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Ron Gilbert wishes he owned the rights to Money Island and Maniac Mansion, two of the games he co-created while at LucasArts.

It would be thematically neat and tidy to suggest that, if Mojang's first game is all about the joys of creativity, its second is more concerned with the dark charms of destruction. That might not be entirely true, however. As anyone who's ever built a tower of TNT blocks in Minecraft will tell you, Notch's runaway indie hit is entirely comfortable with the ancient art of blowing things to pieces. Equally, while Scrolls is a smart combination of card battler and board game where the emphasis lies with taking out your enemy's units and ultimately destroying the idols they're protecting, throw in a deck building component, and you've got plenty of more constructive delights to lose yourself within.

Turn on your Wii U now and you'll find an array of digital content to download (once you've sorted that day-one firmware update). We've just had a quick shifty, and here's what we saw.

The Binding of Isaac creator Edmund McMillen has updated his blog with loads of new info about the upcoming console version of his religious-themed horror roguelike.

In June we reported that Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City developer Slant Six Games had laid off nearly a quarter of its staff. Things had gone quiet for the troubled Canadian studio, but it recently resurfaced with a new universal iOS app called The Bowling Dead.

Pier Solar HD - a remake of 2010's colossal Sega Mega Drive RPG - has soared past its Kickstarter goal of $139,000 with five days to go. The current tally lies at $151,450.

Sony has announced that it sold 525,000 PlayStation 3s and 160,000 PS Vitas in the US during the week of Black Friday.

We've become accustomed to pay-what-you-want models for indie games, but it's rare to see titles that were full priced retail offerings as recently as a year ago make the cut. That's changed with the THQ Humble Bundle that allows players to name their price for a collection that includes: Metro 2033, Darksiders, Red Faction: Armageddon, Company of Heroes and its two expansions, Opposing Fronts and Tales of Valor.

Surface with Windows 8 Pro has been priced at $899 and $999 for the 64GB and 128GB models respectively.

While an official Dungeon Keeper sequel seems unlikely, next year fans could have the next best thing - a game heavily inspired by the Bullfrog classic built by some of its biggest fans.

The first map pack for Halo 4, Crimson, launches on 10th December for 800 Microsoft Points, Microsoft has announced.

The game you've all been waiting for, The Magical Realms of Tír na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 - Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie - Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa - or Barkley 2 for short - has found massive success on Kickstarter where it surpassed its $35,000 goal in less than a day. Its current total is at $39,444 and climbing.

Rockstar has released the first footage from its 10th Anniversary edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

The 1994 SNES and Sega Genesis basketball game Barkley Shut Up and Jam! had such an amazing title that the fine folks at Tales of Game's couldn't help but come up with a fan-made sequel, the absolutely bonkers 2008 RPG Barkley, Shut Up & Jam: Gaiden.

Previously-rumoured Rage expansion The Scorchers has seemingly been outed after its Trophies appeared online.

THQ has released a new trailer for Company of Heroes 2, the Relic Entertainment-developed real-time strategy game due out on PC March 2013.

UPDATE: Black Tusk, the newly-formed Vancouver-based Microsoft first-party studio, is focusing on the Xbox 360, according to The Vancouver Sun.

Deathstroke is a playable character in Injustice: Gods Among Us, Warner Bros. has announced.

Wannabe Wii U gamers will be able to buy up to 24 games in shops when the console launches at midnight tonight. Three more are set to be available digitally from Nintendo's eShop store.

Dara O Briain is the fast talking Irish comedian known to us for his passion for video games, a hobby he sends up frequently during his renowned stand-up routines. O Briain also hosts satirical telly show Mock the Week, and this evening he'll host the GAME British Academy Video Game Awards (BAFTA) - a post he's filled every year since 2009.

Old gorgeous-pants adventure game Riven is but a couple of weeks from App Store submission on iPad, maker Cyan Worlds has said.

Just when you thought the Tetris-style puzzle genre had run out of surprises, along comes Dream of Pixels to turn things on its head. That's the game in a nutshell, really. It's Tetris, but sort of upside down.

Which angle to go for? The one about you being able to buy a Burnout Crash chicken, cheerleader or karate suit signed by David Hasselhoff? Or the one about you spending a bit of money this Christmas to help the GamesAid charity that helps disabled or disadvantaged young people in the UK? Appeal to the kleptomaniac or tug on the heartstrings?

Splash Damage, the developer behind Brink, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, has announced its new game, Dirty Bomb.

Most shooter map packs take a pick-and-mix approach, offering up a variety of layout types, locations and styles in order to make you feel better about handing over your money. DICE has been doing something different with Battlefield 3, however, by designing each add-on around a specific theme or gameplay style.

Microsoft-owned developer Rare is sticking with motion sensor Kinect for its next, unannounced project.

"On The Shoulders of Giants" is the name of the achievement that pops up towards the end of XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis' reimagining of the revered strategy classic X-Com: UFO Defense. The achievement is awarded when you pass the final bottleneck into the game's finale - put another way, nobody who finishes the game could possibly miss it. Firaxis want to make the esteem in which they hold the 1994 original unmistakably clear.

We've scoured the nation for the best Wii U prices - and online retailer ShopTo currently has the cheapest deal on Basic and Premium Wii U packs. For the Wii U's ZombiU bundle your best bet is Zavvi or The Hut.

Would you like co-op in the next Assassin's Creed game?

Things change; DayZ could slip to next year, Dean Hall has warned fans.