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Publishers are needlessly shoehorning extraneous multiplayer modes into games that don't suit them in an attempt to maximise profits, so says Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford.

It's not that Champ couldn't find anyone better than James Grant and myself to be on the podcast this week, it just so happened that we were the last people he asked. Also, nobody else would do it. Bench-warmers of the world, unite!

The second map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops will be known as Escalation. And it's due for release on 3rd May.

Grab your bow and arrow! Unsheathe your blade! Hunted: The Demon's Forge launches on the 3rd June, 2011 and promises innovative co-op action, as well as a deep single-player quest.

Veteran Sony Computer Entertainment executive Ray Maguire has announced he is leaving the company after 17 years.

Ubisoft has been so busy porting Rayman 2, it's a wonder the publisher has any time left to spend on new Rayman games. Since 1999, this game has appeared everywhere – the N64 and Dreamcast, the PlayStation and PlayStation 2, the iPhone and iPad, PSN... And, most relevantly, the original DS.

An "endless supply of children" is what Sony Online Entertainment believes can propel friendly fantasy MMO Free Realms all the way to 100 million players.

Not content with Xperia Play and Next Generation Portable, Sony plans for another device launch this year - its very own tablet.

The devastating earthquake that hit Japan last month may push back the NGP's launch, Sony exec Jack Tretton has announced.

The war on Sony by 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous has turned personal.

Although EVE Online is considered by many outsiders to be populated by the more Machiavellian, sociopathic elements of humanity, there's a surprising amount of camaraderie uniting the players who have travelled to the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik for this year's Fanfest convention.

A few new details have emerged as to what players can expect from the forthcoming Ninja Gaiden 3, including first mention of a multiplayer mode and, surprise surprise, more of the red stuff.

Control pads, gyroscopes, accelerometers, Kinect: all old hat. The future of game control, according to one imaginative indie developer, is speech.

Epic's over-the-top new FPS Bulletstorm gets a belated PC demo today, the developer has announced.

Sacked Infinity Ward bosses Jason West and Vince Zampella could be entitled to hold onto the Modern Warfare brand should their lawsuit against Activision be successful.

Acclaimed indie physics puzzler World of Goo is slithering onto the iPhone soon, developer 2D Boy has announced.

Classic RPG Final Fantasy V is on its way to both PlayStation 3 and PSP via PlayStation Network, publisher Square Enix has announced.

Ubisoft's long running Anno RTS franchise returns to PC this winter, with the action moving out of the history books and into the future.

Ah, the quiet lull of early April. Financial years are over and the money men around the world are pounding calculators to make ends meet. You won't find many blockbusters here. Luckily it's not an entirely barren month, as Portal 2, Operation Flashpoint: Red River, Mortal Kombat and Virtua Tennis 4 are all still to come. But this week, I'm afraid, offers little.

Update: Max Payne 3 will feature online multiplayer. How wasn't detailed. I skipped over this fact earlier.

Criterion has released patch 1.04 for the PC version of super-duper racing game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

Sony has been publicly targeted by notorious 'hacktivist' ensemble Anonymous for its "wholly unforgivable" legal actions against PS3 jailbreaker George "Geohot" Hotz.

Free Russian fantasy space massively multiplayer online game Allods Online will come out of beta and launch officially "very soon", Gala Networks said today.

The Australian ratings board has outed a game called Burnout Crash.

I've spent a large portion of the last week lugging my 3DS around wherever I go. Not because of the stunning quality of the games, you understand; truth be told, I'm not especially bothered about any of the launch titles.

Beleaguered MMO maker Sony Online Entertainment has stalled the release of PlanetSide Next following huge lay-offs announced last week.

Blockbuster shooter Crysis 2 leads the UK all-formats chart for a second week.

A gel-spitting dragon and a teleporting pixie, an invasion of flowers from outer space, a fight where you clamber around inside someone else's hand... It can be hard to tell whether Islands of Wakfu is a game or an over-evolved seventies concept album.

The PSP was the best selling console in Japan over the last fiscal year, according to a newly published set of sales figures.

The man who co-created the very first game in EA's hugely successful Madden NFL Football franchise is suing the publisher for millions - possibly billions - of dollars in unpaid royalties.