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Frenetic co-op platformer Moon Diver arrives on Xbox Live Arcade on 4th May priced at 1200 Points, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Space simulation series X has returned after a three year hiatus.

After a faithful 16-year love affair, Insomniac Games and Sony are officially seeing other people.

PlayStation Portable game Gladiator Begins launches on Friday 27th May, Zen United and PQube have announced.

The European PlayStation Store has wolfed down an early helping of Easter offerings this week.

God of War 4 will launch in September 2012, a UK game magazine has claimed.

Mortal Kombat creator NetherRealm has devised a new technology that allows it to re-balance the game dynamically without players noticing.

Undead PlayStation Network shooter Burn Zombie Burn! will be re-animated for iOS platforms this year.

Last month marked the 20th anniversary of the most important fighting game ever made, and although I dare not speak its name in this opening paragraph, it shows how far the genre has progressed in two decades. It also highlights those series which started out as fresh ideas, and then thanks to a steady supply of subtle tweaks and major leaps, evolved into the current cream of the combative crop.

2012 shooter Prey 2 will on average take 15 hours to play through, developer Human Head has revealed.

Pop down to your local GAME or gamestation and you'll be able to buy the PC version of Portal 2, Eurogamer can reveal.

UPDATE: Sony has told Japanese website AV Watch (via Kotaku) that it ended production of the PSPgo handheld "to concentrate on NGP".

Hours after releasing Portal 2 on Steam, creator Valve has announced predecessor Portal has sold close to four million units.

Despite generating the sort of revenue that could bail out a high street bank, first-person shooters are in crisis. There's a sense that the tide is turning against the market leaders, that too many iterations in too short a space of time have burned out the hardcore, leaving little enthusiasm for new additions to the shooter family tree. We probably won't feel the impact for another few years, but there's a large meteorite headed for these lumbering, violent dinosaurs of the gaming scene.

Sony has delayed PlayStaton 3 exclusives The Last Guardian and ICO/Shadow of the Colossus HD Collection.

Gears of War publisher Epic has singled out the rise of the $1 smartphone app as one of the biggest threats it's currently facing.

A new Minecraft patch that adds weather and achievements to the indie world-building phenomenon has just gone live.

A number of publishers have recently proclaimed that the traditional movie tie-in's days are numbered. Not only do they routinely getting a critical shoeing but people just aren't buying them anymore.

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II: Retribution's Last Stand mode is available as a standalone download via Steam as of tomorrow, publisher THQ has announced.

An iPhone version of eccentric iOS adventure Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP hits the App Store on Thursday.

Microsoft has restricted the rating of Xbox Live Indie Games via Xbox.com to Gold members in a bid to combat the abuse of the system.

Centipede is the latest Atari arcade classic to hit the comeback trail, with the publisher today announcing an impending 3DS and Wii reboot.

Despite bringing in some of the highest review scores of the year so far, the PC version of Portal 2 is taking an absolute battering on its Metacritic user score page.

"The concept is hope and happiness. That's what we pitched first," says Q Entertainment's Tetsuya Mizuguchi, sitting down after a Child of Eden demo to talk with us about his work in games so far. "It's like a spiritual sequel to Rez, definitely, but I wanted to have much more organic feel, not only digital, techno. I made it like a drama, a story, an emotional setting – it has songs, lyrics, words.

If you'd like to get your hands on a Nintendo 3DS, there's good news for you - it's extremely easy to do so. In most if not all of the countries in which the new system has launched, you can walk into any major games or electronics retailer and pick one up off the shelves. You might, at worst, not be able to get the colour you want - black was sold out when I went to buy a couple of units in Japan earlier this week, but there were thirty-odd blue units stacked up behind the tills.

Enslaved could win a prestigious award for its music.

Square Enix has revealed the innards of the Deus Ex: Human Revolution Collector's Edition.

Prey 2 developer Human Head Studios ditched the portals and gravity puzzles that fans of the first game loved so much because it wanted to create a first-person shooter with never-before-seen elements.

Activision has launched the final downloadable track pack for DJ Hero 2.

Driver: San Francisco launches this September, Ubisoft has announced.