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At CCP's Fanfest last year, CEO Hilmar Pétursson unveiled the developer's Future Vision trailer outlining their long-term ambitions for the future of Eve and its integration with Dust 514.

Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson's next major project will likely be an open world space game inspired by classic trading sim Elite and cult sci-fi series Firefly.

Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has started work on a next-gen project, judging by a new recruitment call from the Finnish studio.

Multiplayer "crews" that you set up in Max Payne 3 will carry over to Grand Theft Auto 5, developer Rockstar has revealed.

US shop GameStop has poured cold water on the rumour that the next Xbox will include anti-used game technology.

PlayStation 3 RPG Tales of Xillia, the latest installment in Namco Bandai's long-running Tales series, is coming to Europe, judging by a new trademark registration.

Microsoft has announced release dates for a number of high profile Xbox Live Arcade titles, as part of its new Arcade Next season.

Downloadable table football sim Foosball 2012 launches on PlayStation 3 and Vita later this Spring, developer Grip Games has announced.

Sony has made LittleBigPlanet Karting official with a debut trailer.

Lycra-loving fitness series Your Shape will appear on Nintendo's upcoming Wii U, a new report suggests.

Oddball rhythm-based Final Fantasy 3DS spin-off Theatrhythm launches in Europe this summer, publisher Square Enix has announced.

CCP is talking to Gaikai and OnLive - among others - about bringing their titles to the shiney-vision-of-the-future world of cloud-gaming.

Once was the time when there was an air of exclusivity around the 2D shooter, typically the most expensive of genres. Witness the famously sky-high prices of the likes of Radiant Silvergun, or the lengths one had to go to in order to indulge a shooter craving in the days of the Saturn, where the cream of the crop only made its way out of Japan if you were on good terms with a local importer.

3DS strategy role-player Fire Emblem: Awakening will make full use of the handheld's wireless features to provide new content.

As GAME fights for its future, new sales data released today highlights the shift in how we buy games in the UK.

Free-to-play online RTS End of Nations is set to enter closed beta this "spring", publisher Trion Worlds has revealed.

Guildford-based developer Rodeo Games has released Hunters 2, the follow-up to its 2011 iOS game Hunters: Episode One.

Mass Effect 3 publisher EA hopes and believes GAME will rise from the ashes of administration.

Another sequel, another developer: this time, Silent Hill's ended up in the hands of Vatra Games, a studio based in the Czech Republic. Surprisingly, the team hasn't done that badly in capturing that distinctive air of festering Americana that the series requires, setting this strange tale of escaped convicts and dark deeds in a convincingly backwoods world built from derelict diners and menacing police cruisers. Silent Hill: Downpour looks like a Norman Rockwell painting created while the artist was feeling a bit glum about things: the town hall is barricaded shut and there are smoking potholes riddling main street. Konami's queasy franchise always put me in mind of a cockroach skittering over a drugstore soda counter. It still does.

Blizzard has sent out the first wave of invites for the World of Warcraft Mists of Pandaria beta.

Japanese developer Grasshopper is seriously considering a sequel to its schlocky action horror game Shadows of the Damned - and says publisher EA would "probably" be interested in it.

When the PS3 version of Armored Core 5 surfaced in Japan earlier this year, it instantly beat Resident Evil: Revelations to the top of the charts - and even gave the 360 a rare top 10 showing at number six. But despite coming from the same studio that brought us the spectacular Dark Souls, the arrival of a new Armored Core game on our shores will, for the most part, be met with the same enthusiasm as a five pound book token.

Downloadable post-apocalyptic survival game I Am Alive is one of the most polarising Ubisoft games ever, the French company has said.

Her name is Commander Shepard, though her friends call her anything from Jane to Shiva to Lydia. She's one of the most popular heroines in gaming history; a three-time galaxy saviour who takes no crap and wouldn't be caught dead in a chainmail bikini. To most, she's a long-haired redhead, but she's been seen trying other colours and styles. To some, she's a diplomat, to others, a ruthless, trigger-happy bitch.

UPDATE: First images of Bayonetta in Anarchy Reigns have been released. Feast your eyes below:

Developers are cautiously optimistic over UK game industry tax breaks, announced yesterday as part of the new Budget.

Stylish puzzle platformer Escape Plan was the most downloaded Vita game in the US during the system's first month on sale.

Social gaming behemoth Zynga has purchased OMGPOP, the developer responsible for app-of-the-moment Draw Something.

The PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 3 debuted at number 20 on the weekly Japanese sales chart, shifting just over 8000 copies.

A monumental title update for acclaimed PC strategy sequel Total War: Shogun 2 goes live later this week to coincide with the release of the Fall of the Samurai expansion.