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The official Tekken 6 tournament begins today at HMV Gamerbase, London, Namco Bandai has announced.

One of the founders of UK powerhouse mobile phone studio Rodeo has railed against the frustrations of creating triple-A video games.

Satoru Iwata's startling GDC 2011 speech saw the Nintendo president talk in provocative terms about the importance of "maintaining the value of gaming." "Content is king," he insisted, as he tore into the quantity-over-quality approach of mobile gaming platforms.

Have you noticed an curious resistance to short, sharp, bite-sized videogames from people who were too young to have experienced them the first time around? It's an interesting phenomenon, but it makes sense.

The 3DS is the latest, and possibly the most outlandish, handheld games console from Nintendo, a company which has dominated handheld gaming since the Game Boy launched almost 22 years ago.

BioWare writer David Gaider has launched an impassioned defence of the romance system in fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age II after a player accused the developer of neglecting "the Straight Male Gamer".

Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is the highest-grossing video game in US history.

Nintendo has guaranteed that you'll be able to walk into a shop today, this weekend and next week, and buy a 3DS.

If you're off to Kazakhstan anytime soon – and I hear the weather is just lovely – be sure not to, you know, fall down any holes. I only say that because, if Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is anything to go by, the landscape there – as well as in a handful of other former Soviet hotspots – is absolutely riddled with gullies, gulches, crevices and canyons.

Nintendo has warned gamers that the eye-catching 3DS prices currently doing the rounds at UK shops will not last long.

A revamped iOS version of classic NES RPG Final Fantasy III is available now on the App Store, publisher Square Enix has announced.

After a 14 year wait, mythical shooter Duke Nuke Forever was finally set to hit shelves this May. Then this morning, via a cheeky video skit, new developer Gearbox announced yet another delay, pushing the game back to June.

Multiplayer beat 'em up Dungeon Fighter is all set to be Xbox Live Arcade's first ever free-to-play title, publisher Nexon has announced.

Anyone up for a Road Rash revival? Or how about a new Powermonger? Well, according to a top EA exec, the publisher hasn't forgotten about its vintage brands but worries they might not be quite as good as you remember them.

Post-apocalyptic FPS Homefront sold over a million copies in its first week on sale, THQ boasted today.

Still one of the most resource-intensive games when run on max settings, the original Crysis ranks as one of the most visually impressive games ever made - an extraordinary technological statement from a developer dedicated to a unique "maximum game" ethos.

Trion Worlds' Rift MMO is getting a substantial chunk of new content next week, less than a month after it first launched.

First details have emerged of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, the much rumoured franchise spin-off from SOCOM developer Slant Six.

What are the chances of walking into a shop tomorrow and buying a Nintendo 3DS off the shelf?

Fleshy 3DS brawler Dead or Alive: Dimensions squares up to retail in May, Nintendo and Tecmo-Koei have announced.

The recently announced Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica HD revamps will be download titles, scheduled for release this Autumn on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

High definition remakes of classic zombie games Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil Code: Veronica are in the works, according to a Japanese magazine.

Today's most infamous hacker, PS3 jailbreaker George "Geohot" Hotz, has laughed in the face of allegations that he fled Sony's lawyers and ran away to South America.

There's a difference between admiring a piece of art and loving it. Admiration is cerebral. You can evaluate a thing on its merits and talk yourself into admiring it. But love happens. It can be explained, sometimes, but not premeditated. Love creates movement in the soul; admiration stands there and smiles.

Eye-catching crossover fighting game Street Fighter x Tekken is, right now, an upcoming arcade, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 game. But will it, like Super Street Fighter IV, launch on the Nintendo 3DS?

Capcom has received over 100,000 requests from fighting game fans for a new Darkstalkers game – up from the 5000 it had in August last year.

Codemasters has announced a 23rd September release date for F1 2011.

Duke Nukem Forever, the game delayed a hilarious amount, has been delayed again.

Supermarket Tesco and high-street electronics shop Currys have both lowered the Nintendo 3DS price to under £180.

You can meet Street Fighter overlord Yoshinori Ono at HMV on Oxford Street tonight - home of the official UK Nintendo 3DS launch.