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Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima thinks that his upcoming entry in the solid stealth series may be too taboo-heavy to be published in its current form. And even if it does see the light of day, he's unsure if it will sell given its grim subject matter.

There's been a cacophony of views on Sony's PlayStation 4 reveal. Our writers have shared first impressions, you've shared your opinions and, slowly, game makers emerge with their thoughts.

Sony's PlayStation 4 press conference was a pitch to developers as well as gamers. The console's architecture chief Mark Cerny talked more about CPUs and GPUs and teraflops than he did his own game, Knack. He described the PS4's architecture as like a PC's but "super-charged for gaming". PS4 is "a platform by game creators, for game creators", he said.

Sony will offer two free games to PlayStation 3 owners of Ratchet & Clank: QForce in response to the ongoing delay of the game's PlayStation Vita version.

There's an odd little anniversary that's just passed with zero fanfare. It doesn't help that the dates are a little fuzzy, but it's a moment that's worth registering: at some point last year, Crystal Dynamics surpassed original creators Core in the amount of time it had spent working on the Tomb Raider franchise. Its eight years in charge that began as it took over Anniversary in 2005 eclipse the seven years that the UK studio spent crafting Lara's world.

8-bit Grand Theft Auto demake Retro City Rampage will finally be released on Wii next week, priced 1000 Wii Points (about £7/€10).

Tomb Raider publisher Square Enix has listed the game's PC specs and named the studio that has been helping on the game's conversion.

UPDATE: Pre-orders for the PlayStation 4 have also gone live at online retailer ShopTo.

PlayStation 4 exclusive Killzone: Shadow Fall has been demoed live on US chat show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

BioWare has announced Mass Effect 3: Citadel, the final single-player expansion for the game, and the final multiplayer expansion, Reckoning.

Arma 3 will require Steam to run, developer Bohemia Interactive has announced.

Nintendo has announced a LAN adapter for Wii U which will let you play the 3DS version of Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate online.

This import review of the North American edition of Persona 4: Golden originally appeared in December last year. We present it again now to mark the game's launch in Europe this week.

The people behind the Deus Ex movie are using District 9, Looper and Inception as inspiration for making a true cyberpunk film.

Indie developer Jonathan Blow has insisted Sony didn't pay for The Witness console exclusivity.

EA has let go an undisclosed number of staff at its Montreal and Los Angeles bases.

Last night's PlayStation 4 unveiling included a flurry of new game announcements, and confirmation of the 60-odd games companies which are already signed up to support Sony's next-gen console.

Fan-favourite XBLA roguelike platformer Spelunky is full of surprises. In this case it received two surprise 160 MSP DLC packs that stealthily came out yesterday while all eyes were on Sony.

Foreboding point-and-click adventure Richard & Alice is out today on GoG for $5.99 or your local equivalent.

Handheld arcade platform NeoGeo X is adding 15 more retro games to its roster this April with NeoGeo X Classics: Volume 1, manufacturer Tommo has announced.

First-person grid-based dungeon crawler Legends of Grimrock will be getting a sequel, developer Almost Human announced.

The man responsible for several leaks on Microsoft's upcoming console, codenamed Durango, has had his home raided by the Australian police and an FBI agent.

Update: Killzone: Shadow Fall has been confirmed as a PS4 launch title.

The official specs are in for the PlayStation 4 and what we have is, by and large, confirmation of existing Digital Foundry stories - with one outstanding, exciting exception. At the PlayStation Meeting yesterday, Sony revealed that its new console ships with 8GB of GDDR5 RAM, not the 4GB we previously reported. It was a pleasant surprise not just for us, but also for many game developers out there working on PS4 titles now and completely unaware of the upgrade - a final flourish to the design seemingly added in at the last moment to make PlayStation 4 the most technologically advanced games console of the next gaming era.

Kenji Eno is probably best known as the creator of the D horror titles, but I'll always think of him as a man who made games in which the smallest things really mattered.

"Consumer centric and developer inspired." We heard those five words a lot last night, as Sony finally broke its silence and announced PlayStation 4 at a glitzy launch event in freezing New York City. I heard those five words so much that at one point the notes I was taking on my laptop descend into a paragraph of that one phrase copied and pasted about 15 times in succession. They are interesting words. And they are words that transmit so much of what is right about PlayStation 4 - but also what is wrong about it.

Blizzard has released the first screenshots of Diablo 3 running on PlayStation.

Several years ago, I saw an exhibition by a local artist who made coffins for the birds he found washed up on the beach near his home: weird little curved boxes, tidy and cleanly built, yet strangely organic with it. The whole effect hinged, I guess, on a kind of clash of exteriors and interiors. You know: the smooth, painted surfaces contrasted with the knowledge of what lay rotting inside.

The BioShock Infinite Season Pass has been announced by publisher 2K, for release alongside the game on 26th March.

"I'm not directly managing third-party relations," says Shuhei Yoshida, when I ask him a question that pretty much has nothing to do with the area of Sony Computer Entertainment for which he is responsible.