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It's common practice among game publishers to churn out yearly entries in a popular series, employing one of their most talented studios to buff its critical reputation to a shine every two years and then recruiting a B team to fill in the gaps by copying from a game design cheat-sheet. Infinity Ward and Treyarch. Criterion and Black Box. Ubisoft Montreal and Ubisoft Montreal.

Online military mega-success World of Tanks was originally shunned by Western publishers for being a free-to-play game, the developer has revealed.

Kickstarter darling Wasteland 2 has attracted more mouth-watering talent - game designer, writer and author Colin McComb, who played a pivotal role making revered RPG Planescape: Torment. He also worked on Fallout 2.

There is a boss in Borderlands 2 so tough you probably won't be able to kill it. But there's a quest to kill it anyway. It's called 'You.Will. Die. (Seriously.)'

Update: You may have noticed Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford speaking out against the "girlfriend mode" nickname on Twitter.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 costs £10 more to download from Nintendo's eShop - £40 - than it does to buy in a box from most shops (£29.99).

DICE's GM Karl Magnus Troedsson made a plea for the industry to place the focus back on fun and away from business models in his GDC Europe keynote - and went on to defend Battlefield 3's Premium service that's caused strife for some users.

You probably wouldn't know it for a sport that's fixated with technology and often obscured by politics, but Formula 1's really all about character. This is a sport that's always attracted larger-than-life personalities, from '50s aristocrats like the Marquis de Portago through the mischievous antics of Nelson Piquet and on to swashbuckling modern superstars such as Fernando Alonso.

The NeoGeo X Gold handheld arrives worldwide this December for $199.99. (We're working on getting a UK price for you.)

Polish studio CD Projekt Red has two, big, next-generation projects under way - Cyberpunk and The Witcher 3 - but hasn't moved on from The Witcher 2 just yet.

A could-be-real next-gen Xbox devkit has been sold on eBay for £12,833 - or $20,1000, if you like thicker wads of notes.

One hour. One single hour of following, listening, hiding and planning, of false starts and botched lunges. One hour of tracking a solitary armed guard in the circular hedge maze in Lionel Starkweather's grounds, waiting for the perfect moment to risk it all, move in and finish the kill. Any mistake would be fatal, sending me back to a distant checkpoint I had no interest in returning to. So that hour was everything. And the kill, when it finally came - was it satisfying? Not really. All I felt was relief. Relief, and a sickening tinge of dread, because now another little yellow arrow had just appeared on my radar

One of the biggest shocks of the year is Crytek's announcement that it is to shift development away from traditional AAA retail games, instead embracing the emerging free-to-play market.

NVIDIA has its sights set on dominating mobile gaming: the ubiquitous Tegra 3 chipset powers the Google Nexus 7 and Microsoft's upcoming Surface tablet, with the same technology taking centre-stage in the controversial Ouya micro-console set for release in March next year. Bold claims are being made for the capabilities of the quad-core processor - particularly from the Ouya camp - so we decided to source a range of Tegra-powered hardware available right now and see how it copes with some of the most challenging Android games on the market.

If you're a fan of This American Life, you might be familiar with Jack Hitt. He provides the wry, rather sweet voice that leads you through some of the show's best episodes - most notably Act V, which took listeners inside a US prison to watch in-mates putting on a performance of Hamlet.

Diablo 3 developer Blizzard has outlined a ton of changes it'll be making to its top-selling dungeon crawler in the upcoming 1.0.4 patch due the fourth week of August.

Can't wait for Jet Set Radio's impending HD rerelease? We've got just the thing for that. Arcane Kids' Zineth is "a student game made over a few months meant to celebrate speed, movement, and twitter."

Violent platformer They Bleed Pixels has shifted development from XBLIG to Steam, indie developer Spooky Squid Games unveiled in the new trailer below.

Sony Computer Entertainment of America CEO Jack Tretton has said that he finds sales for the fledgling Vita to be "acceptable."

Update: Sega confirmed that the game will cost £5.99 on Steam and £6.49 on PSN. The PS3 version will be out on 12th September for PlayStation Plus subscribers and the 19th for everyone else.

Crytech has released a new Crysis 3 trailer detailing all the nifty effects of its upcoming CryEngine 3.

Bethesda's upcoming stealth/action title Dishonored looks to challenge BioShock and Hitman in terms of peculiar ways to murder foes, and this new trailer - below - displays some of the most obtuse yet.

Mario Balotelli's Hulk celebration is in FIFA 13. Yes it is.

Valve has warned Dota 2 players after 25,000 users obtained a community-designed axe that was discovered to have broken intellectual property law.

UPDATE: Greg Zeschuk's role as General Manager at BioWare Austin was "always planned to have a finite endpoint", the company co-founder has explained to Gamasutra, addressing speculation around his departure.

Ladies and gentlemen of the academy, I would like to present a new video game for your consideration. It is timely and stylish and it runs in a browser. It deals with an important subject, and - heck - it will probably make you bust out crying.

Codemasters' F1 2012 has been dated and properly trailered with some fresh gameplay footage, with this year's official racer confirmed to be out on September 21 - just prior to the Singapore GP.

Assassin's Creed 3 will arrive for PC on 23rd November 2012, publisher Ubisoft announced.

The first image showing Kinect 2's capabilities has reportedly leaked online by previous Durango devkit source DaE (via Xboxygen).

Side-scrolling platformer Toki Tori 2 will feather its nest with a Wii U release, developer Two Tribes has announced.