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Forthcoming action RPG Dark Souls is getting a lavish Collector's Edition, and it won't cost you a penny more than the standard game, publisher Namco Bandai has announced.

Crush3d, a new take on PSP puzzle platformer Crush, is heading to the 3DS, publisher SEGA has announced.

O2 users can pick up Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play smartphone from June, the network provider has announced.

A new update for Blizzard's RTS sequel StarCraft II has just hit Battle.net, featuring a number of tweaks and bug fixes.

Rockstar's games have made headlines in the past for their gratuitous violence, but the GTA developer says it can envisage a future where no gunplay whatsoever features in its titles.

Namco Bandai has lifted the lid on Soulcalibur V at its press event in Dubai this morning.

Limbless Ubisoft mascot Rayman has had his latest outing listed by online retailer Amazon.

Nintendo's May 3DS firmware update has been detailed by a new report. It includes the Nintendo eShop, although promised Internet browsing functions are nowhere to be seen.

The continued absence of a PlayStation Store means Fallout: New Vegas - Honest Hearts will release on "the earliest date possible" on PS3, Bethesda has said.

Alone in the Dark and Test Drive Unlimited 2 developer Eden Games has gone on strike against parent company Atari.

Gas Powered Games boss Chris Taylor refuses to spend $50 on a video game. For him, free-to-play games such as Age of Empires Online represent the "future" of PC gaming – and herald a new era for the industry.

In the marvellous but Marmite-y Mount & Blade and its semi-sequel Warband, you could end a man's life by cracking his skull with a warhammer, slashing his vitals to shreds with a sword, pin-cushioning his abdomen with arrows, or thrusting a lance through his family jewels. What you couldn't do was pull a firearm from your belt and blow his brains out. Clever Kievites SiCh Studio, realising that guns are amazingly rare in electronic entertainment, have rectified this.

Majesco has announced an encore for chart-topping dance workout Zumba Fitness: Join the Party.

After a year of intense testing, comely free MMO Allods Online has today launched across Europe.

PlayStation 2 game Tales of the Abyss will launch on Nintendo 3DS next year, Namco Bandai has announced.

Didn't you find Portal 2 maps challenging enough? Well now you can make your own - Valve has released beta Authoring Tools for Portal 2.

Chris Hecker's indie game SpyParty is ready to test - but he wants you to pay for the privilege.

Namco Bandai will release a new Dragon Ball Z game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this autumn.

Namco Bandai has unveiled 3D fighting game Soulcalibur V, due out on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.

Namco Bandai has shed more light on its feature-length CG movie Tekken Blood Vengeance.

Ace Combat Assault Horizon launches in Europe on 14th October, Namco Bandai has announced.

In the run-up to the release of Splash Damage's team-based shooter Brink, there has been an odd reluctance to state plainly what, at heart, the game is about.

Namco Bandai has announced a new Tekken movie – this time computer generated, in stereoscopic 3D and with the full cooperation of the video game development team.

On paper, The Cursed Crusade sounds like a very promising and long-overdue idea. Set in the winter of 1198 AD, the game catches up with two merry travellers each pursuing their own agendas until fate draws them together: Denz de Bayle, on the hunt for his Templar father who vanished during the events of the Third Crusade, and Esteban Noviembre, a petty thief with a heart of gold.

Microsoft is marking the Halo franchise's 10th birthday with a lavish 192-page hardback art book.

The booming market for social gaming is about to hit a brick wall, so says games industry veteran Denis Dyack.

EA hasn't been mincing its words on this one – the plan with the forthcoming Battlefield 3 is to knock Activision's Call of Duty franchise off its lofty perch at the top of the FPS tree.

Capcom has high hopes for its upcoming games.

Fighting game Tekken 6 sold 1.15 million units in the US alone during publisher Namco Bandai's 2011 financial year - despite the game launching in 2009.

UPDATE: Hitman 5 is indeed called Hitman: Absolution. According to the official blurb: "Hitman Absolution follows Agent 47, a cold blooded assassin, who takes on his most dangerous contract to date. Betrayed by those he trusted and hunted by the police, he finds himself at the centre of a dark conspiracy and must embark on a personal journey through a corrupt and twisted world, in his search for the truth."