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MMO shooter Defiance launches globally on 2nd April, Trion Worlds has announced.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 in-game Twitch.tv broadcasting is now live on Xbox 360.

UK schools will receive a donation of 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model B computers, courtesy of Google.

Ragnarok Online publisher Gungho Online Entertainment has acquired No More Heroes and Lollipop Chainsaw developer Grasshopper Manufacturer.

DayZ and ArmA 3 developer Bohemia Interactive has announced Arma Tactics, a turn-based close-combat strategy game for NVIDIA Tegra devices.

Kung-fu fighting romp Sleeping Dogs will soon be expanded in Year of the Snake, a new add-on themed around Chinese New Year.

Warren Spector has issued an impassioned farewell to Junction Point, which Disney closed yesterday.

There are few games that will ever have as much impact on the games industry as Doom. Two decades after release it remains a touchstone for the genre, and has influenced a whole generation of designers; the shooter that defined a thousand shooters.

The Prince of Persia series is being "paused" by Ubisoft.

Holy Moly! King's Landing - the main city in George RR Martin's realm of Westeros (A Song of Ice and Fire, AKA A Game of Thrones) - has been recreated in Minecraft.

Mass Effect 3 producer Casey Hudson and producer Michael Gamble have each tweeted pics of what could be the last DLC we'll get of the 10 month old game.

CCP has just flicked a very important switch. Today - shortly before this article was published - the Icelandic company's PlayStation 3 shooter Dust 514 entered open beta testing, which for a free-to-play game like this is as good as a soft launch. It's the moment the game's digital doors are thrown open to the public. Although CCP is 15 years old, this is only its second game launch. It's a big day.

With the emergence of hit video game streaming websites such as Twitch.tv and in-client tournament viewers, eSports is booming. But while hundreds of thousands visit packed venues and millions tune in online to watch their favourite professional StarCraft, League of Legends and Dota players and teams battle it out, eSports is yet to hit the mainstream in the west as it has done in South Korea. Some believe it can. Some believe it can't. Some believe it shouldn't even try.

The two top men leading development on Naughty Dog's The Last of Us have spoken of the pressure they felt being responsible for creating another hit franchise from the Uncharted developer.

Nintendo has cut the number of Wii U consoles and games it reckons it will sell this year, after lower than expected sales over the Christmas period.

Indie puzzle/platformer Escape Goat may have begun as an XBLIG game, but it became far more successful once its creator Ian Stocker ported it to PC. As such, its recently announced sequel Escape Goat 2 will be heading to PC first, though other platforms are being considered. It's slated for release sometime in 2013.

The remaining members of Gas Powered Games may be in a pickle with the Wildman Kickstarter only a third funded, but that hasn't stopped its laid off staffer Ryan Sharr from starting his own Kickstarter with his colleague Zach Barson for the zombie apocalypse/base-building game Roam.

Update: Epic Mickey 2 sold 529,000 copies between its 18th November release and New Year's in the US, according the NPD group (via Joystiq).

Update: Rising Star issued the following update regarding the releases date:

Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki revealed that he won't be directly involved in the production of Dark Souls 2.

The creator of the multiplayer heist game Monaco, Andy Schatz, thinks that designing a game around a crowdsourced campaign with a variable budget is "bulls***."

World of Tanks creator Wargaming has purchased F.E.A.R. 3 developer Day 1 Studios for $20 million.

Rockstar Games boss Dan Houser bought writer Truman Capote's ridiculous three-storey New York penthouse in March 2012 for a colossal $12.5 million smackaroos.

Update: Crytek CEO, Cevat Yerli confirmed in a Gamasutra interview that Crytek is not intending to purchase the Darksiders IP.

Dead Space 3's executive producer Steve Papoutsis outlined four of the game's optional modes that unlock when you beat the game once.

PlayStation Vita exclusive Soul Sacrifice launches in Europe on Wednesday 1st May, Sony announced on the PlayStation Blog today.

Former Fable developer James Duncan has released the first gameplay video for Rogue Star, the iOS space combat and trading indie game.

The "Denpa" Men belongs to that weird subset of video games that insist on getting you out of the house. Like Boktai on the GBA or Treasure Park for the Vita, Genius Sonority's cheerful, lycra-clad dungeon-crawler wants you to grab your handheld and go for a walk - down the garden path, past the shed, maybe even across town. As you move about, you'll be looking for wi-fi signals. You'll be looking for "Denpa" men. They come by wave.

"You're reviewing Clash of Heroes again?" Tom asked me in yesterday's meeting. Why bother? It's a fair question. We've had more than our fair say on Capybara's brilliant hybrid of role-playing game, turn-based strategy and match-three puzzler already.

Update: Rebellion, the tease, has ended speculation and told me this new game relates "definitively" to Sniper Elite.