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I can never find ice cream combinations that I really like. Sure, I can find compromises. I can find ice creams that are perfectly pleasant, even ice creams that I quite enjoy, but it's only in my dreams that I can walk into that mighty gelato parlour, its counter ten foot long, three foot deep and packed with every flavour I can possibly imagine.

Released over in the United States late last year, the PlayStation 3D Display launched in the UK this week without much of a fanfare. The delay is puzzling, and doesn't do Sony many favours bearing in mind how much the market has moved on in recent months: bigger 27-inch PC displays with HDMI 1.4 and dual-link DVI support are available for the same ballpark price while the cost of large screen 3DTVs has also tumbled.

"When there's no more room in hell, the dead shall walk the earth." So they say. When there's no more room in shooters, they'll migrate to puzzle games too, apparently.

You can't really say that the games industry has downtime any more, but there are a few months of the year - months like this one - when the high-profile boxed releases dry up and the traditional publishers and distributors take a breather before winding up for a crack at the next financial quarter. We used to call these spells "droughts", but frankly, the modern games industry makes a mockery of that term.

A child has just keeled over from exhaustion on my factory floor. I could have stopped it; when they get to that state you can give them a glass of water and they get straight back to the production line. But I've found it's cheaper to give them training instead of water. If a kid's looking peaky I can spend a little cash to have him trained up. He'll get over his exhaustion and he'll work faster. It's a win/win situation. If I let them work to the cusp of collapse before training them I maximise the amount of time they can work. I don't have to hire new workers and I don't need to waste money on a water fountain.

EA's Origin digital store still has a long way to go before it can boast that it properly satisfies its customers, according to Gabe Newell, boss of of competitor and industry leader Steam.

Multiplayer-centric 2011 shooter Brink has sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide, according to developer Splash Damage.

A gaming-only alternative to zeitgeist-grabbing crowdfunding site Kickstarter is set to launch during June's E3 event.

Arcade fighter Marvel vs Capcom 2 lands on iOS from 25th April, Capcom has announced.

Stuntbike sequel Trials Evolution has racked up the highest grossing day-one sales in Xbox Live Arcade history, Microsoft has revealed.

The story producer of the Dead Space franchise believes Gears of War has "literally the worst writing in games".

Forthcoming strategy sequel DOTA 2 will be free to play, but "with a twist", according to Valve boss Gabe Newell.

Eye-popping indie mech dust-up Hawken is getting a series of supporting live-action films, publisher Meteor Entertainment has announced.

Generation Xbox: How Video Games Invaded Hollywood by Jamie Russell; Yellow Ant, paperback

Anyone who has an inactive Final Fantasy 14 account can return to the game for a 10-day free trial next month, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Cult DS adventure The World Ends With You could soon be getting some kind of follow-up, judging by a tease from co-creator Tetsuya Nomura.

The Metro's recent "Xbox paedophile predators" front page story was "very unfortunate" and "not very sensible", the professor behind the research it was based on has said.

PixelJunk 4am, Q-Games' eccentric music creation game, struts onto PlayStation Network on 16th May, Sony has announced.

Publisher Activision is planning "the world's first over-18 live ad" to celebrate the launch of Prototype 2 next week.

Skullgirls will enjoy little of the warm-hearted generosity that normally accompanies the release of a micro-team's indie game. While this 2D fighter's underdog credentials are impeccable - designer Mike Zaimont worked for blockbuster studio Pandemic before it folded and he struck out on his own to work on this passion project - the fighting game community has little room for sentimentality.

Video games have always been a hotbed of escapism and Hungry Sumo is one of the finest examples in some time: a game where it's hard to put on weight.

UPDATE: RedLynx has told Eurogamer that Microsoft has braced itself for a surge of activity today and over the weekend and has taken steps to prepare for it.

Seven years after its original release, Quake 4 is available digitally on Mac.

Ancient amphibian arcade hit Frogger is being updated for the 21st century with the inclusion of real-time traffic from a New York street.

It looks like Skype is coming to Xbox.

PlayStation 3 exclusive Datura launches on PlayStation Network on 8th May in the US and 9th May in Europe.

SimCity developer Maxis has insisted the game's always-on internet requirement is "worth it".

EA has explained why the Euro 2012 event downloadable content for FIFA 12 does not include any gameplay or visual improvements whatsoever.

I was never a particularly good mayor. I'd do my town planning with all the care and attention of council official who dearly wanted a buzzing metropolis, but presumably had something of a drink problem. Power-cuts, soaring crime, noisy protests, bits of roads that didn't actually go anywhere; things always seemed to fall apart. Often the only option was to put my poor urban conglomeration out of its misery, finished off with a quick dose of earthquake and/or alien invasion.

EA is turning all of its brands into what it calls "online universes".