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Shareholders in Rock Band developer Harmonix are being sued by the studio's former owner Viacom for a hefty $131 million.

Konami has lifted the lid on its new Kinect music game, Boom Boom Dance, currently in development for Xbox Live Arcade.

A closed beta for Blizzard's long-awaited action RPG sequel Diablo 3 has just gone live, the developer has announced.

EA's Star Wars: The Old Republic will be the last ever major subscription-only MMO, according to Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley.

An Xbox Live Arcade release for Burnout Crash, new DLC for Fallout: New Vegas and a Games on Demand slot for Crysis 2 headline the latest Xbox Live release schedule update.

A few details on Square Enix's ludicrously-monikered RPG Bravely Default: Flying Fairy, announced at Nintendo's 3DS showcase last week, have dropped in.

The Amazon Appstore is opening for business across Europe and Australia following its US launch earlier this year, according to a PCR report.

Lego Harry Potter: Years 5-7 launches on 18th November, Warner Bros. has announced.

All Game and Gamestation stores around the UK now sell codes to redeem PlayStation Network content.

A demo of Xbox 360 exclusive simulation racer Forza 4 launches on 3rd October, a new trailer for the game has revealed.

Zen Studios has announced Zen Pinball 3D for Nintendo 3DS. It will be released as a download from the Nintendo eShop this autumn.

Code possibly belonging to Half-Life 2: Episode 3 has been spotted in the leaked beta client for Dota 2.

Promising action-strategy game Orcs Must Die will be released on Xbox Live Arcade on 5th October. The PC/Steam launch will happen on 12th October.

The cheapest place to buy Gears of War 3 is BestBuy, where the game costs £32.99.

As the gentle autumnal slumber of the countryside descends upon Haywards Heath like a welcoming, thick duvet on a chilly morning, the animals begin their preparations for the long winter ahead. There's Mr Dormouse, toying with his nuts in the crisp sunshine. A badger coughs up just enough tuberculosis to get him through another winter.

Swery65, creator of eye-catching Xbox 360 game Deadly Premonition, has announced he is the director of PlayStation Vita launch title Lords of Apocalypse, according to a report by Siliconera.

Activision puts 500 developers to work across seven studios to ensure Call of Duty remains the biggest brand around. But challenger EA DICE, with Battlefield 3, doesn't. Nor does general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson believe he has to in order to compete at the very highest level.

Around a dozen PlayStation 3 and PSP games will be unavailable online in Europe this Sunday between 5am and midday, Sony has warned.

Gargantuan Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War 3 launches today, and developer Epic Games has promised to release substantial downloadable content.

Assassin's Creed: Revelations on PlayStation 3 includes a copy of the original Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft has announced.

Indie PC game The Binding of Isaac will release for PC and Mac on Steam on 28th September.

We've got all sorts of amazing stuff going on at this year's Eurogamer Expo, but we're particularly pleased to announce this latest pair of competitions courtesy of Sony.

Gearbox wants to know what you thought about Duke Nukem Forever.

OnLive founder Steve Perlman has explained why some beta testers of the game-streaming service are experiencing latency issues (thanks VG247).

Grand Theft Auto has once again hit the headlines, this time in relation to a killing spree aboard a submarine.

Acclaim's chief creative officer David Perry has posted a video demonstrating his streaming games-on-demand cloud service, Gaikai.

Fascinating comments from OnLive this week, courtesy of CEO Steve Perlmen, including a very helpful definition of what latency is and how little of a factor it is with OnLive. 'The round trip latency from pushing a button on a controller and it going up to the server and back down, and you seeing something change on screen should be less than 80 milliseconds,' Perlmen told the BBC. 'We usually see something between 35 and 40 milliseconds.'

Acclaim's chief creative officer David Perry has said that he plans to launch a games-on-demand service a bit like OnLive, and was originally going to show it off at E3.

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EA has rejected the notion that we'll be playing all our games through 'cloud-based' services like OnLive in the near future, insisting that the traditional game disc has a long life left ahead of it.