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2013 looks to be a challenging year for the games industry. With no new PlayStation or Xbox on the immediate horizon, anyone already queueing up has a long wait ahead of them. Even titans of the industry will find themselves squeezed as the cost of developing games rises without vast floods of new money to pay. Most importantly, the first real wave of Kickstarter games will be landing, determining the fate of crowd-sourcing in the wake of the Mayan apocalypse.

Halo 4's episodic Spartan Ops co-op campaign will continue in January, as was revealed in a new trailer at the VGAs.

Update: Petroglyph Games specified that its workforce was reduced by 19 employees, bringing it to over 90 people. The developer issued the following statement to Eurogamer:

Involuntary Runner is a neat spin on the the free-running genre crossed with a rhythm game and adorned with a good old heap of science... sort of.

Far Cry 3 may be a gorgeous, brilliant open-world adventure, but its mesmerizing visuals and exotic tigers are often obstructed by an obtrusive UI that impedes the immersion by mothering you with objectives and tips.

Historically Nintendo's online presence has been lackluster to say the least. The Wii's digital storefront Wiiware had some great games like World of Goo, the Lost Winds series, and just this summer we saw the fiendishly difficult exploratory platformer La-Mulana make an appearance. Yet, by and large the service was forgotten. It didn't have the visibility or diversity of XBLA, PSN or Steam and customers tended to forget it existed. Nintendo certainly hasn't been doing it any favours by releasing a new model of the Wii that can't even go online to access its own shop.

Yes, you can stealth in a cardboard box in Metal Gear Rising: Revenegeance.

The wait is over: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition has been released on iPad for £6.99.

James Bond developer Eurocom today made its remaining staff redundant and ceased trading, Eurogamer can reveal.

Nintendo of Europe blocks access to 18-rated content on the Wii U eShop at certain times of day, system messages suggest.

The BioShock Vita version is being hammered out by the suits at Take-Two and Sony, Ken Levine has said.

BioShock Infinite has been delayed a month to March 2013, Irrational Games chief Ken Levine has announced.

It's not common for a triple-A game to go a year and a half without appearing at a trade show or releasing any new information, but that's what BioShock Infinite has just done. After a stellar showing last spring, Irrational went dark on its highly anticipated spiritual successor to one of this generation's most acclaimed new properties. Some high-level staff left, others were recruited onto the project, and the game's now being pushed back an additional four weeks. Creative lead Ken Levine has even said that the studio was exploring multiplayer possibilities before ultimately deciding to focus all its efforts towards single-player, which may have contributed to the continued hold-up and lack of communication.

I've fallen back in love, and it feels great. My romance with Skyrim last winter - has it really been a year? - was heady and intense, but over the months since it cooled considerably. My levelling up had levelled off. The map markers were all filled in, and all that was left for me to do was maybe consider finally trying my hand at alchemy.

Nintendo's secretive EAD development team developed around 30 Wii U game concepts using a monitor taped to two Wii Remotes.

3DS game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate now has a formal 8th March 2013 release date.

UPDATE 2: Further investigation of the Sony Entertainment Network Store reveals that purchases are not set downloading automatically despite items being added to your download queue.

Quake 2 taught me to mouse-look and strafe, showed me how 3D graphics cards (Voodoo2) could pimp a picture and made me understand "FOV" and "gg" and "wp".

The Wii U sold 425,000 units during its US launch week, Nintendo has revealed. That's just 5000 less than the Wii recorded six years ago.

Expectations were rather low as Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition booted up on our US import Wii U. Images like this one that emerged just after the launch suggested a game with fundamental compromises over the existing Xbox 360 release, while frame-rate analysis of the E3 trailer strongly hinted at a sub-par performance level.

For all the wonder of the new machine (and every new machine carries with it a certain degree of wonder) and all the hum of its potential uses (and what new machine doesn't radiate possibility?), the Wii U faces a variety of difficulties in uniting people around its design. The Nintendo Wii's great success - at least in its formative months - was found in clarity of purpose, one best demonstrated by Wii Sports, a game that any spectating human being could understand within moments.

Former Battlefield executive producer Ben Cousins has unveiled The Drowning, a free-to-play post-apocalyptic first-person shooter for iOS devices due out early next year.

Ubisoft has acknowledged a serious Assassin's Creed 3 bug which is wiping users' save data.

I didn't know BioWare had a James Bond-like spy RPG on the cards back around the time Dragon Age: Origins was released (2009).

Swearing creatively; difficult thing to get right. You just about get away with 'Stealth Bastard Deluxe', but as soon as the subtitle 'Tactical Espionage Arsehole' comes up we go from laugh to cringe. It's a bit try-hard, and its greatest sin is misrepresenting the game behind it - SBD is a refined and original take on the sneaking genre, not a crass parody. The most heartfelt profanities here are delivered, as they should be, by the player.



Rockstar's PR machine has returned to hibernation following a burst of Grand Theft Auto 5 details last month, all of which culminated in the reveal of the game's second trailer and vague "spring 2013" release date.

A new report has shed light on the never-released Guitar Hero 7, which would have been based around a new six-string guitar peripheral.

Criterion's Need for Speed: Most Wanted is to be expanded with the Ultimate Speed Pack, an 800 Microsoft Point/£7.99 add-on due 18th December.

I bet publishers love LinkedIn. This time an employee of Ubisoft Massive in Sweden - key studio involved in making Far Cry 3 - has blabbed about working on an "AAA Next-Gen Online RPG" (spotted by PlayStation Lifestyle).

UPDATE: THQ has confirmed Eurogamer's previous suspicions - that the publisher still holds the rights to Games Workshop's Warhammer 40K licence.