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Oldschool first-person dungeon-crawling RPG Legend of Grimrock is getting a level editor tomorrow, 4th October, developer Almost Human has announced.

Stylish monochromatic puzzler Escape Plan received relatively good reviews when it came out as a Vita launch title, but the common bugbear that turned a lot of people off was the gimmicky touchscreen controls. This is no longer an issue with the new 1.04 patch released today that allows players direct control of their character with the d-pad and buttons.

Epic Games design director Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski has departed from the studio he helped make famous after a two decade stint.

Toyota has created a prototype for a car that uses Kinect.

Okay, I just wrote a story about beating up George Washington when this came through the pipeline; Ubisoft has announced that Assassin's Creed 3 will feature DLC in which you must take down an evil, maniacal George Washington.

In an interview with us earlier this week Valve's Chet Faliszek mentioned that a fighting game on Steam Greenlight in which you play as various US presidents kicking the crap out of each other had caught his fancy.

There are several different ways you can keep up with important political issues these days. You could read the newspaper, watch it on TV, or check out articles on the internet. But honestly, who wants to do that when you can just watch it recounted to you as a parody of a videogame?

Just-launched horror shooter Resident Evil 6 is now available to download from the EU PlayStation Store, priced £47.99.

I've spoken to Creative Assembly and it's confirmed that Total War: Rome 2 will require Steam.

What talent will Epic Games unearth this year? The Make Something Unreal Live 2013 competition has begun.

There's lots to love about newly-launched site IndieGameStand. Every four days it will highlight a new indie title and make it available to buy at a price of your choosing.

At first, it seemed juvenile - almost a joke. Prior to the release of Mists of Pandaria, the fourth expansion for World of Warcraft, many players shared the concern that the inclusion of the Pandaren race of anthropomorphic kung-fu pandas represented one dumbing-down too far for this beloved world. It seemed to show a cartoonish disregard for the warmongering history of the eternal feuds between the Alliance, the Horde and whatever imposing faction each expansion introduced.

Brenda Brathwaite, Wizardry maker and also John Romero's wife did you know, is Kickstarting an Old School Role-Playing Game with id Software and Ion Storm co-founder Tom Hall.

How on Earth do you make money from packaging a load of indie games together and selling them for whatever people want to pay? Because Humble Indie Bundle 6 somehow managed to take $2,048,501 from 316,272 sales.

Do you like video games? Do you like poetic justice? If so you'll probably like this, too. Derek Yu, the youthful creator of Spelunky and the father, in a sense, to Spelunky's legions of angry shopkeepers, was playing Dark Souls recently. Guess what happened.

You may be suffering Olympic withdrawals with the excitement of the whole world coming together to get hammered and argue over sports behind us, but fear not! For last year's goofy-as-all-hell iOS and Android offering Realistic Summer Sports Simulator is now available for free on PC.

Valve has now opened Steam up to sell non-game software in addition to its usual catalogue.

A pair of dedicated modders have created a full-length campaign from the original Crysis that references numerous sci-fi series.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developer Vostok games have released a new developer diary detailing the creation of its upcoming sort of spiritual successor free-to-play FPS/MMO Survarium.

Microsoft has announced a new reward system entitled MyAchievements to give back to more dedicated players who've racked up a high Gamerscore.

Pac-Man publisher Namco Bandai is turning to fans to vote on the look of the pellet-eating sentient pie chart in his upcoming game.

The conflicting views of Resident Evil developers and fans over the direction of the survival horror series can be compared to two parents arguing over the future of their child, Capcom has said.

What's inside the cube?

PlayStation Plus subscribers will get free access to Bulletstorm, Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition and Hell Yeah! Wrath of Dead Rabbit this month via the service's Instant Game Collection.

Is Morrowind the best Elder Scrolls game? 10 years later fans still passionately argue its case. But what with being so bloody old and all that, why would anyone bother playing it now?

Trond Arne Aas stepped down as Funcom boss and flogged a load of company shares the day before The Secret World launched. Did he know the game his company was betting on would tank?

Ever been to prison? No? Me neither. The closest I've come to hard time was probably the first night of my school exchange programme in Germany. They were a very nice family, don't get me wrong, and I'm sure they meant well, but in hindsight I have to question their decision to dump me in a basement guestroom, because all I had to keep me company from 8pm until the morning was a series of bizarre mechanical clanking noises and one tiny window near the ceiling. Oh, and a strangely reddened copy of Stephen King's "Misery". Eat your heart out, Tim Robbins.

TimeSplitters 2 developer Free Radical Design had an HD version of the game in development before the studio shut down, an ex-staff member has revealed.

Gameloft has announced a bluetooth controller for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The device will be sold online and in Apple's shiny retail stores.

A complete guide to disassembling the new PlayStation 3 "Super Slim" has been posted to YouTube, giving us some firm answers about the revisions Sony has made to the basic design of its veteran console.