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The word misogyny has crept its way into the gaming vernacular recently, thrown about accusingly and often - if you ask me - incorrectly at any game that dares to show a female in any light other than stoic and masculine. Beyond the Tomb Raider fiasco (which to me seems a non-debate until the actual game is released), the most common target for the ire of the misogynista is Grasshopper's Lollipop Chainsaw.

Vancouver Film School's game design program is on a roll with two Unity Awards 2012 finalists emanating from its wheelhouse; Pulse and The Mask of Qi.

Award-winning procrastination tool Super Stickman Golf is getting a sequel, creator Noodlecake Studios has announced.

Game of Thrones developer Cyanide is working on a PC strategy game called Impire due Q1 next year, publisher Paradox Interactive has announced.

A new entry in the 3D platformer series Ty the Tasmanian Tiger has been teased by franchise creator Krome Studios.

Rhythm-based shmup Retro/Grade is coming to PSN on 21st August in the US and the following day in Europe, developer 24 Caret Games has confirmed to us.

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater HD has gotten off to a fine start, selling approximately 120,000 copies in its first week on XBLA.

EA spent as much money on a Facebook advertising campaign for Battlefield 3 as Brian Fargo raised through Kickstarter to fund Wasteland 2.

The cheapest place in the UK to buy a 3DS XL this weekend will be at Asda. The supermarket giant is planning to sell Nintendo's shiny new handheld for just £169.99.

UPDATE: Ouya has unveiled its controller with prototype images.

Bethesda marketing chief Pete Hines took to Twitter last night to comment on the Dawnguard downloadable content. Fans had expected it to launch on PC and PlayStation 3 this week after 30 days of Xbox 360 exclusivity, in-line with previous Bethesda Game Studios DLC, but it did not.

EA has reaffirmed its commitment to Battlefield 3 amid concern sparked by the announcement of Battlefield 4.

Update: The 10th guardian whose name eluded us is Hildifons Took, Warner Bros. has informed Eurogamer. Hildifons is Bilbo Baggins' uncle, from what we can work out - and he went on an adventure, possibly at Gandalf's behest, and never came home.

Mooooooove over, Call of Duty - the mighty Farming Simulator is coming to console.

Tomorrow marks the UK launch of Nintendo's shiny new 3DS XL console, an engorged variant of the autostereoscopic 3D system originally released in 2010. With bigger screens, a higher capacity battery but the same basic internal technology, the 3DS XL is - as we stated in our review - a revision rather than a revolution. It also illustrates perfectly Nintendo's penchant for subtly and tirelessly updating its existing hardware in order to maintain consumer interest and exploit newer, cheaper production techniques.

There aren't enough games where you get view things from inside the mouth of an alien. Fortunately, there is at least one: Unknown Worlds' splendid-looking multiplayer shooter Natural Selection 2, where our friends from outer space do bloody battle with space marines.

The BBC Sports App for PlayStation 3 has been upgraded to high definition just as the Olympics gets started.

Don't take the Multiplayer Programmer job at advert for CD Projekt Red to mean, unequivocally, that The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk will feature multiplayer.

Bethesda has announced the Dishonored UK pre-order bonuses.

The latest in the popular indie PC platformer series Knytt is coming to PS3 and Vita this year with Knytt Underground, publisher Ripstone has announced.

Polyphony Digital is "aiming for the latest technology" for the inevitable Gran Turismo 6, series chief Kazunori Yamauchi has said.

Even in an industry besotted with annual updates, indie studio Robot Entertainment has turned this sequel around with unusual haste. Orcs Must Die! only came out last October, and here's the PC-exclusive follow-up already. As you might expect with such a rapid turnaround, there are times when this feels more like Orcs Must Die 1.5.

DICE has revealed the first details of Battlefield 3 Aftermath, the fourth DLC for the first-person shooter.

Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition launches on 18th September 2012, Beamdog has announced.

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson revealed that his studio Mojang was working on a first-person shooter with an unannounced company, but ended up cancelling the project in its prototype phase.

A demo for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is due on 31st July on XBLA and PSN, Activision has announced.

BioShock Infinite developer Irrational Games recently posted a job listing for a design manager that requires their past work to have had an exceptionally high score on review aggregate site Metacritic.

Skylanders Giants is now slated for release on 19th October in the UK and the 21st in the US on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, 3DS, PC and mobile, Activision has announced.

Earlier this month we wrote about the terrifying free horror game Slender, and now a team of modders are developing their own spin on the urban legend as a Half-Life 2 mod with Slender: Source

Retro reboot Spy Vs. Spy is out today on the App Store as a universal app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.