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System requirements for free-to-play PC shooter Firefall are in the wild.

A closed beta for PC multiplayer FPS ShootMania Storm goes live next month, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

So much of it comes down to a question of influences: Conrad, not Clancy; BioShock, not Call of Duty. At first glance, Spec Ops: The Line looks like so many other military shooters, built of sand dunes and dusty fatigues and filled with the flash and sparkle of a thousand rifles glinting in the sun. Look again, though, and you'll see the setting's quietly fantastical, and the two-man squad under your command seem unusually tense - worn down, twitchy, even a little shell-shocked.

Super Mario Bros. Crossover developer Exploding Rabbit has nearly doubled its Kickstarter goal to fund platformer Super Retro Squad, due for PC and Mac.

The recent controversy surrounding Tomb Raider's E3 trailer was "quite extreme" and "blown out of proportion", according to Eidos life president Ian Livingstone.

Capcom's MT Framework engine is known for delivering graphically impressive games that take full advantage of current-gen HD hardware. Resident Evil 5 and Lost Planet 2 amongst many others demonstrate the engine's capacity for generating highly detailed characters and complex environments, topped off with a slew of accomplished visual effects. With Dragon's Dogma, the development team has taken this a step further: the engine has been re-purposed to handle larger, open-world environments, while a fully dynamic lighting system based on deferred shading illuminates the sprawling environments with a level of accomplishment we've never seen in older versions of the engine.

They're the same endings. A little better. More or less.

Telltale has said it is working with Sony to bring The Walking Dead Episode 2 to the European PlayStation Store "ASAP" amid angry complaints on social networks.

This week's European PlayStation Store update is jam-packed with classic PlayStation 3 games, alongside a sprinkling of tarted-up HD classics to boot.

UPDATE: Epic executive Mark Rein has tweeted to clarify that Infinity Blade is Epic's most profitable game "in terms of man years invested versus revenue only, not total profit".

Mini Mix Mayhem's tutorial seems daunting. "This is part one," you could imagine it cheerfully telling you, maybe in Siri's voice. But it would be a ruse. In reality the game only explains the basic rules of each microgame, presented on a four-by-four grid.

Cartoon racer Joe Danger will race onto iOS devices later this year, developer Hello Games has announced.

New Halo 4 information has been revealed by a retailer quiz.

Kaz Hirai, overlord of the entire Sony Corporation, has "retired" from his role as representative director and chairman of Sony Computer Entertainment.

BioWare has hidden data for a new Mass Effect 3 DLC pack within the files of the game's new 1.85GB Extended Cut.

Valve has added a number of weapons to Team Fortress 2 as part of the second day of the Pyromania update.

Japanese role-playing crossover Pokémon Conquest will arrive for DS on 27th July, Nintendo has announced.

With less than a fortnight to go until Rezzed, we're delighted to reveal that industry legend Peter Molyneux will be delivering a developer session presentation to attendees at 4pm on the Friday.

Tecmo Koei has announced a brand new character for upcoming fighting game Dead or Alive 5.

The Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3a is now live in Europe, Blizzard has announced.

Free Spec Ops: The Line co-op downloadable content launches in August, 2K Games has announced.

When I was a lot younger than I am now, I had some difficulty getting my head around the idea that a frog could be dangerous. In spite of how tiny and placid they are, my teachers insisted that certain kinds of frog were among the most poisonous creatures in the world, their secretions used to tip the darts of South American Indians. They simply looked very cute and very colourful to me, how could they possibly cause anyone any harm?

A sequel to monstrously successful Facebook game Farmville is on its way, developer Zynga has announced.

The second episode in The Walking Dead series is out tomorrow on XBLA, developer Telltale has announced.

Epic Games producer Rod Fergusson sought storytelling advice from Pixar for the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment.

A free summertime-themed DLC pack is out today for LittleBigPlanet 2. The add-on is only available for one week starting today.

Vita finally gets a YouTube app in the US today, Sony has revealed.

Earth Defense Force 2017 is coming to Vita on 27th September in Japan, according to a report by Dengeki PlayStation (via Siliconera).

The Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC adds a fourth ending to the game.

The much anticipated Spelunky remake is coming to Xbox 360 on 4th July for 1200 Microsoft points, Major Nelson has announced.