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Closure launched today on Steam. This is a review of the PS3 version, which was released on the PlayStation Store in North America earlier this year. There are no plans for a European PS3 release at present. The PC and Mac version supports higher resolutions and features a developer commentary and some basic mod support, but otherwise it's identical.

With each new generation of graphics cards, the tussle for market dominance between AMD and NVIDIA has made for some radical beat-downs and come-backs over the last few decades. Through it all, of course, it's the buyer that has benefited from each company's determination to design for optimal cost-efficiency in each price bracket. Runaway successes on the scale of the now-legendary 8800GT are few and far between, but there are still cards, branded in allegiance to either green or red camps, that unexpectedly surge ahead of the pack.

When Sydney Losstarot summons the devil, the devil comes a-sprinting - or, at the very least, sends his most senior fiends without delay. We players are used to occultish showmanship: the sweep of the staff, the hooded head bowed in dramatic concentration, the twitch-lipped incantation; the purplish burst of colour as spell conjures from air. It's grown routine, robbed of spectacle by familiarity. So we thumb-twiddle till the cutscene plays itself out. Get on with it.

Over 13 years after Counter-Strike first appeared as a user-created mod for the original Half-Life, the game is still one of the most popular shooters available on Steam. So much so that despite the release of Counter-Strike Source back in 2004, the 1.6 version of the original game is still supported by a sizeable number of dedicated players. The driving force behind the game's popularity is simple: the team-based gameplay works just as well now as it did all those years ago and, remarkably, it still delivers an experience which comfortably stands out from other first-person shooters in today's crowded marketplace.

As each white strand that blossoms in my hair lets me know, I'm getting old. It's not just in how I look that I can feel the years slowly piling on - it's in how I act too. Evenings once spent chasing down one last drink afterhours in dark-lit, cut-rate indie clubs have given way to early nights with a hot cup of Rooibos and a lamp-lit paperback; weekends spent sprawled under a thick, still cloud of smoke with a PS2 controller in hand have been replaced by long cycle rides in the hills and keeping on top of countless domestic chores.

Earlier this week we reported that Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki was considering adding "another difficulty that everyone can complete," as per the creator's comments in an interview with the Metro.

Hugely ambitious one-man game creator Eskil Steenberg has made his five years in the making title Love completely free to everyone. No micro-transactions or anything.

Ratchet & Clank and Resistance developer Insomniac Games is in something of a transitional phase. It's done making Resistance games, it's got a new IP on the way with the just barely announced Fuse - formerly called Overstrike - and it just recently released its first Facebook game Outernauts.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD has mysteriously been removed from Microsoft's Games on Demand channel on Xbox Live after having just been added to the service on 28th August.

Prior to my appointment to see the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset on Sunday at PAX Prime I'd heard nothing but great things about it.

Rhythm Thief & The Emperor's Treasure is slated for release this winter on iOS, according to Sega's Japanese site.

UPDATE: A Scottish Government spokesperson has contacted Eurogamer to clarify the story - and to point out that the report was conducted by agency partners rather than the government itself.

Mass Effect 3 Wii U developer Straight Right has an unenviable task. The Australian studio is BioWare's go-to team for relaunching the critically-acclaimed Mass Effect 3 on new hardware, with all-new controls and all for an as-yet untested market.

Microsoft has invited "celebrity fans" to play Halo 4 at a swanky event, in Manchester.

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Dexter and Deadwood actor Keith Carradine is the latest addition to Hitman Absolution's cast.

EA Sports has unveiled its second pass at a Season Ticket, a one-shot payment that unlocks up to $100 worth of DLC across series such as FIFA, Tiger Woods and some of those there American sports.

Square Enix has said its new cloud gaming portal Core Online was born out of a "selfish" but "obvious" desire to get more people playing the company's games.

Within seconds of pressing start, you can tell that Mark of the Ninja is the work of Klei Entertainment, the Canadian indie dev responsible for action brawler Shank. There's the same robust comic book style, with designs and animation reminiscent of Genndy Tartakovsky. There's the side-scrolling template, with crisp responsive movement. What there isn't, though, is mayhem.

This year's Summer of Arcade promotion for Xbox Live Arcade has posted overall uninspiring sales, with Kinect Angry Birds-style game Wreckateer the worst-selling Summer of Arcade title in the promotion since at least 2009.

If there's one area in which Gran Turismo soundly trumps Forza it's in its selection of exotica - though that's an area that Turn 10's done well to address in its ongoing monthly car packs. September's could be the finest yet.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted developer Criterion has detailed the game's Kinect functionality, as the stunning-looking racer zooms closer to launch.

Killzone developer Guerilla Games has confirmed the recently-spotted Killzone Trilogy pack, due for launch on 24th October (via the EU PlayStation blog).

Broforce is an instantly addictive throwback to retro gaming that mixes the run-and-gun antics of Contra with the destructible environments of Spelunky and throws in some crude satire for good measure.

Capcom has released a 10 minute gameplay video of its French sci-fi action thriller Remember Me.

The first footage of Wasteland 2 has emerged from series creator Brian Fargo's The Power of the Crowd speech at Unite 2012.

Mutant Mudds developer Renegade Kid announced that it's bringing the bonus stages in the PC version of Mutant Mudds to the original 3DS eShop game as a free update.

EA Games president Frank Gibeau has clarified his statement that the publisher would no longer publish entirely single-player games.

Every time I interview Miles Jacobson about a new Football Manager game I wonder what on Earth he could possibly say that people who aren't die-hard fans of the series will possibly want to read about. It's not that he's boring, it's not that Football Manager's boring - but it's an annual series we know to its bones.

Annual football fest PES 2013 will attempt to get a leg up on FIFA 2013 by launching a week prior to its archival, Konami has confirmed.