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Zombie game Dead Island has been given a Mature sticker by North American age-rating body ESRB.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two, last week's big launch, has landed in the UK charts in seventh place.

Activision has filed a $2600 complaint against www.ModernWarfare3.com - a URL that caused commotion due to redirecting visitors to the Battlefield 3 website.

The Assassins' Creed Wii U game is not Revelations, Ubisoft has confirmed.

US Lovefilm rival Netflix is hitting the UK early next year, according to a new report.

New Mass Effect 3 team-mate James Sanders is now known as James Vega, BioWare has revealed.

Valve's latest update for digital distribution service Steam notes that "soon, DOTA 2 will be delivered using it".

Technology company AMD reckons the next Xbox will be so powerful it will be capable of reproducing graphics on a par with James Cameron's movie blockbuster Avatar.

Remember that bit in The Iron Man where the Iron Man chucks himself off a cliff? Maybe he falls, actually – I haven't read it in a while. Anyway, the Iron Man topples off this cliff – because he's sad, because he's a metaphor for the Cold War, or because life is so lonely and pointless that toppling off cliffs is the only smart thing to do – and when he hits the ground he smashes into hundreds of pieces.

Epic Games' European boss Mike Gamble has blamed the recent spate of high-profile triple-A game developer closures on "stupid acquisitions" made by publishers.

The current HD console generation is maturing, and developers are looking for ever more ingenious ways of extracting better-quality visuals from the fixed hardware configurations available, while conserving as much system performance as possible.

The Xbox 360's first party output has been superior to Nintendo and Sony's efforts on their consoles, so says a top Microsoft exec.

UPDATE: Move along, nothing to see here. According to a Tweet from Microsoft corporate communications VP Frank Shaw the listing is just an innocuous "defensive domain name hold".

What the bleating hell is this? Why it's the return of Tempest 2000 and Space Giraffe maker Jeff Minter, who's making a new game for iPhone called Deflex.

Pining for a sequel to Hideo Kojima's cyberpunk detective adventure Snatcher? Tough – the veteran designer has far too much on his plate.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will debut at Comic Con in San Diego next weekend, according to insider sources.

Suda51/Shinji Mikami collaboration Shadows of the Damned is having a hellish time of it at retail.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi's acclaimed Child of Eden finally hits PlayStation 3 on 23rd September, following its Xbox 360 launch last month, Ubisoft has announced.

A number of Freestyle Games staff have jumped ship from the Activision-owned DJ Hero studio and set up on their own.

Sega made more money from software in Japan last month than any other publisher, beating perennial kingpin and ancient rival Nintendo into second place.

Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer maps are being designed with a "Call of Duty 4 mentality", Infinity Ward has revealed.

A Velvet Game of the Year Edition has been announced for role-playing game Two Worlds II.

Blizzard is testing a new Real ID Party feature in World of Warcraft.

Dawn of War developer Relic will help Vigil with the creation of massively multiplayer online game Warhammer 40k: Dark Millennium Online once it wraps up work on the soon-to-be-released Space Marine.

Sega's previous ventures into the Marvel movie universe have been grim experiences. Both Iron Man and Thor were defeated by clumsy control maps, uninspired gameplay and a generally cheap and hurried feel. Now it's fellow Avenger Captain America's turn to step up to the joypad. The result doesn't tip the balance for Sega's superhero sideline, but it does give it a good shove in the right direction.

This week is one of those where everyone's gazing wistfully to the past for inspiration, but with contrasting results.

Sony has unveiled its World Game Project, a new promotion designed to highlight western-made games in Japan.

PlayStation Portable Final Fantasy spin-off Type-0 is nearly finished, Square Enix has said.

When faced with a new fantasy world it's easy to hide behind your hand and do a Muttley-giggle. The sprawling Plains of Erathell? The enchanted forests of Dalentarth? Hah! Give it up and go home LARP-boy! You won't catch me employed by the Warsworn to empty the Brigahall Caverns of the Niskaru taint! That's for losers! I'll probably just kill a few more dragons in Skyrim instead…

Ubisoft has pulled the plug on planned Nintendo 3DS Assassin's Creed title Lost Legacy.