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It's a definite improvement. Duke Nukem Forever's latest batch of DLC feels like an attempt to replace the game's original campaign with something a little less wobbly, and it just about manages that. The storyline is a touch wittier: Duke's fighting an army made from clones of himself before jetting off into space to really stick it to the alien menace again. The pacing doesn't seem quite so haphazard and the grim lady grot has been confined, more or less, to an eleventh-hour visit to a brothel - a sequence that feels more like a contractual obligation than anything the developers actually thought was a good idea.

The Nintendo Letter Box launches on the eShop this Thursday, 22nd December, Nintendo has announced.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior has sold two million copies, Polish game company City Interactive has announced.

BioWare has announced the composers behind the Mass Effect 3 score.

For an area that's been blasted by radiation for the past twenty years, the sloping hills of the countryside around Chernobyl are impressively virile. The grasses have shifted from soft greens to muted browns, admittedly, but there's still a lot of vegetation, and, more worryingly, a lot of wildlife.

UK radio wizards One Life Left have released an album.

Nintendo has added an achievements feature to the 3DS console's Mii Plaza mini-game hub, called Accomplishments.

Atlus has delayed the Nests Kyo DLC for the PlayStation 3 version of King of Fighters 13 because of a "technical error".

Microsoft has launched its 12 days of Christmas Xbox deals promotion.

PlayStation Vita sold 321,407 units in its first two days on sale in Japan.

Capcom has dropped the Magneto costume from the Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Ancient Warrior Pack and delayed the DLC.

The Vita version of fighting game Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is a triple-A launch title, Capcom has claimed.

Trine was a great co-op adventure that too many people worked their way through alone. Multiplayer was only available locally, and Frozenbyte's rather earnest class-based platformer could initially seem a little too complicated to appeal to the drop-in, drop-out couch crowd.

Remedy has detailed the "relentlessly intense" arcade mode in Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

As talk grows of developers already working on PlayStation 4 titles, Naughty Dog has revealed its fears over the "difficult" transition to next-gen hardware.

HMV has admitted the current economic climate may cast doubt on its ability to continue trading.

BioWare has told gamers it takes Star Wars: The Old Republic queues "seriously" amid reports of two hour waits.

Online shop Play.com has gone live with PlayStation Vita launch game prices and made games available to pre-order.

"Have they pulled it off?" That was the question spitting incredulously from our lips back in 2001 when Grand Theft Auto made its leap from top-down 2D distraction to fully 3D, open-world game-changer. In a moment of cultural symmetry that probably means something or other, "have they pulled it off?" is also the question that greets GTA3 in 2011, as it celebrates its 10th birthday by debuting on mobile platforms that don't even have buttons.

Star Wars Kinect has a dancing mini-game, the US ratings board has revealed.

An eagle-eyed gamer has spotted what looks like a hint that EA plans to launch a Battlefield 2142 sequel.

You can now put your name down for the F1 Online beta, Codemasters has announced.

Konami has added a first-person mode and an over the shoulder camera for Nintendo 3DS game Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D.

The first Dragon Quest 10 story details have been revealed.

Star Ocean developer tri-Ace helped make Final Fantasy 13-2.

Sony execs Kaz Hirai and Andrew House attended an early-morning event in Tokyo yesterday to mark the launch of its sparkly new PlayStation Vita handheld.

The release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm marks six years of Blizzard's MMO dominance and the raising of the bar for MMO standards. But now, as servers buckle and players frantically level up their Worgens and Goblins, some will rightly ask: How long can Blizzard keep this up? Or, to put it another way, what can topple World of Warcraft?

Where does the money go when we buy videogames?

"An absolute outrage!"; "Shameful exploitation"; "I love living in rip-off Britain". Just a small selection of reader reaction to the news that the 3DS would sell for around £230 when it debuted in the UK.

When Rovio boss Peter Vesterbacka last month declared "console games are dying", the game industry raised its collective eyebrow. Here was the brains behind Angry Birds - one of mobile gaming's greatest weapons in the virtual battle for our hearts and minds - launching an attack on what has been, for many of us, our preferred method of engaging with our hobby for as long as we can remember.