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GAME has announced lock-ins for a number of its stores, after-hours community events where you can play games before they're out.

Mutant Mudds and Dementium developer Jools Watsham has clarified his comments about the Nintendo 3DS and piracy.

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a restful break filled with fun and merriment. Did you get any games for Christmas? I ended up with Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for the Wii U and Rocket Slime on DS, which I've wanted for ages. When Martin reviewed Sonic Racing he jokingly suggested we give it an "S" rank rather than a score, and I can see why - it's a masterful combination of great racing game design and Sega fan service. Sumo Digital forever!

The numbers affixed to the end of big-name franchises continue to grow and grow (and it's kind of hard not to see the name of the new BioShock as a knowing reference to this fact). But sequels continue to be the backbone of the industry, and the focus of so much of our attention.

Examine Warren Spector's personally annotated copy of the first Deus Ex design document and you can immediately tell that production wasn't entirely smooth. The pages are littered with alterations and strikeouts, the only section left unmarked the marketing spiel in the preamble. It refers to the game by its working title, Majestic Revelations.

Gamers who buy a used Wii U console can re-download any content that a previous owner purchased, a new report suggests.

Activision-published James Bond games have been pulled from sale on Steam and Activision's own web store.

Shares in gargantuan US game shop GameStop fell seven per cent yesterday following the news that Sony had filed a patent designed to restrict the use of second-hand games.

Age of Empires Online development has ended, Microsoft has announced.

Dreadline, an action RPG/RTS hybrid about a team of monsters going back in time to slaughter people before they would die anyway from natural disasters, has arrived on Kickstarter via new Boston-based studio Eerie Canal.

The Kickstarter for War for the Overworld, a game heavily inspired by Bullfrog classic Dungeon Keeper, has proved a success.

English Country Tune creator Stephen "Increpare" Lavelle has made the greatest assault to the senses since Pikachu gave all those Japanese kids seizures back in 1997.

Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid has confirmed a sequel to its beloved retro platformer.

Super Crate Box and Serious Sam: The Random Encounter creator Vlambeer has released a new free top-down combat game entitled Techno King.

Canabalt creator Adam Saltsman and Solipskier co-creator Greg Wohlwend have teamed up to release their latest iOS offering Hundreds to the App Store today.

Update: GameStick has already met its $100,000 Kickstarter goal after just over a day. That was quick!

Low: Depths of Knossos is a first-person procedurally generated roguelike that places players in the sandals of Theseus as he hunts the legendary Minotaur through the labyrinths of Crete.

The Wii U version of Need for Speed: Most Wanted will be playable entirely with the GamePad, publisher EA has announced.

Sony's PlayStation division has patented technology that can block the use of second hand games on a console.

Our new YouTube man Ian Higton (check out his Games of 2012 piece on Minecraft 360 if you missed his introduction) has been busy since he got back from his Christmas hols. Busy slaying demons.

The people behind The Ship sequel have changed course for Steam Greenlight Concepts after its Kickstarter failed.

New IPs, we're told, aren't really feasible at the tail-end of a generation, so it's heartening to sit down and discover that a sizeable part of the games industry is sticking its tongues out at the likes of Yves Guillemot and Peter Moore; 2013's looking like it's going to be an absolutely stellar year for Actual New Games.

Microsoft has bought promising startup R2 Studios, which has previously worked on media-streaming and space-age home automation technology.

Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 launches on 12th March 2013, developer City Interactive has announced.

UPDATE: Activision has told Eurogamer the below video is unofficial and was not released by Activision. However, the publisher has confirmed it is made from official in-game footage supplied to IGN for a video interview published last month and is legitimate.

As those of you who have been on Eurogamer for a while will know, we like to do an annual survey to get to know our readers better. The survey includes questions about the site design, editorial and a bunch of stuff about what kind of gamer you are. If you have a few spare minutes, we would be really grateful for your input.

Videos of Kinect exclusive Crimson Dragon, the spiritual successor to Panzer Dragoon, have emerged after a demo of the game was published on and subsequently pulled from Xbox Live Marketplace in Japan.

A dedicated group of fans is creating a shockingly faithful Jurassic Park adaptation using Half-Life 2's Source engine.

A community in Connecticut has rallied together to collect and destroy violent video games. How are they doing this, you ask? By rewarding $25 gift certificates for every person who turns in violent media.

Official Xbox Magazine has revealed the first Tomb Raider multiplayer details.