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Platinum Games president Tatsuya Minami is very satisfied with his studios' projects, but not so happy with its sales.

The 3DS has sold 8 million units in the US, 1 million more than its predecessor.

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team will be released in Europe on 12th July, Nintendo has announced.

Nintendo used today's Direct briefing to announce a new Yoshi's Island game for the 3DS - and it's due out at some point later this year.

Telltale Games has revealed a bevy of character crossover unlocks in its upcoming Poker Night 2, due next week on XBLA, PSN, PC and Mac.

Leviathan: Warships - Pieces Interactive's upcoming asynchronous naval strategy game for PC, Mac, iOS and Android on 30th April - has just been immortalized in a relaxing new trailer that emulates Youtube user docfuture's now classic narration of Sonic 1 on easy mode.

Throughout FIFA's golden period, which has been in effect from FIFA 09 or 10, depending on your point of view, I've found a constant: once the new game comes out you quickly get used to it and then you wonder how you ever played the last version in the first place. Changes are almost always for the better (even the sometimes hilarious Player Impact Engine has proved itself a valuable addition). When the dust of the arguments around new features and gameplay tweaks settles, almost everyone is left happily playing the latest version. With FIFA, there's no going back.

1994 SNES classic Earthbound will be released for the first time in Europe this year via the Wii U Virtual Console.

Nintendo is prepping a new Link to the Past game for the 3DS, a direct sequel to the 1991 SNES classic, and it's set for release later this year.

UPDATE #2: Nintendo has just confirmed the Animal Crossing 3DS XL bundle for release in the UK on the game's release date - 14th June.

EA has announced FIFA 14 for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It launches this autumn.

It seems like only last week that I was praising Halo 4's Castle map pack for its old-fashioned focus on good, solid maps with nary an overarching theme or eye-catching gimmick to tie them together. That's because it was last week, and already here's Black Ops 2 to illustrate the point with its latest exuberant blast of downloadable content.

The Office of Fair Trading has launched a public survey into in-app purchases, aimed at parents and guardians whose children play web and app-based games.

The hard-fought battle for tax breaks in the UK games industry has been dealt another blow: a further delay, because the European Commission has decided to do an in-depth investigation into the scheme.

Guido Henkel, the man whose masked face dominates the Planescape: Torment box art, is working on a new role-playing game called Deathfire.

Respawn Entertainment, the studio founded by Call of Duty co-creators Vince Zampella and Jason West, has registered a trademark for the name Titan.

"PlayStation 4? It's pink," says David Cage. "It's shaped like a tower and it's about one metre high."

The Indie Fund - the organisation started by Jonathan Blow, Kellee Santiago and other industry luminaries that backed such titles as Antichamber, Dear Esther and QUBE - has announced the latest title to be added to its roster with Kachina.

We knew Sony's second foray into Wonderbook, Diggs Nightcrawler, would be due this May in Europe, but now Sony has pinpointed an exact release date as 29th May over on the EU PlayStation Blog.

UPDATE: The Soul Sacrifice demo save data will transfer into the final game upon its launch on 1st May.

Bethesda has revealed a short, untitled video teaser for a new project.

Portsmouth-based studio Climax created a prototype for a new Prince of Persia game and held talks with Ubisoft - but they didn't go anywhere.

UPDATE: Frontier Developments boss David Braben has addressed concern about today's announcement of Coaster Crazy Deluxe for Wii U and insisted it hasn't impacted upon the crowd-funded, in-development Elite: Dangerous.

A new, free Forza Horizon expansion is available to download today and adds 1000 car challenges to the game.

Rezzed: The PC and Indie Games Show is returning to the UK this June and in my role as curator of the developer sessions I've been beavering away over the last few months organising this year's schedule. I've got enough of it together now that I can let you know exactly when the majority of this year's sessions will take place.

Maps! Ray Liotta! Michael Madsen! More maps! It's a new Black Ops 2 DLC day, and the latest, Uprising, introduces four new playgrounds and is kind enough to plonk some of Hollywood's growliest men into the chaos.

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert is not currently working on a new Monkey Island game. He wants to make that clear.

With its bright, idiosyncratic characters, scattershot humour, reeling combo counters and punchy combat, Agatsuma Entertainment's Code of Princess bears all the family likeness of a Treasure game. That's no great surprise. Creators Tetsuhiko Kikuchi and Masaki Ukyo both worked at the boisterously creative action game developer in the past, specifically in the roles of director and lead programmer on the studio's seminal Sega Saturn title, Guardian Heroes.

A listing for a game called Tekken Revolution has been spotted online.

It's been a year since Grasshopper Manufacture's rock star founder Suda 51 was doing the rounds for Lollipop Chainsaw, a game whose tongue was stuck so firmly in its cheek it was in danger of poking through the other side. There was something absent there, though - a part of me wished that Suda was building a Japanese version of The Warriors (or even something that more closely resembled Koko Dai Panikku, the violent '70s Japanese high school outcast film Lollipop was inspired by) instead - and the end result fell well short of its outlandish potential. Lollipop Chainsaw lacked a certain something - it was missing a little of the style that's made Suda's name.