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Firaxis has announced the innards of the second patch for superb turn-based strategy game XCOM: Enemy Unknown and confirmed plans to make the easy difficulty easier.

United Front's open-world Hong Kong crime thriller wasn't exactly shy about borrowing from the Grand Theft Auto playbook when Sleeping Dogs launched back in August, so it's not that much of a surprise to see the developer taking inspiration from another Rockstar hit for this single-player add-on chapter.

Fighting game Tekken Tag Tournament 2 is nearing one million sales.

Microsoft is set to enter the smartphone market with a handset of its own, a new report suggests.

There's a Castle Wolfenstein movie in the works, written and directed by Roger Avary, the co-writer of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

Who can blame Konami's long-running horror series for fleeing its beginnings? Silent Hill was a fearful town of fog and bereavement, of radios incessantly crackling with cautionary static: stay away, stay away. In its close draw distance hid many of gaming's most striking horrors: faceless, stabbing nurses in short skirts and clicking heels, Dobermans gagging entrails from rabid mouths, pyramid-head executioners - and, very often, an absence of action.

A number of Grand Theft Auto 5 locations have been revealed in a set of exclusive screenshots for pre-order customers.

Activision has released a video showing gameplay from the Nuketown 2025 map for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Does Steam selling games with DRM in the free and open source environment of GNU/Linux defeat the entire point?

The next PixelJunk game has been announced, and it's for PC.

We knew that the Mass Effect Trilogy was coming out next week on Xbox 360 and PC on 9th November (or 6th November in North America), but BioWare just announced the PS3 version's release date of 7th December (or 4th December in North America).

Time-bending philosophical horizontal-scrolling shmup Sine Mora is coming to PC on 9th November via publisher Kalypso Media Digital.

It's all change for Danger Close. For Medal of Honor: Warfighter, the firm's previous work with Unreal Engine 3 has been jettisoned in favour of a wholesale switch to EA's in-house Frostbite 2 - the same technology that powers the spectacular visuals of Battlefield 3. In some ways, this makes Warfighter a more coherent offering than its predecessor, which saw its multiplayer component crafted in Sweden by BF3 creators DICE. Now the campaign and multiplayer offerings are cut from the same cloth, using the Frostbite 2 engine to fuse these two elements together into a more unified package, sharing the same core gameplay mechanics.

The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) - the quasi-public agency behind the now infamous $75 million loan to former baseball star-cum-game developer Curt Schilling - has filed a lawsuit against the head of now defunct 38 Studios for losing the state's money.

In one of the most shameless marketing promos in recent memory, Microsoft and Halo 4 developer 343 Industries have teamed up with 7-Eleven and augmented reality advertising firm Ogmento to create the ludicrously named Halo 4: King of the Hill Fueled by Mountain Dew. (Or Halo 4: King of the Hill Fuled by Mountain Dew, as the iTunes page calls it.)

Pre-order Crysis 3 and you'll receive a free digital download of the original Crysis, publisher EA has announced.

Portal 2's In Motion DLC will launch on 6th November on the US PlayStation Store, Sony has announced.

Update: Funcom's been in touch to clarify that Ragnar Tornquist is still very much an employee. He didn't leave to start his new company Red Thread Games: he established the company separately to get Dreamfall Chapters into pre-production. He'll combine this role with his creative director role on The Secret World for the foreseeable future.

Football Manager Handheld: "There is a new version coming, and again, it should be out before Christmas."

Version three of the successful paid Prison Architect alpha build is upon us like a sewage-drenched Andy Dufresne in the night.

Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel launches in Europe on 29th March 2013, EA has announced.

The new Dante - Ninja Theory's Dante - is an arsehole.

Were Minecraft a multiplayer FPS it would probably be Ace of Spades, a game coming to Steam in December.

Last night the BBC aired a segment on consumer rights telly programme Watchdog about FIFA 13 and the prevalence of game-ruining bugs in it. EA since issued a formal response.

PlayStation sales are slouching, particularly handheld, but Sony's more streamlined business appears to be paying off (tell that to the 10,000 staff to be laid off by March 2013).

A new PlayStation Vita advert has compared the handheld games console to a woman with four breasts - two on her front, two on her back.

SCEE has released Halloween-themed trailers for its following games: Puppeteer, Until Dawn, LittleBigPlanet Karting, and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.

First-person horror adventure Outlast - developed by several staffers who previously worked on the Assassin's Creed, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, and Uncharted series - has released a new trailer in honour of Halloween.

The PS3 exclusive Director's Cut of cult-classic surreal police procedural/survival horror game Deadly Premonition is set for a March release, publisher Rising Star has confirmed to Eurogamer.

First-person horror adventure Montas has taken to crowdsourcing with its Indigogo campaign.