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Footage has surfaced of a cancelled Star Wars fighting game once in the works at defunct developer Studio Gigante.

We've come a long way from goggle-eyed bandicoots. Naughty Dog's history - linked to the PlayStation brand since 1996 and tethered to it exclusively after Sony acquired the LA studio in 2001 - is in many ways the story of how video games have changed over fifteen years, and how their players have evolved and matured. We're no longer crashing through wooden boxes and collecting fruit; now we're engaging in character-driven stories that can be as affecting as they are entertaining.

The Wii U is struggling in the US. A high-end estimate put January Wii U sales at 55,000 units. Xbox 360 sales, in contrast, were around 281,000.

Assassin's Creed 3 developer Ubisoft has assured fans that the events of its nutty new alternate-reality DLC are "canon", and will matter to the series' storyline.

Kickstarted "thinking person's shooter" Takedown has been picked up by publisher 505 Games. It's official title is Takedown: Red Sabre.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe last summer patented what seems to be a tablet controller for a console. It's called EyePad. Really.

Steam for Linux (Ubuntu) has launched and Valve's having a sale to celebrate.

The Europa Universalis series represents the grandest of grand strategy, and while I'm sure there are strategy titles out there that are even more complex, I can't say that I'd ever want to try them. EU's real-time strategy was quite enough for me, frequently stretching me to my very limits, and the same was true for its peers, that stable of strategy that Paradox Development Studios has been rearing and carefully crossbreeding for over a decade now. Games like Victoria, Hearts of Iron and Crusader Kings had me so lost in their menus that my friends had to send out search parties.

Ubisoft has squashed a serious Assassin's Creed 3 bug that was deleting users' saved games.

Red Thread Games has shared a video of Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey in action.

Sega's teamed up with a Japanese PC maker to release a series of retro-Sega-console-themed netbooks.

Phosphor Games - the studio behind iOS hits Horn and The Dark Meadow - is working on its most ambitious game yet, an Unreal Engine 4-based customisable superhero epic called Project Awakened.

Among the Sleep developer Krillbite Studio has released its free side project, The Plan, which the studio described as "a free atmospheric videogame, exploring issues of death and meaning."

At the beginning of a game of Spaceteam, the avatars of two to four friends are 'beamed up' onto a spaceship. Around five minutes later, this happens:

Chair's modern day Punch-Out!!-with-swords iOS hit Infinity Blade is free from now until 21st February in honour of Valentine's Day... or being selected as Apple's "App of the Week." Something like that.

140 is the upcoming minimalist platformer by Jeppe Carlsen, best known as the lead gameplay designer at Playdead where he designed the puzzles for Limbo.

Update: The console and PC versions of Resident Evil: Revelations will contain randomised enemy and item placement, a new addition to this HD upgrade.

The way people purchase games has changed a lot over the years. It used to be that we bought games for a flat fee upon their completion. Then we bought incomplete games at a reduced price so we could play them in their early stages, offer feedback, and get a sweet deal on the finished product. And now Anomaly: Warzone Earth developer 11 Bit Studios is bucking the trend - and possibly starting a new one - by allowing players a killer 50 per cent off deal on its next game with one small catch: the game hasn't been announced yet and no one knows what it is.

Any Formula One fan will tell you that not all of the entertainment the sport offers comes from the on-track action. The soap opera that plays out in the paddock provides vital context for these Sunday drives, offering pantomime heroes to root for and villains to despise. Of course Codemasters knows better than anyone that no matter how authentic you strive to be, you'll never get an officially licensed Formula One game that simulates pit lane slap-fights or Kimi Raikkonen passing out in a strip club.

Nintendo is developing a new version of side-scrolling Wii platformer Donkey Kong Country Returns for 3DS.

Nintendo has announced a new Mario & Luigi RPG for release on 3DS this summer, in a flurry of Luigi-themed news.

3DS game Fire Emblem: Awakening will be released in Europe on 19th April, Nintendo has just announced.

3DS game Animal Crossing: New Leaf will flutter down onto European shelves on 14th June, Nintendo has announced. In the US, it'll sprout on 9th June.

Gas Powered Games has a buyer! It's rich World of Tanks maker Wargaming.

Sega has denied internet rumours that the Wii U version of Aliens: Colonial Marines has been cancelled.

The original pitch document for System Shock 2 revealed that the game was once known as Junction Point (a name later used by another Looking Glass alumni, Warren Spector, for his own development studio).

"After a life spent collecting video games I decide to sell off my entire collection."

Scream your face off it's System Shock 2 back from the dead and available on Good Old Games.

Update #2: Valve's illustrious leader Gabe Newell has responded to the lay-offs and reassured fans that, "No, we aren't cancelling any projects."

PlayStation 3 owners can at last download Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC. It's available on the EU PlayStation Store today, priced £6.49/€7.99.