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The PlayStation 3 version of the revamped MMO Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn will be hitting shelves this coming August, Square Enix has announced. The publisher has also announced pre-order bonuses and a Collector's Edition.

It's official as EA now confirms the existence of Need for Speed: Rivals after a Frostbite developer tweeted about it a little earlier. The next instalment is being handled by Ghost Games. It's focusing on cops and racers.

We can choose to play as either with challenges and collectibles strewn through the world. In Rivals we rise in the ranks using all our pursuit and evade tricks. AllDrive has friends drop-in and out.

Warner Brothers have announced they are to publisher Dead Island developer Techland's next major project called Dying Light, which features an open world with scavenging by day and survival by night.

Night-time brings with it increasingly dangerous levels of infected to beat back, using the gear and supplies we've scrapped together. It's for current and next-gen, as well as PC.

The UK Kickstarter for adventure game The Realm failed achieving less than half its £195k goal, which developer Atomhawk attributes to "lack of US payments", and they'll work on showing game footage.

The Realm is a point-and-click adventure with an Ico-inspired emotional tether between two characters. A girl adventures out to find a cure for her sick mother, and befriends a stone golem.

One of EA's staff on the Frostbite engine team has revealed a little early the existence of Need for Speed: Rivals, which is said to be in the works for current and next-gen consoles over at Ghost Games.

More details on Rivals are expected to spill out soon, with it possibly being a kind of sequel to PSP's Need for Speed: Underground Rivals. Number plates suggest it's out November.

For years now Microsoft has given the mighty lion's share of its focus to the Xbox platform, leaving PC gamers to occasionally dine on scraps from their latest franchises. That won't be changing much.

Xbox One won't be heralding a sudden rekindling of love with the desktop, despite the hardware being closer than ever. They'll give PC "very, very casual" to the "graphically complicated" - such as?

Pid and Bionic Commando: Rearmed developer Might and Delight have decided it's time to explore the dangerous world of mother badgers. In Shelter we must protect our baby badgers from the harsh world.

Some early footage has been released showing off food gathering as well as dangers to mind in Shelter's uniquely visualised world. Shelter is on Steam's Greenlight right now.

THQ auctioned off its properties during its bankruptcy, and now Atari will be doing the same, as it tries to raise $22M to recoup some of its losses.

Yet another scientific study has discovered from its research that violent media "is not a predictor" of violent behavior. In other words, "violent" videogames don't make kids become violent.

The third and final developer diary for the Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods expansion has been released by Paradox Interactive, and discusses the technological development that occurs in the time span of the game.