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Nintendo is fully behind independent developers, but it won't do business with what it calls "garage developers".

Square Enix has cancelled Xbox 360 exclusive Gun Loco.

SEGA's Captain America and Thor movie tie-in games will launch on the Nintendo 3DS.

Kaos Studios has updated the PlayStation 3 version of first-person shooter Homefront with a patch.

Episode 2 of Telltale's Back to the Future point and click series launches on the US PlayStation Store on Tuesday 29th March, according to IGN.

In times of stress, I often turn to videos of kittens on the internet to make myself feel better. As such, Nintendogs + Cats provides a valuable service for me. You don't feel quite so bad about the state of the world after you've opened up a 3DS and tickled a puppy or a kitten for a few minutes. Purely as stress relief, this might actually be the most effective game I've ever played – it's way better than shooting at 12-year-olds over the Internet.

Super Stardust HD developer Housemarque's downloadable game Outland launches on the PlayStation Network this spring.

Downloadable content for Double Fine's enchanting Stacking has been inadvertently revealed.

EA has pulled the PlayStation 3 multiplayer demo of upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 2 – two days after it launched.

PC indie phenomenon Minecraft is the best game Populous creator and newly anointed BAFTA Fellow Peter Molyneux has played in the last 10 years.

UPDATE False alarm everybody. A spokesperson for Bethesda just emailed us to say Play.tm's story was "incorrect". "We will be letting people know the plan for upcoming Fallout: New Vegas DLCs in the next couple of weeks," they promised.

Mass Effect 2's Arrival DLC releases on 29th March, if a new leak is to be believed.

One of the reasons often given for the current smartphone gaming boom is that titles are cheap and quick to develop. However, judging by numbers offered up by Flight Control developer Firemint, that thinking may not be entirely accurate.

Earlier this week Halo: Reach hit Xbox Live's Games on Demand service, priced at £49.99 – nearly twice the current Amazon asking price.

Frontier Developments boss David Braben has clarified a suggestion he made earlier this year that review aggregation site Metacritic should start rating critics as well as games.

A clever new Kinect hack has adapted Microsoft's hands-free gaming peripheral to help blind people navigate.

Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream is not interested in making a sequel to its multi-BAFTA winning PlayStation 3 crime saga, so says studio boss David Cage.

Saints Row: The Third and Red Faction: Armageddon developer Volition is convinced making PC versions of its multiplatform games is still worth the time and money required – despite the threat of piracy.

Japanese action role-playing game Gladiator Begins launches in Europe in May.

The HD revamp of Ubisoft's 2003 adventure classic Beyond Good & Evil will be available on PlayStation Network in May in the US, the publisher has announced.

The full Dragon Age II patch 1.01 has been released on PC.

A patch for Homefront will release after players reported freezing and system crashes on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions.

Square Enix plans to open a second Canadian studio where at least 100 people will focus on making big games for the new generation of home consoles.

It's not what you think.

The Nintendo 3DS is Amazon.co.uk's most pre-ordered console of all time.

World of Tanks launches in Europe and North America on 12th April, Wargaming.net has announced.

UPDATE: Dissidia duodecim prologus will cost £2.39 in the UK, Square Enix has confirmed.

The Steam version of dragon strategy arcade game Hoard launches on PC and Mac on 4th April, Big Sandwich Games has announced.

In this era of annual sports updates churned out with metronomic regularity, it's rare for the latest version of anything to be greeted with the grand expectations that accompany big-name sequels in other genres. Whether it was a carefully plotted strategy or a consequence of shifting development to 2K Czech though, the near three-year wait for a fourth Top Spin has put us in the rare position of being quite excited about its arrival.

Portal 2 maker Valve has officially launched Steam Guard.