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Games industry analyst Mike Hickey has said a Grand Theft Auto V announcement may be on the way - and that it could be made before E3 kicks off in June.

Reports indicate Apple's iPad 2 is sold out in the UK.

By now, the Need For Speed brand has come to mean little more than 'EA-published video game featuring cars'. It's an umbrella term broad enough to encompass everything from the Burnout-inspired cops-and-robbers thrills of last October's Hot Pursuit to SHIFT, a simulation racer with its eye firmly on Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport's trailblazing exhaust pipes.

Episode two of the Back to the Future series is due out on the European PlayStation Network "soon", Telltale has said.

A new job advertisement posted by Sony Santa Monica suggests a multiplayer future for the God of War series.

The lawyers representing infamous PS3 hacker George Hotz are fighting back, fiercely disputing Sony America's right to try Hotz in California - or, indeed, at all.

BioWare is thinking about how it can improve the heads up display for third-person science fiction shooter Mass Effect 3 – and Dead Space may provide some answers.

Metacritic has axed its controversial developer career scores following complaints and criticism from the game press and industry.

Don't know about you, but I'm starting to miss World War II. You'd think my gran might feel differently, yet that doesn't stop her banging on about it. To be fair, she's more concerned with the fact her nation was in mortal danger (alongside who in the village had it away with an American airman, and the banana shortage), so she's probably got justification.

Steam users get free access to a new Darkspore beta all this week, Valve has announced.

Lionhead Studios boss and newly-crowned BAFTA Fellow Peter Molyneux has said he would be happy to offer EA 24 hours of his time to consult on a new entry in the Syndicate franchise.

A new patent filing has shown off Nintendo's concept for an unreleased motion-controlled motorbike game.

Activision boss Bobby Kotick is misunderstood and doesn't deserve his industry hate figure status, so says Blizzard president Mike Morhaime.

A 21st-century take on the ancient Apple II classic Choplifter is about to touch down, courtesy of Hunted: The Demon's Forge developer inXile Entertainment.

Last Friday the improbable happened: the UK saw the launch of two new hardware units, the Nintendo 3DS and the iPad 2.

Warhawk 2 is currently in development for PlayStation 3 with a 2012 launch rumoured, according to a new report.

Industry veteran and EA founder Trip Hawkins owes the IRS $20 million in unpaid taxes, a US judge has ruled.

Side-scrolling SNES scrapper Brawl Brothers headlines this week's slim batch of Nintendo downloads.

Nintendo has acknowledged the widely-reported 3DS bug that crashes the device and recommended that anyone experiencing it makes sure they download the latest system update.

PC processor professor AMD has backtracked after accusing DirectX of "getting in the way" of superior PC power.

No country offers video games makers more than Canada, where funding flagons overflow with tasty cash broth.

Moon Diver is a PlayStation Network timed exclusive, Square Enix has confirmed.

UPDATE: The BBFC lists a release date for Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition: 24th June 2011.

A leaked image has revealed the full roster of playable characters in upcoming fighting game Mortal Kombat.

Capcom has made Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, revealed last week via magazine scans, official.

We're used to buying video games and consoles from the likes of GAME, WHSmith and supermarkets. Petrol stations, not so much.

Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition being touted by many as the highlight of the 3DS launch line-up. Eurogamer certainly enjoyed it.

After that business with hydrophobic invasion forces in Empire: Total War, it's impossible to sit down to review a new Creative Assembly creation without anxiety.

Early last year, three talented British studios were preaching the resurrection of the mass-market arcade racing game. Racers were stuck in a hardcore rut, they argued. Players demand cinematic action, spectacle and storytelling, and fierce, ruthless competition, they said. We can be up there with first-person shooters if we just dream big enough, they claimed.

Consider, for a moment, Relic Entertainment's startlingly diverse RTS resumé. Homeworld. Monstrous Creatures. Company of Heroes. The Dawn of War games. and let's not forget all those expansions. I mean, do those guys have ants in their pants? They just will not stop innovating.