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"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.

A new and bigger iPad 4 will be released 5th February, Apple has announced.

This week Nintendo will release its crucial third-quarter sales results and reveal how Wii U fared during its initial two months on sale. The company had promised to ship 5.5 million Wii U consoles by the end of March and end the financial year back in the black, thus avoiding a repeat of last year's damaging loss - the first in the company's history.

"You just get tired of it after a while." He probably couldn't have put it better. He being Greg Zeschuk, one of the founders of BioWare, and one half of its famous and now retired doctor duo leadership.

So it begins. We've had Nuketown Zombies already, of course, but today marks the release (on Xbox Live, at least) of the first of four proper downloadable map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. Called Revolution, it consists of four new multiplayer arenas, a Zombies co-op map called Die Rise, and the new Turned mode, where you play as zombies trying to gobble up humans. Amazing scenes.

Unlike most multi-platform games released in the twilight of this generation, Dead Space 3 on PC won't be a considerably superior version of the game on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Catch a glimpse of Disney Infinity in passing and you'd probably conclude that it's a shameless rip-off of Skylanders. Investigate a little, however, and it all gets a touch stranger. In truth, it's probably safer to describe Disney Infinity as a shameless rip-off of Skylanders and LittleBigPlanet and Minecraft, and maybe some of the Lego games. It's a synthesis - or perhaps a mutant. It could be massive.

Sheldon Pacotti has released an improved version of biological simulation Cell: emergence he hopes will demystify the "massively reactive" game mechanics.

Rare veteran George Andreas has left Microsoft to join Sony.

14 years since its release and the Sega Dreamcast refuses to die with a small, but dedicated fanbase that continues to develop and purchase games for it. Last year we had NG:DEV.TEAM's Gunlord, and its creator René Hellwig's upcoming Dreamcast title Redux: Dark Matters more than doubled its Kickstarter goal. Now Redux's developer Hucast Games is at it again with shmup The Ghost Blade, due on Sega's final console in 2013.

The World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth creators' subversive satire Little Inferno is coming to iPads 2 and up on 31st January, developer Tomorrow Corporation has announced on the company blog.

Indie developer Rob Allison has decided to make his "ultra fast-paced platformer" 14px permanently free on Android.

Update: Jonathan Coulton has retaliated by releasing his original Baby Got Back cover on iTunes; the proceeds of which will go to charity.

What can you do while waiting for DayZ Standalone? Chew on someone's face while spangled on bath salts, or try a new ArmA 2 mod called DayZ Origins?

If you spend any time on Eurogamer then you are bound to have run across Digital Foundry, our tech imprint run by veteran journalist Richard Leadbetter.

In the Walking Dead comics, fighting a zombie is always a massive deal. Its survivors are all too aware of the dangers involved, the risk of attracting attention, and how one false step means death. They'll do almost anything to avoid a big fight. So the series doesn't seem ideal for a video game subtitled 'Assault' - but the first of many surprises here is how smartly it's approached unfamiliar territory.

"Ooh we've got multiplayer battles for 64 people versus 64." Shut up. In Eve Online, one does it by the thousands.

A Gears of War: Judgment demo launches for Xbox Live Gold members on 19th March, Epic Games has announced.

In an age where great iOS games seem to come out every week, you always need that little bit extra to stand out. Wave Trip is unusual enough, a 2D left-to-right flying game where the level's elements are also the sounds. But as well as its own layouts, called songs, Wave Trip offers a brilliant interface for building your own and brings in other user-generated content seamlessly.

BAFTA award-winning composer Normand Corbeil, who scored Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer and died aged 56.

DmC: Devil May Cry didn't upset the chart for long: Black Ops 2 is back on top this week followed by FIFA 13 in second and Far Cry 3 in third.

Launch week sales for DmC Devil May Cry were just a third of the amount that previous entry Devil May Cry 4 sold during its launch week in 2008.

Kentucky Route Zero is a fascinating game. The IGF-nominated adventure is so fascinating, in fact, that we've taken the unusual decision not to review it, despite the first of five episodes being available to download right now.

With DmC Devil May Cry, Ninja Theory proved that it was possible to preserve the fast-paced signature gameplay of the Devil May Cry games while adopting a reduced 30FPS update, thus allowing for a significant leap in graphical quality, bringing features such as dynamic environments, object blur and higher precision lighting to the table. In effect, the developer managed to balance out pure visual spectacle with rewarding gameplay mechanics while giving the series a fresh new beginning. But for some of the hardcore Devil May Cry fanbase, this is not enough. For them, its 60FPS frame-rate and the associated low-latency controls are two fundamental pillars of the series that have defined the gameplay across four previous titles.

There is a particular category of game - not a specific genre - that can be called endless. Tetris would be an obvious example, and at another pole there's something like Disgaea. Games where the core idea is so beautifully executed it can be escalated and repeated ad infinitum yet never loses its freshness. Things you could play forever. Devil May Cry 3 is one of the best, and despite its turbo-charged action is the ultimate slow-burner.

March is the month for platform exclusive prequels it seems, and from Sony's Santa Monica studios comes a real belter of a slash-em-up. As the developer's second major foray on PlayStation 3, God of War: Ascension renders out the early days of perpetual angry-man, Kratos, and gives us a chance to see where the team's penchant for striking, mythic backdrops has taken it this time. It may be back to square one for the leading demi-god, but a calm before the storm this most certainly is not.

Greetings, Eurogamers. This week, we've been spelunking through Double Fine's downloadable puzzler The Cave. It's the star of Show of the Week, in which we hail the adventure game - a genre pronounced dead more frequently than Doctor Who and that keeps coming back in new and hipper forms, much like the Doctor also.

This week has seen two big stories about premium games trying to squeeze ever-more money out of their players. They're not immediately obvious bedfellows; Square Enix's Final Fantasy: All the Bravest is a mobile title divided into cash-hungry chunks, and Dead Space 3 is as typical an AAA console title as you'll get. But both excite the same feeling of unease, and not just because they share a common theme of exploitation; it's that point where something bearable becomes too much.

Chompston begins with a simple question: What if Pac-Man fought ghosts by laying bombs?