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Turn-based strategy RPG Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land hits Android today, indie developer Red Wasp Design has announced.

Fortnight-long super offer Humble Indie Bundle 5 has added top titles Super Meat Boy, Lone Survivor and Braid to its steller line-up.

Flying Hamster is a pleasantly conventional game that I discovered because of an extremely weird one. The weird one's Gauge, a brilliant minimalist action thing for iOS in which you control an expanding bar in the name of fun and high scores. It's published by The Game Atelier, as is Flying Hamster. That's the connection! Cool story, bro.

The Skyrim 1.6 update is now live on Xbox 360, Bethesda has announced.

Batman Arkham City expansion Harley Quinn's Revenge is no longer downloadable from the Games for Windows Live Store.

A Wii U incarnation of The Legend of Zelda game is still in the research and design phase, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has explained.

Bethesda still intends for id shooter Rage to be a big franchise.

Crysis maker Crytek is turning itself into a F2P only studio, it's revealed.

ShopTo estimates the Wii U price will be £280 and games will cost £40.

38 Studios, the now-bankrupt developer of Kingdoms of Amalur, has a liquidation value "in the tens of millions of dollars".

World of Darkness, the vampire themed MMO from the makers of Eve Online and upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive shooter Dust 514, is still in "active development", its makers have promised.

Naughty Dog has said that it's a "complete coincidence" that the studio changed the appearance of Ellie in The Last of Us after she was said to resemble Ellen Page - and before the actress was confirmed as the star of Beyond: Two Souls this week.

Activision is publishing Angry Birds HD on consoles.

George Lucas may have gone downhill as a director over the last three decades, but he's remained at the vanguard of special effects and high production values. Industrial Light & Magic, Lucasfilm, and Skywalker Sound are all among the best production companies in their respective fields and now they're all working together to lend their expertise to Star Wars 1313, the first mature-rated game from LucasArts.

Cloud gaming is one of the industry's hottest topics, but for Microsoft, it'll be a long time before it realises its potential.

For Nintendo, the Wii U and its GamePad controller usher in a new era for design and play - but Xbox maker Microsoft and developer legend Peter Molyneux aren't convinced.

BioWare has addressed the importance of gamer feedback in the wake of the Mass Effect 3 ending furore and the company's recent request for fan suggestions on the future of its Dragon Age series.

Sniper Elite publisher 505 Games has signed Payday 2.

Acclaimed PC hacking simulation Uplink is now available to download for iPad, developer Introversion has announced (via Modojo).

Gaming's filled with long words these days. I'd just gotten used to 'asynchronous', for example - although I still can't spell it first go - and now here comes 'asymmetry' to mess me up even further. Asymmetrical gaming. It's straight over to autocorrect for that one, too. Damn you, double-m.

Back in the 1980s you couldn't consider yourself a true geek unless you had programmed an entire game from your own back bedroom, preferably in assembly code. While game development has moved on somewhat since the Dark Ages, every now and then a new company pops up from the proverbial back bedroom and delivers the kind of innovative genre-defying game that a big international publisher wouldn't have touched with a barge pole. Enter Uplink, produced on a shoestring budget by a tiny British team called Introversion.

The problem with success is that it leads to saturation, and at the risk of sounding like a certain Vodafone-shilling muppet, that leads to suffering. As soon as you know Kingdom Rush HD is a tower defense game the brain starts ticking over with comparisons: the best and worst and the many, many more that operate in a limbo of mediocrity. But what's important about Kingdom Rush HD isn't really the genre. It's the fact it's absolutely awesome, and has a structure that makes it even better.

Peter Molyneux's new game has a £50,000 DLC.

Blizzard has released the Diablo 3 patch 1.0.2.b.

It's been all too brief, but now we bring our fling with The Gameological Society to a close with the third and final or our joint E3 podcasts.

Messages posted to Miiverse, Nintendo's suite of Wii U social functions, could face a delay of around 30 minutes to appear.

Mac and Linux versions of Carmageddon Reincarnation are confirmed after its Kickstarter ended with 156 per cent of its target raised.

Blizzard has detailed the Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3, due out later this month.

Amidst all the excitement about E3 press conference stars like Beyond, Watch Dogs and Need for Speed: Most Wanted, it's easy to forget that not everything we hear about will make it to fruition, and that the time it takes for a game to go from spectacular reveal to an ignominious death that no one even bothers to report is only as long as it takes for a trailer to fade from memory. Given that we've published 478 videos so far this week, and some of them were for games like that Nike Plus thing, that's not long.

Wii U games shown in Nintendo's E3 "launch window" line-up could arrive anywhere up to four months after the console hits shop shelves.