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No, a deal doesn't exist; yes, it does - Sony yesterday announced the $380 million acquisition of cloud streaming company Gaikai. Those puffed up promises Perry made years ago have now made him loads of money. Perhaps he was right.

Halo 4's eye-catching multiplayer requires at least an 8GB USB flash drive or an Xbox 360 hard drive, Microsoft has confirmed.

PlayStation Vita support for downloadable PS Classics games will finally arrive in the system's upcoming 1.8 firmware update.

Microsoft's iTunes and Spotify rival Xbox Music launches later this year, according to a new report.

Update: Sony has confirmed to us that the PlayStation Move Racing Wheel is coming to Europe, though no release date or price has been announced.

We've already told you a little bit about the Leftfield Collection, our special line-up of indie titles set to be playable in a large space at the heart of Rezzed, but today we're able to unveil the full line-up of games that make up the Collection.

The Game of Thrones MMO is called Game of Thrones Seven Kingdoms, Bigpoint has announced.

The next Super Smash Bros. game will not focus on dramatically expanding the series' character roster.

Mighty Switch Force HD is slated to be one of the first downloadable games for Wii U, developer WayForward - of Bloodrayne: Betrayal fame - has announced.

An Assassin's Creed 3 Limited Edition has been announced by Ubisoft for Xbox 360 and PS3.

Seth Killian - former Capcom marketting chief, EVO founder, and the face of Street Fighter - has found a new home at Sony's Santa Monica Studio working on such games as PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.

In the olden days, superheroes posed a problem for games developers. Hugely popular with The Kids and indulging the very same power fantasies that games tap into, those superhuman abilities were both an alluring proposition and an impossible challenge. Spider-Man had it worst of all. In digital worlds where left, right and jump represented the limits of interaction, a character who could swing from the ceiling and crawl on any surface was beyond the rudimentary physics available at the time.

THQ has avoided a delisting on NASDAQ following a one for 10 reverse stock split.

A new Knights of the Old Republic collection containing the first two games in the series is allegedly coming soon to PC.

Disgaea 5 is definitely coming, series producer and president of Nippon Ichi Software Souhei Niikawa has announced.

A Limited Edition boxed release of atmospheric puzzle/platformer Limbo is out now, developer Playdead has announced.

Left 4 Dead's Cold Stream DLC is out later this month on Xbox 360 and PC, Valve has announced.

It's been around six months since we introduced App of the Day on Eurogamer and in that time I think we've brought you some pretty awesome recommendations. Alight on the App of the Day index and you've got so many hours of entertainment at your fingertips, most of it for the price of a teabag, that it's slightly obscene.

As you probably know by now, our amazing new PC and indie games event Rezzed takes place this Friday and Saturday in Brighton! As you probably also know, we're not doing it alone - we're working in conjunction with our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun to make sure it has all the appropriate PC street cred.

The 3DS XL has arrived! It's in the Eurogamer office, anyway, and so am I. Would you like me to steal anything for you while I'm here? I can easily source you a half-empty bottle of Brecon Carreg mineral water or - bit trickier, this - a four-foot tall steel broadsword belonging to the editor, currently buried in a plinth of plastic ice. Nobody's going to miss that.

Let's not get completely carried away by what today's news represents, because Sony's decision to acquire Gaikai does not mean the end of console gaming as we know it. PlayStation 4 is still going to be unveiled at next year's E3 and it will almost certainly be in our homes by the end of 2013. Whether we're talking console or cloud, the message is obvious enough though: Sony isn't putting all of its eggs in one basket.

Al Bickham, the studio communications manager for The Creative Assembly, is showing me the right way to go about razing Carthage. The Roman way. On the screen in front of us, a fleet of Roman ships beaches just outside the city and begins to disgorge thousands of centurions, their commanders calling out orders as the massed ranks surge up the sand. As they run to the walls of the ancient capital, arrows rain down on the soldiers and catapult stones and flaming pots soar overhead. As the men dash between siege defences on their way to the gatehouse, I realise I'm watching a classical version of Saving Private Ryan.

As someone with all the tactical nous of George Armstrong Custer, I enjoy a mildly abusive relationship with strategy games: I like them, but they regularly humiliate me, usually for having the temerity to favour a gung-ho approach to combat. Still, it doesn't take much to tempt me back in for another beating, and being a sucker for a pretty art style, the painterly appearance of Autumn Dynasty was more than enough.

Sega has announced that The Creative Assembly's next Total War game will be Rome 2, a sequel to its critically acclaimed 2004 strategy classic, Rome: Total War.

Sony Computer Entertainment has agreed to acquire cloud gaming service Gaikai for approximately $380 million and establish a new cloud service.

Lego Batman 2 has held onto the UK all-formats chart top spot despite tough competition from a handful of big new releases.

The brilliant Lego Batman 2 has swooped down and taken the UK video game chart by storm, claiming the top spot all for its bricky masked self.

The best ideas, of course, are the simplest ones and Vorble's core idea is deliciously simple. It's what developer MegaTree calls a "mind sport", a three-dimensional spin on chequers with maybe a bit of backgammon and dominoes thrown in. Play takes place on a sphere made up of geometric faces - some pentagons, some hexagons. It's like a football, a fact the tutorial handily illustrates by temporarily changing the colour of the faces to black and white.

I had to break Tiny and Big in order to realise just how much I love it. I mean really break it, too: dead end, entirely out of options, nothing for it but to restart the chapter and lose 30 minutes of progress. I usually hate this sort of thing in games, but that's because this sort of thing in games is usually the result of a bug.

By the mid '90s, we PC gamers thought we had it all, and perhaps we did. Gaming on a console was almost unthinkable when the holy glow of your monitor brought the divine action of Doom, the coy humour of the Monkey Island adventures, the grim strategy of UFO: Enemy Unknown and the quick-fire tactics of Command & Conquer. We had sports games aplenty and simulators coming out of our ears, games that let us pilot planes, tanks, helicopters, even submarines. We were starting to play these games together through the internet and dedicated graphics cards were just around the corner. It was a glorious, glorious time to be a gamer.