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EVE Online was released eight years ago today - and developer CCP has said that it knew even then that the online space game would be "huge".

The editor of topical discussion show The Wright Show has defended last month's 'Do shoot 'em up games lead to real violence?' episode in which panellists linked video game violence to real world violence.

Anyone who has played Kairosoft's superb mobile title Game Dev Story (and if you haven't, you really should) will probably have experienced the same moment of hair-tearing frustration that I encountered a few times during the game. Having painstakingly accumulated funds, I threw vast amounts of capital behind the development of a no-expenses-spared blockbuster title - only to get the dreaded pop-up, weeks from launch, which told me that another company was releasing a very similar game within the same period, which would seriously damage my title's sales.

With the current generation of HD consoles nowhere near their sell-by date, the recent release of the Gears of War 3 multiplayer beta is noteworthy for several reasons. Not only is this the first opportunity we have had to get hands-on with the game - an event in itself - but it also serves to give us a preview of the kind of technological enhancements we will find as standard in future games using Epic's highly popular Unreal Engine 3 technology.

Ubisoft's retro-fabulous 2D platformer Rayman Origins is no longer a downloadable game, as originally announced at E3 2010, according to the latest issue of Game Informer.

The first details of what you can expect from Assassin's Creed: Revelations has hit the web.

EA has dismissed a report claiming that it is already working with dev kits for the Xbox 360's successor.

Saints Row: The Third is getting a standalone character creation hub called the Initiaition Station, due out before the open world actioner launches later this year, publisher THQ has announced.

Multiplayer FPS Team Fortress 2 gets a replay system today via a new PC and Mac update, developer Valve has announced.

Foo Fighters head up the next batch of Rock Band 3 DLC, with four tracks from the US alt-rockers up for download next week.

There are 102 quadrillion different character variations in forthcoming FPS Brink, according to publisher Bethesda Softworks.

Ubisoft will release World Rally Championship 2011 on 3DS, PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 this October.

Disney Interactive Studios attempted to sell off half of Split/Second developer Black Rock late last year but couldn't find a buyer, according to an inside source.

Around 50 staff face redundancy at Crytek Budapest - the studio making Xbox 360-exclusive fantasy title Kingdoms - in the next few weeks, according to an inside source.

There's dissent among the RuneScape ranks because of a Veteran Cape.

Burnout Crash will be an action game that offers points for creating traffic pileups, according to US age-rater ESRB.

RuneScape maker Jagex has today begun the closed beta for new strategy game 8Realms.

Treasure's latest, as with much of the company's best output, carves its own determined path. Paying little mind to fashion or genre, Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury instead sticks tenaciously to its own vision.

Two weeks on, and still no sign of the PSN outage coming to an end. Knocking two platforms out of the download equation has obviously had a pretty noticeable impact on the number of games we have to cover over that period; normally we'd find at least one PSN game to cover each week, and probably a Mini as well.

A third attack on Sony by hackers may be planned for this weekend.

Hi Eurogamer! Last time we looked at an inevitable and overpriced map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops together, we met Dave, my future brother-in-law. Dave and other (but not all) Daves are the reason that Activision can charge 1200 Microsoft Points for five maps while maintaining direct eye contact and avoiding a tell-tale blush.

Sony Europe is working "incredibly hard" to offer all PlayStation Network users a free European identity protection scheme.

Sony Corporation boss Sir Howard Stringer has written an open letter to the PlayStation Network community.

The money-year is up for Capcom and the numbers are in. They're positive - very.

The prospect of a new Tomb Raider movie just got a little more interesting, with the announcement today that it will be written by the duo responsible for penning the original Iron Man movie and cult sci-fi favourite Children of Men.

The PC version of forthcoming id Software FPS RAGE ships with a full level editor, the game's creative director Tim Willits has revealed.

The Xbox 360 version of Rockstar Games' forthcoming open world crime saga L.A. Noire will be spread across three separate discs.

The PSP continues to dominate the weekly Japanese hardware charts, with DS RPG spin-off Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 taking the software crown.

Steam users can now nab a level editor for sadistic platformer Super Meat Boy.

An Age of Empires Online beta is open to all for the next 48 hours or so, developer Gas Powered Games has announced.