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"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.

Gamers will have a fancy new feature awaiting them in Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D - an all-fighting Boss Challenge mode.

You already know about the bizarre shift Red Faction Armageddon has made from Guerilla's worthy socialist plot to an "alien invasion". Basically, folks (that's you) seemed to think imposing the story of Das Kapital on a "blowing-stuff-up" shooter held the same socialist fascination as monkey-suited Ed Miliband explaining how he's against cuts whilst in favour of cuts whilst making cross-eyed faces like he's crapping himself, and oh God that BORING voice...

id Software has told Doom fans that in-development Doom 4 will be right up their street.

The Pokémon Company has announced touring details for the 2011 Pokémon Video Game Championships.

UPDATE: Sony has refused to confirm or deny a report that it has ceased production of the PSPgo.

You can play the PC and Mac versions of Portal 2 two days before launch in UK shops by buying it from Steam.

Nope, it's not just about turning left. It may be oh-so-amusing to mock the most popular form of motor sport in North America over a pint down The Griffin while in the company of your burly mates – it's OK, we've all done it. But to fail to recognise the merits of NASCAR when you're back in the privacy of your living room, as Premier Sports beams live weekend race feeds onto your supersized LCD, would be pushing denial to a level even Freud would have trouble quantifying.

Despite selling about 12 million copies over its decade-long history, nobody in the real world has ever heard of SOCOM. In fact, we'd hazard a guess that great swathes of those who've played the series don't even know what it stands for.

Ask any gymnast and they'll agree: you have to stick the landing. It doesn't matter how many perfect flips and somersaults you perform if you end up flat on your face at the end.

Digitalmindsoft's ongoing World War II real-time strategy series always did a spiffing job of streamlining the RTS experience. The total lack of any base construction leaves you to focus on the business of war, and Assault Squad, Men Of War's second standalone expansion, feels like a distillation of the experience.

Portal is perfect. Valve's 2007 puzzle adventure – a short story about escape, in which the player must solve a series of spatial riddles with a gun that shoots doors – has a ruthless clarity to it, an economy of form and expression, that few games can match.

The PlayStation 3 version of fighting game Mortal Kombat – out this week – includes God of War star Kratos as an exclusive playable character. Xbox 360 owners, however, do not get an exclusive character. Why?

SEGA has just announced Sonic Generations for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

It's a hard time to be a gamer. Marvellous temperatures outside and a small flotilla of incoming bank holidays call you away from your gaming device(s) of choice. What else could herald one of the busiest weeks of game releases so far this year?

Yakuza 4 sold more copies than any other PlayStation 3 game in Japan last year, according to new data.

US police procedural drama Law & Order: LA is the latest project to be added to Telltale Games' bulging to-do list.

It seems that Capcom has been rummaging around in the vaults – both Mega Man 5 and Dino Crisis 2 are heading to download services soon, according to new ESRB listings.

Joyful Flash game phenomenon Robot Unicorn Attack gallops gleefully onto the Android Marketplace tomorrow, developer Adult Swim has announced.

Fantasy RTS Under Siege arrives on PlayStation Network on 27th April, developer Seed has announced.

A fresh set of DLC is on its way to Kinect-only rug-cutter Dance Central, developer Harmonix has announced.

Classic PC adventure American McGee's Alice is finally coming to consoles, according to the game's creator.

US gamers who pick up a pre-owned copy of forthcoming PlayStation 3 shooter SOCOM 4 will have to pay an extra fee to access all of the game's multiplayer content, developer Zipper Interactive has revealed.

A cargo plane accelerates down a runway with Drake and his compatriots stowed away inside. As the rear door yawns wide-open, a convoy of terrorist-carrying trucks is in hot pursuit.