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The Diablo III community has gone and collectively spent 13 lifetimes on the action-RPG, which is now celebrating its one year anniversary. 2.8 billion hours equals 930 years, with an average 8.2m hours played each day.

How many unique players have there been so far? 14.5 million, with 9% of that playing in Hardcore mode. Europeans like the stress of it most. Over 648 trillion gold looted from the ground.

Is another Fable on the horizon? Are we going to return to Albion, the land of golden breadcrumb following Heroes? It could be as job ads for Lionhead Studios seek developers experienced with Unreal Engine.

They specifically state these new employees would be an extra shoe in if they had knowledge of 'reimaging' established franchises. Reading between the lines it points heavily toward a new Fable.

Discord Games' 2D action RPG Chasm has battled its way to Kickstarter success over the weekend, getting almost $200k from just under 7k backers. Their stretch goals are still on the table thanks to pre-orders.

The action-RPG boasts procedurally created Metroid-like dungeons, presented in "authentic pixel art." A demo is available to try and there's a Steam Greenlight campaign.

Deep Silver has announced that Metro: Last Light, the sequel to Metro 2033, is now available in North America for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game will be launched on Friday, the 17th May, worldwide.

Future Mass Effect adventures could very well star one of Commander Shephard's squad mates or even dastardly foes as the leading man/lady. BioWare say it would be cool to do something with one of these NPCs.

Turian ex-C-SEC officer Garrus is rated high among the possible candidates at getting a spin-off "completely unrelated" to the larger plot of Mass Effect, i.e. no Reapers or Prothean artefacts.

Blizzard has announced that the publisher would be donating the ill-gotten gold from the recent Diablo III real-money auction house exploit to charity.

Nuclear post-apocalypse isn't on the agenda for Bethesda at this year's E3 according to an E3 invite sent out, which mentioned only three titles being presented with only two playable at the event.

The Evil Within, Wolfenstein: The New Order and The Elder Scrolls Online are noted in the invite. The team behind Skyrim has moved on, possibly to a new Fallout?

Full Control is the Danish developer hoping to excite enough of our wallets to pry a cool $350k out with their Jagged Alliance: Flashback Kickstarter, which is just under $160k with two weeks left.

The studio's CEO has put together a new video hoping to answer some basic questions about what Jagged Alliance is and why they're making Flashback - a 1980's set prequel to the series.

Gearbox has announced that Krieg the Psycho Bandit, the sixth playable character class for Borderlands 2, will be arriving on the 14th May for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Gearbox has confirmed in the wake of a leak yesterday that the fourth and final campaign add-on in Borderlands 2's Season Pass, Tiny Tina, will be coming the 25th June for PC, Xbox 30 and PlayStation 3.