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Skyrim's blockbuster success has motivated Alan Wake developer Remedy to continue to create story-driven games.

How do you follow serious games Saw and Blacklight? Why, with multi-platform game Frogger: Hyper Arcade Edition, that's how!

Blizzard has moved to reassure gamers that Diablo 3 is in "great shape" after a community manager expressed concern that the upcoming PC title would be unable to meet fan expectations.

In 1966, Alf Ramsey invented the 4-4-2 formation and his England team conquered the world, but just four years later he saw his defending champions dumped out in the quarter finals - the "wingless wonders" that claimed the World Cup defeated by a West Germany side masterminded by Franz Beckenbauer. There wasn't much wrong with Ramsey's original approach - save perhaps its reliance on a Russian linesman at one point - but in hindsight his critics felt he didn't adapt. The lesson was simple: football doesn't let you stand still.

The producer of the gruesomely fabulous Dexter telly show has made an iOS game called Vowel Movement.

UPDATE: The official Medal of Honor site has confirmed the game's existence and posted a piece of concept art. Take a look below.

Picking up a PlayStation Vita tonight? Already checked for the cheapest Vita retailer? You'll probably want some Vita games then.

The cheapest place to buy PlayStation Vita in the UK when it launches on Wednesday is at Asda. The supermarket will sell the Wi-Fi version online and in store for £197. The 3G version is £259.

Angry Birds studio Rovio was in such a precarious financial position while developing its planet-smashing smartphone phenomenon that its owner's grandparents remortgaged their flat to help get the game finished.

World of Warcraft developer Blizzard is working on a free-to-play title, according to a Develop report.

An iPad version of strategy RPG classic Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions is out now on the App Store, developer Square Enix has announced.

Sine Mora, the side-scrolling shoot 'em up from No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture and Hungarian studio Digital Reality, launches on 21st March.

Bungie co-founder and former Disney Interactive Studios chief Alex Seropian has set up a new outfit to develop core games for mobile platforms.

Beloved Dreamcast relic Jet Set Radio is heading to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, judging by a teaser trailer just released by Sega.

Hironobu Sakaguchi helped invent the modern-day Japanese role-playing epic. In 1987, having skirted around the edges of games development at the then-fledgling outfit Square, he decided to give it one last shot before moving on. That project's title has been the basis for one of gaming's most enduring and entertaining contradictions.

NCsoft's fantasy MMO Aion makes the change from the subscription model to free-to-play on 28th February, new distributor Gameforge has announced.

Downloadable multiplayer FPS Gotham City Impostors is sitting pretty at the top of the Xbox Live Arcade chart in its second week on sale, Microsoft has announced.

Cel-shaded side-scroller Shoot Many Robots will be released for PlayStation Network on 13th March and a day later on Xbox Live Arcade, publisher Ubisoft has announced.

PC players everywhere will be able to try upcoming shooter Arma 3 after E3 this year.

UPDATE: Today's Xbox 360 update fixes voice recognition issues, Microsoft's Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has confirmed.

Developer DICE will announce a new weekly blog that will preview everything being made for Battlefield 3, EA has informed Eurogamer.

Ever since handheld gaming achieved a level of processing power that could handle 3D visuals, it's become an unwritten rule that at least one launch title must be a port or remake of a popular console game - just to prove that the new portable can live up to all the cosmetic hype. Super Mario 64 DS, MediEvil: Resurrection on PSP, Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition on 3DS all followed this trend.

Perhaps in answer to the blackout threat, DICE has shared Battlefield 3 patch notes way ahead of time.

I have a strange relationship with North American sports, but their key characteristic is endlessly mesmerising: spectacle. Every year I watch the Superbowl, just about following the game but always enjoying the show. Even calling it a game is wrong: it's an event. This is the only culture in the world that could have created sports entertainment.

If you fill out a Valve survey you may get a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta key.

UK retail game sales are "half of what they should be", an analyst has claimed.

Major community site Battlefieldo has handed EA and DICE an ultimatum: communicate with fans or "we're going to black out the entire Battlefield [3] community for one day, 24 hours - no playing, no posting and no tweeting".

Soon to be closed online shop Gameplay is giving its customers £5 to spend at Gamestation.co.uk ahead of the merger of the two websites.

EA has released the January transfer window squads update for FIFA 12.

Xenoblade Chronicles developer Monolith Soft is working on a new 3DS title, a set of job listings posted on the company's official website reveal.