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Arcade gaming might have flat-lined here in the West, but in Japan it continues to endure, despite the fact that the coin-op industry is a shadow of its former self.

Torchlight 2 developer Runic Games has shrugged off concerns that the announcement of a Diablo 3 release date could spell trouble for its game, which takes clear inspiration from Blizzard's action RPG.

The developer behind the forthcoming Enhanced Editions of the first two Baldur's Gate titles eventually hopes to get a third game in the classic RPG franchise off the ground.

Post-release work on Dragon Age 2 has ceased and the entire team repositioned on "the next phase of Dragon Age's future", BioWare has announced.

Limping high street retailer GAME needs to raise £180 million by the end of the week to avoid slipping into administration.

EA is shutting down servers for its 2011 MMA brawler, despite the game supporting an online pass.

Teasing a character out of 21 years of retirement offers a rare opportunity for the video game designer. Two decades is an epoch-and-a-half in game development terms - and so Masahiro Sakurai has been able to approach this, the third game in the Kid Icarus series, with none of the baggage of expectations that most of Nintendo's icons labour under.

Triple-A projects no longer win at game-budget Top Trumps - Microsoft is hiring for an "AAAA" Xbox title.

One of the most tiresome criticisms levelled at games is to sniffily point out that you could play it in real life just as easily. Why play FIFA when you can take an actual football to the park? Why click-clack along to songs in Rock Band when you could learn to play an actual guitar instead? Such feeble jabs generally miss the wish fulfilment context of such games but Draw Something, the App Store's latest overnight sensation, doesn't even have that to fall back on. This is a game you could easily recreate with paper and pen.

Pill-popping puzzler Dr. Mario is out on the 3DS eShop this week. The version available is the Game Boy edition, first released in 1990.

BioWare has revealed reams of player data relating to Mass Effect 3's enjoyable online multiplayer mode.

Jumpers for goalposts footy game FIFA Street has kicked Mass Effect 3 off the top spot in the UK's all-format chart. It scored the best launch week for any FIFA Street game to date.

Mass Effect 3 executive producer Casey Hudson has responded to players upset about the game's ending, admitting fans needed more closure and answers.

The fan-made Wing Commander Saga project hasn't been endorsed or sanctioned by EA, or by original creator Chris Roberts or old game company Origin, the game's co-creator has clarified.

To Blizzard's credit, it hasn't shied away from addressing the quizzical looks that many players assumed following the announcement at BlizzCon 2011 that the Pandaren - a panda-like race that debuted in an April Fool's joke - would be the focus of World of Warcraft's fourth expansion. That a peaceful, innocent race quietly munching away on bamboo in the isolated mists of the Isle of Pandaria should be a necessary component in the promised grand vision of a return to war between the Alliance and Horde faction is a theme that jarred for many.

When you play a game, you should expect exacting sound as well as a perfect picture - but we'd put serious money on you not getting the best possible audio straight from your TV. So, here's how you can beef up your aural experience - from space-saving headphones and soundbars, to bijou 2.1 systems, right up to full-on surround sound packages for maximum audio performance.

Incoboto's iTunes blurb suggests a game made "in the spirit of Ico and Portal", but "in the spirit of Pikmin and Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom" would be more accurate (if not quite as catchy). There's something of Captain Olimar's intergalactic isolation in astronaut hero Inco - and his symbiotic relationship with Helios, the last remaining sun in the universe, echoes Game Republic's underrated puzzle-adventure Majin. Both games feature an innocent but powerful sidekick accompanying you through bleak, empty worlds, and both characters communicate in twee toddler-speak.

It was gaming's big millennium flop. John Romero, respected around the industry for his pioneering work on Doom and Quake, promised the world that he'd make it his bitch. Huge advertising campaigns, giddy first-look previews and excitable chatter spread around magazines, websites and message boards. Just how good would this newly announced shooter from awesome upstart developer Ion Storm be? In the wake of the frenzy, there seemed to be only two options - it would either be earth shattering or merely amazing.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has pledged to keep on making games until the day he dies.

"If only you could talk to the monsters," goes the much-mocked and only slightly misquoted line from Edge magazine's review of the 1994 classic, Doom. How we laughed! And yet, it was quite a statement of intent for a magazine that has always championed meaningful evolution for games and deeper experiences for gamers.

Buying games used to be much more fun. You'd go to a store and see shelf after shelf of huge, lavishly pointed boxes all crying out for your attention - most big and rectangular, hiding the occasional weird and wonderful Toblerone shape, or something even wackier. Hours of parent-torturing choice and wandering from shop to shop later, you'd finally decide which one to grace with your pocket money, and watch as the clerk emptied half a ton of manuals and disks and random bits of crap into the box.

Portal 2 won Best Game at last night's British Academy Video Game Awards. Valve's comedy puzzle adventure was also the biggest winner of the night, taking home three gongs, the others being for Design and Story.

Revered by many as some of the greatest games ever made, Konami's PS2 and PSP era Metal Gear Solid titles have returned, remastered - or rather, ported - to run on newer, more technologically advanced consoles. Sons of Liberty, Snake Eater and Peace Walker are available in pristine high definition versions for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, while the Nintendo 3DS version gets its own stereoscopic version of Metal Gear Solid 3.

Ragdoll Blaster 3 is one of the most consistently inventive games on iOS. Pretty surprising, eh? The previous two games in this series have been on my phone for years and survived every single app cull. Doodle Jump? A memory. Slice It? Gone. Angry Birds? Don't make me laugh.

The Japanese games industry needs to start making titles that appeal to a global audience rather than just focussing on niche games for domestic customers if it wants to get out of its rut, according to Konami's Hideo Kojima.

Codemasters has officially announced that it's working on F1 2012, with the official game of this year's season coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

The 12 downloadable characters for Street Fighter x Tekken will cost 1600 Microsoft Points or $20.

Jordan Mechner's treasured 1997 point-and-click adventure game The Last Express is being converted for iOS devices, Mechner himself has announced.

From Dust developer Eric Chahi's Amiga classic Another World is now available to download on Android devices.

The fan-made Wing Commander Saga: The Darkest Dawn project that's been 10 years in the making now has a release date: 22nd March 2012.