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So, Assassin's Creed - they all look the same, right? It's a chap wearing a hood going around stabbing people.

Update: We erroneously reported the Oculus Rift as John Carmack's headset, when it turns out he's simply endorsing it, but not "backing it."

LittleBigPlanet PS Vita will be released in Europe on 19th September, the PlayStation blog has revealed.

I want to begin by telling you that board games have grown up but, actually, board games have been growing up for a while now. They've started to carry a dignity and a sense of style that's turning the head of many a video gamer. It's like they went away to boarding school young and geeky, and now they've returned as buff and hunky adults, all strut and swagger. Sales are rising year on year, while the hobby's biggest convention (Spiel, in Essen, Germany) now attracts more attendees than E3 and PAX combined. Most importantly, more and more video gamers are buying board games and if you're not yet one of them, let me tell you why you should be.

Who needs Grand Theft Auto 5? Well, not the industrious folk that are porting the whole of PlayStation 2 classic Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas into Grand Theft Auto 4.

Call of Duty publisher Activision will next month airdrop the final care-package of Modern Warfare 3 content.

In Guild Wars 2 PVP, you will never come up against someone who has statistically stronger equipment than you, developer ArenaNet has stressed - it will always be a level playing field.

This year's MineCon Minecraft convention will be held at Disneyland Paris, the game's maker, Mojang, has revealed.

So I was sitting here having a tedious morning and it was making me grumpy and frustrated. Email replies were late and vague, phone calls were going unanswered, and that creeping sense of anxiety I sometimes get was bubbling up in the background. You may know the sort of thing I mean: I suddenly become more and more aware of the complexities of the interactions that make up my existence and gradually feel overwhelmed by them.

2K Games boss Christoph Hartmann has gone and said something controversial. He's declared that only when games approach photorealistic graphics will they be able to broaden their genre-horizon and properly do nuanced emotion like Brokeback Mountain - rather than the Mission Impossible experiences we get today.

EA Sports has unveiled FIFA 13 for Wii U and described exactly how Nintendo's touch-screen tablet controller will be implemented in the game.

The portrayal of violence in video games needs to fit with a game's story, Ubisoft has said, while discussing the prominent part that bloodshed plays in tropical shooter Far Cry 3.

Milestone's allowed a fresh glimpse of its forthcoming official off-roader WRC 3, and it's revealed a fine looking driving game that seems some way removed from the series low budget roots.

Brilliant satirical, retro-looking, start-again-if-you-die, turn-based RPG Dungeons of Dredmor has been expanded upon, with Conquests of the Wizardlands DLC.

UPDATE: We've just listened in to Sony's investor call, where shareholders have the chance to ask questions about the company's results. Sony refused to break down individual platform sales for PlayStation Vita when asked, despite having done so in the past.

The Grand Theft Auto universe's shady religious cult the Epsilon Program has updated its official site and twitter account, suggesting things are moving along swimmingly for the MIA sequel after its lack of presence at yesterday's financial call.

Darksiders 2 will reward players who've played the its predecessor by rewarding them with extra equipment, publisher THQ has announced.

The original version of Derek Yu's platforming roguelike Spelunky has been ported to browsers via HTML5.

Zombie themed MMO The War Z received a whopping 100,000 plus registrations for the game's closed beta within 24 hours of the title's announcement on 19th July, publisher Arktos Entertainment Group has announced.

The legendary Commodore 64 turned 30 years old today.

Far Cry 3's hallucinogenic single-player campaign has been hogging plenty of the limelight recently. But there's more to the game than that.

Resident Evil 6 pre-orders at Capcom's official US storefront include an Umbrella Corporation-themed umbrella.

What if you can't afford a game?

These days, gaming's mega-franchises don't really compete with each other - you'll notice that the launch of Resident Evil 6 on October 2 carefully dodges both Assassin's Creed 3 and the latest Call of Duty. Instead, they try to repeat and top their own history, which means Resident Evil is caught between two extremes - the original's solitary horror, and the pulse-pounding reinvention of Resident Evil 4. Where the fifth game in the series havered, eventually plumping for '4 with co-op' and satisfying few, the pitch for Resident Evil 6 is no less than this: it will be all things to all fans.

Resident Evil 6 will feature a secret campaign starring crossbow-toting antihero Ada Wong, publisher Capcom has finally confirmed.

Baby-faced rapper and music mogul Jay-Z will be the executive producer of NBA 2K13, for some reason.

Touchy-feely physics puzzler Puddle arrives for download on the EU PlayStation Store today.

Keep-the-lights-on sci-fi horror Dead Space 2 is now free for PlayStation Plus subscribers to download.

Resident Evil 6 will allow you to invade other people's games and attempt to kill their characters.

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