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Capcom's annual report is out, and one of the big ideas for the future is to shorten development cycles and pump out sequels more often.

Ubisoft has clarified comments made last month by boss Yves Guillemot, which suggested the company endured a piracy rate of "93 to 95 per cent" on its PC titles.

The developer sessions schedule for this year's Eurogamer Expo continues to take shape. We still haven't announced all the developers, so there are still gaps on the developer sessions schedule page, but if you ask me those gaps just make the shape it's all taking look even more exotic and attractive.

Fiendish Japanese platforming adventure La-Mulana is coming to North America and Europe via WiiWare on 20th September for 1000 Wii Points, publisher EnjoyUp Games has announced.

Go on, do it. It won't hurt, I promise. Everybody else is doing it. Squeeze the trigger. Shoot yourself!

Ubisoft has discarded its much-derided always-on DRM for PC games, the company has announced.

Gears of War is no longer just a game about killing monsters - in the multiplayer space, anyway. Showing off a new free-for-all deathmatch mode for the upcoming series prequel Gears of War: Judgment, Epic's showcase at PAX Prime 2012 gave a glimpse into a seemingly alternate future that once was a franchise impossibility: COG killing COG.

Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki is contemplating adding an easy mode to From Software notoriously difficult action-RPG.

A brand new Resident Evil 6 demo will be available to download on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 from September 18th, developer Capcom has announced.

One talented free-runner has been captured on camera doing a mighty fine impression of original assassin Altaïr, star of the first Assassin's Creed.

Bad Piggies, the new game from Angry Birds maker Rovio, will launch on iOS, Android and Mac on 27th September. Windows 8 and PC versions will follow "shortly".

UPDATE: Around four hours after it first went down, Xbox Live now appears to be back online.

Mega-publisher Electronic Arts has excused its current sequel-laden line-up by saying there's a lack of "reward" for launching new game IPs this late in the console generation.

Valve is "frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space" - "so we're jumping in".

Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC has been released on Xbox Marketplace for 400 Microsoft Points (about £3.40).

Like so many other entries in Namco's long running yet still relatively obscure JRPG series, Tales of Graces F often hides its light under a bushel. An HD makeover of a 2009 Wii game that never saw a western release, it does a great job of following the broad strokes of its genre, but it can take ten hours or more before the ingenious little curlicues that it doodles in the margins take centre stage.

One of the things people said to us when we did Rezzed in Brighton in July was, "This is cool! Why don't you have something like this at the Eurogamer Expo?" And so, as part of our grand plan to make the Expo all things to all people, we're taking that on board and bringing Rezzed to the Expo show floor!

Here's a little welcome burst of late summer sunshine. Hello Game's follow-up to its much-loved Joe Danger has been pinned down for a September release, with the game going gold yesterday afternoon.

Assassin's Creed 3's multiplayer mode will offer new story content long after launch, Ubisoft has revealed.

Actor Michael Clarke Duncan died on Monday after two months of treatment following a heart attack. He was 54 years old.

The Guild Wars 2 Trading Post (auction house) is now available for everybody to use.

This news is a little late, but important nonetheless: The PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 won't support Windows XP, because the engine has been upgraded to DirectX 11.

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3D will finally arrive for 3DS on 26th October, publisher Namco Bandai has announced.

Just how similar is MMO The War Z gameplay to DayZ? That's the most pertinent question surrounding The War Z at the moment.

Halo 4 will have community-created mod Grifball as one of its main multiplayer modes, 343 announced at a panel at PAX Prime moments ago.

With tax breaks, the Raspberry Pi and reformed computing lessons, there's a smiling future for UK-made games.

Sony's "almost ready with a patch" for ICO HD that will enable Remote Play on PlayStation Vita, Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida said today.

Spoilers for Halo 4 and tie-in book The Thursday War lie below.

Ryu and Ken are Capcom's flagship fighters, no question, but the Osaka-based developer has more than just tiger knees and sonic booms to its name. It's responsible for the open arenas of Power Stone, the warring academics of Rival Schools, the 3D ring-outs of Star Gladiator and the levelling-up system of Red Earth. This last one is particularly poignant, as while Red Earth was the first game for the CPS-3 (a short-lived arcade board that focused on pixel rendering in a time when polygons were taking over), Jojo's Bizarre Adventure was the sixth and final CPS-3 game before Capcom switched to the Taito Type X.

Square Enix has released new gameplay footage from A Realm Reborn, its upcoming relaunch of troubled MMO Final Fantasy 14.