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Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo has jumped to Jay Wilson's defence in a 184-page Diablo 3 forum thread that turned nasty.

The upcoming Tomb Raider reboot will require you to venture into the game's multiplayer mode for a quarter of the game's Achievements.

Film and music companies don't want to see HMV go. They're reportedly prepared to lower the price of their goods as well as offer generous credit terms to prospective HMV buyers.

Syndicate and Chronicles of Riddick developer Starbreeze has revealed the existence of a new sci-fi shooter project, titled Storm.

UPDATE: Microsoft has confirmed it removed Too Human content from the Xbox Marketplace at developer Silicon Knights' request.

Atari, creator of arcade classics Pong and Asteroids, has filed a petition for bankruptcy.

The administrators in charge of Blockbuster plan to close 160 stores.

Rain splattering through the branches of the trees, a darkened path leading to a clanking gate, a stately house looming out of the storm clouds: any number of survival horror games could choose to start this way, but only one of them would then interrupt the scene with the plinky-plonking ringtone of your modified Nintendo DS communicator going off. Professor E. Gadd's on the line, and that means that the man in green is back on the case. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon preview code has apparated in the office (okay, it actually came by courier) and there are ghosts to be hunted.

It's been six months since we reviewed AMD's Radeon HD 6870, priced then at £100, where we were shocked to find that you don't need to break the bank to achieve the coveted 1080p at 60 frames per second for most games. Anchored by game designs based on current-gen console capabilities, we found that it's possible to radically improve upon the Xbox 360 and PS3 game experience with relatively inexpensive PC graphics hardware. So the question is, with a new wave of budget cards upon us, what can we expect from them in terms of price vs. performance, and how do these cards stand up to the most popular cards from the last GPU generation?

Bioshock will never really be remembered for its high concept ideas or the way it plays around with the lack of autonomy within an FPS. The legacy is Andrew Ryan, and Rapture, and everything that a game can do to bring to life the failed dream of a larger-than-life figure. It'll be remembered for that scene with the golf club, and for Sander Cohen and Fort Frolic. Bioshock 2 had Sofia Lamb and the Big Sister, and an even more dilapidated Rapture falling apart at the seams. As high-falutin' as Bioshock gets, it's only as strong as its antagonists.

Hello Eurogamer, hope everything's going just swimmingly. This week we've been working ourselves into an unseemly froth over the fact that Fallout 4 is all but guaranteed to be a launch window title for the next round of consoles. It's not hard to identify the appeal of post-apocalyptic fiction - everyone likes to imagine how they would survive after the breakdown of society. Fallout allows you to play it.

Kameo: Elements of Power didn't just help kick off the current console generation, it played a role in the early days of one of its more interesting - and divisive - trends, too. Shortly after the Xbox 360 came out in December 2005, I went over to my friend - and handy early adopter - Stu's house to see what the new hardware could do. Stu was playing Kameo, which looked colourful and pleasant and busy with particle effects, but there was something else taking place on the screen that seemed completely weird. As Christmas inched closer in the real world, Christmas was inching closer in Kameo, as well: all the elves and pixies, grunts and lumbering yeti-type things the protagonist could transform into were decked out in scarlet pom-pom hats and little red and white ruffs. Santa Claus had come to toy town.

Update: Gas Powered Games founder Chris Taylor has issued a video update explaining the situation.

Sony Corporation of America is selling its 37-story headquarters in New York City for the princely sum of $1.1 billion, the company announced.

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance may put you in the cybernetic bladed high heels of the once reviled pretty boy Raiden, but originally series creator Hideo Kojima wanted it to star the franchise's original cyborg ninja Frank Jaegar aka Gray Fox.

Microsoft is making up for its paltry 17p birthday gifts with an offer people probably care about. On Microsoft's US online store it's giving away 1600 MS points for pre-orders on several upcoming games.

A new trailer for Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance highlights four of Raiden's main adversaries: three of which we see extensive in-game footage of their battles.

Update: Cello Fortress sounded so bats*** insane that I decided to follow up with its creator, Joost van Dongen, to find out more about the project: notably how he reconciles making his music pleasing to listen to while simultaneously reacting to other players.

Brain-melting first-person puzzler Antichamber is coming to Steam on 31st January for PC, creator Alexander Bruce has announced. It has not yet been priced.

The Writer's Guild of America has announced its nominees for outstanding achievement in video game writing for 2012. Shockingly, the critically drubbed 007 Legends made the short list, while the near universally praised The Walking Dead did not.

Update: A UK retail source told me: "THQ are not going to be around on those new releases, so taking pre-orders would be unfair possibly on consumers if the sites could not guarantee delivery."

Italian developer Milestone has regained the MotoGP licence and is planning to bring a game out on the back of it this year to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC as well as the Vita.

As the wait for Warcraft 4 goes on, modders have released a new video showing off an in-development Warcraft RTS built using the StarCraft 2 engine.

The SimCity beta begins on 25th January, EA has announced.

Sony will drop the DualShock controller for the next PlayStation, according to a new report.

There's a lovely moment very early on in this feature length documentary where footage of the Swedish countryside where Markus "Notch" Perrson grew up segues into the landscape of Minecraft, the bash-and-build indie hit that made his fortune.

Martin Pezlar and Ivan Buchta - the two Bohemia Interactive employees jailed on espionage charges in Greece but now bailed - have returned home.

Survarium, the free-to-play PC MMOFPS from former developers of the Stalker series, goes into open beta at the end of 2013.

Square Enix has released Hitman: HD Trilogy screenshots that give us our first look at the high definition revamp collection.

Playing a good puzzle game is like watching an experienced stand-up comic riffing on a joke. There's the initial elation at the elegant construction and the skilled deployment of ideas, and then the anxious wait as you see how long and how far the concept can be spun out before it loses momentum and spirals out of control.