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Bard's Tale, Wasteland and Fallout co-creator Brian Fargo already has the story and character design of the planned Wasteland sequel sorted, he has revealed.

We've had points, ribbons, stars, and these days there's nothing quite like a sweet hat to reward someone's progress, but little else excites my senses like a good jingle. Think back on all those hidden rooms you've found in Zelda games - you probably enjoyed what you found inside, but I really hope you smiled the first time you heard the fanfare, because otherwise we can't be friends.

The Kingdom Hearts 3DS European release date has been leaked.

PlayStation Vita launch title Uncharted: Golden Abyss has claimed top spot in the new UK all-format charts.

UPDATE: Nintendo has just confirmed that Pokémon Black and White 2 will see an autumn 2012 release in the UK.

New sales figures have revealed how PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS are doing in Japan.

Microsoft has made Crimson Dragon official.

This gem of an arcade racer is the pleasant surprise of PlayStation Vita's bulging and generally high-quality launch line-up. It's also an absolute steal at under a fiver from the PlayStation Store (or six euros, but sadly no dollars yet - it's due for release in North America on March 6th). But that's not even the half of it. MotorStorm RC is a revival of a sadly neglected sub-genre of racing games - and a bite-sized vision of Sony's cross-platform future, because it's on PS3 too.

The idea of the classic real-time strategy franchise rebooted as a first person shooter may well upset die-hard purists, but the fact is that Riddick/Darkness developer Starbreeze has handed in an entertaining action game featuring solid gunplay and challenging AI. However, single- and multiplayer modes are distinctly fractured from each other, and there's a distinct sense that some of the best ideas are rarely explored to the fullest extent of their potential.

Flicking games have no real right to be interesting or compelling. They're enormously repetitive, they rarely have any hidden depths beyond minor quirks in their physics systems, and the designers often seem to assume that players will give up once they hit a fairly low threshold of skill and just move on, so higher plains of achievements are usually just that: plateaus where further success is down to maintaining concentration rather than exhibiting any actual skill.

Among the thousands of innocent civilians occupying Prototype's Manhattan, there are a few that have been singled out, the ominous big brother of that terrifying Lottery hand pointing a conspicuous finger at their heads.

If there's a semantic argument even more aimless than "are games art?", it's "…but is it a game in the first place?" The question has swirled around a couple of our reviews this week, and will no doubt rear its head again next week on the release of CyberConnect2's gloriously unhinged Asura's Wrath - a madcap interactive anime whose superficial resemblance to a technical action game has wrong-footed a lot of people.

Hipster, eh? Tomena Sanner's salaryman knows exactly what to do with that sort - a swift boot, and they're off to space. This salaryman knows what to do with everything, if you time it right. He dunks, he dives, he does one-handed cartwheels over giant robots, he smacks sumos, he pimp-slaps pimps, and delicately flounces over dog turds.

PlayStation Vita finally launched in Europe this week, but despite tons of fanfare there's also a lot of scepticism about whether it will be the kind of success Sony needs or wants. You don't have to go far for lots of armchair punditry about the new handheld, of course, but there seems to be a lot of heart-versus-head debate surrounding it. On the one hand, it seems improbable that a £230 pure gaming handheld with no clear killer application will do much to upset the status quo. On the other hand, it's a wonderful piece of kit with tons of lovely software, which you would happily buy under most circumstances.

A proposed bill to impose a one per cent tax on violent video games in the US state of Oklahoma has failed to become to law.

While recent Final Fantasy games haven't been greeted with too much enthusiasm by fans, franchise creator Hironobu Sakaguchi says he still has plenty of faith in the series' current custodian Yoshinori Kitase.

European gamers can pick up a special collector's edition of forthcoming beat 'em up Street Fighter X Tekken, publisher Capcom has announced.

Rabidly-anticipated Xbox Live Arcade platformer Fez is finally ready for release, developer Polytron has revealed.

The average play session for Star Wars: The Old Republic is between four and six hours long, claims BioWare Austin chief Greg Zeschuk.

A new Xbox 360 bundle arrives in Europe on 9th March to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the launch of the original Xbox, according to a listing on Amazon France.

What appears to be concept art from Dead Space studio Visceral Games' missing-in-action Jack the Ripper project has found its way on to the web.

The PC version of Resident Evil: Raccoon City will launch on 18th May in the UK, publisher Capcom has announced.

Two years after the launch of the original game, the once-cancelled PC version of Alan Wake has finally been released, offering the chance to witness a unique game technology at the height of its immense potential.

UPDATE: Sony has released more information about the free Killzone 3 multiplayer experience due out next week.

Sony has removed the Vita Facebook app from the Store after gamers reported error codes while trying to use the service.

Warner has released a free DLC pack for the Xbox 360 version of downloadable Batman spin-off Gotham City Impostors.

PS Vita is - for now - very much a hardcore gaming device for hardcore gamers, the developer behind one of its launch titles has claimed.

Free-to-play indie MMO The Missing Ink is now available to try in open alpha form, UK developer RedBedlam has announced.

Prototype 2 developer Radical Entertainment has revealed how the game's protagonist James Heller came to be.

The studio behind Burnout and Need for Speed will open its doors to game developer students in April - and offer a lucky few the chance to win work experience in the summer.