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Update: CEO of Ouya Julie Uhrman issued the following statement regarding this report:

Ouya has responded to a series of criticisms leveled at it after its massively successful Kickstarter brought it into the limelight.

Ex-Call of Duty dev Robert Bowling has announced his upcoming next-gen game Human Element will release episodic content exclusive to Ouya leading up to the game's launch in 2015 on next gen consoles, PC, mobile and tablets.

UPDATE: Batman: Arkham Asylum developer Rocksteady has contacted Eurogamer with news the issue has now been sorted.

PC tactical shooter Arma 2 - the game that you have to buy to play DayZ - has today deployed a new expansion.

An all-female Japanese musical theatre company is preparing to mount a production of "Prosecutor Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney 3".

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will receive three new maps in September's monthly content drop.

Simon Roth has been building worlds for quite some time now. It seems he has a talent for crafting game engines, for coding procedural generation routines and for modelling complex systems. As he shows me a very early build of Maia, he relates an interesting story about a certain game that never was, a project of his from a few years back.

Nostalgia-tinged vector graphics based PC shooter Vektropolis is dated for Doomsday i.e. 21st December, according to a new trailer. Depending on your time zone, you may be able to get it before the world explodes, or something.

Twisted Metal lead David Jaffe has revealed two alternate endings to the Sweet Tooth campaign in the latest Twisted Metal reboot.

First-person thinker Dear Esther's developer The Chinese Room has revealed numerous details about its upcoming CryEngine 3 PC game Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

The previous Vita exclusive platformer Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack is coming to PC via Steam on 15th August.

Files found in the beta version of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale point to an array of unannounced characters and stages in the game, including one level set in BioShock Infinite's floating city of Columbia.

By the time the time the real apocalypse decides to show itself, it's likely to be met by a simple shrug of the shoulders from most of us. We've all explored the wastelands and seen what happens when the world finally eats itself so many times, it's all in danger of becoming a little passé.

UPDATE:

Microsoft's new Surface for Windows RT tablet will indeed launch on Friday, 26th October - the same day as Windows 8.

E3 will remain in Los Angeles for the next three years, the Entertainment Software Association has announced - quashing rumours of a sojourn to Vegas while the West Hall of the LA Convention Center is constructed into the gigantic new Farmer's Field stadium.

Dead Space 3's E3 debut was terrifying, but for all the wrong reasons. In the spotlight of EA's conference, followers of the series watched aghast as the slow-drip tension and slimy body horror of the series was drowned out by long, steady streams of rifle fire and swears.

Is cloud gaming the future? Sony certainly thinks so. It forked out $380 million on Gaikai, the cloud gaming service run by David Perry, to ensure PlayStation's future at least incorporates the cloud. Expect cloud gaming to form a part of the offering of PlayStation 4, the next Xbox and, probably, everything else gaming related since now.

Dave Gibbons is famous for drawing Watchmen, perhaps the greatest comic book ever made, but he loves telling stories.

Close your eyes and guess what the top 10 video game brands in the UK are, as measured from 1996 to 2012.

Dragon's Dogma sales are 1.05 million, according to Capcom's bright and cheery April-June 2012 financial report.

Game Boy Color platformer Toki Tori arrives on the 3DS eShop this Thursday, priced £3.60.

Criterion racer Need for Speed: Most Wanted will include some form of Kinect functionality on Xbox 360, a new piece of artwork suggests.

As the first fighting game of the seventh console generation, Dead or Alive 4 didn't have to do anything particularly flashy to stand out from the crowd. The recipe for success was little more than looking pretty, offering up a familiar yet robust fighting system and topping everything off with the first Spartan appearance on the Xbox 360. But now that we're (supposedly) reaching the end of round two between Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft, the genre has pulled itself out of the gutter with a diverse range of excellent fighting games. The question is, can Dead or Alive 5 go toe-to-toe with the heavy hitters on the big screen - or should it stick to the bikinis and volleyballs?

Today, PEGI officially takes over from Grant Mitch-I mean the BBFC, as the lawfully enforced age ratings body for video games in the UK.

Sean Murray's kindly offered to provide Eurogamer with a regular insight into indie development as Hello Games heads towards the release of its next big project, Joe Danger 2: The Movie. This week, Sean asks if crunch is as bad as it's made out to be.

Welcome back! When we left off, our Dota 2 noob superteam was about to have its first game against real humans.

This started in a pub. Of course it did. I remember agreeing to something about Dota 2 between a fourth and fifth pint of foamy lager.

"Spring plus desk, facing door." This was probably the very first video game note I ever wrote to myself: a formula for something that, as a kid playing on his older brother's Commodore 64, I found deeply - almost fatally - hilarious.