting, but it was never clear when this would come out until today as the publisher just announced that the patch is out now on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.

Tomb Raider was always a series about being alone, solving puzzles in a 3D space, but somehow Crystal Dynamics proved that Lara's adventures could be just as rewarding in an isometric co-op game in the surprise hit Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. Unfortunately, it looks like the critically acclaimed digital title was a mere one-off rather than the start of a side-series.