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Portal 2 developer Valve has added a new split-screen option for the PC version's co-op mode.

Thechineroom's Dear Esther remains one of the most divisive games from the last few years. Some would argue that its linear corridors and lack of proper game mechanics (you simply walk and look at stuff) made it not a game at all.

The Critter Chronicles, the prequel to the German point-and-click adventure The Book of Unwritten Tales, is slated for a 5th December release on PC, Mac and Linux, publisher Nordic Games has announced.

Awhile back Metro: Last Light publisher THQ said it would not develop the first-person shooter for Wii U, despite it appearing on Nintendo's platform during a demo reel. At the time, THQ said it was because the publisher wanted to "focus on what we knew," i.e. PS3, 360 and PC.

Quest For Glory creators Lori and Corey Cole have seen their upcoming adventure/RPG, Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, meet its Kickstarter goal of $400,000 with a scant four hours left on the clock.

Insomniac games has announced its Resistance trilogy will come out on 5th December in North America for $39.99.

A trial version of Rayman Legends will be available in Europe at the Wii U's launch, Ubisoft has told Eurogamer.

Blizzard wants the Heroes of Warcraft domain but someone else owns it.

The Lord of the Rings, it turns out, is the perfect source material for a Lego game. A story in which small things turn out to hold great power and small people prove to have enormous courage, the core ideas of inverted scale that have made TT Games' series so popular are woven through Tolkien's tale like strands in elven rope.

Wii U Premium owners must spend £62.50 on the system's eShop to receive their £5 voucher for future purchases.

UPDATE: Hitman Absolution's costume pack is now available from Steam priced £3.99.

It's been six years since we last saw Agent 47 in action in the entertaining Hitman: Blood Money, with creators IO Interactive temporarily putting the series on hold to work on its mostly forgettable Kane and Lynch titles. But now the silent assassin is back.

YouTube video content from 15-year-old SEGA Saturn game Shining Force 3 is suddenly and apparently randomly being targeted for copyright infringement.

UPDATE: Treyarch has added the Chaos Moshpit bonus playlist to Black Ops 2 in response to the outcry over the removal of the Nuketown 2025 map.

Ever since Brutal Legend was a financial catastrophe Double Fine has shifted its focus to smaller games that have been created as the result of its "Amnesia Fortnight" process, in which the studio splits into small teams for two weeks and creates prototypes for future projects.

Ratchet & Clank: QForce - or Full Frontal Assault as its subtitled in North America - is coming to PS3 next week, but its Vita version won't be available until January, Sony has announced.

Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts' upcoming space combat game Star Citizen has just ended its crowdsourcing campaign at $6,224,123, shattering the record of any crowdsourced game before it by roughly 50 per cent.

A new Indie Royale bundle is available, combining five games for much less than the sum of their worth. This time out it contains point-and-click adventures The Dream Machine (Chapters 1-3) and Puzzle Agent 2, civilization builder Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition tower-offense game Anomaly: Warzone Earth, and Metroidvania platformer Adventure Apes and the Mayan Mystery.

The new Xbox dashboard that rolled out last month added support for Internet Explorer, Xbox Music and Xbox Video - and more adverts.

Grand Theft Auto 5 may yet appear on other platforms, Rockstar boss Dan Houser has indicated.

An upcoming app from Microsoft and The Karaoke Channel will let you stream songs for an hourly fee.

Vita card game Uncharted: Fight For Fortune has been announced proper on the PlayStation blog. It's due out 4th December for $5. The Euro date and price are TBC (uh oh).

Space combat mech game Strike Suit Zero launches on 24th January 2013 on PC, indie developer Born Ready Games has announced.

In theory, on paper, in your mind, or in just about any space that isn't the physical, real world, Natural Selection 2 is a gleaming beacon of what can happen when people shrug off the shackles of just one genre and let something new and interesting gestate in their minds for a few years. It blends real-time strategy and first-person shooting in a multiplayer game that takes the best of both worlds and runs with them. It's something very special. But that special something is often ruined by that most unpredictable of things - human beings.

UPDATE 2: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 sold fewer copies than 1.7 million in launch week in the UK.

A Wii U user has been able to access a hidden area of the Miiverse which listed several unannounced games.

Xbox 360-exclusive Halo 4 is the new UK all-format chart number one, albeit with lower launch week sales than Halo 3 and Halo: Reach.

The Wii U version of Mass Effect 3 will not receive upcoming add-on Omega, publisher EA has announced.

Hitman: Absolution publisher Square Enix has backtracked on its earlier decision to include an online pass with the game.

The PS Vita firmware update 2.0 does more than add PlayStation Plus to the handheld - it improves its web browser, too.