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In 2012, Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson earned $101 million (~£64 million).

Assassin's Creed developer Ubisoft has revealed it binned a "huge" co-op mode that was originally planned for Assassin's Creed 1.

Update: We have updated this article to more firmly state that while the 'home' of cloned hardware is undoubtedly China and the Far East, the often poor build quality and standards are not a fair reflection on the outputs of a region that produces some of the most technologically advanced hardware in the business.

A Borderlands 2 writer has responded to allegations of racism surrounding the African American lingo of white game character Tiny Tina.

For those new to all this, the clue's in the title: it's all about champions duelling with a bit of might and magic, innit? Duel of Champions comes from a storied lineage of Might & Magic-based collectible card games (CCGs), and among its many changes is a defining one: this is free to play, and on iPad to boot.

This year Facebook will spearhead the launch of 10 games designed to appeal to a core gaming audience: you.

Promising Kickstarted game The Banner Saga is now due some time "mid-year" 2013, developer Stoic has announced. It once carried a rough November 2012 date that evidently didn't come to pass.

HMV will this week announce the closure of between 60 and 100 stores, putting as many as 1500 jobs at risk, a report suggests.

Wizard role-player Ni No Kuni has snatched the top spot in the UK all-format charts, unseating last week's number one Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Sam Fisher started off as a ghost, haunting the shadows of the early Splinter Cells, before evolving into the panther of Double Agent and Conviction, pouncing from the dark in a brutal and more savage form of stealth. In truth, though, he's always been something of a chameleon, evolving to reflect changing times and shifting appetites. Blacklist is yet another transformation - but contrary to popular belief it's largely a return to the smarter, more covert style of the original Xbox games.

The PlayStation 3 Super Slim may not have hugely impressed us when we took a look at it in its 500GB incarnation a couple of months back, but we were excited by its future potential - specifically, the ability to offer a full PS3 experience at a very low retail price. At upwards of £200 at launch, the new model was simply too expensive when the older Slim offered better build quality at much the same price, but in the post-Christmas sales the 12GB entry-level machine was available to buy for less than £120. Now that's superb value you simply can't argue with.

Fairy tales, like so much fiction, are all about leaving the village. Figuratively, of course, as the young man or woman departs the familiar confines of childhood and strikes out into the wilds of puberty, with its rioting hormones and hair-sproutings. But literally too, with many an acne'd protagonist peeling back the village gate in order to make their way in the terrible world, so full of life, love and painful lessons. The Japanese RPG is no different in this regard. Wake up from a start screen in a wispy hamlet or pastoral town and you can be sure you'll be kicked into the wildernesses before the hour's gone. This is how the digital hero's journey goes.

Hello Eurogamers, it's time once again for an update from Outside Xbox! Most recently we've been preparing for Dead Space 3 with Show of the Week, in which we take a look at the game's new additions to the Dead Space formula, bemoan microtransactions, and explore terrible video game religions:

Sci-fi survival shooter Dead Space 3 includes micro-transactions, Eurogamer uncovered last week, as a way to save time with the game's weapon-crafting system. The response to this news was fairly one-sided: that publisher EA had switched into full money-grabbing mode to nickel-and-dime hardcore gamers. It was another example of a company initiating a "pay to win" scheme, and an encroachment of free-to-play principles into a game that already costs £40. But is it really such a controversial move? Is it that unexpected? Or is it, like other time-saving examples in console games, something you can just ignore?

Earlier this week I wrote about Surgeon Simulator 2013, a riveting byproduct of last weekend's Global Game Jam where the theme was "Heartbeat." Somehow Surgeon Simulator 2013 didn't take top honours, but that's only because the grand prize went to the spectacularly named Kevin Costner's Tatanka Hunting Simulator 2013.

The latest game in Frogwares' long-running Sherlock Holmes franchise, Crimes & Punishments, has been announced via publisher Focus Home Interactive.

Critically-acclaimed turn-based strategy game Frozen Synapse will be coming to PS3 and Vita later this year as Frozen Synapse: Tactics, where it will be published and co-developed by LittleBigPlanet Vita developer Double Eleven.

Back in November Double Fine did a crazy thing. Gearing up for its annual Amnesia Fortnight brainstorming activity - in which the studio branches off into small groups for two weeks to create game prototypes - Double Fine invited fans to vote on which game ideas would become prototypes. A week later the winners were announced and those who donated towards the project's Humble Bundle were granted access to the prototypes upon their completion.

Sony's highly anticipated successor to the PS3 is set to launch later this year in Japan and North America, but not reach Europe until early next year, according a report by Edge.

Maker Mojang is overwhelmed by the success of Minecraft. Remember that Mojang is a just small Swedish developer that was founded by Markus "Notch" Persson when Minecraft exploded. Then learn that Mojang earned a reported $240 million (£152 million) in 2012.

His name is Agent 47, and I do believe you know his work. He's the world's greatest assassin; travelling the globe to bring a civilised kind of murder for hire to those who deserve it, and somehow world famous despite his greatest talent being getting in and out with nobody knowing he was ever there. Take nothing but lives. Leave nothing but mystery. That's the Hitman way.

Files relating to an upcoming Mass Effect 3 DLC have been unearthed in a new patch for the game.

Pop-it-in-your-pocket Android gaming console GameStick has been funded six-times over on Kickstarter.

Another blockbuster game, another flashy and fleshy live action - real actors bringing a video game scene to life - video.

Big booming British bearded Thespian Brian Blessed is voicing War of the Roses DLC.

When I reviewed Hitman Absolution last year I used it as an excuse to dive back into Hitman: Blood Money, and I was surprised how well that game has aged. It lacks some of the default mechanics (a cover system, for instance) and polish of modern action and stealth games, but its ingenuity and diabolical sense of humour help it overcome the ravages of time.

Dead Space 3 will launch with nearly a dozen slices of DLC, designed to help players accrue in-game loot faster and kit out hero Isaac Clarke with new weapons and suits.

Roughly 190 HMV staff have been made redundant following the retailer's recent downfall into administration.

Temple Run 2 is now the fastest-spreading mobile game ever in the world ever. In 13 days it has been downloaded 50 million times across Android, iOS and Kindle devices.

I've come to realise that I'm a fan of Haemimont Games. This realisation caught me off guard, as the Bulgarian developer has never made a game that could honestly be described as "great", but it does specialise in the sort of endearingly charming C-list fare that can smuggle fun gameplay and quirky ideas inside slightly ramshackle code. This is the studio behind the breezy Tropico 4 and the daft but likeable The First Templar.