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Uncharted 3's multiplayer modes used to require an online pass to access, but Sony and developer Naughty Dog have rethought its payment structure 15 months later and have made accessing the online mode not only free to those who own the game, but free-to-play for everyone as a standalone multiplayer product.

Japanese weekly Wii U hardware sales have fallen below PlayStation Vita's for the first time.

Capcom's sci-fi adventure Remember Me has been dated for 7th June in Europe and 4th June in North America on PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

I didn't really notice Bring Out Your Dead on my first few playthroughs of Torchlight 2. It's a side-quest tucked snugly into the game's first act, and it's typically pulpy stuff. Meet a shady character near Skull Hollow, chat for a bit, and then head deep inside the catacombs of the Bone Gallery to fight Mordrox, a giant zombie troll.

EA is building micro-transactions into all of its PC and console games, the company has announced.

EA was conspicuously absent from Sony's PlayStation 4 unveiling. Now there's speculation that it's because Microsoft has signed a new partnership deal with EA.

343 got so much right when making Halo 4. Its campaign was muscular, restoring some of the intergalactic spectacle that had been lost in Bungie's more terrestrial final pair of games, while its multiplayer was smart enough to revise the well-worn template and even wiser to leave large parts of it well alone. What made Halo 4 something of a series highlight, though, was how this newborn collective of veteran developers had rekindled Halo's spark.

UPDATE: Amazon has dropped its Wii Mini price down to £79.99 - undercutting ShopTo's offer.

A fifth set of indie games have been voted for release on Steam via the Steam Greenlight initiative.

The next Assassin's Creed game will star a pirate assassin and be set in the early 18th century Caribbean, a slew of leaks suggest. It will be named Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag.

Arthur Matthews and Graham Linehan, creators of the classic sitcom Father Ted, were once asked why they'd chosen to make a comedy about priests. Was there, perhaps, some critical commentary on Catholicism at work? No, replied the writers. The jokes were just funnier when performed by priests.

This year's Assassin's Creed game will feature an all-new setting and main character, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

Paladin's latest combines pinball with flying squirrels, which means it's already off to a pretty good start. It also combines pinball with action-adventure game design - possibly an even better idea.

Skullgirls developer Lab Zero Games will be adding a new fighter, Squigly, to its roster following a record-setting Indiegogo campaign that raised over $150,000 in a day. Currently the total comes to $183,292 with 29 days to go before the 27th March deadline.

Gears of War: Judgment will unsurprisingly be accompanied by an optional season pass that will cost 1600 MS Points and save players 20 per cent overall on the game's DLC.

The Sea Will Claim Everything creators Jonas Kyratzes and Verena Kyratzes have launched and Indiegogo campaign for Ithaka of the Clouds, the fourth game in their Lands of Dreams series of text-heavy point-and-click adventures.

Scratches creator Agustín Cordes' already Steam greenlit horror adventure game Asylum just met its Kickstarter goal of $100,666 with 46 hours to go before its deadline on Thursday. The current total is at $105,761.

Bit.Trip series creator Gaijin Games is releasing its sequel to its retro auto-running sidescroller Bit.Trip Runner this week with the splendidly titled Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien.

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has confirmed that every PlayStation 4 game will be available to download ala the Vita.

A garage-full of Need for Speed: Most Wanted add-ons have just gone live on Xbox Marketplace, including the three new DLC packs spotted yesterday.

Update: In addition to the daily deals there are a collection of week-long deals. They've been dug up by the handsome people of NeoGAF.

Tactical PC shooter Arma 3 will enter into its alpha testing phase on 5th March, developer Bohemia Interactive has announced.

When switching from PowerPoint to a live build something goes awry, and the big screen in the Darwin Room suddenly fills with endlessly unspooling code. "Gah! This always happens," says the game designer handling the presentation, before tapping at his keyboard and muttering darkly.

Reviewing a map pack is weird. It's like the old adage that says writing about music is like dancing about architecture. The mechanics, the gameplay, everything that we'd normally sink our teeth into is a known quantity. What we're really doing is reviewing a space and how people move through it - an abstract thing to pin down at the best of times. It's like town planning with heavy ordnance.

We didn't think it was heading this way but it is: the Wii Mini will be released in the UK on 22nd March, Nintendo has just announced.

It sounds like Diablo 3 on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 may not connect to Battle.net at all.

More than a year and a half after its announcement at E3 2011, Irrational's BioShock game for PlayStation Vita is still not in development.

Blocky clumps of hair begone! Individual strands of hair welcome! AMD has unveiled TressFX hair.

The second season of The Walking Dead is still a long way off, but Telltale has teased "a little something extra" to tide you over until then.

Ubisoft is still planning a sequel to its much-loved 2003 adventure Beyond Good & Evil, the company's boss has confirmed.