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Two men suspected of hacking Sony and other video game companies have pleaded guilty to a raft of charges.

3DS pinball game Marvel Pinball 3D launches on the Nintendo eShop this Thursday, 28th June, Zen Studios has announced.

The great thing about buttons - whether they're on your doorbell, mobile phone, game controller or even plastered all over an elaborate mech-simulation peripheral that comes with its own Allen key - is that when you push them into the recess and feel that satisfying click as the contact hits the mark, you can be around 99.99 per cent sure that your action will have the desired result. It's a principle that gaming has embraced since its earliest days.

Cartoon free-to-play shooter Battlefield Heroes is three-years-old today.

Mojang has outlined its release plan for Scrolls, the online collectible card video game.

The idea of a Small World may have been around forever, but what really imprinted it in our collective subconscious was good old Walt Disney. For a theme park ride, he wanted a tune with words that could easily translate into any other language - and the Sherman brothers, his in-house composers, delivered. It's a comforting song, one meant to inspire thoughts of fraternity and far-off relatives. We're all in it together!

Namco Bandai will go on a UK tour to teach people how to play fighting game Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

The StarCraft 2 World Championship Series hits London this weekend with the UK Nationals leg of the high-profile e-Sports tournament.

Star Wars: The Old Republic will go offline tomorrow ahead of the release of patch 1.3, BioWare has announced.

Crystal Dynamics has discussed its new IP, saying it'll be "fresh and familiar" and offer a similar experience to the new Tomb Raider game.

Lovefilm has signed a deal with Fox that will see new movies and TV series made available as on-demand content on the streaming service.

Capcom has promised to release more Dragon's Dogma games.

It may be a sad indication of how the proverbial blockbuster has evolved over the years, but recently I've started to judge popcorn movies and triple-A shooters based on how entertainingly they destroy cities. Over the last half decade I've seen so many famous cities wiped off the map for my amusement, I now expect games developers and film directors to exhibit both originality and creativity in how they orchestrate violent urban renewal.

Criterion has taken full control of the Need for Speed and Burnout franchises.

Open world PlayStation 2 gangster romps Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City may soon be re-released on PlayStation Network.

Capcom has announced the Resident Evil 6 Collector's Edition for Europe.

Valve has rejected Nintendo 3DS platformer Mutant Mudds for release on Steam.

Microsoft has pulled the Fez patch that last week caused some players' save files to corrupt.

MMO Final Fantasy 11 is the most profitable Final Fantasy game ever, Square Enix has announced.

Cheap design teams have been cloning Tetris for years - there's just been an interesting court case regarding a prominent copycat, in fact - but more interesting developers have also been experimenting with it. Whether they're just changing the dimensions of the well and altering the shapes of the blocks or going so far as to add new power-ups and meddle with the basic rules, you don't have to hunt around the internet for too long to see Alexei Pajitnov's evergreen classic getting a bit of a workout.

Shooter. Racer. Fighter. Platformer. Farming simulator. Games, the grand majority of the time, are about actions. We run and jump and kill and collect. We conquer entire worlds - sometimes in the span of an afternoon - with their wondrous works of architecture and natural beauty flying by in a blur of blood, guts and glittering prizes.

Bethesda makes its first release since Skyrim this week: Quake 4. This is no remaster or Game of the Year edition, it's a straight reissue - and although it does have a budget price tag it doesn't say 'essentials' or 'classics' on the box. That's because it's not essential, or a classic. It's a dependable, rather boring first-person shooter from seven years ago that has passed into dim memory for a reason.

Pocket Planes perfectly captures the experience of travelling by plane. There's the waiting to check-in, the waiting to board, and the waiting to meet one of those friendly passport inspection people on the other side. Not to mention the time spent on your flight, chewing stale peanuts while watching episodes of Fraiser on an in-flight screen the size of a Game Boy.

March 21st, 2003. Metroid Prime. Pop the disc from the case. Secure it in the GameCube's open mouth.

Asymmetric multiplayer title SpyParty is the first game announced as part of fighting game tournament EVO's indie game showcase.

Curt Schilling, the founder of failed Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios has admitted to poor behaviour in his first interview since the company's recent collapse.

Bomb Monkey, the latest offering by Mutant Mudds and Dementium: The Ward developer Renegade Kid, arrives on the 3DS eShop in North America on 28th June for $5.

Post-apocalyptic action-RPG Nuclear Union is the next effort from Ukrainian developer Best Way - the team behind acclaimed RTS Men of War)

Mass Effect 3's Extended Cut DLC launches for PC and Xbox 360 on 26th June and on 4th July for PlayStation 3, publisher EA has announced.

A single brand new screenshot from Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's recently-announced near-future adventure, has made its way out into the wild.