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Is it rational to feel a greater fondness for single-format releases than for multi-platform games? I'm not sure, but I know I do.

Microsoft and Sony might remain coy on their respective plans for the next generation of consoles, but they're slowly becoming clearer through their current movements. When Microsoft announced the $99 Xbox 360 earlier this week, one suggested outcome for the next generation of consoles came a step closer to reality: a subscription-based model not too dissimilar from what we've come to expect from our mobile phone providers, by which you're given the hardware at a knock-down, affordable price and are subsequently locked into a contract over a fixed period of time.

Portal lead designer Kim Swift insists she isn't feeling the pressure to top the classic Valve puzzler with her new game Quantum Conundrum.

A double XP weekend for Battlefield 3 multiplayer kicks off tomorrow morning, EA has announced.

Blizzard and Valve have settled their disagreement over use of the DOTA name.

FortressCraft developer Adam Sawkins has called the police after suffering a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on his game's website the day voxel rival Minecraft launched on Xbox Live Arcade.

The Dutch Pirate Party has been ordered to stop publicising ways to circumvent a ban on torrent portal The Pirate Bay in Holland.

Looking for an excuse to chisel the calcified dust off your Dreamcast? Well, resourceful indie studio KTX Software has announced plans to produce a limited run of its new shooter Redux: Dark Matters for Sega's aged machine.

US TV show Sons of Anarchy is to get a video game tie-in, so says series creator Kurt Sutter.

The first episode of Telltale's recent TV/comic tie-in The Walking Dead has held on to the Xbox Live Arcade chart top spot in its second week on sale, Microsoft has announced.

A legal row between Beyoncé Knowles and a game developer allegedly contracted to make a title bearing her name is heading to court after a judge gave the claim the green light.

Atari appears to be in the process of switching off Eden Games' life support and closing the studio.

Ambitious iOS/PC stealth title République has crawled past its Kickstarter total with just hours to spare.

UPDATE: A snippet of extra data for you - NPD told Eurogamer that Kid Icarus: Uprising sold 83,000 copies during April.

Have you ever flown a plane? I've flown a plane. It was a little Cessna thing. Four-seater. Lots of fun. Here's a picture of me flying a plane. Thanks to my years of training in advanced flight sims (Jedi Starfighter and Starwing), I was a complete natural. Very impressive, right? Who wants to touch me?

More footage from Ubisoft's Beyond Good & Evil 2 has leaked, this time courtesy of Unseen64.

Final Fantasy has had a troubled relationship with recent Nintendo platforms. The slightly lacklustre Crystal Chronicles subseries was always a sideshow to the franchises' main offerings, never available on Nintendo consoles. No wonder then that the barely-pronounceable reveal of Theatrhythm, a rhythm-based Final Fantasy spin-off, did nothing to reassure fans that Square Enix saw the 3DS as anything more than another proving ground for more derivative experiments.

Capcom reckons Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor is the most accurate Kinect game yet.

Sony's share price has fallen to a 31-year low following the announcement of the company's record 456.7 billion yen (£3.5bn) annual loss.

"Hundreds of thousands" of people have already paid in full for - pre-purchased - Guild Wars 2, ArenaNet has revealed.

Solitaire has been pre-installed on home computers since the early '90s, so why everyone's decided to remake it all of a sudden is a bit of a mystery. If the timing seems unusual, however, it's easier to see why it's ripe for a makeover: it's a game that everyone's familiar with, that barely requires any instructions to play, and it has that all-important element of luck that adds just enough frustration to keep you wriggling away on the end of its hook.

A new US online retailer has made the bold move of offering to share revenue from its used game sales with publishers.

Konami's yearly accounts are out, whoopee, and the big success story is games for social networking services (SNS).

Ghost Recon: Future Soldier won't be released until 25th May in the UK, but Ubisoft has already started laying out DLC plans.

Angry Birds developer Rovio has announced plans for its first non-avian related release since Angry Birds made it very, very rich a few years back.

There's an awful lot riding on Resident Evil 6 - Capcom expects the upcoming survival horror to ship a whopping 7 million copies.

Goodbye Kölsch and hello coffee - Valve's moving The International Dota 2 Championships from Cologne, Germany to Seattle, USA.

In a couple of days, more than 35,000 maps have been made by fans for Portal 2, Valve's discovered.

What's your favourite 3DS colour? If it's Aqua Blue, you'll need to pop to the shops and buy one, fast.

Games, so the argument's been going recently, are predominantly dumb, trapped in an eternal adolescence and forever fixated with smut and gore. Some games are dumber than others, and some don't seem to care too much about their lack of smarts at all.