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Hitman: Absolution developer IO Interactive has likened future development of the franchise to Call of Duty's two-team cycle.

Capcom has reconfirmed to Eurogamer that it has no plans for Dragon's Dogma on PC after the company appeared to confirm the opposite on Twitter.

It's been a long time since we've produced an import review - thankfully the dark days of console releases separated by months or even years are now a thing of the past - but Nintendo's new Wii U is out now in the USA, almost two weeks ahead of its European debut, and when the opportunity arose for us to acquire a unit ahead of time along with a clutch of games, we jumped at the chance. With that in mind though, before we go any further we need to stress that this review is based entirely on US hardware, so there may well be differences compared to the console you'll be buying. We'll be sure to clue you in on those variations as soon as we get our hands on the UK model, but at the time of writing we've yet to receive one.

Outrageous, that's what it is. Such a travesty to see something so sacred and so much a part of our cultural heritage exploited in this cynical, grasping manner. Every time this once treasured work of unique artistic majesty is refashioned into another mass market abomination, a part of my soul vomits.

Former Rare developer Chris Seavor has returned to games with Parashoot Stan, a top down endless runner for iOS devices.

For a period in the 1940s, Mickey Mouse was given ears that worked properly in perspective. It was a concession to shifts in animation styles and the increased fidelity that could be brought to contemporary cartoons, most probably, but it looked weird. It looked awkward, in fact, and it made Mickey look awkward, too. Barely a mouse in any meaningful sense by this stage, the studio's star was having trouble transitioning from the primitive, scribbled energy of the early short films into something a little more elaborate. He was a 2D doodle struggling to cope in an increasingly complex world.

THQ has clarified comments made by one of the developers of upcoming first-person shooter Metro: Last Light about the Wii U CPU.

Double Fine has unveiled Brazen, a fully-fledged PC game inspired by the Monster Hunter series and old school Hollywood stop-motion movies.

When Valve launched Steam Greenlight nearly three months ago it was met with great fervor, but also great skepticism. The service would allow gamers to decide what content they wanted to see on Valve's popular distribution portal rather than leave the decision making process to an anonymous group of judges at the Seattle-based company.

Influential credit rating agency Fitch has downgraded Sony to “junk” status.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD will be expanded on 4th December with the delayed Revert Pack, publisher Activision has announced.

The Wii U GamePad can display 3D images in Assassin's Creed 3, a new report has revealed.

Microsoft Studios is now multiformat, according to Phil Harrison, the vice president of Interactive Entertainment at the company.

UPDATE: Activision has published the Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Xbox 360 title update patch notes, as promised.

Microsoft will release a console described as an Xbox TV in time for Christmas 2013, according to a new report.

The president of the Czech Republic has formally contacted his Greek counterpart over the plight of two ArmA 3 developers arrested on charges of espionage.

Peter Molyneux and his studio 22cans have launched a Kickstarter for a game he hopes will “recreate the entire god game genre”.

Steam has just begun its annual Autumn sale, granting new deals every day between now and Monday, 26th November.

Over the last six years, developers have sought to find balance in their cross-platform development, weighing up the pluses and minuses of the PS3 and Xbox 360 and looking to strike a good balance between the two. Microsoft concentrates on a stronger graphics core while Sony has put its efforts into an advanced CPU, but on a general level most games these days work out pretty well overall on both machines. With Wii U, the balance in processing power shifts again: Nintendo has beefed up the graphics core beyond current-gen standards, but all the evidence points to a weaker CPU.

Motor racing, despite its roots in France, its scarlet red Italian heart and its current domination at the top tier by a German and a Spaniard, is a very British affair. In the heart of England, amidst the pockets of nondescript countryside of Banbury, Oxford and Woking there's the self-titled Motorsport Valley, where a large part of the global circus that's F1 calls home.

The thought of a fighting game featuring a cast of characters plucked from Nintendo's heritage was so unthinkable that for a while its thinker, Mashahiro Sakurai, kept it entirely to himself. Knowing the chances of securing Nintendo's permission to pitch Princess Peach against Luigi in a commercial cat-fight were slim, Sakurai made a prototype of his idea in secret.

Rockstar has announced a 6th December release date for its Grand Theft Auto: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition.

Update: Nintendo has responded to us concerning how the dashboard messages are selected. This was its reply:

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Lego Lord of the Rings and the final episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead saga headline a packed update on the EU PlayStation Store.

UPDATE: Ben Cousins, general manager of ngmoco Sweden and former executive producer of the Battlefield franchise, has tweeted to say Mirror's Edge 2 is indeed in development.

"What is Wii U?" asks a new series of TV adverts for Wii U launch title Nintendo Land. "Talk or fail," reads the cryptic reply.

Space Harrier, one of Sega's '80s arcade greats, is hitting the 3DS's eShop according to recent reports - and it could be heading up a series of Sega 3D Classics plucked from the company's rich history.

Indie game Stealth Bastard Deluxe launches on Steam on 28th November, Curve Studios has announced.

Nintendo will make money on your Wii U purchase as soon as a you buy your first game, the company has revealed.

THQ, the embattled up for sale publisher of Saints Row and Darksiders, has entered into a forbearance agreement with Wells Fargo Capital Finance to protect itself from defaulting on its credit facility.