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Sony's bracing investors for the company's biggest annual financial loss in a decade.

All-girl fighting game Skullgirls launches on PlayStation Network today in the US, and tomorrow, 11th April on Xbox Live Arcade in the US and Europe.

A third Duels of the Planeswalkers game will be released this summer on iPad, PSN, Steam and Xbox Live Arcade, Wizards of the Coast has announced.

Blockbuster will exclusively sell the Prototype 2 Limited Edition for the attractive price of £34.99.

Another leaked Capcom trailer (via NeoGAF) has emerged, this time confirming a new release date for Resident Evil 6.

I can't stand Angry Birds. It's not that I mind the stultifying ubiquity of the brand, or even the artless hubris of Rovio in its desperation to become the new Disney based on a single - albeit extraordinary - success.

The original NES Legend of Zelda will be available to download on the 3DS eShop from this Thursday, Nintendo has announced.

UK developer Rebellion desperately wants to make Sniper Elite 3.

Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, passed away at the weekend. He was 83 years old.

Rewind to the heady days of '05 and '06, when this generation was still 'next generation'. At trade shows and press events around the globe, giants of industry from Japan and the United States pace around each other warily: Sony and Microsoft, each looking for an opening for a killer blow. For decades, console wars had been fought between rival Japanese firms. This time, the foes faced each other across the Pacific.

Developer GSC has released a new video for post-apocalyptic shooter Stalker 2 and in doing so has attempted to reassure fans concerned about the game's future.

The Mass Effect 3 patch launches today for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, BioWare has announced.

inXile has released the first Wasteland 2 concept art hot on the heels of confirmation that Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment has signed on to help with the game's development.

Bulletstorm 2 was in development before Epic decided against it.

On paper, Blast Ball sounds like it shouldn't work. It's a mish-mash of game concepts - a physics-based football game infused with arcade platforming and a high-score chasing spirit similar to Super Crate Box. But a few minutes spent playing Blast Ball is enough to alleviate any concerns about mixing together such eclectic genres. The game's sporting, arcade and action ingredients quickly blend into an enticing peanut butter and jam sandwich experience, which is to say that it shouldn't work, but it does. It's a lot of fun.

Xbox 360 owners who subscribe to the Call of Duty Elite premium service can download new maps for Modern Warfare 3 today.

Ah, TrackMania. Whoever thought it was a good idea to transform a fun high-scores game where you can also build your own Scalextric-style rollercoastery courses into one of the best online time-attack games of all time deserves a pat on the back, as we pretty much said in our glowing review of TrackMania 2 Canyon last year.

Grand Theft Auto 5 launches in October 2012, according to the online CV of a Rockstar North character animator.

Sony is planning to cut six per cent of its global workforce - around 10,000 jobs - in a major restructuring drive, according to a number of Japanese news reports.

Zen Pinball 2 launches on PlayStation 3 and Vita this Spring, developer Zen Studios has announced.

Actor and author Stephen Fry and journalist Charlie Brooker are among those to speak up in support of EA over a letter writing campaign directed at the publisher from anti-gay protestors.

Gears of War developer Epic Games is currently working on a mystery PC exclusive, according to company president Mike Capps.

Borderlands 2 gets an additional Mechromancer character class as post-launch DLC, developer Gearbox has announced.

Epic Games has acknowledged that Gears of War: Exile, a franchise spin-off first rumoured back in 2010, once existed but has since been cancelled.

From Software's beloved action RPG Dark Souls is coming to PC, according to a reveal in German games magazine PC Action.

It's not immediately obvious to everyone, but to us beardier, strategier PC types, the ongoing lack of a decent fantasy grand strategy game makes for a painful hole in our collection. While a spellcasting setting might have suited all sorts of RTS and turn-based titles, more than a few weary wizards will point an aging finger all the way back to 1994, to Microprose's Master of Magic, when they want to cite the definitive example of fantasy empire building. Paradox is hoping to finally change that with Warlock: Master of the Arcane.

In a submerged world, the man with the oil is king. He is the one who controls the flow of a battle. In Unigine's game, making mad grabs for oil derricks is something that you absolutely have to do, and that it ties into the theme so neatly is admirable. You send out your units and they grab. Derricks, nodes, factories, helipads. It's all quite elegant. It just took me a little while to figure out why.

Jason Shiga is a bit of a genius. As if being a Berkeley-educated maths whizz isn't enough - it's certainly enough for me, Jason - Shiga's also a wonderfully inventive comic book writer and artist. He's come up with weekly strips about finding yourself sealed in a phone booth (Fleep) and one-shot stories about the gritty world of library detectives (Bookhunter). My favourite of all his works, though, is probably Meanwhile, a colourful and rather strange sort of book with tabbed edges and glossy pages. It's interactive fiction in comic form, and it's now available on the iPhone and iPad. Hooray!

I'll be honest, Tales From Space: About A Blob, this game's PS3-only predecessor, completely passed me by. Pity, as I expect it was pretty good given the follow-up has turned out to be the hidden gem of Vita's launch line-up.

On paper, 2008's Prince of Persia revamp was a pointless game. Don't get me wrong, it had every reason to exist, but its story and mechanics were essentially a long, meandering path back to square one.