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2011's free indie title Treasure Adventure Game was a well-received labour of love from Stephen Orlando, aka Robit Studios, that combined the bright, sea-faring setting of Wind Waker with a retro 2D Metroidvania design. It made a bit of a splash in the indie game community and now Orlando is remaking it in conjunction with developer Chucklefish as Treasure Adventure World.

YouTube user Bill Kiley has reimagined popular TV series Downton Abbey as a 16-bit Super Nintendo game in the brilliant fake trailer below.

The Xbox 360 and PS3 Collector's Editions of Ubisoft's upcoming stealth action game Splinter Cell Blacklist will contain a remote controlled plane.

Sony is releasing a limited run of "Garnet Red" and "Azurite Blue" PS3s in the UK starting on 15th February.

No Time to Explain, a fast-paced action platformer about "time travel, jetpack guns and ribs in people's eyes" was released today on Steam after it was successfully greenlit by the community.

Update: NIS America has revealed that Persona 4 Golden will be released on 20th February on the EU PSN, two days ahead of its retail release.

The PC version of Resident Evil 6 will feature the exclusive The Mercenaries: No Mercy mode, an extra challenging rendition of the classic time-attack mode that pits you against endless waves of enemies.

DayZ creator Dean Hall seemed stressed. DayZ Standalone missed an end-of-year release window and it feels like he's been apologizing ever since.

Richard Hofmeier is about to go on a rant. A very polite rant, as it happens. A rant so polite, in fact, that he starts - as all good rants don't - with an apology. "Bear with me, this is going to be a rant," he announces, "so I'm sorry."

Hotline Miami is all about its soundtrack, that stylish "sort of hazy neon electronica", as Tom Bramwell nailed it in his 10/10 review of the game.

Funcom Beijing, which did lots of art and animation for The Secret World, will be closed down this year, Funcom has announced.

Fight for Fortune is the Vita's Uncharted card battling game. Every one of the series' characters, from Drake to Francis Drake to Draza, battles over treasure using tropes from the series ("CAVE IN!", "Sully's Sea Plane"), all in card form. How does this end up? Well, (full warning, this review's about to peak) it's a little thin.

"Mac gamers rejoice," writes EA, because Origin for Mac will be "launching soon".

Update: A spokesperson for European distributor Blaze told me this morning that there will be more Neo Geo X Gold Limited Edition stock arriving the week after next. Funstock is the place to buy/pre-order.

Nintendo appears to be using the inferior 50Hz mode for games on the European Wii U Virtual Console, whereas other regions can use the 60Hz mode.

Sega sent a press release overnight about its Relic acquisition, and seemed to suggest it had acquired the Warhammer 40,000 IP as well.

UPDATE: Nintendo has confirmed the existence Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon's multiplayer mode. Up to four players will be able to enter a towering 'Scarescraper' and work together to defeat floors of ghosts.

Earlier this week Capcom announced that its formerly 3DS-exclusive Resident Evil: Revelations would be coming to PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360 and PC in an enhanced version. As many pointed out, the Vita was omitted from this list. But why?

This came out last summer, but I'm ashamed to say I'd never heard of it until a festive App Store sale and snazzy icon tempted a punt. It turns out to be a rare treasure, a high-concept hybrid role-playing game that manages to pack an epic and funny quest into the most unusual of structures.

Gaming peripheral manufacturer Logitech is shuttering its development of console accessories in favour of mobile and PC doodads following a loss of $180 million dollars, the company announced in its latest financial report.

80's classic foursome the Ghostbusters are starring in Capcom's new iOS RPG simply titled Ghostbusters, which sneakily came out on the App Store earlier today.

Early access to The Last of Us' demo will be granted to those who purchase God of War: Ascension upon its release on 13th March.

Web and app developer teamPixel has turned to crowdfunding site Indiegogo in an effort to purchase THQ's cult classic space strategy series Homeworld following the publisher's recent bankruptcy.

Award-winning PC strategy game Total War: Shogun 2 is being repackaged as a Gold Edition that will include its Rise of The Samurai and Fall of The Samurai expansions along with all the DLC for the series - excluding the Blood Pack, Sega has announced.

A nine-minute video of Dead Island Riptide debuts the first gameplay footage of Deep Silver's upcoming zombie sequel.

Update #4: Does IP changing hands equal upheaval? Does upheaval equal game delay? Obsidian's South Park: Stick of Truth was due in March. Is it still? "It's too soon to say," Ubisoft told me this afternoon. "We'll have more details to share about plans for specific games soon."

Doors open in the video games industry for someone like Cliff Bleszinski. He's famous in these parts. He left Epic Games in October and got away from it all, put some trunks on, went on holiday and spent time with his wife. Now he's had his break, what does he plan to do?

Crazy, kinetic and, in its own peculiar way, cool - there's been nothing quite like Earth Defence Force 2017 before or after its release, well over five years ago. It's everything a modern video game shouldn't be: unpolished, archaic and aggressively stupid. Yet it's also got all the qualities a video game should aspire to. Boisterous and fun, this is a game with a canny intellect ticking away behind its big dumb grin.

Apple had a Gala Christmas, harvesting a juicy profit of $13.1 billion in three months.

I know it's unwise, but this review is being written at a high pitch of fury. If I could erase Strike Suit Zero from existence I would, but as it is I'll settle for removing it from my hard drive and raising a glass as its bytes blink into oblivion. I rarely properly hate games, and have never detested something quite as obviously accomplished as Strike Suit Zero before. Don't let the prettiness fool you; buy this and you might as well peel off your skin and jump in a vinegar bath.