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Bethesda has announced Shinji Mikami’s survival-horror title, The Evil Within. IGN has unveiled a live-action teaser trailer, which can be found right through the break.

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Further to news that Criterion Games is not, in fact, making a Need for Speed Underground reboot, studio boss Alex Ward has revealed while he, personally won’t be making another racing game, that he wasn’t speaking on behalf of the whole team.

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Microsoft has resolved a support issue regarding ing-ins, across both Europe and North America. The Xbox Live service status page no longer even shows a record of this weekend’s trouble, although problems with messaging, managing friends lists, Minecraft saves and daily challenges are sitll giving the platform holder some trouble.

Epic Games’ annual make Something Unreal competition has drawn to a close, awarding the grand prize to Dead Shark Triplepunch for its unusual first-person ball game, Epigenesis.

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Naughty Dog has put together an extended cut of a trailer for The Last of Us shown on US television during The Walking Dead season finale this weekend, packing in a bunch of new in-game footage. A second trailer has now been made available. Watch them both here.

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Here it is, guys; your first look at the next-generation almost incredibly shiny but apparently current generation Battlefield, fresh from GDC.

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Geomerics has announced PlayStation 4 support for its next-gen lighting engine, Enlighten. Check out a spectacular tech demo through the break.

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EA CEO John Riccitiello has resigned, effective March 30, citing personal responsibility for the publisher’s lowered guidance and missed financial targets.

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Disney has confirmed the release of Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two on PS Vita. The game will launch later this year.

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Sniper Elite 3 is headed to PC, PS3, Xbox 360 and next-generation platforms in 2014.

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Dead Space 4 has not been canned, according to EA. Earlier today, rumored surrounding the future of the series were questioned after a source of VideoGamer’s said sales of Dead Space 3 were poor, causing the firm to pull the plug on Visceral Games’ franchise.

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PlayStation 4 has just been revealed at Sony’s PlayStation Meeting event in New York, confirming 8GB of RAM under the hood that will make for a slicker, more power-friendly experience.

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PlayStation 4 was announced in New York today, and is due by the end of the year. Get all the details and the scoop on next-gen games.

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A person claiming to have worked on Aliens: Colonial Marines’ development has posted on Reddit a rumored history of the game’s development woes.

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Valve has fired hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth, according to a tweet on her personal feed. Also, further sources indicate a total of 25 employees have been laid off, and another report states Valve’s director of business, Jason Holtman has left, but neither of these two reports can be confirmed by Valve as of press time.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines is the talk of the town today, thanks to a run of poor review scores, and an ex-Gearbox employee claiming that the lion’s share of the game wasn’t developed by Gearbox Studios, but Section 8 team TimeGate Studios. SEGA has emphatically denied the claim, and during a DICE talk, Gearbox president Randy Pitchford even revealed the studios which helped the firm develop the game.

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Murdered: Soul Suspect has just been named and revealed by Square-Enix. it’s coming to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. We received a very cryptic email for the project along with some very odd images. The link in the email points to a teaser site and Twitter account.

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Gabe Newell and JJ Abrams weren’t just idly shooting the breeze; initial steps have been taken to produce Portal and Half-life films.

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Famitsu has listed Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge content for PS3 and Xbox 360 release, confirming an earlier report. As reported by Gematsu, the content bundled in with the Wii U version will go multi-platform in Japan on April 4. Razor’s Edge content includes playable characters Ayane, Kasumi, and Momiji, gameplay improvements, new weapons and a new 25 mission challenge called Ninja Trials, which isn’t in the Wii U version, as well as extra costumes.

Thanks, Dragon246.

Disney has confirmed its closure of Epic Mickey developer Junction Point studios.

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