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EA's free Mass Effect 3: Datapad app is now available to download on iPhone and iPad.

F1 2011 publisher Codemasters has announced an expanded range of F1 games for consoles, PCs and mobile devices.

For a certain section of the gaming community, touch-screen games are a confusing and alarming thing. "No buttons! No sticks! What devilry be this?" they cry, in Vincent Price voices. Battle lines are drawn. Everything over there can't possibly be a proper game, because proper games have complex controls you can press and feel, not just simple taps and swipes.

British film and game rental shop chain Choices UK has entered Administration.

When DICE announced at its recent Battlefield/Medal of Honor event that its upcoming pack of DLC, Close Quarters, would focus on tight, indoor firefights, reactions were understandably divisive. "If you're going to focus on an indoor shooter, you might as well play Call of Duty," said one voice in the room. "This is great. The worst part about Battlefield 3 is that it took too long to find anybody because the maps were so goddamn large," said another. "A part of me died when I saw that Medal of Honor trailer," said another yet.

The wait is over, and the final act in BioWare's acclaimed sci-fi saga has finally arrived to not just one platform, but all three, with a simultaneous release on PS3, 360 and PC being a series first. Since the original game's release five years ago on 360, the developer has gradually iterated on the underlying Unreal Engine 3 tech to suit each platform's architecture, with the recent PS3 demo casting doubts over whether their efforts there may have been a stretch too far.

Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode will be expanded via an upcoming DLC pack, a leaked image suggests.

Beleaguered high street retailer GAME is to shut 35 stores as part of a restructuring drive, according to MCV.

UPDATE: GAME has issued Eurogamer a statement on its decision not to stock The Last Story and confirmed other titles due out tomorrow, Friday, 24th February, will launch.

GAME will stock Ubisoft's Vita launch titles from Tuesday, 28th February.

Does anything really matter until you're personally affected by it? It's easy enough to ignore financial reports and credit warnings and gloomy editorials - but try ignoring an empty shelf. Try ignoring GAME, the UK's largest specialist video game shop chain, being unable to to stock Ubisoft's PlayStation Vita games (until today), Wii role-playing game The Last Story and Tekken 3DS.

UPDATE: GAME has issued a statement to Eurogamer in response to the retailer's decision not to stock Mass Effect 3, blaming it on a "supply issue".

GAME Group (GAME and Gamestation) will not be stocking Wii game Mario Party 9, Eurogamer has heard.

Eurogamer has been sent the internal memo emailed to GAME and Gamestation staff this morning which broke the news that the company will not be stocking Mass Effect 3 at any of its stores.

UPDATE: GAME will offer customers a cash refund for cancelled Mass Effect 3 pre-orders today, tomorrow and afterwards.

GAME "may" stock Mass Effect 3 in the future.

UPDATE: GAME Group has issued a note to shareholders in an attempt to calm concern over its ability to stock new games.

UK retailer GAME's current financial troubles won't impact sales of forthcoming Resident Evil spin-off Operation Raccoon City, reckons publisher Capcom.

GAME could miss out on £2.5 million in profit by not stocking Mass Effect 3.

Paradox Interactive doesn't feel bad for GAME, because the UK retail giant has been "abusing" its power and "bullying" publisher partners for "a long time".

GAME and Gamestation are having a "firesale" on pre-owned stock.

GameStop wants to buy GAME's shops in Spain and Portugal, according to a new report by UK newspaper The Independent.

GAME has extended its firesale to hardware, and launched its "Spring Clean" promotion.

Embattled high street shop GAME "has two weeks to turn its fortune around", according to a new report.

GAME has admitted it is unsure over its future as reports swirl that it has put itself up for sale.

Embattled UK shop chain GAME/Gamestation won't stock Ninja Gaiden 3 or Warriors Orochi 3, Tecmo Koei has announced.

The next major expansion for superhero MMO DC Universe Online is available on PC and PlayStation 3 from 13th March, according to a PC Gamer reveal.

Sega has unveiled Total War Battles: Shogun, a mobile spin-off of the PC real-time strategy series due for release on 19th April.

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 2 has new game physics based on the Mega Drive era Sonic games.

Poor Sonic. Once a star runner rivaling Mario he went on to become as washed out a mascot as they come, subjecting himself to several of the worst platformers in the last decade with Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and Sonic Unleashed - the latter of which cast him as a 'werehog' because he apparently didn't have enough misguided baditude already.