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You'll soon be able to own every Assassin's Creed console game and DLC add-on for £119.99, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

Bungie's new game, Destiny, is “still quite like Halo”, according to someone who's apparently seen it in action.

Imagine the booming voice of Brian Blessed and read: a limited access beta test for Steam on Linux has begun!

Fable creator Peter Molyneux has apologised to Curiosity users for the bugs and ongoing server issues that have cropped up since the social experiment app's launch.

In amongst its other charms, Pid does a very nice job with collectables. Might and Delight's debut release is a puzzle-platformer, and each of its levels are filled with cute little stars, chained together to form dinky constellations. The itch to run up and grab them all is practically overpowering - and when you catch one, you'll discover that something lovely happens. You'll discover that the other stars it was connected to are tugged lazily towards you, pulling themselves out of alignment and moving within reach.

Last week Gearbox warned players about playing its hit open-world co-op shooter with strangers after a it was discovered that hacking certain save files on the Xbox 360 to unlock a "hardcore mode" resulted in players losing their save files. Anyone killed by these "infected" players met the same fate.

I initially tried not to read too much about Curiosity, the latest game/experiment/happening from Peter Molyneux and his new studio, 22Cans. What's there to read about after all? It's a virtual cube, floating in virtual space, and you tap away at its surface. Meanwhile, scattered around the globe, everyone else is tapping away at its surface too, burrowing through its shiny skin one layer at a time. There's something special inside the cube, apparently, and a single person's going to get at it. It's basically a massively-multiplayer spin on the Christmas cracker - and I've never really felt the need to read too much about those, either.

Hitman is a divisive sod of a franchise. Apologists are quick to express their opinion that unless you play the Hitman games 'the right way' then you're missing not only the fun, but the entire point. The clue is in the title, they're fond of pointing out.

Ubisoft has estimated that Assassin's Creed 3 has sold over 3.5 million units in its first week out, more than doubling that of Assassin's Creed: Revelations during the same time frame last year.

Microsoft is making a 7 inch gaming tablet called Xbox Surface, according to a new report.

UPDATE #3: Curiosity's Android version is now back on the Google Play store - this time hopefully for good.

Screenshots and video of Elite: Dangerous, the PC exclusive due out in 2014, are coming, David Braben has promised.

PlayStation Vita developers, like PlayStation Portable developers before them, always sound very happy when they're put to work on the handheld version of a famous console game. They love the heritage and the rich potential afforded by a blank slate, they say. It's a fantastic opportunity anyone would relish. Thanks to the fans, etc.

Imagine a world where Microsoft technology watches you watching a film, all the time policing that only the people licensed to watch the film are present.

Microsoft has announced the Xbox 360 will launch in Israel seven years after it released in the US.

Some two years after its initial release and Polyphony's Gran Turismo 5 is to receive another update - although it brings only the most minimal of improvements to the PlayStation 3 racer.

Despite the flurry of Android-based tablets over the past 12 or so months, there's been very little movement in the realm of screen resolution. Manufacturers have been largely content to stick with tried-and-tested 1280x800 pixel displays, allowing Apple to set what appears to be an unchallengeable benchmark with the 2048x1536 'Retina' panel on the third-generation iPad. Android tablet makers seem to have focused instead on the battle of the processors, incorporating quad-core chips into their devices in the hope that no one will directly compare the all-important pixels-per-inch figure with that of Apple's slate.

UPDATE: A Ubisoft representative has confirmed the existence of the Assassin's Creed Anthology to Eurogamer. Full details will be announced later this week.

Persona 4 Arena will not release in Europe this year, it's been confirmed.

Elite creator David Braben has reignited the famous 1980s space trading series with a Kickstarter for a sequel.

Resident Evil 6 has been successful “to some degree”, Capcom has said.

With retro demakes like the Borderland browser game and Soundless Mountain 2 making the rounds, it was only a matter of time before someone tried making a text-based multiplayer shooter. Developer Eigen Lenk has done just that and it's a surprisingly entertaining curio.

THQ announced delays of several of its most anticipated titles in its latest quarterly financial report.

CyberConnect2 president Hiroshi Matsuyama revealed that work is already underway on a new game set in the anthropomorphic Solatorobo universe.

Last week we got an extended glimpse at Outlast, the first-person horror game from several ex-Ubisoft devs at new indie outfit Red Barrels. Many of you were hungry for more details about the promising survival game, so we caught up with Red Barrels' co-founder Philippe Morin, who worked as a designer on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Assassin's Creed and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.

The Need for Speed series' fortunes turned around to dramatic effect with 2010's Hot Pursuit - a technical marvel which added Criterion Studios' signature open-world sandbox design, and introduced its now widely-imitated Autolog feature. It was a daring game of cat and mouse across a dense city sprawl that necessitated some changes, however. The biggest was the abandonment of the fluid 60FPS response previously enjoyed by console Burnout Paradise players, where the focus switched to pushing for higher-detailed locations and effects at 30FPS. No doubt, a tough call to make for an arcade racer project, and one which gave the PC version more gravitas.

Hotline Miami has been updated to add gamepad support.

EA has released its seminal PC first-person shooter Battlefield 1942 for free on its distribution portal Origin.

They say that size doesn't matter, but size is very hard to look past, especially when you're playing a game like Assassin's Creed 3 - which can take as long as eight hours to open up and present you with the world of tempting objective icons that this fascinating, brilliant and occasionally infuriating action-adventure series has taught us to expect.

The typical game development studio will get about halfway through a game in two years. They'd be just about at the stage of a working build, burgeoning with bugs and still riddled with placeholder art. Two years is a lot of time, and getting that far is a lot of work.