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The good folks over at IGN invited funny man Seth Rogen to come play The Last Of Us.

Daniel Kaplan from Mojang Games, developer of the immensely popular Minecraft, today tweeted the sales figures for all 3 platforms the game resides on.

Insert Coin, the well respected gaming t-shirt store, have today announced that they’re working with Sony on a range of PlayStation-inspired designs. Little else was said, or at least no specific designs were announced, but they did say that they’ve looked at the full Sony range – “From Kratos to Sackboy, PaRappa to Nathan Drake” – to help create exciting, stylish designs that you’ll definitely want to wear if you’re a Sony gamer. More news will be coming over the…

Amazon UK have subtly added the ability to buy digital titles from their store. This is an expected development, but one that seems to have been embraced with little to no hype or excitement.

Mastertronic have today announced The Serious Sam Collection for Xbox 360.

Phil Tossell, a former employee of Rare, the team behind Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Goldeneye and Kameo, has revealed that there was a culture clash when the company was bought out by Microsoft.

Since its release in 2010, Playdead's award-winning platformer Limbo has sold over three million copies, an impressive number for any studio's first official title. Yesterday, the Dutch developers dropped a bit of surprise on the gaming world, announcing that their monochromatic side-scroller will release on iOS on July 3rd.

State of Decay - the XBLA title our very own Joe Ryan described as "the zombie game that people have been asking about for ages" - has been refused classification in Australia. This is the second game in the last week to be effectively banned from sale in the country.

While a lot of people are reporting that PlayStation 3 firmware 4.46 fixes all of their 4.45 problems, some don't seem to have been so lucky.

The latest PlayStation 3 firmware update, 4.46, released today, has added the ability to turn off trophy notifications. For those who find the achievement hunting meta-game annoying or pointless, you can now make it so that your game isn't ever interrupted by that addictive but admittedly out of place sound.