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Of all the skills I pretend to be learning while gaming, resource management feels like the most credible. Organ Trail's punning title riffs on The Oregon Trail, a '70s game all about surviving a journey across the States by carefully husbanding what you have - and this iOS title transplants a similar set of mechanics into a zombie apocalypse. Hey, we're learning here.

Pants-ruining first-person horror-adventure Amnesia: The Dark Descent may have come out two years ago, but sales have shockingly increased since 21 months ago with the cumulative total coming to roughly a million units, developer Frictional Games has announced.

I really wanted to love this game. From the moment I stumbled across it by accident at Gamescom last summer, while waiting for a go on Escape Plan, I've been thrilled by the potential of Sound Shapes.

Peter Molyneux studio 22Cans has thrown open requests for Curiosity - What's inside the Cube (formerly Curiosity) beta testers, as the social experimentation app edges ever closer to release.

This, the third in Battlefield 3's conveyor belt of downloadable content, finds DICE showboating in style. If the developer were a rock star, it'd have its foot on the monitor right now, as the audience held their lighters aloft. Back to Karkand's updated fan favourite maps was the obligatory run through the classic hits from yesteryear while Close Quarters, with its blatant COD tempo, was a punchy, punky cover version thrown into the mix to shake things up. To stretch the stadium rock metaphor to breaking point, Armored Kill is the epic ten-minute blow out, all guitar and drum solos, a ballad of fire and smoke.

A live action trailer by the director of V for Vendetta, James McTeigue - that's what Guild Wars 2 needed. And so, that's what Guild Wars 2 has been given.

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Steam's Big Picture Mode - which will scale the portal's interface and controls to better suit a TV and gamepad - is set to launch later tonight according to Kotaku.

Ultima creator Richard Garriott has done a deal with Zynga to publish his new Facebook game, Ultimate Collector.

Medal of Honor: Warfighter pre-orders automatically upgrade to the game's Limited Edition which includes access to the just announced Zero Dark Thirty map pack, EA has revealed.

Another game-inspired tomahawk, only this time it's for Assassin's Creed 3 and, unlike the Medal of Honor tomahawk, couldn't cut a cucumber.

If you can, own an Elder Scrolls game on PC - partly for the performance gains, but mostly for the mods. These fix, alter and improve the games in ways Bethesda wouldn't, or is too busy to.

It was with an overwhelming sense of nostalgia that I met the first few levels of the 3DS eShop release Picross E. Bizarrely, this wasn't nostalgia for the original Mario's Picross on Game Boy, which it most closely resembles, but for those glory days of the original DS; those days when Hudson Soft and others were releasing (albeit only in Japan) a series of some of the finest, most perfectly presented puzzles ever seen in gaming form.

The Resident Evil 6 Leather Jacket Edition is now available to pre-order in Europe, priced £899.

Stealth adventure Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes will include loading screens as players sneak about its open world map.

Last week Double Fine accidentally released an unfinished version of its upcoming iOS management sim Middle Manager of Justice on the app-store in every territory. Whoops!

Punchy Hong Kong crime adventure Sleeping Dogs has returned to the top spot in the UK all-format charts after four weeks on sale.

Legendary game designer Tim Schafer's studio Double Fine has seen a noticeable shift in the sort of games it produces. After spending roughly six years on the psychedelic epic Psychonauts and another four on the metal-themed genre-blender Brutal Legend, the studio shifted its focus to smaller projects, releasing five games in the last couple of years with four more on the immediate horizon (The Cave, Double Fine Adventure, Kinect Party, and Middle Manager of Justice).

The upcoming Command & Conquer reboot is confirmed to have a single-player mode, despite comments from developer Bioware Victory that the online only game would launch as a multiplayer-only affair when it comes out next year on PC.

Valve's definitely building wearable computer hardware, because a New York Times writer went inside the company's Seattle HQ, put on a pair of prototype gaming goggles and tested them for himself.

Demented point-and-click adventure/mini-game collection McPixel is the first game endorsed by notorious torrent site The Pirate Bay.

NES classic Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link will arrive on the 3DS eShop this Thursday.

Yes, that's right, MineZ is a mod of a mod. It's a zombie survival mod for Minecraft that is inspired by DayZ, the zombie survival mod for ArmA 2. It's the same but different, recognisable but re-imagined. It's a little like looking at a reflection in a carnival's hall of mirrors. MineZ still feels like DayZ, it works like DayZ and it plays like DayZ, but most importantly...

What sort of Skyrim player are you? Are you there for the story and the Achievements, taking advantage of the game's loose logic to play multiple characters in one playthrough, heading up the Mage's College even as you take charge of the Thieves Guild, and saving the world while playing as an evil assassin? Or do you use Tamriel's vast canvas as a backdrop for your own adventure, setting your own limits and rules and immersing yourself in its rich milieu?

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.