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There's a lovely moment very early on in this feature length documentary where footage of the Swedish countryside where Markus "Notch" Perrson grew up segues into the landscape of Minecraft, the bash-and-build indie hit that made his fortune.

Martin Pezlar and Ivan Buchta - the two Bohemia Interactive employees jailed on espionage charges in Greece but now bailed - have returned home.

Survarium, the free-to-play PC MMOFPS from former developers of the Stalker series, goes into open beta at the end of 2013.

Square Enix has released Hitman: HD Trilogy screenshots that give us our first look at the high definition revamp collection.

Playing a good puzzle game is like watching an experienced stand-up comic riffing on a joke. There's the initial elation at the elegant construction and the skilled deployment of ideas, and then the anxious wait as you see how long and how far the concept can be spun out before it loses momentum and spirals out of control.

Last year it was GAME in dire straits, now it's HMV (and Blockbuster, but that will have to be a different story). Administrator Deloitte has taken control of HMV, refusing gift vouchers, turning off HMV.com but keeping stores open. HMV doesn't see it as "the final chapter", but acknowledges "it might have to be a slightly different future". What HMV and Deloitte are hoping for - like GAME was a year before it - is a buyer.

Gas Powered Games has shared a fairly long video of its new PC game Wildman in action.

UK publisher and developer Codemasters is currently in consultation with a number of staff who were told yesterday they were at risk of losing their jobs.

UPDATE: Criterion has been in touch with Eurogamer to ask that we make it clear that it is the developer of Need for Speed: Most Wanted on Wii U.

Curt Schilling - the Baseball great who swung at video games and missed, taking 38 Studios and Big Huge Games down with him, plus a lot of taxpayer's money - is selling off his own stuff to raise money to pay debts.

There won't be a Tomb Raider demo, Crystal Dynamics has confirmed.

GAME wants to buy up to 45 HMV stores.

Following on from Tuesday's DmC live stream, Eurogamer YouTube man Ian Higton will be back at the controls tonight from 5pm GMT / 6pm CET to play through the start of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. Ian will be playing from the start of the game, which is due out on 2nd February, and has some themed goodies to give away too.

New QPR striker Loic Remy has said he signed for the Premier League club after playing chairman Tony Fernandes at FIFA 12.

Developer Almost Human has hailed the success of role-playing game Legend of Grimrock and announced it has sold over 600,000 copies.

The Left 4 Dead 2 Workshop has moved out of beta, Valve has announced.

Valve has launched Steam Guides. Guess what it does.

UPDATE 2: Japanese magazine Famitsu has released the first trailer for Killer is Dead. It's below.

Diablo 3 game director Jay Wilson has left the project to work on something new at Blizzard.

Language can be weird. Take Tokyo Crash Mobs as an example: if I told you that this 3DS eShop curio is a game about going bowling with strangers, you might think I was describing some kind of 10-pin multiplayer set-up with leaderboards and asynchronous challenges. Not quite. It's about going bowling with strangers: it's a match-three game in which you roll - or sometimes throw - brightly clothed dandies into snaking queues and jiggling conga lines of other brightly clothed dandies in order to group colours together and cancel people out. The dandies are called scenesters, incidentally, and the groups of same-hued scenesters you steadily remove are called cliques.

A new bill has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would make ESRB ratings legally binding.

All of Far Cry 3's pre-order DLC has been released today as part of the Deluxe Bundle priced at £7.99 / $9.99 / 800 Microsoft Points.

Sega's spectacular racing comeback Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will be getting a host of new characters from Team Fortress 2, Football Manager and Shogun: Total War upon its release for PC on 31st January for £19.99 / €24.99 / $29.99.

Critically acclaimed platformer Dustforce's developer Hitbox Team has outlined its upcoming FPS, Spire.

Dean Hall sounds fed up, and he's finally broken his silence on shady DayZ copycat The War Z.

The previously announced PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale DLC that grants access to Gravity Rush's Kat and Starhawk's Emmett Graves is due on 13th February, developer SuperBot announced on the EU PlayStation Blog.

Oddworld developers Just Add Water is plugging away at its upcoming Abe's Oddysee remake, New N' Tasty!, but it's unsure what game it wants to make after that, so it's asking fans for their input.

Trials Evolution: Gold Edition releases on PC on 22nd March in shops and as a download, Ubisoft has announced.

UPDATE: Ubisoft has confirmed a UK release date of 23rd August for Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

UPDATE: LucasArts has told Eurogamer the PlayStation Germany Facebook page post published earlier today was "inaccurate".