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Microsoft has shown off the future of Kinect with its insanely detailed 3D modeling "fusion" tech that will soon be coming to the Windows SDK of the crazy camera.

Back in mid-2012 when the Wii U was this mysterious futuristic device, Nintendo showed off a bevy of features for it and while most of them have emerged, there's a couple that never saw the light of day. Perhaps its most notable missing feature is near field communication (NFC) support, wherein real life physical objects can be read by the GamePad simply be being placed in close proximity to it.

EA has backtracked on an earlier statement that all of the publisher's future games will include micro-transactions.

The rather nifty looking physics-based roguelike Delver's Drop was successfully funded on Kickstarter.

Capcom has announced that Lost Planet 3 will be released in Europe on 28th June. The US gets the game slightly earlier on 25th June.

Drop A Beat, Giuseppe! is a free browser game about Giuseppe Fortissimo, "the worst pianist to date," and it has one of the most clever control schemes I've seen in recent memory.

Three additional maps for Tomb Raider's multiplayer mode will be released first for Xbox 360, publisher Square Enix has announced.

World War 2 real-time strategy game Company of Heroes 2 launches on PC on 25th June in North America and Europe, Sega has announced.

Microsoft wants to put its motion sensor Kinect in laptops and tablets, but it faces a touch technical challenge to make its wish a reality.

It's been a year since Mass Effect 3's release, and BioWare is finally ready to let go of its baby. Citadel is not just the last expansion for the game but a send-off for the entire trilogy, filled with lore, old faces, in-jokes and cameos. It's a witty and touching goodbye to the series' characters and a love letter to the game's hardcore fans.

Duncan Jones (Moon, Source Code) replaced Sam Raimi (Tobey Maguire Spider-Man) as the director of the World of Warcraft film earlier this year. But we never really knew why - until now.

Old wrinklies are happier when they have video games in their lives, a new academic study has discovered.

There comes a point when you wonder just how many platform games are left to play. And how much have platformers got left to give in the genre's fourth decade of existence? Such thoughts occur to an habitual browser of the iOS store, with its cornucopia of buttons-on-screen banality. Then a game like Food Run comes along and such chin-stroking is instantly forgotten, replaced by a simple and timeless joy in motion. Remember that?

Good news for PlayStation fans: there's a chance Minecraft could come to Sony consoles.

Microsoft's top Xbox chief Don Mattrick doesn't see Valve, and its in-bound Steam Box, as a competitor.

EA is exploring the possibility of making Battlefield 4 and Dragon Age 3 engine Frostbite 2 work with the virtual reality headset Oculus Rift.

The reaction has been stark on social networks: #SimSh***y.

Alex Mosolov is showing me a picture, and for a good few moments I don't really understand. There are well over a hundred spaceships, all spread across one white plane, all of differing sizes and construction. Concept art, maybe? Not even slightly. "That is all of the ships in one of the mod compilations. Numerous high quality mods are either being worked on, or are more or less finished."

The mysterious "Steam Box" will be ready to prototype in the next four months, according to Valve head honcho Gabe Newell.

UPDATE: The 2013 BAFTA winners are in and they're a doozy. Dishonored took top honours, winning best game overall, which is odd as it didn't win in any other awards. Conversely, Journey received a whopping five awards in various other categories.

UPDATE 2: Some more details have emerged about Thief from GameInformer's cover story.

Vlambeer, the studio behind Super Crate Box and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter, is releasing its highly anticipated iOS game Ridiculous Fishing on 14th March.

Césure is certainly an acquired taste with its goalless environment and surreal visuals, but with low-fi indie darlings like Proteus making the rounds it seems like there's a demand for these types of strange, exploratory experiments.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance may have contained 100 per cent fewer monkeys than Metal Gear Solids 3 and 4, but it used to have a lot more cats. An early prototype video published by developer Platinum Games this week showed off an unreleased version of the game in which Raiden is surrounded by dozens of acrobatic felines. It turns out these kitties don't need nine lives as just one will suffice since Raiden cannot in any way harm them.

You may have been disappointed by Snoop Dogg's relatively limited role in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, but fear not for your prayers have been answered as the famous rapper will star in his own game, Way of the Dogg, a new rhythm/action title set for XBLA, PSN, iOS and Android set for release later this year.

Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro is a stranger in a strange land. Back home, he's the designer and co-writer of a string of quietly successful if anonymous PSP titles at Access Games, a mid-tier developer based in Osaka. Here, though, he's something else - a cult hero, and one of the few singular voices working in the industry. In a tour that's taken him from the sprawl of Los Angeles to Hitchin, the small English market town where we meet on a Saturday afternoon muted by snowfall, he's adored and revered. And it's all thanks to one very odd game.

Following on from this morning's release of Space Hulk screenshots, more Warhammer-related fun: There's a Football Manager-style Blood Bowl game in development.

Good news, Androiders: Zach Gage's maddeningly wonderful word game SpellTower is finally coming to Google Play and the Amazon App Store. It should be available on 7th March. Hey! That's this Thursday!

Before I see Cities in Motion 2, Colossal Order's CEO has an unexpected disclosure for me and I'm really not ready for it. I have a friendly, throwaway question for Mariina Hallikainen about the transport management sequel and that question is: "What's your favourite form of public transport?" I honestly can't remember her answer because, before she gives it, she tells me she frequently gets ill when she travels. The woman behind Cities in Motion gets motion sickness.

"People always bang on about PC dying", Dom Starr, the campaign designer of Total War: Rome 2, told Eurogamer.