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Stanislas Mettra, the I Am Alive creative director who made controversial remarks about PC gaming this week, has attempted to retract/explain/downplay his outburst.

HAL Laboratory has shown some balls with its most famous creation, which is appropriate given that he looks like one. In recent years, the career of Masahiro Sakurai's pink blob has taken an experimental detour, with Epic Yarn, Power Paintbrush and Mass Attack all proving the malleability of the rose-tinted hero.

Xcom developer 2K Australia has been put to work on BioShock Infinite and given its old 2K Australia name back.

Reverge Labs has unveiled Valentine, the latest addition to the roster of 2D fighting game Skullgirls.

Nintendo considered completing Mario Kart 7 on 3DS by the end of this year "an act of emergency", the game's producer has admitted.

What's the point of adding a survival mode to a survival horror game? I've been playing Dead Island's new Bloodbath Arena mode all night and still can't work out the answer to that one.

IndieCity, the PC portal for indie games (no mainstream games allowed), has issued a call to arms for developers to submit their creations by the end of the year.

Somewhere down the line, Ubisoft transformed Ghost Recon: Future Soldier on PC into the free-to-play game Ghost Recon Online.

Lionel Messi, long-time cover star of Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer series, has signed with EA Sports.

Microsoft plans to launch two very different versions of the next Xbox, according to a Digital Foundry report on GamesIndustry.biz.

UK PlayStation 3 owners can now download episodes of US TV shows such as Arrested Development, Bones, South Park and 24 from the PlayStation Network Video Store.

Offbeat adventure Catherine has had its European release window narrowed to next February, local publisher Deep Silver has revealed.

"Dumb fun" is easy to take for granted. There's a natural tendency to assume that any game which favours action over depth is working at this level, but that underestimates just how smart game design has to be in order to successfully work as dumb fun.

Microsoft is investigating complaints about its Xbox Live customer service - in particular those about refunds associated with what it insists is "phishing related fraud".

Rockstar is fitting Max Payne 3 with familiar shooter mechanics cover, and over-the-shoulder zoom aiming.

A future PlayStation 3 firmware update will enable Vita Remote Play on all games, Eurogamer has learnt.

UK indie developer RedBedlam has announced free-to-play browser-based MMORPG The Missing Ink.

Shigeru Miyamoto rejects around 70 per cent of all game suggestions brought to him by his staff.

Microsoft is reportedly in the early stages of getting motion-sensor Kinect into TVs.

Releasing a high-fantasy game a scant couple of weeks after Skyrim (in Europe) may be as foolhardy as entrusting a hobbit to hurl an all-powerful ring into a volcano, but everyone likes an underdog. While I'd love to tell you that The Lord of the Rings: War in the North succeeds against the overwhelming odds of being a second-tier licensed game clashing against Bethesda's behemoth, the truth is that it's as gruelling as Frodo's journey, yet retains none of the satisfaction, wonder or excitement of its source material.

This Saturday (26th November), European PS3 owners of Battlefield 3 can finally claim a free full-game voucher for Battlefield 1943.

A free Gears of War 3 Booster Map Pack add-on has been released on Xbox Live Marketplace.

Where Is My Heart? is a pain to describe but a pleasure to actually play. Thankfully, the basis, at least, is relatively simple. You're dropped into a series of pretty pastel-coloured platforming levels and your job is always the same: get to the exit. How you do that, though? That's another matter entirely.

Running the PC version of Batman: Arkahm City in DirectX 11 causes performance issues, Rocksteady has confirmed.

Most games wouldn't go near the kinds of topics that To the Moon crafts a whole story around. But To the Moon isn't most games. That brings about its own difficulties: when a game is so entirely structured around its fiction, how do I explain why it's brilliant without spoiling what makes it so?

Everyone's going indie - it's a path that's becoming increasingly well-trodden, and with the rise of Steam, Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, striking out on your own is becoming an increasingly viable option for developers.

The Steam version of Trine 2 has PC/Mac cross-platform multiplayer, Finnish developer Frozenbyte has announced.

Having given Microsoft a year's head start in the current generation, PlayStation Europe boss Jim Ryan said it would be "undesirable" for PS4 to repeat that for the next-generation.

Some franchise fans might find Metal Gear Solid: Rising a little tough to get to grips with, according to series creator Hideo Kojima.

Ridge Racer Vita only has three courses and five cars to choose from, according to a pair of Japanese previews.