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Dead or Alive 5 will be released in 2012 for box 360 and PlayStation 3, Team Ninja has announced at a Tokyo presentation.

All hail god game From Dust, which headlines this week's update to the EU PlayStation Store.

The future for beloved British developer Rare lies in creating "fun innovative games that can be hugely successful".

Apple has banned satirical iOS game Phone Story from the App Store.

A second PES 2012 demo has been released. This time it's on Xbox 360 as well as PC and PS3.

An under-pressure Nintendo has ruled out any likelihood of ever making games for mobiles.

Codemasters has told Eurogamer it is "proposing to retire" the studio responsible for lacklustre shooter Bodycount.

Grasshopper has given its Kinect project Codename D a title, and revealed it as a typically eccentric Xbox Live Arcade game.

Sony has named 74 work in progress PlayStation Vita games.

The PlayStation Vita's battery gives you between three and five hours of gameplay, Sony has announced.

An HD version of PS2 RPG Final Fantasy X is on its way to PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 3, Square Enix has revealed.

Sony's Tokyo Game Show 2011 press conference has come to an end.

The PlayStation Vita arrives in Japanese stores on 17th December, Sony has announced.

Hideo Kojima has confirmed the Metal Gear Solid HD Collection and Zone of the Enders HD Collection for PlayStation Vita.

Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 is a Vita launch title, Capcom's Yoshinori Ono has announced at Sony's TGS press conference today.

The PS3 worldwide sales total now stands at 51.8 million units, Sony has revealed.

Windows 8 will feature Xbox Live functionality when it launches next year, Microsoft has announced.

The 3DS's controversial second circle pad add-on is a "smart move", so says Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg.

Nintendo's share price dropped by five per cent following yesterday's 3DS showcase in Tokyo, according to Reuters.

This Thursday's eShop update is all about WiiWare racer MotoHeroz, crafted by the lovely hands of Trials HD creator RedLynx.

Red Faction: Armageddon ditches the wide-open landscapes and sandbox-style gameplay of its predecessor for something altogether more linear in nature, but one particular element returns that continues to define the series: environmental destruction.

Unreal Engine 3 continues to dominate the current development landscape; the popular middleware gained more momentum recently with the news that LucasArts has signed a studio-wide deal that will see all its upcoming titles developed on the ubiquitous Epic platform. In the meantime, the developer itself plans to roll out its most technically advanced UE3 title yet, Gears of War 3, destined for big things when it is released later this year. Despite the emergence of competitors such as CryEngine 3, Epic's position in the engine-licensing market only seems to be moving from strength to strength - a ringing endorsement of its technology, with Alice: Madness Returns the latest in a long line of titles to benefit from its cross-platform credentials.

Goicha Suda and Shinji Mikami, the creative forces behind the likes of Killer 7 and the Resident Evil games, have put together a stylish and overtly adult take on the action-based survival horror formula. While Grasshopper's new game owes a lot to Resident Evil 4 in terms of the raw gameplay mechanics, it also takes inspiration from a variety of other notable sources - Sam Raimi's Evil Dead movies and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse both spring to mind, along with Sega and Namco's modest light gun hit, Vampire Night, which has some passing similarities in terms of its overall mood and colour scheme.

Since the original F.E.A.R. debuted in late 2005, the series has lost some of its impact in terms of delivering a dark and frightening experience and has evolved in new directions. Shifting into the hands of Day 1 Studios for this latest instalment, the team has made multiplayer a focus for the new sequel with the introduction of a robust co-op component. The ability to jump in and out of the campaign with another player in tow, with one person playing as series lead Point Man and the other as his supernaturally reborn brother, Paxton Fettel (with differing special abilities) adds an intriguing twist to the standard F.E.A.R. gameplay.

Developer Techland has taken something of a gamble with new offering Call of Juarez: The Cartel. The series has turned its back on the era of the cowboy, relocating the first person shooter action to modern day Los Angeles, opening up a whole new world of high calibre weaponry, vehicles and more densely packed environments.

Conceived as the spiritual successor to Criterion's much-loved Black, Bodycount fails to make an impact on the battlefield, delivering an experience that feels rushed, unpolished and to a certain extent unfinished. It's a bitter blow for those hoping to get a current-generation taste of what made the Burnout makers' FPS so much fun to play. In that respect, the baton has been passed to EA stablemates DICE, and we can only hope that Battlefield 3 is the game that delivers.

First announced in 2006, it's taken some five years for Dead Island to arrive, and the end result is an ambitious, open-world first-person action title that borrows many elements from other games - most notably, Dead Rising, Borderlands and Left 4 Dead - while still trying to carve out an identity of its own.

Free DSiWare download The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition will be released on 28th September, says Nintendo.

Nintendo will bolster the 3DS' capabilities in November by adding 3D video recording.

The FIFA 12 demo has been released on Xbox Live Marketplace and on PC.