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The PlayStation arm of Sony's empire performed better than ever during the year ended 31st March 2011.

When we were invited along to see a super-secret project from Disney Interactive, we thought we knew exactly what to expect: a new action adventure based on a forthcoming film property that finally promises to buck the trend of movie tie-in mediocrity, like many well-intentioned games before it (including the immeasurably dismal Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows). But that wasn't what we got.

Shadows of the Damned is comfortably among the most ridiculous games I have ever played (and I have played, amongst much else, a kissing simulator in which you had to work your way up from kissing gimps in sewers).

Irrational Games boss Ken Levine hasn't given up on getting the stalled BioShock movie off the ground, but admits that getting it right presents a huge challenge.

Dead or Alive: Dimensions and Portal 2 were among the new entries on this week's Japanese software chart.

It seems another Alien game is incoming, with Aliens Infestation showing up in an Australian game classification listing today.

Trenched, Double Fine's take on the tower defense genre, digs in on Xbox Live Arcade from 22nd June.

Update 2: Normal service has resumed. Major Nelson broke the news in a post on his Twitter feed: "The Marketplace on the console is back online. The Xbox.com version is on it's way soon."

Valve is making the Portal 2 soundtrack available for free via the game's website.

Forthcoming shooter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is getting a special collector's edition, publisher THQ has announced

A third dose of the OTT RPG DeathSpank franchise lands on PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this summer, developer Hothead Games has announced.

Anyone checking out SOCOM: Special Forces multiplayer will get double XP "for the near future", developer Zipper Interactive has announced.

A number of key creatives from defunct APB/Crackdown developer Realtime Worlds have resurfaced with a new studio called eeGeo.

Not yet bought six month-old shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops? Want the game with a new PS3 to play it on? Then you're in luck.

Former Capcom R&D boss Keiji Inafune is working on an exclusive PlayStation 3 RPG, with a release planned for this August.

Attention parents, Jagex today launches a new free-to-play MMO called Herotopia that aims to teach kids some valuable and wholesome lessons.

Modern Warfare 2 had No Russian, Modern Warfare 3 has "a chilling echo of the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London", according to the Daily Mail.

The closed beta for MMO racing game Auto Club Revolution starts July 2011, creator Eutechnyx has announced.

Hydrophobia Prophecy is one of the best terrible games I've played in ages. I mean it. At the bad games awards (imagine a town hall in Croydon, the audience full of sniffling, coughing hopefuls) Hydrophobia would win everything from Most Ambitious Game to Most Impressive Technology That Was Not Used At All.

The American age ratings board ESRB has outed an Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.

Konami has announced a World War II dogfighter called Birds of Steel for release early next year.

Square Enix will announce a new large scale MMO sometime this financial year (April 2011 to end of March 2012).

The Project Aces producer showing us around his new game has a novel method of demonstrating the finer detailing of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon. Coming in low over the silvery thicket of super-scrapers that make up the sprawling Dubai level (coming in low is, after all, part of every textbook landing) he hunts around for the hotel complex we're staying at for the presentation, picks it out, and then proceeds to strafe us mercilessly. Point taken: these maps are pretty accurate, then.

Hothead Games has announced a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game.

World of Warcraft patch 4.2 has gone live on the public test realm. The patch notes have been released.

Update: HMV has clarified to Eurogamer that a 3DS costs £109.99 when trading in a DSi XL; £139.99 when trading in a DSi; and £154 when trading in a DS Lite.

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Fantasy MMO Age of Conan is to offer users a free-to-play model alongside the traditional subscription set-up, developer Funcom has announced.

Agent and Max Payne 3 are still alive and well at Rockstar Games, publisher Take-Two has confirmed.

Rockstar's L.A. Noire could be the starting point for a lucrative franchise, judging by comments from Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick.