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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.

OTT shooter Serious Sam 3: BFE heads to Xbox Live Arcade this Autumn, along with a re-tooled version of indie spin-off Serious Sam: Double D, co-publishers Mastertronic and Devolver Digital have announced.

The Elder Scrolls publisher Zenimax has taken legal action against the developer behind Dragon Shout, a free map app for the former's blockbuster RPG Skyrim.

BioWare has called on fans to voice their opinions on where its Dragon Age RPG franchise should go next.

Wii crowd-pleaser Mario Party 9 clung onto the top spot in a snail-slow sales week over in Japan.

Seasoned racing game specialist Criterion is working on a new Vita title, according to a recruitment call from the Guildford-based studio.

Fresh detail on how Halo 4 multiplayer works has made it's way out of Microsoft HQ.

UPDATE: Lionhead has issued Eurogamer the following statement:

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 headlines today's EU PlayStation Store update. Sega's latest Sonic adventure costs £9.99 and includes exclusive levels for those with Sonic 4 Episode 1.

Error 37. Error 3007. Error 315300. The launch of Blizzard's long-awaited Diablo 3 was marred by a day of server problems and at least one game-breaking bug, forcing gamers to wait up to 24 hours to play a game they had legitimately paid for.

Magical PlayStation Move title Sorcery is now available to pre-buy from the EU PlayStation Store.

How will Ubisoft afford to make even bigger and even prettier games on even more powerful next-generation machinery? By squeezing more money out of you - a metric known as ARPU (average revenue per user).

Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 5 will feature a huge variety of vehicles, according to data allegedly dug up from Max Payne 3's disc.

Nvidia has announced its GeForce Grid processor, tech it believes will make game streaming "as common as renting a movie online".

Superb free-to-play first-person shooter Tribes: Ascend has seen over one million downloads in the month following launch, Hi-Rez Studios has announced.

Sometimes, what looks like a frame turns out to be part of the picture. So it is with Velocity, which starts off as a scrolling shooter but soon blooms into something more akin to a puzzler. And following on from Floating Cloud God Saves the Pilgrims, it's another great PlayStation Mini - at last, that rather flat marketplace is gaining some momentum.

Football games on handhelds can usually be divided into two camps: those that offer a cut-down version of a PC or home console game, and those that fixate on a single element, like shooting, and try to make a high-score game out of it. There are some fine examples of both on iOS and Android already, but New Star Soccer is something else: it's a football career built from the ground up for mobiles and tablets, a mixture of Flick Kicks and Football Managers that may even represent a greater threat to your free time than its inspirations.

Nintendo's new Wii U console "can have great success", giant video game publisher Ubisoft believes.

Blizzard is investigating reports of vanishing achievements in Diablo 3.

Japanese developer Cave has cancelled its two in-development titles scheduled for release on PlayStation Vita.

If you're disconnected from the internet while playing Diablo 3, your game instance freezes straight away and after a minute or so, you're booted back to the character selection screen. When you log back in, you restart from your last checkpoint - but keep any gold, experience and items you earned.

Capcom has announced EX Troopers, a Lost Planet 3 spin-off for PlayStation 3 and Nintendo 3DS.

Outstanding Xbox Live Arcade game Trials Evolution has motored to 500,000 sales in three weeks, publisher Ubisoft has revealed.

NUads will not use data captured by Kinect for advertising purposes, Microsoft has insisted.

The next slice of Mass Effect 3 DLC will be named Rebellion, Sony's Hong Kong website has revealed.

A LinkedIn profile for a Volition Inc. developer (spotted by Superannuation) has revealed Saints Row 4 is in development for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

UPDATE: Naughty Dog has commented on the decision to change the look of Ellie. Creative director Neil Druckmann told IGN that change was made to make Ellie look more like Ashley Johnson, the mo-cap artist and voice actor behind Ellie.

New Final Fantasy games "take precedence" over the potential Final Fantasy 7 remake, Square Enix has said.