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Pretty dead week this week for releases (especially for consoles). You just know it's a slow week when Smurfs 2 is the headline game.

A publisher is looking for freelance writers who are willing to dish the dirt on Apple. They're looking for someone who has, preferably through a child, "lost a fortune" on games purchased from the App Store. The publisher is willing to pay $1000 to anybody willing to tell the story, so long as there's proof to go along with it.

Sony have slightly changed the way they announce the winners of the Greatness Awaits auctions in light of yesterdays cheater debacle.

The Bid For Greatness promo being held by Sony seemed like such a great idea in theory. Gamers who spent the last 5 years putting an (often) insane amount of effort into earning trophies now have a way to spend those hard earned Gold trophies by bidding on PlayStation memorabilia used in the Greatness Awaits Promo Commercial. Or at least, that was the plan.

Over the past weekend, at the EVO fighting tournament, an announcement was made that is sure to intrigue, excite and worry current Injustice players. Martian Manhunter, one of the most highly requested DLC characters in recent memory was revealed, alongside a gameplay video that shows off his incredible moveset.

A page on the Square Enix website has people asking whether Final Fantasy XIII’s Lightning might just end up making a cameo appearance in the newly remastered Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD. The Final Fantasy Go There page (which seems like a 30 Rock joke, I know) describes several of the crossovers coming to upcoming Final Fantasy titles. Already mentioned are Lightning Returns and Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, both of which have bonus cameo costumes. The final picture shows…

Deadly Premonition is coming to PC. Offering a heady mix of terrible controls and gameplay, silly scripting but deep characterisation, Deadly Premonition is the very definition of a community-splitting game. It'll be the director's cut as well, so there's the new scenario, "enhanced" graphics (which bring it up to PS2 standards) and the reworked control scheme (which still sucks).

Ubisoft have announced that 40 of the levels from Rayman Origins will end up in Legends. Not only that, but they'll each recieve a graphical update so that they look as good as the original levels of Rayman Legends. There were 66 levels in Rayman Origins, and if you take away the bonus and mosquito-focussed levels, that's probably the whole game.

Today the PS+ content being given away for European players was announced. Here's a rundown of all games free in August for PS3 and PSV in Europe.

Forza 5 will not be finished when it ships, Turn 10 has revealed. Instead, users will have to download some of the content before they're allowed to play. Users that hate big patches and launch (and nobody can really blame them) will be unhappy to learn that the developers behind the latest Forza are taking as much time as they have available to build and polish the content. While this means an inconvenience to the end user, it also means that the product isn't being limited by a "Gone Gold" date and that may give them 6-8 weeks to really push the features ...