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UPDATE: Rock Band iOS will remain playable, a new statement from EA has announced, despite last night confirming the opposite.

Valve's Gabe Newell has given his feedback on digital platform Origin. Now EA wants to know what you think.

Pid developer Might and Delight is renting a slot on Xbox Live Arcade to sell the game.

Skyrim Steam mods are hugely successful, new statistics reveal.

There are no plans for Tribes: Ascend on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, its developer has said.

Almost every first person shooter released today loses money, according to the co-founder of Free Radical, the now-defunct UK studio responsible for the TimeSplitters franchise.

Black Ops 2 brings "disruptive innovation" to the Call of Duty series, Activision has promised.

The humble home video game console and the traditional publisher-led model that supports it is on its last legs, so says Firefall creator and former World of Warcraft lead Mark Kern, with developer-centric free-to-play titles waiting in the wings to replace them.

Draw Something - the hugely successful social game recently purchased by Zynga as part of a multi million dollar deal with developer OMGPOP - is shedding players at an alarming rate, according to a BBC report.

The Inside Xbox on-console video service is to be discontinued in the US, Microsoft has announced.

Free-to-play family-friendly effort Cartoon Universe is the first game to come out of Warner Bros. Interactive's new Montreal studio.

UPDATE: An official Steam listing has now popped up. You can pick up the lot for your local equivalent of $20.98 - that's a 70 per cent saving.

Spin-off zombie shooter Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City has entered the Japanese software chart at number one in its debut week.

A new Steam feature that allows customers to remotely set new purchases downloading has just entered beta, Valve has announced.

UPDATE: We've just heard back from Microsoft: "We haven't made any announcements and we don't comment on rumor or speculation."

It's a brilliantly executed reveal. The first live demo to the press, I mean. Not the one that happened the previous week when, faced with more holes in its hull than it had PR fingers to poke in them, Sony gave up trying and rush-announced God of War: Ascension to stem the swelling tide of tittle-tattle.

When Eurogamer first went hands on with Sorcery, Sony's magical motion-controlled adventure, we described it as "one of Sony's first titles for Move". That obviously didn't happen. After an eye-catching debut at E3, where it was a centrepiece of Sony's Move presentation, Sorcery completely dropped off the radar, prompting speculation that it had been scrapped. Not so. True to its name, Sorcery magically reappeared earlier this year in a puff of PR smoke, having been retooled and reworked as the vanguard of Move's second wave of titles.

Minecraft maker Markus "Notch" Persson is being courted by Creative Assembly for the next Total War game.

Update: D. Scott Williamson has let Eurogamer know that there is a PAL version in the works - hurrah!

CCP Games gave its blessing to the player-driven attempt to destroy sci-fi MMO Eve Online's economy - and now that the dust has settled on the event, it's analysed what happened.

Saucy Windows Phone apps are set to suffer from a fresh round of policy changes by Microsoft designed to "keep the quality bar high" for Marketplace content.

Football Manager developer Miles Jacobson has called for Steam to launch on Android as a way of combating rampant piracy on the platform.

In comedy, they say, timing is everything. And so, too, in gaming, if you're Giant Sparrow's Ian Dallas.

2D fighting game Skullgirls launches on PC this year, Autumn Games has announced.

The original Max Payne game is available to download from the EU PlayStation Store from today. The PlayStation 2 Classic will cost £7.99, and launches ahead of Rockstar's threequel later this month.

Scaling down a game where scale is a large part of the appeal has pitfalls, but Total War Battles: Shogun gracefully avoids them all by inverting itself. Instead of the sweeping view of a battlefield, cavalry poised and archers ready, this is like looking into a box of toy soldiers sprung to life. The massed ranks are replaced with units that occupy one segment of the board and consist of four dinky little men or less.

Mario Tennis Open will serve up a number of new features for the Mushroom Kingdom-themed spin-off series, including full support of the system's StreetPass functions.

The PlayStation Network will be affected by maintenance next Wednesday evening, Sony has announced.

RedLynx's acclaimed Trials Evolution has a rival: meet its PlayStation Vita lookalike, Urban Trials.

Famous England cricketer Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff might have saved Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton's life.