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The Mass Effect 2 Arrival DLC uncovered last month has been sighted again - this time inside the Dragon Age II game box.

Couple Darwinia+'s longer than expected development with a "poor performance" on Xbox Live Arcade, and it's no wonder Introversion has decided to focus its future on Steam.

It might be enjoying the extra daylight of a full review elsewhere, but it's worth dwelling on the joy of seeing neglected classics like Beyond Good & Evil 'remastered' in HD for the download generation.

UK Xbox 360 owners spend an average of £64 a month on games, Microsoft has declared.

Dark Souls won't be broken into levels and stages like Demon's Souls, so where do you respawn? At one of the new Beacon Fires.

Blizzard, perhaps the finest game maker on the planet, has turned 20 years old.

Bungie's hotly anticipated next game is a "massively multiplayer action game".

John Romero, legendary designer of seminal first-person shooters Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake, is turning his attention to a new type of gamer – Facebook gamers.

I have reasons to suspect that Twisted Pixel may be an uncommonly classy studio. Alongside the fact the team's quietly worked from the depths of contract development all the way up to making lovely original games like 'Splosion Man, it's also dealt rather elegantly with prickly issues such as hit-and-run iPhone clones released by major publishers. Now it's dealt rather elegantly with Kinect, too, creating a rough-housing arcade shooter that boasts – among many delightful features – the ability to play it sitting down. Go, Texas.

Eric Chahi's classic '90s platformer Another World is coming to iOS devices later this year, the veteran developer has confirmed.

Donkey Kong Country Returns developer Retro Studios threw down a cheeky taunt today to key management figures who jumped ship to form their own studio after the release of Metroid Prime 3.

Blizzard has told Eurogamer that the Firelands raid – the next tier of endgame raiding progression for the MMO – will not appear in the next patch, 4.1, as it had previously planned.

"Middle class games" that fall between AAA and indie stools don't stand a chance in the current climate, so says Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski.

NCsoft and ArenaNet have revealed the sixth Guild Wars 2 profession: The Thief.

Barely a month goes by without EA boss John Ricitiello reminding anyone who will listen that he wants to snatch the FPS crown back from Call of Duty publisher Activision.

Animales de la Muerte, a formerly Wii-exclusive twin-stick shooter from Conduit developer High Voltage, has crossed the floor and will now launch on PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade later this year.

With the runaway success of Red Dead Redemption, and, at the cinema, the Oscar-nominated True Grit, Westerns would be appear to be very much on the agenda in recent times. So what has Polish outfit Techland done with their slightly popular Wild West franchise? Turned it into an 80's action movie, of course. The Cartel is, to put it mildly, something a departure from the first two instalments. Whereas the original game had you hiding in the bushes with a whip, the second had you wandering round frontier towns; number three will see you careering down four lanes of traffic toting a machinegun.

There's not much to complain about, writing about games for a living. We're not working down a coal mine, curing cancer or tinkering with the Large Hadron Collider. But as idyllic as the job can seem, there are some minor frustrations. The main one is that the games you want to play often aren't the same as the games you have to play.

A Mortal Kombat demo will be offered first to PlayStation Plus subscribers on 8th March.

NetherRealm Studios will bring the classic Test Your Might mini-game from the first Mortal Kombat game kicking and screaming into the current generation with a special mode for the new, upcoming Mortal Kombat.

More people are splashing more cash on the PlayStation Store than ever before, Sony has revealed.

We've sliced open the iPad 2's belly, heaved its guts out and labelled each part.

UPDATE: The First Strike DLC is available to download from PSN now.

Kinect has been pulled apart by the PC world, and now Sony wants PlayStation Move to follow suit.

First-person shooter phenomenon Call of Duty: Black Ops is the best-selling PlayStation 3 game ever, Activision has claimed.

PlayStation Portable action game Gods Eater Burst is a GAME exclusive in the UK, Namco Bandai has announced.

Ninja Gaiden creator Tomonobu Itagaki and his company Valhalla have enlisted the help of little-known Japanese developer Score Studios to help with development of his mysterious new game Devil's Third.

SEGA has revealed the five Game Gear games it will make available to the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console when it launches in May.

Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of all-conquering indie sensation Minecraft, believes pirating a game isn't tantamount to stealing.

If you're on the outside looking in, the Pokémon series probably looks like the same game released over and over for 15 years, each time to fresh brood of gullible children. It's not a fair or correct assumption, but I can see where you're coming from.