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Whatever you may be expecting from the Wii U version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, we're willing to bet that Criterion is going to surprise you. The company hasn't shipped a game on Nintendo hardware since the enhanced conversion of Burnout 2: Point of Impact over a decade ago, and the studio has a point to prove.

Someone actually let me interview Dara O'Briain ahead of his annual British Academy Games Awards hosting duties on 5th March. So I thought I'd film it and do something silly.

Star-gazing, future-loving games industry conference GameHorizon is back at The Sage in Newcastle in late spring this year, and while that might not sound interesting to you on the surface of it unless you actually work in games, the fact that this year's sessions will be broadcast live on the internet perhaps will.

The History of Nintendo: 1889-1980 by Florent Gorges and Isao Yamazaki; Pix'n Love Publishing, £24.99

Despite becoming a cult favourite, Swery 65's madcap open world detective romp Deadly Premonition was never a financial success, according to its creator.

NG:DEV.TEAM sure is busy for a studio that only makes games for outlandishly outmoded consoles that are no longer in production. With The Ghost Blade and the Kickstarter funded Redux: Dark Matters on the docket, one wonders how the studio continues to plug away producing retro revivals. Still, it's at it again with NEO XYX, a vertical scrolling shmup for the Sega Dreamcast and SNK's Neo Geo MVS (i.e. arcade cabinet) and AVS.

Survival drama The Last of Us has been delayed until 14th June, developer Naughty Dog has announced.

Double Fine's 2009 metal adventure/RTS opus Brütal Legend is finally coming to PC on 26th February.

DmC: Devil May Cry's Bloody Palace add-on - which adds over 100 waves of increasingly challenging demon-slaying action - will be available on 20th February on Xbox Live and PSN, Capcom announced over Twitter.

Former 3DS exclusive Resident Evil: Revelations may be coming to consoles, but the Wii U version is currently not slated to include Resi 4's brilliant Wiimote controls, according to Capcom.

French emotion maker David Cage already has "probably my next three games in mind" even though he hasn't blooming finished Beyond: Two Souls yet.

UPDATE: Due to some technical difficulties we're going to have to postpone this live-stream. Sorry! We'll return to Slender: The Arrival in the near future. And I promise this hasn't been cancelled simply because Ian's too scared.

Another 164 Blockbuster stores are going to close, administrator Deloitte has announced.

The engineer who founded and named the original Xbox and sold the vision to Microsoft has slammed the company's last five Xbox 360 years as "painful to watch".

The creator of delayed PlayStation 3-exclusive The Last Guardian has issued an update on the game's development just days before Sony's big PlayStation (4) pow-wow in New York.

Deradune is a good place to fight crabs. It has endless supplies of them, actually, so for a good half hour, fighting crabs is what I chose to do. Down by a silty shoreline running alongside a tidy curve of ocean, I found a gleaming radar dish that summoned crate after crate of crab-monsters for me to slice through. I was playing as a Mechari, a robot race defined by a penchant for skull-shaped face-plates, so I was pleasantly tankish, yet blessed with a couple of nimble sword attacks and - best of all - an arrogant little flourish when I stowed weapons after a kill. Class-wise, I was a stalker, a stealthy set-up which sees your offensive powers boosted if you get the knife in when your foe's facing away from you. The crabs didn't really have a chance.

There's a little corner of Cardiff that's forever Kyoto. Here, in spitting distance of Cardiff University and within the sprawling student district of the Welsh capital, lies Dakko Dakko, a little cauldron of colour hidden in an otherwise drab office block. Leave your shoes at the doors and you enter a small, busy space, decorated with bright tatami and candy-pastel Mario toys.

Sega has swatted away reports that Aliens: Colonial Marines developer Gearbox Software outsourced the majority of work to other studios.

Turns out the "big partner" helping fund Age of Wonders 3 isn't Epic Games but is Notch, creator of Minecraft, real name Markus Persson.

EA has admitted it "should've done better" with last year's Medal of Honor: Warfighter - the disappointing performance of which led to the long-running series being benched.

Bungie appears poised to unveil its new game Destiny on Sunday, 17th February.

Mass Effect maker BioWare has announced a version of strategy board game Risk themed around its space opera series of video games.

Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski said that he doesn't think horror games are commercially viable as full-priced retail games.

The next generation of consoles will "most likely not be backwards compatible," according to EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen.

Indie developers Amanita Design, Colibri Games and Daedalic Entertainment have come forward claiming that UK publisher Lace Mamba has failed to pay them and has made some shady deals selling games in territories it had no authority to.

Last year Lego got its very own Minecraft set following a cavalcade of user votes on Lego Cuusoo, the building-block manufacturer's community site where users vote on what kooky ideas get placed into production.

Some video game thieves are smart, some are sassy, and some just don't know when to quit - as is the case with 34 year-old William Gooden, who attempted to stroll out of a St. Louis Kmart with 19 games shoved down his pants. Classy.

Well, that just happened. Aliens: Colonial Marines launched today, and you've probably already dissected Dan Whitehead's verdict on the long-awaited game from Gearbox. Still, while it might hardly be a great game, it's definitely an interesting one, and you might want to check out what exactly all the fuss is about.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2's Revolution DLC that came to Xbox Live users last month will be coming to PSN and PC on 28th February for $14.99. It's also included as part of the season pass.

The 90's Arcade Racer - a Kickstarter-based racing game by Greek developer Antonis "Pelikan 13" Pelekanos - has been picked up by Cave Story and VVVVVV publisher Nicalis for release on Wii U, PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.