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Kinect-exclusive floor-filler Dance Central 3 will waltz into UK shops on 19th October, Microsoft has announced.

An anonymous NASA employee has customised a panel for the International Space Station, adorning it with an image of Space Core from Portal 2.

The founder of Uniloc, the Luxembourg company suing Mojang over the Android version of Minecraft, has rejected the accusation that he is a "patent troll" and defended the practice of patenting software after receiving "disgusting" emails.

Vatra Games, the Czech developer of Silent Hill: Downpour, is in danger of being closed.

Digital shop Green Man Gaming is now selling boxed PC and console games.

A team at the University of Southern California is trying to make the Holodeck from Star Trek a virtual reality.

Flying a plane using a mouse is like steering a car using your teeth. Yes, you can just about manage it, but why would you ever want to? Aren't you just inviting disaster and going to get yourself hurt? But this is what World of Warplanes wants you to do.

Ubisoft is creating a "complementary development team" devoted to pumping out Assassin's Creed 3 DLC, a new report suggests.

A company with a reputation for being a software patent troll is suing Minecraft maker Mojang over the Android version of the game.

Sony and Microsoft might be happy with an extended console generation - but Ubisoft isn't.

Adventure RPG Planet Crashers slams onto the 3DS eShop this Thursday, priced £9.99.

inXile has released an early screenshot of Wasteland 2.

A Diablo 3 exploit has been found that turns wizards invulnerable.

EA has released a video showcasing the voice commands available to Kinect owners who play FIFA 13.

As the end of this console generation approaches, life seems pretty rosy for the FIFA team. Widely regarded as having outplayed its competition not only commercially but also in quality in recent years, building a commanding lead in the process, complacency is as big a threat as whatever Konami comes up with next.

If there's one question Valve must be sick of hearing it's this: where is Episode 3? No-one's saying anything - not yet. But inquiring minds might find their own answers by playing through the preceding two episodes.

A crashed spaceship, a mysterious alien environment, a network of hazardous caves lurking just beneath the surface: I am never going to get tired of this. It's one of the simplest set-ups in video games, and yet it almost always delivers.

Choosing your next PC upgrade is always something of a balancing act - a fine art in extracting the maximum gaming performance at the best possible value: the highest FPS per GBP, if you will. In putting together the Digital Foundry PC, we were looking to get the nucleus of great computer, a taste of the high-end for entry-level money. In choosing our parts, the Radeon HD 6770 looked to offer the best trade-offs in price vs. performance, but recent adjustments in the AMD range have made us rethink. The classic Radeon HD 6870 - for a long time the enthusiasts' favourite, and still a very powerful piece of kit - is reaching its "end of life" and if you keep your eyes peeled, you can pick up a superb GPU at an irresistible price.

Even in this era of austerity, things are changing for the better for the prospective PC buyer. Where before the £500 mark was considered the sweet spot, the law of diminishing returns for new processors and graphics cards is fast gaining traction, meaning the best ratio of "performance to the pound" is increasingly beginning to crop up around the lower-end of the scale.

PS2 backwards compatibility remains something of a contentious issue for PlayStation 3 users. US and Japanese launch models featured the principle PS2 hardware built into the system, making for excellent support for almost all legacy PlayStation titles and the ability to run older games with a precision HDMI output. By the time the EU launch rolled up months later, the design was altered, removing the PS2 CPU - dubbed the Emotion Engine - and replacing it with software emulation to mixed results. With Sony still haemorrhaging cash on PS3 production, all PS2 components were removed by October 2007, and backwards compatibility was no more.

Studio Liverpool's had a history of generosity, whether that's in how it managed to hand over 1080p 60fps racing at a cut-down price with the original WipEout HD or how it followed up that incredible game with a full-blown sequel in little over six months.

There's been something missing from the gaming landscape. Something that's been bugging me, though I haven't been able to put my finger on it. It was Spelunky, bizarrely, that knocked loose the mental blocks and made me realise what I was pining for. Though that game's nameless hero owes most of his DNA to rock-hard NES classic Spelunker, there's also a dash of Manic Miner in there. And that, I realised, is what I miss: working class heroes.

Assassin's Creed 3 creative lead Alex Hutchinson said at a recent Ubisoft press event that the series needs to move on from its protracted modern day storyline about aggressively ordinary everyman Desmond Miles.

PS3 exclusive Motorstorm: Pacific Rift (2008) and its portable PSP brethen Arctic Edge (2009) are closing down their servers come 1st October, Sony has announced.

Ex-Ninja Gaiden head honcho Tomonobu Itagaki's upcoming third-person shooter Devil's Third has found a new home following a joint-venture between Itagaki's Valhalla Game Studios and Korean developer Doobic Game Studios, best known for the Combat Arms series.

Microsoft has responded to Polytron's statement that re-submitting a title update to Fez would have been too expensive to be viable for the indie studio.

A new Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance trailer - shown below - demonstrates the core mechanics of Raiden's cyber ninja badassery.

The Steam Summer Sale is coming to a close this Sunday, and it's saving some of its best deals for last.

Grammy Award-winning musician Beck is scoring three tracks for the synaesthetic platformer Sound Shapes, Sony has announced.

The upcoming Deadpool game is being written by author of the current comic line Daniel Way, publisher Activision has announced.