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The Assassin's Creed: Utopia smartphone game won't link to or affect your Assassin's Creed 3 game, Eurogamer has discovered.

I always knew Tokyo Jungle would be ridiculous. Here's a game where you play as a host of wildlife in a post-apocalyptic Japan rife with eccentric potential. Maul a chimp as a Pomeranian, hunt tigers as a pig, or play as an ostrich avoiding a gang of hungry, hungry, hippos. As good a concept as you're likely to get, but it's easy to be doubtful about the execution, and early footage that revealed it as a scrappy 2.5D platformer made the design look a little anemic. After spending 30 minutes surviving the mean streets of Shibuya, however, I'm happy to report that Tokyo Jungle isn't just dumb, stupid fun - it's also straight-up fun as well.

Comedy is a tricky beast at the best of times, doubly so where games are concerned, as vital elements such as timing and nuance are often left up to the player rather than the creative team. The idea of bringing the distinctive surreal spoofery of The Naked Gun to games is a bold venture then, and it comes as no surprise that DNA Interactive has been unable to recapture that mercurial Zucker Brothers style.

Blizzard has taken the drastic step of offering South Korean Diablo 3 players a full refund following the server woe that plagued the game's launch.

Developers are making games easier in an attempt to grow the current console generation's audience, Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski believes.

Set your alarms. Prepare the coffee. A new Nintendo Direct conference has been announced for tomorrow, Friday 22nd June, at 5am UK time.

We're happy to announce that Project Zomboid developer The Indie Stone will be doing a developer session this July during Rezzed: The PC and Indie Games Show.

Microsoft has ordered a website to remove the leaked Xbox 720 document - adding credibility to it in the process.

Orcs Must Die! 2 launches on 30th July 2012, Robot Entertainment has announced.

Microsoft is making a big push to attract game developers with its upcoming Windows Phone 8 OS coming this Autumn.

Beyond Good & Evil HD, Outland and From Dust are being bundled together in the Ubisoft Xbox Live Hits Collection for Xbox 360.

The Timesplitters series could see a resurrection on Crytek's GFACE free-to-play platform, so says company founder Cevat Yerli.

Civilization 5 is free for a limited time for those who purchase its Gods and Kings expansion on Onlive before Tuesday next week.

Almost all mainstream video games will soon be free-to-play and funded entirely by microtransactions, according to EA bigwig Peter Moore.

Yuke's, the Japanese developer behind THQ's WWE and UFC games, has decided Planet Earth needs a Lingerie Football League video game.

Teachers can claim a complimentary PC copy of acclaimed puzzle adventure Portal 2 for use in the classroom, Valve has announced.

Dungeon-crawling RPG Unchained Blades is coming to North America on 26th June for PSP, publisher Xseed has announced.

The Vita saw its highest weekly Japanese sales total in months last week, off the back of Persona 4: The Golden's launch.

Super Meat Boy creator Ed McMillen's latest horror-themed rogue-like The Binding of Isaac has sold 700,000 copies.

A World of Warcraft edition of enduringly popular board game Monopoly is now available.

Hideo Kojima has confirmed Metal Gear Solid 5 will be built using the Fox Engine - according to a new interview.

Battlefield didn't bother to hide its debt to Modern Warfare when the shooter titans' Part 3s clashed last autumn. In came a single-player campaign full of bombastic set-pieces and a suite of half-baked co-op challenges, sitting awkwardly alongside the epic combat scenarios that long-serving fans expected.

Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons will make an appearance at the next GameCityNights event.

Nintendo hopes to attract healthy support for the Wii U's eShop by offering developer's extremely attractive incentives to publish on its digital platform, according to an anonymous insider.

Valve will this week add high end competitive play support to its action RTS Dota 2.

Online gaming has never really been Nintendo's 'thing', has it? I sort of expect Miyamoto is still using dial-up at home. Even today, first-party support feels begrudging at best, most recently seen in the threadbare features of Mario Tennis Open.

Fresh expansions for Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 await in this week's EU PlayStation Store update.

The Secret World final beta weekend is open to all who register before 22nd June, developer Funcom has announced.

I'm not against freemium games by any means - I'm actually just about to recommend you play one of them - but I do think there's something weird about the concept. It's weird that developers, who historically have spent most of their time thinking about how to engage players, have had to start pondering the best ways to frustrate them as well.

Some gamers and game developers are crying out for the next-generation of consoles in the hope they will herald significant advances in graphics.