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Console transitions can be awkward affairs at the very best of times. They're even weirder when the platform release dates don't overlap very cleanly - and when one of the machines comes with an inventive set of features.

Sneaking into bases is just the best thing. There's the feeling of anticipation as you scan the perimeter of a hulking military installation, the satisfaction of stealth kills and security camera outages as you breach its walls and (of course) that feeling of utter terror when the alarm is triggered and identical men in red berets start sprinting in rough diagonals towards you.

We humans are excellent at harking back to golden ages. The very phrase comes from the ancient Greeks, who believed that they were the bastardised remnants of human species of gold and silver. To call an era golden, then, is to imply that our time is poor in comparison. Because of this, most Golden Ages are hyperbolic fictions. Margaret Thatcher and her Victorian values, the Nazis and their pseudoarcheology, John W Campbell and the science-fiction of the 1940s, the crappy superhero comics of the 1950s...

In true Dark Souls spirit, two bells were ominously tolled before the game's much-anticipated PC release. The first came via a Famitsu interview with series director Hidetaka Miyazaki, where it was inferred that the game would not be supporting the higher resolutions available on PC, and that there was absolutely no ambition within the team to improve on the visual quality seen in the console versions. Naturally, fans hoped the point on resolution in particular to be a translation mishap - a miswording, maybe - being as unlikely as it was for a high-profile PC game to ship with a fixed resolution.

Enjoyable Hong Kong romp Sleeping Dogs will be expanded in a slew of DLC packs due to launch in October.

Persona 4: Golden - the enhanced Vita version of 2008's cult-favourite dungeon-crawling RPG/high school sim - is coming to North America on 20th November, publisher Atlus has announced on the US PlayStation Blog.

Company of Heroes developer Relic is making preparations for a free-to-play model.

Company of Heroes 2 publisher THQ has revealed a series of pre-order incentives for Relic's upcoming PC real-time strategy game due early next year.

Update: A new video has come about that shows off the Dark Souls easter egg, so you don't have to find it. Because in true Dark Souls form, it looks like a pain to get to.

Blizzard is considering ways to implement a free-to-play model in its wildly popular real-time strategy game Starcraft 2.

Medal of Honor Warfighter is getting a beta early next month exclusively on Xbox Live, publisher EA has announced.

The director of stylish Vita-exclusive open-world adventure Gravity Rush has hinted that a sequel is on the docket.

Sly Cooper: Thieves In Time is slated for a March release on PS3 and Vita in Europe while it will come to North America on 5th February, Sony has announced.

Angry Birds spin-off Bad Piggies is going to have a retail release on PC next month for £10.20 in addition to the iOS version, which will likely cost a fraction of the price.

For every well-publicised Kickstarter success there are many unheard-of failures. For each Project Eternity or Broken Sword there are countless others who don't meet their funding goals.

This new PlayStation 3 revision is going to be a highly controversial product. Sony has a fairly solid reputation for maintaining product quality as its consoles move through their lifecycles, usually managing to combine cost-cutting measures with enough in the way of cool, small, fresh ideas to produce enticing new takes on their existing hardware. But the new PS3 CECH-4000 bucks the trend somewhat: it's designed to be built to a budget, and it shows.

UPDATE:Q Entertainment would like to clarify its comments from the interview. "Mizuguchi was dedicated to the game development direction for Child of Eden," they said, "but now he does not do very much." Q also pointed out that after the release of Lumines 2 in 2007 Mizuguchi took on a similar role, focusing on his band Genki Rockets above games production.

Halo 4 developer 343 Industries has unleashed a dazzling array of images from the game's campaign mode. Visually at least, it looks like the game won't disappoint.

Why would you want a Wii U when the PlayStation Vita and PS3 can do the same thing already? That's Sony's line of attack as Nintendo readies its new hardware for release.

What's scarier than the idea of a future without mankind in which savage animals patrol the streets? If you answered that it's a night out in Croydon, you get all the points! Instead of seeing Pomeranians square up against elephants, a future Tokyo Jungle installment could well see Tiger Tiger face-off against The Black Sheep - the game's producer is open to the idea of setting a sequel in the jewel in Surrey's crown.

Capcom has announced Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, a "major expansion" to its mythical beast-slaying role-player.

The force is a beautiful, infuriating, mesmerising thing. It's often drafted in to provide the true high-wire moment in a really good card trick, and it's the kind of technique that novice magicians struggle for years to perfect.

We know the Wii U's IBM-made CPU, made up of three Power PC cores, is one of its weaknesses, at least compared to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. But how will this impact the performance of Wii U games?

First-person horror phenomenon Slender: The Eight Pages is getting an official remake on PC, creator Mark "AgentParsec" Hadley has announced.

Sega has released a pair of new Yakuza 5 trailers to announce the game's Japanese release date on 6th December.

Second Life developer Linden Lab has revealed its next project as Patterns, a game about crafting a world out of geometric shapes and sharing it with others.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's Tokyo Games show trailer - shown below - is all sorts of nutbars, filled with cyborg women, robotic animals, cute droids, a sombrero, and unsurprisingly a metal gear. About the only series staple it didn't feature was monkeys.

League of Legends developer Riot Games is introducing a "positive feedback initiative" entitled Honour that rewards players for good behaviour.

Mortal Kombat developer NetherRealm's upcoming DC universe-based fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is slated for release next April on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii U, publisher Warner Bros has announced.

The HD restoration of eye-melting action/adventure epic Okami is due this Halloween as a digital download on PS3 for €19.99 / £15.99, Capcom has announced.