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More than two years on, Angry Birds Rio has probably been lost in the mess of Star Wars spin-offs that the top casual franchise has released in the time since, but that's not stopping the developers from releasing an update to celebrate the release of Rio 2.

Vinyl enthusiasts like to point out that an acoustic recording is a physical document of an actual event; the grooves in a record represent the movements in the air during a live recording session, while MP3's and digital files only capture the sounds that the software engineers chose to record in order to make the files smaller.

Hit console-style shooter MMO Defiance has gone kind of free-to-play. Although there's still a limit on what you can do while you're in the free-to-play version of the game, you can play for as long as you want without having to stop.

Hyrule Warriors/Zelda Musou, is a brand new action fighting game scheduled for release on the Wii U sometime in 2014, and is being developed in collaboration with Tecmo Koei, creators of the Dynasty Warriors franchise.

It would seem that Bioshock Infinite and Persona IV: The Golden might be coming to PlayStation Plus in the near future, or at the very least receive heavy discounts.

Mad Catz made a splash with their R.A.T. series of highly-customizable gaming mice years ago, and the line has continued with several new models and even a wireless version of this monster peripheral. A new version of the R.A.T. is out; a smaller, wireless subspecies intended for gaming on the go. We spent some time with the R.A.T. M and here are our thoughts.

Shadow of Mordor was revealed a few weeks ago for next-gen systems, current-gen systems and PC, and while it sounded pretty damn impressive, there was little to actually judge it by. Other than a few interesting gameplay features that might end up being less impressive than they sound, there wasn't even really a picture. That changed earlier this week when a handful of screens were released, showing off both the player character, his techniques and a handful of enemies.

There are so many things about this story that could be wrong or misinterpreted (or just plain made up) but it makes for quite the interesting idea anyway. A user on Neogaf claims that, after attempting to get a new, sealed copy of Battlefield 4 from EA so that he could get a refund at Gamestop, they got into a fight with an EA rep over whether or not the game's current state constitutes that it is broken.

LEGO The Hobbit, revealed over the last few weeks for a series of systems longer than the Hobbit movies themselves, was previously only shown off through a screenshot. Now Warner Bros have released a trailer that shows off The Hobbit, the humour and the journey that you'll be undertaking next year if you pick it up in 2014.

Capcom have announced that Marvel Vs Capcom 2 and 3 will be leaving digital stores over the next week or so, depending on your location. The superhero brawler will be leaving both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, as well as all the DLC available. You should still be able to download it if you've already paid for it.