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The British Board of Film Classification has outed BioShock Ultimate Rapture Edition for release in the UK.

The fifth Humble Indie Bundle has proven to be the most successful release in the series to date, organisers have announced.

Microsoft has launched its first game on the Google Play store: an Android port of Kinectimals.

Desperate to fall in love with Lollipop Chainsaw? Or perhaps itching to be disgusted by it? Bad news, I'm afraid: either way, you're going to leave a little disappointed.

New features in Dead Space 3 are designed to open the game up "to a larger audience", EA has said.

Red Bull's been kind enough to offer Eurogamer reader's a guaranteed spot on its forthcoming Gridsters competition, an event that's taking place over the Goodwood Festival of Speed from June 28 to July 1 and that will send the winner packing off to the Abu Dhabi GP later this year.

South Korea has banned the trade of virtual items.

After a few years of offering only the smallest hints at what it's been working on, 343 Industries finally came clean at this year's E3. No more CG trailers, no more offline rendered "in-engine" cinematics - instead, actual Halo 4 gameplay was revealed, and with it our first chance to get a look at the new tech operating in real-time on standard Xbox 360 hardware.

Every film theme has its own signature sounds, those odd bits of instrumentation that become indelibly entwined with an imaginary time and a place. For me spaghetti westerns mean one thing: whistling. Whether it's Morricone's score to Once Upon a Time in The West or Allesandroni's supreme Fistful of Dollars, there it is front-and-centre. Maybe I read too much into these things, but I've always seen it as the western writ large: a solo noise, trying to get by against a moving backdrop.

A patch for Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade goes live today.

The first Might & Magic Heroes 6 adventure pack, Pirates of the Savage Sea, will launch for PC on 12th July, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

Firaxis turn-based strategy game Civilization 5 is now a part of the Steam Workshop, 2K Games has announced.

For many it's a case of when - not if - Star Wars: The Old Republic, which has shed over 400,000 subscribers since February 2012 - will go free-to-play.

Sony has said its PlayStation Mobile service, which will offer PlayStation-branded games for Android devices, will avoid the usual app store "junk".

In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light!

So you can play games like Far Cry 3 and Borderlands 2 at Rezzed next month (6th/7th July, Brighton Centre), but it's the PC and Indie Games Show, so where's all the indie?

Former Tony Hawk and Guitar Hero studio Neversoft is making a Call of Duty game, it's announced.

Microsoft is set to reveal a new tablet device to rival the iPad, a new report suggests.

A Splinter Cell movie deal is in the works, according to a new report.

Patches for Capcom games Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and Street Fighter x Tekken are now available.

UPDATE: A few more numbers. NPD's Anita Frazier has confirmed to Eurogamer that Dragon's Dogma sold 92,000 copies in the US during May, while Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter Tweeted that Max Payne 3 sold less than 50 per cent of what LA Noire managed in its first month last year - putting its total somewhere below 450,000.

Neither music game nor music software, PixelJunk 4AM is perhaps best described as a music toy. Somewhere buried beneath the ambient visuals and arcane interface, Q Games' latest is built upon the well-worn fundamentals of multi-track mixing. But rather than providing players with faders and channels and the other familiar features of the mixing desk, 4am makes esoteric use of Sony's Move motion controller. It casts the player as a sort of orchestral conductor, wielding the controller as a baton used to pluck sounds from the air and tap out rhythmic stabs that layer on top of the soundscape.

Veteran designer Warren Spector has expressed his deep concern at the escalating obsession with violence in today's video games.

Available for just £9.99 on PSN or 1200 Microsoft Points on Xbox Live, Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown represents something of a bargain. Not only do you get an incredibly deep and rewarding fighting game, it also represents a sizeable gameplay leap over and above its five-year-old predecessor.

Epic's Unreal Engine 3 was the game developer's tech platform of choice at this year's E3, judging by an impressive list published by the developer today on its official blog.

CryEngine 3 is a match for Epic's recently announced Unreal Engine 4, despite Crytek's system launching a number of years ago, so says the German developer.

Bijou indie studio Thatgamecompany has raised $5.5 million in funding to help it operate without the need for a publisher and is currently working on its first multiplatform title.

Online retailer Amazon will not honour customer pre-orders for the Wii U, which it listed yesterday for £199.

Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 launches for PC on 25th June, developer Zeboyd Games has announced.

BlackFoot Studios, a small indie outfit set up by members of the original Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six team at Red Storm Entertainment, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fan-fund an old school tactical FPS called Ground Branch.