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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.

THQ has delayed South Park: The Game to the fourth quarter of its 2013 financial year.

"There's something happening here," sang Buffalo Springfield in their 1967 hit For What It's Worth. "What it is ain't exactly clear." It's a sentiment that well suits the games industry in 2012, as the structure that has endured for the best part of a quarter century is starting to show unmistakable signs of collapse. Major studios are fragmenting into small indie teams, 2D mobile games are out-grossing multi-million dollar boxed product and the production methods, retail models and market wisdom that have guided the medium for decades are all starting to wobble.

While the world warms itself around the burning servers of Diablo 3, a swollen team takes to the mics to discuss everything other than the one game that's on everyone's minds. Though if you care to watch the video version you'll likely see some right index fingers impatiently clicking away on an invisible mouse.

Are the wheels once again coming off the fighting game genre? Capcom today said sales of Street Fighter x Tekken were not up to scratch.

It has explosions, it has alien technology, it has Master Chief in his snazzy new suit.

The future of Def Jam Rapstar developer 4mm Games is effectively "on hold" due to deep financial troubles, its founder has revealed.

UPDATE: Blizzard has confirmed a hotfix for those players experiencing Error 3006 is on the way.

Someone has finished Diablo 3 already.

Global sales of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition have hit one million within a week.

As much as I enjoy iOS gaming, I have to admit that a vast majority of games on the platform feel rather slight. Many have novel mechanics or neat art styles, but do little more than help fill the two minute gaps when the person we're hanging out with goes to the bathroom.

Gear of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has spoken out against Japanese game developers for ignoring multiplayer options.

At 11pm last night the bell rang out in HMV's flagship store in Oxford Circus. The Diablo 3 servers went live, hundreds of fans roared, and the tills were set alight. The loot hunting had begun.

Nintendo has deployed its promised patch for Mario Kart 7. It eliminates the ability to skip large sections of the race track on specific courses.

The final slices of Final Fantasy 13-2 DLC are now available to download from Xbox Marketplace. PlayStation 3 players get the new content tomorrow.

Activision has awarded a former Modern Warfare staff a collective pay-out of $42 million (£26m), as part of the publisher's ongoing legal wranglings with Infinity Ward.

EA Sports has officially lifted the wraps on FIFA 13 and introduced this year's big gameplay improvements, with Complete Dribbling, First Touch Control and Attacking Intelligence all coming to this year's model.

As thousands struggle to play Diablo 3 and servers buckle under the strain, Blizzard has explained the various error messages players are receiving as they attempt to log-in - and offered advice on how to deal with them.

Kingdoms of Amalur developer 38 Studios is in talks with local US government officials as it struggles to stay in business.

Diablo 3 had over two million pre-orders, a record for Blizzard Entertainment.

PlayStation 3 gamers will soon be able to stream a huge quantity of BBC Sports coverage from their console's desktop.

It's not over until it's over, as those in pale blue who left the Etihad Stadium before full-time on Sunday found out to their own eternal embarrassment. This year's Premier League has seen the title move from one side of Manchester to another, a seismic shift that some five years ago would have seemed improbable.

UPDATE: Blizzard has taken Battle.net offline and launched more servers as players struggle to play Diablo 3 this morning.

Blizzard will refund GAME Australia customers who had pre-orders for Diablo 3, the publisher has announced.

Time hasn't been kind to Max Payne, the New York cop who used to woo us - or perhaps 'Woo' us - by diving around in slow motion blasting organised crime to pieces. In one of the bleakest game intros I've ever seen, Max begins his latest adventure by arriving at his new Sao Paolo apartment, getting the shakes, then draining a bottle of bourbon, chain-smoking and smashing a photograph of his dead family against a wall in his torment. Press Start.