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Mario Tennis Open will you to customise players' appearances with stat-boosting gear, Nintendo has announced. The system sounds similar to the customisable car parts collected in Mario Kart 3DS.

The Skyrim 1.5 update is on Xbox Live, Bethesda marketing and PR boss Pete Hines has announced.

Civilization 5: Gods & Kings launches on 19th June, 2K Games has announced.

Air on the G String, eh? To bring Bach down to my level, it's Morgan Freeman walking through the LA Library in Seven. It's Jamie Foxx seeking a little baroque refuge from the rest of the ungrateful world in Collateral. And now, it's Marie, trying out for an orchestra gig in Rhythm Thief and the Emperor's Treasure. Air on the G String's a truly great piece of music regardless of what you associate it with, of course, but the thought that a lot of kids are going to get their introduction to it by means Sega's exquisite and wonderfully quirky rhythm-action game is still a lovely thing to consider.

Burnout Crash!, the downloadable Burnout spin-off from Criterion Games that launched on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network last year, releases on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch this month, EA has announced.

Activision has announced its video game toy hybrid Skylanders for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

From Duck Hunt to Angry Birds, gaming has a rather fractious relationship with our feathered friends, but rarely has a title been quite so committed to the act of avicide as Madcoaster.

Amid claims the traditional console business is on its last legs and reports about the power of the next Xbox and PlayStation 4, the boss of Avalanche Studios, the developer of the Just Cause series, has warned better looking games on next generation consoles "won't save the game industry".

One of the creators of Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds has launched a Kickstarter money raising campaign to make a space combat game for PC and PlayStation Vita.

For the past day and a half, Kerry Turner has been thinking about swans. She's been making a game using Flixel - this is an open-source Actionscript library put together by Canabalt creator Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman - that's loosely based, she tells me, on the fairy tale about the swans and the princes. I have never heard of this fairy tale, but, as she's worked on the game for many hours without taking much of a break, Kerry has the look of a person who isn't to be argued with.

Beautiful point and click adventure puzzle game Botanicula launches on PC and Mac on 19th April, developer Amanita Design has announced.

Nintendo has responded to recent reports about the power of the Wii U.

Hirokazu Yasuhara, the former Sega employee who directed the first four Sonic the Hedgehog games, has taken a job at one-time arch-rival Nintendo.

Major publishers view traditional tactical shooters in the vein of the original Rainbow Six as a niche sub-genre that holds little potential for attracting new customers, so says Christian Allen, the former Halo Reach design lead who took to Kickstarter last month to get his pet project Takedown off the ground.

World War 2, feudal Japan and ancient Egypt would make dismal Assassin's Creed backdrops, so says series creative director Alex Hutchinson.

EA has been voted the "worst company in America" by readers of customer watchdog site The Consumerist.

An investor has spent a staggering $2.5 million on a plot of virtual real estate in real money sci-fi MMO Entropia Universe.

3DS sales saw a significant jump in Japan last week thanks largely to the release of a new entry in Square Enix's Kingdom Hearts action RPG series.

Vintage side-scrolling beat 'em up series Double Dragon gets a makeover on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this July, publisher Majesco has announced.

UPDATE: Rising Star will be releasing the game in Europe at some point in 2012.

Once was a time when the plastic controllers of Rock Band ruled the world - or at least the living rooms of the world where they gathered in a garish pile. But if the music genre hasn't exactly died, the one that supported a plethora of peripherals most certainly has, its leave of absence stretching on for some two years and leaving its most successful exponent, Harmonix, looking for new avenues for its rhythmic gameplay.

While Google and its hardware partners have been incredibly successful with their range of Android-based smartphones, the same cannot be said for tablets. Apple's iPad remains the dominant force in a sector it did much to popularise and despite some high-profile challengers - including the Motorola Xoom and Asus Transformer - that situation shows little signs of changing.

Mass Effect 3's Jennifer Hale, voice of the female Commander Shepard, has revealed she is yet to be contacted by BioWare regarding any upcoming changes to Mass Effect 3's controversial ending.

Classic '90s Lord-of-the-Rings-meets-Blade-Runner RPG Shadowrun is the latest franchise to attempt a Kickstarter-fueled revival.

Oh Kinect, you giveth, but you taketh away. You're a bit like the good lord in that respect, really - except you generally limit your supernatural interventions to the world of video games. That's probably for the best.

Amazon's entire stock of The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition for Xbox 360 has been hand-signed by the development team.

Disney has revealed the first details on Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion, set for release on Nintendo 3DS this autumn and developed by DreamRift in collaboration with Junction Point.

The Men in Black video game launches alongside movie Men in Black 3 on 25th May, Activision has announced.

Feudal Japanese Pokémon spin-off Pokémon + Nobunaga's Ambition has been granted a US release under a new name: Pokémon Conquest.

The Mac version of Deus Ex: Human Revolution launches on 26th April, Feral Interactive has announced.