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There's not much point getting too bent out of shape about copycat games. From its earliest days, churning out arcade cabinets, this has always been an iterative medium driven by the steady evolution of core ideas and occasional bursts of genuine innovation. Even so, that doesn't mean that the more blatant magpies don't stand out.

Square Enix has released the first trailer for Murdered: Soul Suspect, its mysterious new game.

HMV administrator Deloitte has announced that another 37 HMV stores will close. 464 staff will lose their jobs as a result.

Nintendo has chosen the US 60Hz version of its classic racer F-Zero for release on the Wii U eShop this week.

There may or may not be something a bit special happening in New York tonight, with Sony fully expected to pull the wraps off the next generation of PlayStation. It's potentially a momentous moment, signalling the end of a journey that had its first awkward steps well over seven years ago.

Activision expects to "release fewer games based on license properties" in 2013.

Sony's sparkly new PlayStation 4 will be released this November, a new report suggests, and include a number of features familiar to Microsoft fans.

Price: £15 / Players: 1-6 (7-12 with expansion) / Time: 30 minutes

If Salvador Dali, David Lynch and Robert Wiene were all alive and collaborated on a puzzle game together I'd imagine the results would look something like Back to Bed.

Cryptic iOS puzzler The Room will be getting a sequel this autumn, developer Fireproof Games announced on Twitter.

Update: It's been established that Gaikai has registered domains for Playstation-Cloud.com, Playstation-Cloud.org, and Ps-Cloud.net, giving further credence to the rumours that Gaikai will be involved in Sony's next console. (Thanks, Superannuation.)

Delver's Drop may not have one unique hook, but Pixelscopic's upcoming Kickstarter-based dungeon crawler looks like a very polished combination of the genre's best elements.

Italian indie developer Leonard Menchiari's upcoming mobile sim, Riot, will allow players to reenact rather sobering pixelated renditions of real world events where they'll choose to either lead a group of rebellious citizens or play as the police trying to stop them.

Update: Gearbox president Randy Pitchford has finally acknowledged the discrepancy between the Aliens: Colonial Marines hands-off demo and the final game that shipped to lackluster reviews last week.

Ubisoft is expanding its distribution portal Uplay to include games from various other developers such a EA and Warner Bros.

Update: BioShock Infinite has gone gold, Irrational Games has announced, so it's definitely making its 26th March release date.

Nvidia's new graphics card GeForce GTX Titan costs more - £827 - than PlayStation 4 and the next Xbox put together (probably - hopefully). But that's not really the point when considering the most powerful gaming set-up that money can buy. And Titan is more powerful than what's inside those machines, make no mistake.

At last it's here! Metal Gear Rising's come a long way since Hideo Kojima snuck up on a gurning Don Mattress at E3 in 2009. A new developer and an interminable suffix later, and it's finally arrived, the sturdy hands of Platinum Games helping to craft another masterpiece of action gaming. Rich Stanton delivered our verdict earlier today, and it sounds like something of a triumph.

Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian Games has announced its new game, Tribal Towers.

Bloody glorious indie game Hotline Miami is coming to Vita and PS3 this spring, publisher Devolver and developer Dennaton have announced.

UPDATE: Microsoft has shown off a new Gears of War: Judgment multiplayer trailer just hours after a pirated version of the game began appearing on internet torrent sites.

Blizzard has announced the dates for BlizzCon 2013. They are Friday, 9th November and Saturday, 10th November.

Build a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive map replicating a public space and you may get in trouble.

In amongst all the doom and gloom of the UK high street, a Currys PC World in London (Tottenham Court Road) is trying something new - maybe even future-facing.

The Tyranny of King Washington feels like an experiment. Freed by its alternate timeline setting, this add-on campaign for Assassin's Creed 3 risks potentially game-breaking new mechanics and weaves a fantastical story punctuated by hallucinogenic interludes. Another test is Tyranny's delivery in monthly episodes, meaning you will need to part with not one but three chunks of change to play it (and Ubisoft is already trying to selling you a whole Assassin's Creed game every year!). You're likely to have questions. Thankfully, so does Assassin's Creed 3's hero, Connor.

Read the landscape, make a plan, see what happens when it's set in motion across huge, open environments: these three beats embody the dark island spirit that marked the original Crysis out from other, almost-as-pretty shooters. Despite the glitz and spectacle, this sort of thing often felt like a distant memory when playing Crysis 2. Behind the alien invasions and mysterious Nanosuits, Prophet's most recent battle against the Ceph was telling a more interesting story of how technology can affect the kind of places games can take you to, and how those places, in turn, can affect the kind of fun you have.

GAME's lock-ins continue this month with Tomb Raider.

It's been an unusually rocky road for a Metal Gear project, but with Platinum Games' capable coders and designers taking the mantle from Kojima Productions, Rising has at last broken away from the threat of development hell and gone gold for both PS3 and 360. With the swift change of developer, we also see a major shift in approach to its design specifics, especially compared to the game's original unveiling at Microsoft's E3 2009 conference. Where before we had the "Zan-Datsu" slicing mechanic weave into a slower-paced, stealthier game locked to 30FPS, we now have in its place a frenetic 60FPS action title built in a mould closer to that of Bayonetta's - though with key uses of the original slicing concept.

A prototype of strategy game Death Inc., currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, has been released.

Remember World of StarCraft, the mod that turned StarCraft 2 into an MMO?