And the rest... Dishonored, Mario Kart 7 tournaments, Layton vs Phoenix

It's been a slow old day. Not a lot of big stories - Zynga's Montopia and Fieldrunners 2 HD aside - and not many scraps, either.

It's almost as if games makers are wary of their news getting buried under a mountain of Apple-related articles come 6pm, isn't it?

Oh, well. Here are the stories that didn't quite make the cut today.

Bethesda's mobile spin-off for Dishonored, Rat Assassin, is now out on iPad, too. It's basically a cheeky Fruit Ninja clone, but with pox-ridden rodents instead of bananas. Free, thankfully.

Sound the 'new Windows Phone game' alarm! Here's Crimson Dragon: Side Story! It's a spin-off shooter to upcoming XBLA game Crimson Dragon, which in turn is a spiritual successor to the Panzer Dragoon series. Confused yet?

In Turn 'N' Run, meanwhile, you "swipe the screen to rotate the environment and link up seemingly distant blocks in order to create a path". Which sounds like the awfully clever Fez and Crush. We also dig the insectoid hero. 69p / 99c for iPhone.

"Today is a big day for Android," Google product manager Hugo Barra says (without a hint of irony). "500 million devices activated globally, and over 1.3 million added every single day." Interesting timing from Google there...

A mysterious Game Boy Advance category has appeared on Nintendo's Virtual Console site in Australia. It's only carrying one game at the moment - Dr Mario - but might this be a hint that more GBA games are about to start hitting the eShop?

Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright has now got a release date... in Japan. This 3DS crossover will be launched on November 29th. No word yet on Capcom's plans to publish it in the West.

Square Enix has opened up a website for its rhythm-based iOS and Android title Demons' Score. It's an Elite Beat Agents-style game featuring music from a litany of Square composers (including the music men behind Final Fantasy XI and Kingdom Hearts).

Nintendo's set up a number of Mario Kart 7 tournaments around Great Britain. Winners will take home a golden trophy, and a year's supply of 3DS games.