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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.

The system for giving video games age ratings in the UK has been revamped, with the government promising that non-compliance will be more thoroughly policed.

A mechatronics student from Penn State University in the US has created a fully-operational Portal gun turret for his final class project.

A Kinect-friendly web browser is currently in the works for the Xbox 360, according to sources close to Microsoft.

Minecraft has smashed the record for the most day-one Xbox Live Arcade sales, Microsoft has announced.

A significant number of gamers are still reluctant to give out their credit card details online following last year's PlayStation Network hack, according to EA exec Peter Moore.

Rockstar is handing out its 2003 racer Midnight Club 2 for free on Steam.

Editor's note: This review originally appeared in January, when VVVVVV was made available on the North American 3DS eShop. We present it today to mark the game's release on the eShop in Europe.

New action RPG The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing sinks its teeth into willing PC and Xbox Live Arcade patrons in late 2012, developer Neocore Games has announced.

It would be "absolutely criminal" for HMV not to take advantage of GAME Group's plight, CEO Simon Fox has said.

Nintendo slashes the price of the DSi in the USA from $149 to $99 as of 20th May.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's second DLC collection, due out later this month, includes a new multiplayer mode called Face-Off, developer Infinity Ward has announced.

In the UK, northerners prefer Xbox 360 and southerners prefer PlayStation 3.

Ubisoft has announced Avengers: Battle for Earth.

There's a Guild Wars 2 stress test coming up that pre-purchasers (people who've already paid up front for the game) can join in on. It's a little bit like a beta, but not to be confused with a full beta weekend event.

Dishonored launches in the UK on 12th October, in Australia on 11th October, and in the US on 9th October, Bethesda has announced.

Danish developer IO Interactive has announced Hitman: Sniper Challenge, a standalone experience free to all who pre-order Hitman: Absolution.

I can't say that Minecraft passed me by - how could it? It's a full-blown 21st century sensation, a hit indie game that changed all the rules, a perfect storm of internet fame. It's been pretty hard to ignore.

Hitman: Absolution launches on Tuesday, 20th November, Square Enix has announced.

In a genre where momentum is built in an avalanche of annual iterations and regular DLC updates, the five-year gap between Warhawk and Starhawk, its spiritual sci-fi successor, might as well be measured in decades. Consider this: when Warhawk was released, Modern Warfare was still an unknown quantity.

Worldwide PlayStation Vita sales were 1.8 million at the end of March 2012, Sony has revealed.

Some genres are so saturated with class, and so large in the first place, that a new contender needs something special. A name as unimaginative as Jelly Defense doesn't help. Although, to be fair to its developers, the bleed of SEO tactics into the App Store's line-up makes such blandness almost a pre-requisite for success. What's that thing about judging a book by its cover?

Update: A subsequent and soporific earnings call has revealed a new worldwide Vita sales total as well as an ambitious sales forecast for the year ahead.

A video game version of Lego Lord of the Rings has been suggested by leaked images of Lego toy boxes. It's backed up by a now-removed listing for the game spotted on retailer ShopTo's website.

PlayStation 3 owners of Mass Effect 3 will today be given reward packs from previous multiplayer weekend events.

The creator of 3DS shooter Kid Icarus: Uprising has said he's unlikely to develop a sequel.

Recent data that showed Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sales are markedly slower than Black Ops at equivalent times in their respective life cycles doesn't tell the whole story, according to the game's executive producer.

Update: CCP has released the first HD image of the Skyward Sphere in space.

You remember the launch of Kinect, of course. That half-a-billion-dollars marketing orgy during which America got formation pretend-gaming in Times Square, we got Leona Lewis wailing beside an ice rink and everyone bought one just to shut Microsoft up.

Prototype 2 may not be Activision's biggest-selling franchise by any stretch, nor is it necessarily the most original pitch likely to have sounded through their corporate boardrooms. A sandbox superhero game based in an apocalyptic New York, where the end-game is to thwart a government conspiracy determined to experiment on its citizens? Lovely - why not? The narrative set-up is structurally sound; a safe, sturdy foundation to build on for the writers, while the tech side sees big improvements courtesy of the new Titanium Engine 2.0. Judging by the quality of the end result, it appears to have been worth the effort.