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EA is anticipating a trademark dispute over a number of helicopters featured in last year's FPS Battlefield 3.

Dead Space 2 developer Visceral Games toned down a number of the title's stages when playtesters struggled to progress through the game, according to one of its developers.

The Mythos Global open beta test begins 2nd February, Hanbitsoft and T3Fun have announced.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare and I Am Alive headline the Xbox Live Arcade House Party 2012.

Hold your horses - Sony hasn't named Kaz Hirai as Sir Howard Stringer's presidential replacement just yet.

The UK release date of PS3 exclusive Twisted Metal is 17th February.

By day, WayForward is just a mild-mannered developer for hire. It wears sensible spectacles and smart shoes, it slicks its hair back with odourless pomade, and it spends its working hours creating surprisingly decent licensed games. Often they're significantly better than decent, actually, as with last year's elegant and pulpy BloodRayne: Betrayal and 2009's A Boy and his Blob.

BioWare has responded to fans who have vented their frustration with the game's performance on the official Star Wars: The Old Republic forum.

Shape-matching puzzler Doodle Fit launches on the Nintendo eShop this week as DSiWare.

Lovefilm has undercut rival film streaming company Netflix.

Balance can be a tricky mistress to satisfy. Take All Zombies Must Die, for example. Its core components - a twin-stick shooter with zombies - are so overused that the combination inspires more fatigue than excitement. Clearly, something has to be done to the formula to make it stand out. But add too much, too little or simply the wrong sort of thing, and whatever base pleasures still remain in the twitching top-down zombie shooter corpse can be lost.

Update 2: Wii owners can also now join in. The Netflix app is available to download immediately in the UK and Ireland via the Wii Shop Channel (thanks, Nintendo Life).

UPDATE #2: Susan Taylor's Xbox Live fraud nightmare is at an end. She detailed the final stages of her case at the weekend.

The debate continues to rage boringly across the internet as to whether the PlayStation Vita's Japanese release has been a disaster. Some commentators have urged patience rather than wholesale condemnation of a faltering strategy. Others, including plenty of hot-tempered Nintendo 3DS owners, have declared the whole launch a massive botch. (Perhaps their argument is that it takes one to know one.)

Back in December the Eurogamer editorial team had a massive public fight about whether 2011 was a good year for games. Well, we had the closest thing we're capable of having to a massive public fight - we wrote polite editorials disagreeing with one another. One thing we all agreed upon, however, was that we would very much like to see more Actual New Games in 2012.

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LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule poured cash into developing brand new products last year, in an effort to address its reliance on its PlayStation platforming franchise.

Last month's Digital Foundry article on the shortcomings of the Xbox 360's new, so-called "Metro" dashboard highlighted a bug that saw video playback washed out, emphasising compression artifacts and lowering image quality compared to the previous, perfectly serviceable video player. We also revealed that Microsoft appeared to be ignoring the feedback of its beta testers to the point of deleting reports of the issue, causing dismay from those who put their time and effort into road-testing the new update.

When Sony gets hardware right, Sony really gets hardware right. Recent years have brought us a torrent of sleek, weighty iDevices from Apple, all unibody aluminium and smoky black glass, so perhaps it's timely for us to get a reminder of just how great Sony's industrial design is when it's firing on all cylinders. PlayStation Vita just feels right, in a way that few other hardware companies ever quite manage. It's got enough weight to feel expensive and yet it's perfectly balanced in your hands. The sense of holding something powerful, something premium, is your first impression of Vita. Sony does it again.

More people logged on to Xbox Live to play Call of Duty: Black Ops during 2011 than any other game, Microsoft has revealed.

An online movement calling for a belated PC release for From Software PS3/Xbox 360 action RPG Dark Souls is gathering pace.

The iOS version of hit indie platformer Super Crate Box is due a fresh batch of content any day now, developer Vlambeer has announced.

Nintendo talisman Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that he's currently working on a brand new "original" title as well as more familiar fare like Pikmin 3 for WiiU.

No games console has ever sold more units in Japan during a single month than the 3DS managed in December 2011, according to new data released by Enterbrain.

Where do you draw the line between indie and mainstream gaming? Is it purely a financial distinction, with one being produced for peanuts and the other benefiting from healthy sacks of cash, or is it an ideology, with independence not only from corporate interests but from conventional design?

Game sales on Steam rose by more than 100 per cent year-on-year during 2011, Valve has announced.

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai is to be promoted to president of Sony, according to a Nikkei report picked up by Reuters.

Square Enix has just announced Scarygirl, a platformer due out on PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this month.

Technology giant Apple will release two new iterations of the iPad this year, a new report suggests.

PS3 and Xbox 360 demos of Final Fantasy 13-2 will be released next week on 11th January, Square Enix has announced.