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In a battle to precede the war, both EA and Activision will debut new television adverts for their shooter mega-series Call of Duty and Medal of Honor during Saturday's Champions League final.

It seems Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios' problems are escalating following recent loan negotiations, with news today that it's not been able to pay staff this week.

Far Cry 3's multiplayer modes get a beta dry run on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this Summer, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

The damages pay-out sought by sacked Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella has swollen to over $1 billion, according to the pair's former employees Activision.

Activision attempted to hack into email and phone messages belonging to Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella prior to the pair's dismissal in 2010, according to documents pertaining to the forthcoming court battle between the two parties.

The first episode of Telltale's TV/comic tie-in The Walking Dead has become the studio's fastest selling game ever, hitting the one million mark just three weeks after launch.

Omerta: City of Gangsters, a strategy-inflected RPG from the studio behind the Tropico series, is heading to PC and Xbox 360 this Autumn, publisher Kalypso Media has announced.

Carried Command: Gaea Mission, an action RTS from Arma developer Bohemia Interactive. launches for PC and Xbox 360 on 27th September.

Epic has unveiled Unreal Engine 4 with stunning screenshots that showcase what will hopefully be possible with the next generation of consoles.

A 20-year-old man has been jailed for 18 months after making thousands of pounds by distributing a Call of Duty hack that was really a virus.

The latest Street Fighter x Tekken patch has introduced a game breaking bug.

Who can remember when this was all just fields? Shiny, stripy, bright green fields, lying under fluffy white clouds and skies bluer than the liquid in an Always ad. All right, it wasn't all just fields; there were neon-lit casinos, crumbling ancient temples and cities in the clouds, too.

Somebody needs to check Sega's calendar. It's been 18 months since the first episode of Sonic the Hedgehog 4 was released, leading many fans to believe that the wild blue wonder's foray into episodic digital gaming was over before it had properly begun. In truth, the delay is just the latest example of how Sega is still frantically trying to retool its mascot for modern audiences while appeasing a vocal fanbase that has stuck by him through thickand thin.

Upcoming co-op shooter Borderlands 2 will launch with two special editions, publisher 2K Games has announced.

The human immune system is one mad marvel. It monitors our physical well-being through a series of rigid precautionary and at-the-ready defence systems. It's governed by an army of cellular bodies carrying out their respective duties, in order to repel invasion from hostile viral and bacterial agents.

Fallout developers Tim Cain and Chris Avellone will help write the Nuka Break web show if its kickstarter raises $120,000.

Toyota's latest in-car navigations system are now compatible with the Nintendo DS.

Capcom hopes to continue the Steel Battalion series on the next generation of consoles, and it has already worked out how it will make use of the extra processing power.

Delta Force developer NovaLogic is suing Activision for alleged trademark infringement due to the repeated use of the name "Delta Force" in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Following yesterday's revelation that Fable studio Lionhead is making an "MMO-like" RPG for the next Xbox, it has now emerged that Kinect Sports developer Rare is working on a raft of Durango games.

CCP Games will send out the first batch of Dust 514 closed beta keys tomorrow, Friday, 17th May.

Tales of Graces f launches in Europe on 31st August, Namco Bandai has announced.

Valve has launched Steam remote downloads.

Blizzard has apologised for the server problems that have made Diablo 3, which requires an active internet connection to work, difficult to play for hundreds of thousands of gamers.

Smart As, a new "social brain-training experience", is on its way to Vita, Sony has announced.

UPDATE 2: Even though Activision has settled with EA, its argument with Infinity Ward founders Zampella and West still stands and will go to court later this month.

I hope you weren't holding your breath. Save for the New Play Control Wii remix of GameCube's Mario Power Tennis in 2009, we've been left hanging on for a proper update to the series since 2005's Mario Tennis: Power Tour on Game Boy Advance. Quite why this solidly successful formula skipped the entirety of the DS generation has been something of a mystery - at least, it was until I'd spent several days thwacking my way across the courts of the series' 3DS debut.

The image of Valve as a manager-less utopia where staff have free rein to do as they please, as painted by its recently leaked Employee Handbook, is a little wide of the mark, according to former Portal lead designer Kim Swift.

Trussed-up skateboarding revival Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD will offer classic levels from the third entry in the series as post-launch DLC, developer Robomodo has announced.

Minecraft was the third most played game on Xbox Live last week, Microsoft has announced.