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Phil Harrison, former head of Sony Worldwide Studios, has offered his thoughts on the next generation of consoles - and foresees a business model that breaks away from the one that's served the industry for the past 30 years.

The end credits of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 are really quite lovely. It's a montage of scenes from all the Harry Potter games stretching all the way back to the quaintly cartoony Philosopher's Stone in 2001 - reminding us that while it may have been the books and films that got all the headlines, gaming has kept pace with the boy wizard as well. It's just a pity that the game leading up to this nostalgic indulgence doesn't feel more substantial.

Five fitness games at launch, plenty more since, and still Kinect owners must wait it out for the ultimate interactive workout that seemed inevitable when the motion-sensing device was unveiled.

EA has made official the Collector's Edition of Star Wars: The Old Republic, and announced pre-order bonuses.

You can control two players at the same time in PES 2012.

How much do you know about marine biology? Now, I'm not talking about that creepy subset of real-world science where you learn how clams can get depressed or how sea urchins mate (the answer is "carefully"). I'm talking about Space Marine biology. Because whether or not you're excited about Relic's upcoming 3rd person action game could probably come down to how clued up you are.

Open world action sequel Prototype 2 launches for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US on 24th April 2012, publisher Activision has confirmed.

Angry Birds developer Rovio is betting all its chips on its phenomenally successful smartphone series, according to CEO Peter Vesterbacka.

Sales of the Guitar Hero series crashed because Activision had stopped listening to its audience, CEO Bobby Kotick has admitted.

Some game creators are producing poor quality 3D visuals, Sony has said.

Kinect game Fable: The Journey will lose some of Fable's trademark black adult humour, lead artist Tak Saito has revealed.

Ico & Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection will pack in a smattering of bonus content alongside the twin PS2 classics when it arrives on PlayStation 3 later this year.

We won't get to see what former Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella are up to at their new Respawn studio until 2015, according to an artist working on its first title.

Rumours abound that Microsoft may be preparing to unveil the next Xbox at E3 2012, but according to Kinect Sports developer Rare, the next-gen is already here.

UPDATE: Joystiq has managed to pull what seems to be the full roster of new fighters directly off the Capcom site.

Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition arrives on PlayStation Network on 23rd August and Xbox Live Arcade on 24th August, Capcom has announced.

The 3DS is back on top of Japan's hardware chart, with sales of the handheld more than doubling over last week.

God of War Master Collection will bundle all the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PSP games in Sony's action series into a single release, according to a listing on Amazon Germany.

Long-rumoured sci-fi action title Aliens: Infestation will launch on DS this September, Sega has revealed.

OTT action title Lollipop Chainsaw is the next project to come out of Shadows of the Damned developer Grasshopper Manufacture.

THQ and developer Relic have revealed the multiplayer portion of upcoming third-person action game Warhammer 40k: Space Marine.

Space Marine developer Relic Entertainment has begun early talks on a potential sequel.

Sony's PS Vita, the new handheld that follows in the wake of the long-serving PSP, is the company's most developer-friendly console to date according to engineers from its research and development teams.

Unannounced sci-fi action game Aliens: Infestation is a side-scrolling platformer for the DS, a new ESRB rating has revealed.

Singularity developer Raven Software is not making a new James Bond game, Activision has confirmed to Eurogamer.

Media Molecule has explained studio director Siobhan Reddy's recent comment that the UK developer is "stepping away" from LittleBigPlanet.

GoldenEye 007 Reloaded launches for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this autumn, Activision has announced.

Last year, we got two Bond games, one from Bizarre Creations and one from Eurocom, because there was no movie on the way. This year, there is a movie on the way - it's called James Bond and the Very Sinister Ox, apparently, and it co-stars Christopher Lambert as a deranged cross-country cyclist who wants to eat the moon - but there is no Bizarre Creations anymore. Luckily, we still have Eurocom, or England would be a pretty depressing place around about now.

Kinectimals developer Frontier Developments will launch mobile versions of enchanting platform adventure Wii game LostWinds this year.

Nintendo appears to have confirmed that ageing GameCube games will be made available for download on the Wii U.