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Activision botched the announcement of its Call of Duty: Elite community portal, so says EA boss John Riccitiello.

Recent Super Mario games have drifted away from what the series was initially meant to be about, so says the Nintendo veteran behind the forthcoming Super Mario 3DS.

The Wii U's unusual feature set is causing brainache within EA Sports, label boss Peter Moore has revealed.

Fancy having a (officially sanctioned) tinker with Microsoft's Kinect tech? Good news, the platform holder has just launched a free SDK beta.

Forthcoming BioWare MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic will not demand that you run EA's new Origin application in order to play.

A mysterious new Harry Potter teaser website has fans of the teenage wizard's adventures speculating that an MMO based on the series could be on its way.

Game Republic, developer of meme-generating Genji: Days of the Blade, has quietly shut its doors.

Actual new game announcements were thin on the ground at E3 this year. These days it's only Nintendo that routinely shows up with substantial headlines to make - and Ubisoft. Thank heavens for the French publisher's theatrical side, which ensures that its dependably daft press conference is always a highlight of the week. Whilst 2011's showing was noticeably less barmy than last year's, it did include the genuine debut of a long-anticipated blockbuster shooter: Far Cry 3.

The Game Boy version of arcade classic Donkey Kong is now available to download from the 3DS Nintendo eShop.

There is a website where you can sign up for a closed beta of something called Family Guy Online.

Gears of War maker Epic will invite all Unreal developers and those interested in developing to a creative hot pot called the Epic Developer Day.

Mass Effect 3 is strongly rumoured to feature a four-player co-op mode.

The new Call of Duty: Black Ops zombie map will be Shangri-La, Activision has announced.

The PlayStation 3 and PS Vita versions of upcoming fighting game Street Fighter x Tekken feature infamous star Cole MacGrath as an exclusive playable character – but will the Xbox 360 version also get an exclusive character?

Controversial Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has an acting role in Brad Pitt's next film, it appears.

Half-a-million people flocked to PlayStation Home during E3 2011, according to VentureBeat.

The third gaggle of Call of Duty: Black Ops maps will be known as the Annihilation pack.

Poor scores for Duke Nukem Forever and underperforming L.A. Noire sales have damaged Take-Two stock.

Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt Red will make the Xbox 360 version's easy difficulty setting easier than the PC version's.

RPG giant BioWare was "the target of a highly sophisticated and unlawful cyber attack" and has been hacked.

Neverwinter Nights has been under construction for what seems like an eternity, but after countless delays and a deluge of hype, it's finally arrived. Obviously it was never going to be able to live up to gamers' high expectations (nothing short of the Second Coming could have done), so the key questions are just how disappointing is it, and is it still worth buying? And the answers are fairly, and absolutely.

For a third-person cover shooter, Inversion has a lot of ideas, so it's strange that it doesn't initially make very much of an impact. See Saber Interactive's latest in action, and it seems to wash over you. Then you go home and look at your notes and realise a lot of its gimmicks actually sound pretty good.

A Devil May Cry HD Collection will launch in Europe on the PlayStation 3 on 30th November, according to a Spanish shop.

The team responsible for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary is planning to modify a handful of original Xbox controllers to be 360-compatible so that a select few can experience the game exactly as it was back in 2001.

Publisher 2K Games has severed links with its external US public relations and marketing agency after the outfit Tweeted that it was considering blacklisting sites that gave Duke Nukem Forever a particularly rough ride.

While Nintendo is making a lot of noise about how the Wii U will represent a major step forward in its online efforts, it appears it won't be supporting free-to-play titles.

Stockholm-based Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios has just set up an outpost in New York to create a new IP for next-gen systems.

Atari action RPG Dungeons & Dragons: Daggerdale was the most downloaded Xbox Live Arcade game last week, Microsoft has revealed.

Sega's mobster/zombie mash-up Yakuza: Of The End takes the top spot in this week's Japanese sales chart, and by some margin.

Absurdly successful smartphone timewaster Angry Birds has now been downloaded a whopping 250 million times, developer Rovio has revealed.