The month in games: The Last Guardian is released at last

Long-lost titles finally saw the light of day, and Mario ran into trouble

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In an industry fuelled by carefully managed waves of hype, developers can easily get carried away in the promotion of software that isn't quite ready yet. Sometimes that means being loose-lipped about features that don't make it into the final product, a crime for which the internet will punish you in the same way as if you'd been caught drowning puppies. Other times, games are talked about for so long that they start to seem less like forms of entertainment and more like musty urban myths. But, for some reason, the last few weeks have seen the emergence of a clutch of games that had themselves in video game lore as forever "coming soon".