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Activision has announced a Deadpool video game.

Cole MacGrath and Jak and Daxter have joined the roster of playable characters in fighting game PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

While Apple is content to keep the price of its iPad range reasonably high, the open nature of Google's Android operating system has resulted in a deluge of low-cost slates from the technological sweat shops of the Far East. It would be easy to dismiss such devices as cheap and nasty, but with many selling for less than your average pay-as-you-go mobile phone, this is surely a sector of the market which demands further investigation. Three weeks ago, pricing reached a new all-time low: a capacitive screen tablet, running Android 4.0, was available for just £50 - and we just had to find out what kind of experience you got for the money.

It was a review of Tenchu: Stealth Assassins that got me a job writing about video games, but it was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 that fired my brain and helped me realise there's more to this journalism lark than describing the various ways in which you can stick a sword through someone's neck.

If there was one message the platform holders wanted us to take away from this year's E3, it's that two screens are better than one. Wii U builds an entire console launch around the concept and Sony is increasingly keen on more tightly integrating its Vita handheld with PlayStation 3. The big surprise of the event was Microsoft SmartGlass - an attempt to co-opt iOS and Android smartphones and tablets into the Xbox 360 ecosystem. But what exactly can it do, how does it work and crucially will it be any use for gaming?

This week, you couldn't dodge the Ouya. Already the most successful gaming Kickstarter yet with four weeks still left to run, it is a project that sells a dream. A $99 console that runs on Android aiming for a March 2013 launch, at the time of writing it has captured the imagination of 35,000 people to the tune of 4.4 million dollars, and counting fast. There's just one thing: the Ouya will never appear, and even if it does is doomed.

Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two's opening cutscene - shown below - has been released by publisher Disney.

Mysterious images of what appears to be a new model of the PlayStation 3 have shown up on Portugese website Technoblog.

Gears of War: Judgment is slated for release on 19th March, Epic Games announced today at San Diego Comic-Con.

PAX Prime 2012 has announced its selection of 10 indie games to highlight as part of its annual PAX 10 showcase.

Pendulo Studios - the Spanish indie developer that brought us The Next Big Thing and Yesterday - is attempting to fund its next game Day One through crowdsourcing via Gamesplanet Lab.

Yesterday Steam began its annual Summer Sale with a slew of huge discounts, and it's updated the store with a new batch of daily deals - as will be added everyday until the sale ends on 22nd July.

Minecraft's new 1.7.3 update is now live for the Xbox 360 edition.

Everyone's in on the secret, but no-one wants to share. That's the impression you get when playing The Secret World, the new massively multiplayer game with a conspiratorial modern-day setting in which secret societies and sinister corporations engage in a covert, occult war.

Over seven minutes of crisp new footage from Zone of the Enders HD Collection has arrived online.

Duke Nukem Forever launched in June 2011 after 15 years in development, the longest-ever video game development period. The story of its creation is one of peaks and troughs and high drama, but that's not what we sit down with Gearbox Software boss Randy Pitchford, the man who saved Duke from development hell, to talk about.

BioShock 2: Minerva's Den lead and founder of The Fullbright Company Steve Gaynor explained in a recent interview with Eurogamer that the timing was right for the indie's upcoming first-person PC investigation sim Gone Home, as "there is this kind of burgeoning subgenre of non-combat first-person games that are coming out."

Call of Duty Elite subscribers on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 will be able to satisfy their digital bloodlust with an array of new Modern Warfare 3 content throughout July.

EA "would love" to publish Kingdoms of Amalur 2.

HD remakes of Yakuza and Yakuza 2 have appeared on a Sega Japan release schedule.

Just-launched MMO The Secret World will recieve its first free payload of new content on 31st July, with the release of Issue #1: Unleashed.

Ellen Page stars in a hefty chunk of new behind-the-scenes footage from the set of Beyond: Two Souls.

This is an import review of the North American version of Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends. It has no UK release date at present. See 'Import Exotics' in the sidebar for more.

Father Sam Ghera complained to Microsoft after his 12-year-old son Nik spent £1150 on Microsoft Points over a six month period.

UPDATE: Ubisoft has just sent Eurogamer the first screenshots of Wolf Pack mode. See the co-operative multiplayer offering in action below.

Gearbox Software has unveiled Borderlands 2's Badass system, its character-wide progression system with an infinite number of levels.

UK indie developer The Indie Stone intends to use Greenlight to get Project Zomboid on Steam.

Capcom is aware of the screen-tearing issues widely-reported in the Resident Evil 6 demo, and is working on a fix.

BioWare has revealed the first trailer for Mass Effect: Paragon Lost, an anime prequel to Mass Effect 3.

The first Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms trailer has been released.