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Sega will cut jobs and cancel titles as it attempts to "streamline" the home video games business in Europe and the US.

I've found a large and often depressing collection of platformers, puzzlers, clones and scams on the App Store, but this is the first time I've come across a handheld base-jumping game. Even so, it's not the originality of AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (I'll be kind from here on and refer to it as F=MXA) that I enjoy nearly as much as the fact it doesn't make me hate gyroscopic controls.

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will also be released on Mac OS X this summer, developer Overhaul Games has announced.

The current generation of consoles aren't powerful enough to host the Total War series, says developer The Creative Assembly - but it's optimistic that the next generation will be able to, and the Horsham studio has a plan that could see its successful strategy series finally making the jump.

Eve Online developer CCP has delivered its verdict following an internal investigation into the behaviour of the player Council chairman at a recent Eve Fanfest Alliance Panel.

Winning a BAFTA and shipping a massive expansion, celebrating a quarter of a century in the industry and managing to be one of the few outfits expanding against an increasingly bleak economic backdrop - that's not bad work, all in all, but the team at The Creative Assembly aren't exactly ones to shout about their success.

The Collector's Edition of Guild Wars 2 costs €150/£130 here. But in North America it costs $150, which converts at today's rates to £95/€115.

The original Apple 2 source code for Prince of Persia (1989) has been found by Jordan Mechner's father during a spot of spring cleaning.

Calling it a collection is pushing it, given the number of Silent Hill titles excluded from this package. But with HD makeovers all the rage these days, it's hard to argue with the appeal of a full refresh for the second and third instalments of Konami's beloved horror series.

There's a whiff of triumph hanging in the air above the Smithsonian American Art Museum's central courtyard. It's the opening day of the venerable Washington DC institution's Art of Video Games exhibition and the everyday throng of tourists and art enthusiasts have temporarily been displaced by an incongruous hoard of excited gamers here to see their favourite titles share wall space with David Hockney and John Singer Sargent.

Last year's quirky Xbox 360 Summer of Arcade entry Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet is coming to PC, developers Michel Gagne and Joe Olson have confirmed.

UPDATE: It's emerged that another key employee, producer Robin Hunicke, has also jumped ship. She's now working on oddball MMO Glitch at developer Tiny Speck with Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi.

Double Fine's hugely successful Kickstarter initiative to fund a new old-school adventure game has brought the crowdsourcing hub a massive increase in pledge numbers.

Ubisoft's survival caper I Am Alive is the most downloaded game on Xbox Live Arcade three weeks after it launched, Microsoft has announced.

Two UK distributors are refusing to ship the groundbreaking Raspberry Pi Linux microcomputer until it gets a CE mark to prove it complies with EU regulations.

The developers responsible for 2010 music title Def Jam Rapstar are being sued by record label EMI for allegedly failing to clear the rights to tracks featured in the game.

THQ has "refocussed" troubled MMO Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millenium. It's now an "immersive single player and online multiplayer experience", the publisher has announced.

New free-to-play racer Auto Club Revolution has just entered open beta, developer Eutechnyx has announced.

A pair of purported concept sketches for PlayStation Orbis - the rumoured codename for Sony's next home console - show gamers interacting with what looks like a PlayStation Eye device.

Ubisoft has advised anyone hoping to play Assassin's Creed 3 on PC to invest in a control pad.

Seasoned AAA developer Crytek is dipping its toes into casual waters for the first time, with the impending release of Fibble: Flick 'n' Roll.

Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski, former Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux and Eidos president Ian Livingstone are among the games industry luminaries who have signed up to mentor emerging British talent at this year's Make Something Unreal competition.

GAME has published a list of all GAME stores across the UK that are "still open and trading".

GAME Group has published a list of Gamestation stores still open and trading in the UK.

Update: Gamestation Elite Cards and GAME Reward Cards have both now been reactivated.

UPDATE: Sony has let us know that Journey is the fastest selling PSN game ever across Europe, too.

Yoshinori Ono has stepped down as Street Fighter producer following a health scare.

I feel it's important to state up front that some reviews of Ridge Racer Unbounded will be a cautionary tale for developers about the importance of including a tutorial. Diligent critics such as myself will labour away at Bugbear's new arcade racing game for hours on end and their experience will be horrible. It will be a war of attrition and nothing will make sense.

This weekend there will be a 48-hour game jam exploring the works of parody Twitter account @PeterMolydeux.

If there's a better kind of comfort game than an RPG, I haven't found it. Even at the genre's simplest - as with Swordigo, for example, which is simplicity itself - they offer the warm reassurance that often lurks within a familiar structure, and the series of tidy little pleasures that come with levelling up, unlocking a few new tricks, and opening all those gleaming treasure chests.