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Sci-fi shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier will offer players a more realistic experience than "arcadey" shooters such as Call of Duty, Ubisoft says.

Upcoming PC shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online will help Ubisoft test the waters of free-to-play gaming, the publisher has told Eurogamer.

The first episode of Telltale's five part episodic series based on Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead launches on the EU PlayStation Store this Wednesday, 25th April.

With Zen Studios' Pinball FX 2 still dominating Xbox Live Arcade, it takes a bold developer to step into the arena with another - superficially similar - offering. Yet that's exactly what FarSight Studios has done with The Pinball Arcade, a pinball simulation platform that offers four tables in its basic form, with two more to be added as downloadable add-ons each month.

I can pinpoint the very moment that my appreciation of Coconut Dodge changed from bloodless admiration for an elegant, economical design into a helpless, wide-eyed joy. That's because it was the exact same point at which I was given a hat. Not just any hat, actually: this was a kind of golden Viking helm deal with huge tusks and other sharp bits.

Who needs Mark Wahlberg and Hollywood to make an Uncharted movie, when all you need is right there in the games themselves?

Tera fans have launched an online petition after discovering the European version of the massively multiplayer online game is censored.

The animation reel of a former Sony employee has revealed footage of cancelled, unannounced PlayStation 3 exclusives.

PlayStation 3 exclusive Twisted Metal is unplayable online outside the US.

Polish role-player The Witcher 2 has stormed the UK all-format charts, taking first place.

Tetris-clone Block Factory arrives on the 3DS eShop this week. It costs £3.60.

30 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was born, and some of you still bang on about it.

The Valve Handbook for New Employees has hit the internet.

The Police Warfare Kickstarter has been cancelled without explanation.

Nintendo mascot Mario will star in New Super Mario Bros. 2 this summer, a new side-scrolling platformer due for release on 3DS in August.

A virtual world about a virtual world of virtual worlds. The gamer playing a virtual character playing a virtual character. The MMO conversion of Tad Williams's book series has an audacious, indulgent concept, but back in 2008 the stars seemed to have aligned in Otherland's favour. Oli was the last to see it, in a 2008 trip to RealU's Singapore base and, quite frankly, he was blown away.

Risen 2 on console has been delayed again, this time to 3rd August.

Sony has registered the domain for www.playstationallstarsbattleroyale.com, suggesting a reveal of the heavily-rumoured PlayStation 3 exclusive fighting game is imminent.

From a studio as stylish as Helsinki's Housemarque, Furmins might come as a bit of a shock. This devious little puzzler brings none of Outland's chic or Super Stardust's sheen to the touch-powered land of iPhone gaming. No, this is the world of the Furmins; little fluffy balls with eyes, presumably the bastard offspring of Furbys and Gremlins, and about as appealing as a kick in the ribs.

Just over two and a half years ago, RedLynx released Trials HD on Xbox Live Arcade. Not only was it a brilliant game, it was a rare example of a 360 exclusive designed from the ground up to make the most of the console's unique architecture. Lead programmer Sebastian Aaltonen, one of the most gifted engine coders working on the Xbox platform, helped to define a game that was not only rampantly playable but also looked quite unlike anything else on the console: beautiful physics combined with pixel-perfect dynamic lighting, shadowing and material effects to produce a game that remains an stunning technical achievement to this day.

I can never find ice cream combinations that I really like. Sure, I can find compromises. I can find ice creams that are perfectly pleasant, even ice creams that I quite enjoy, but it's only in my dreams that I can walk into that mighty gelato parlour, its counter ten foot long, three foot deep and packed with every flavour I can possibly imagine.

Released over in the United States late last year, the PlayStation 3D Display launched in the UK this week without much of a fanfare. The delay is puzzling, and doesn't do Sony many favours bearing in mind how much the market has moved on in recent months: bigger 27-inch PC displays with HDMI 1.4 and dual-link DVI support are available for the same ballpark price while the cost of large screen 3DTVs has also tumbled.

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth." So they say. When there's no more room in shooters, they'll migrate to puzzle games too, apparently.

You can't really say that the games industry has downtime any more, but there are a few months of the year - months like this one - when the high-profile boxed releases dry up and the traditional publishers and distributors take a breather before winding up for a crack at the next financial quarter. We used to call these spells "droughts", but frankly, the modern games industry makes a mockery of that term.

A child has just keeled over from exhaustion on my factory floor. I could have stopped it; when they get to that state you can give them a glass of water and they get straight back to the production line. But I've found it's cheaper to give them training instead of water. If a kid's looking peaky I can spend a little cash to have him trained up. He'll get over his exhaustion and he'll work faster. It's a win/win situation. If I let them work to the cusp of collapse before training them I maximise the amount of time they can work. I don't have to hire new workers and I don't need to waste money on a water fountain.

EA's Origin digital store still has a long way to go before it can boast that it properly satisfies its customers, according to Gabe Newell, boss of of competitor and industry leader Steam.

Multiplayer-centric 2011 shooter Brink has sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide, according to developer Splash Damage.

A gaming-only alternative to zeitgeist-grabbing crowdfunding site Kickstarter is set to launch during June's E3 event.

Arcade fighter Marvel vs Capcom 2 lands on iOS from 25th April, Capcom has announced.

Stuntbike sequel Trials Evolution has racked up the highest grossing day-one sales in Xbox Live Arcade history, Microsoft has revealed.