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The Android and iOS version of this year's Football Manager will be released at midnight tonight in the UK, publisher Sega has announced.

Nixies are a wonderful piece of retro tech: they're a means of creating digital displays that relies on funny little glass vacuum tubes. Fragile and captivating, it's hard to look at this ingenious relic of the 20th century without wishing they'd caught on - even though they'd presumably have meant that we'd all be making weekly trips to the local horologist. Eccentrics like Steve Wozniak have Nixie tube wristwatches, at any rate - and in Metro: Last Light, so will you, the gadget's bright, rather spindly meshed lettering linked to the internal clock on your PC or console. Whatever happens, there's that digital readout, staring up at you from the wrist of Artyom, the series' sharp-shootin' protagonist, as he ventures through this strange, frightening jury-rigged world where yesterday and tomorrow have collided painfully.

Seems like only two months ago that Funcom assured me The Secret World wouldn't go free-to-play "any time soon", and that it needed to prove the subscription model "has not gone the way of the dinosaur". Oh, it was two months ago.

Nintendo Network Premium, the reward scheme for Wii U Premium owners, has gone live in the UK. (We're a few days late realising this, but thought it was still worth pointing out).

THQ is giving away the PC version of moody first-person shooter Metro 2033 for free.

Nintendo has explained why it decided not to include online multiplayer in Wii U launch title Nintendo Land.

Dishonored is many things, but a casual distraction is not one of them. It's a thoughtful, weighty game in which every action must be weighed, measured and carried out with as much care and precision as you can muster. Such an experience was always going to be tricky to fit into a bite-sized downloadable shell, and Dunwall City Trials - a collection of 10 standalone challenges - is, inevitably, a mixed bag.

Around 40 people - a third - of the Rift development team have reportedly been let go by Trion.

Silicon Knights' cancelled games have been laid bare as part of a wide-ranging investigation by a member of NeoGAF.

It's Christmas, a time traditionally associated with joy, happiness and generosity of spirit. Currently available only in Canada, one might consider the Wii Mini something of a festive gift from Nintendo: a complete console package for just $99 CAD - that's around £63 GBP, or just over $100 in US dollars. Unfortunately, behind the attractive price-point we find a hardware proposition that reeks of the kind of spite and mean-spiritedness that Ebeneezer Scrooge would be proud of. This is a savagely compromised version of the original hardware that we can only recommend to the least discerning of gamers.

New job ads suggest Sony has greenlit a follow-up to PlayStation exclusive brawler PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

Toki Tori 2 developer Two Tribes has pushed back its upcoming Wii U, PC and Mac platformer from its scheduled 20th December release to early next year.

Kinect Party - Double Fine's sequel to Happy Action Theater - is due out on 18th December where it will remain free for the remainder of the year. After that it will increase to an unannounced price.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance producer Atsushi Inaba said the upcoming slice-and-dice action spin-off "would have been very dull" had it simply stuck to combat.

Angry Birds developer Rovio Entertainment has officially announced that it's making a feature film based on the popular mobile game.

Sega is suing Professor Layton publisher Level-5 for its use of a mechanic where players control characters via "a finger or pen" in its anime-inspired footy series Inazuma Eleven.

Yesterday I wrote about a tech demonstration video from a PC and next-gen consoles project, a medieval RPG. Given its target platforms we billed it as a possible glimpse of the future, a glimpse of next-gen.

Exceptional top-down f***-'em-up Hotline Miami has sold 130,000 copies since launch seven weeks ago, publisher Devolver Digital told me today.

Were you ever lucky enough to run through the blue-lit corridors of the Trocadero's Alien War? Based in the bowels of Shaftesbury Avenue's ever-devolving entertainment complex, it was a staged tour of terror that set up shop in London for three short years, and it was pantomime of the highest order.

The test George Osborne and his friends will use to pick which games are eligible for UK tax breaks has been made public.

Super duper Vita shooter Velocity looks set for a sequel.

The tempo has changed in the battle of the blockbuster shooters. Those big launch weekends still matter, of course - if only for the large, context-free figures they generate which can in turn be fed into the PR machine to generate yet more sales from gamers unwilling to miss out.

Rymdkapsel doesn't look much like Minecraft (in actuality, the only thing it really resembles is wall art for some big ticket New York restaurant) but it often feels like it all the same. Grapfrukt's latest is a strikingly colourful strategy game about building bases, gathering resources, and fighting off waves of enemies. It has the same cyclical shift between dreamy spells of pure construction and bursts of terrified defence that gives Notch's classic such a hectic thrill. It has the same constant struggle between the things you plan and the materials you have at your disposal, rendering every little victory so intensely - so intimately - satisfying.

The Last of Us developer Naughty Dog has defended its decision to include a multiplayer mode in the game, yesterday revealed in a list of pre-order bonuses.

There was no getting around it. As a multiplayer online battle arena - or MOBA, as League of Legends and its ilk like to be known - based on The Lord of the Rings, Guardians of Middle-earth was always going to have Gandalf fighting Galadriel. A buffed Gollum killing Legolas. Some pro hobbit from the mystical land of Detroit killing the Witch-king of Angmar, over and over again. That's chemical nerdicide potent enough to make me, just a casual fan of the films, feel a bit like a child being touched inappropriately by an elderly relative.

Supermarket giant Sainsbury's and music streaming service Napster are among the latest brands to launch Xbox 360 apps.

The Wii U launched in Japan last weekend with initial sales amounting to 307,471 units, a new report suggests.

Real-time strategy classic Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War has been added to the Humble THQ Bundle.

Update: Godus is being developed for Mac as well, 22cans announced today on its latest Kickstarter update.

Retro rhythm-themed mini-game collection Bit.Trip Saga is coming to the North American 3DS eShop on 20th December for $14.99, Siliconera has reported.