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Designer Chris Hecker has announced the two ways you can pay to get into the early access beta for eye-catching indie game SpyParty.

The Darkness developer Starbreeze's long rumoured Syndicate reboot may be set for a Gamescom reveal.

The Nintendo 3DS price war is in full swing: supermarket giant Tesco has slashed the price of the handheld to £115.

The Assassin's creed: Revelations multiplayer beta launches as a timed PlayStation Network exclusive, Ubisoft has announced.

A raft of Sega games will be playable at Eurogamer Expo 2011.

While perhaps not quite scaling the heights of previous years, the current Summer of Arcade season has thrown up a fine harvest so far - from the cute Metroid-with-Martians stylings of Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, to Eric Chahi's ambitious attempt to breathe some life into the god game genre with From Dust. However, it's Supergiant Games' delightful isometric action RPG Bastion that has come closest to providing the class of 2011 with a Limbo or a Braid.

Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott is making content for Call of Duty: Elite, Activision has announced.

Bethesda has delayed the launch of the fourth Fallout: New Vegas downloadable add-on, Lonesome Road.

EA has trademarked Alpha Centauri, sparking speculation it may be developing a new game in the cult turn-based strategy series.

Famed first-person shooter developer id Software would love to force gamers to connect to the internet while playing its games.

Paul W.S. Anderson will direct the next Resident Evil movie, according to a new report.

PlayStation Network will be offline in Europe from 16.05 tomorrow, Thursday 11th August, until 02.00 on Friday, 12th August, Sony has announced.

PlayStation Plus subscribers are offered early access to the Resistance 3 beta test today. You'll have a seven day head start on the general public, who'll be invited in on 17th August.

UK online retailer GameStop.co.uk has cut the price of the Nintendo 3DS to £135.

The link between violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto and the riots that have gripped the UK this week are entirely predictable and part of a cycle of moral panic, according to experts.

Music games are as nebulous and diverse as music itself, as we've very recently explored. Still, it's no surprise that when Q-Games turned its hand to the genre the results would be stranger yet - for if there's one thing that's defined the studio's PixelJunk series, it's a willingness to be different.

Wayne Rooney's real-life hair implants mean that EA Sports, in the name of authenticity, will give the Manchester United striker more hair in FIFA 12.

Upcoming third-person action game Space Marine will have co-op, THQ has confirmed.

Ahead of this Friday's price-cut, Nintendo has announced a deal that means 5000 extra UK Wi-Fi hotspots are available to use with the 3DS.

D3Publisher has released two weapon packs for Defense Force: Insect Armageddon.

Serious Sam 3: BFE will include four-player split-screen on PC, Croteam has announced.

How many extra SingStar songs have you bought and downloaded? 10, 20?

You can now trade in virtual items for other virtual items through Steam.

Sony has released a PlayStation 3 update designed to benefit PlayStation Plus subscribers.

THQ has canned the MX Vs ATV franchise.

For a moment there it looked as if music games had died. Activision had pulled the plug, at least temporarily, on Guitar Hero and DJ Hero, while Viacom had washed its hands of Rock Band developer Harmonix. Soon the news stories became obituaries for the genre that had conquered and cluttered the world with toy guitars.

"Choice and consequence" may be the action-adventure cliché du jour, but being able to define your own combat style through a suite of overlapping toys is definitely up there too. Pretty much ever since BioShock invited us to paralyse splicers with electricity and then whack 'em with a wrench, everyone's been at it.

A PC demo for dictator sim Tropico 4 is now available to download.

Ubisoft will release a demo for Driver San Francisco tomorrow on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

The rumour is apparently true: Team Bondi all assets and IP and be folded into KMM productions, the company owned by Mad Max maker George Miller.