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It's another low-key week for shops – but if you're hungry for something specific we may have a morsel of interest.

Fallout: New Vegas creator Obsidian Entertainment has explained why the sprawling openworld RPG suffers from technical issues – including console-crashing bugs and corrupted save files.

Once powerful game developer Bill Roper has reappeared, and he's got some "bigger PC console-type pitches" to make when the right publisher comes a knocking on his door.

It's a relatively low-key week for shops, if you deal in blockbusters - but there are minor morsels succulent enough to be digitally devoured.

Over 20,000 people have signed an online petition calling on developers to enable button remapping after a disabled gamer complained about not being able to play Dead Space 2.

Hidetaka Miyazaki has good news for those who loved Demon's Souls. Specifically, for those who loved the game's unashamedly hardcore tone and rock-hard difficulty level.

If a game sells one million copies it is considered by many to have been successful – but that's rubbish, according to one developer.

Blizzard has announced dates for BlizzCon 2011.

The Assassin's Creed Facebook page has nearly one million fans. And when it reaches that milestone, everyone who owns Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will get a present: the Venezia by Night map.

Microsoft is reported to be busy establishing a paid television service for Xbox 360 that would stream platform-exclusive shows and content.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D will launch alongside the Nintendo 3DS on 25th March, Konami has announced.

The more popular this mobile gaming lark gets, the more interesting games come out, and the more fall through the cracks every week.

Lampooning Call of Duty works - more than 1.25 million people have downloaded Duty Calls, a free parody game created by Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly.

Stereoscopic 3D has been touted as the next big thing for racing games – indeed Sony claims 3D gives gamers a "competitive edge". But for one upcoming racing game the tech does more harm than good – and can even make you feel sick.

Dragon Age II offers more than a racy bedtime love scene - one clip shows a woman on her knees before a man, evidently intent on performing more than a simple prayer.

Namco has moved to reassure fans that it hasn't dumbed down the core Ridge Racer driving gameplay for the Nintendo 3DS version of the game.

Dead Space 2 spends a second week atop the UK all-formats top 40 chart today.

Those who pre-order the PC version of the Bulletstorm Limited Edition from the EA Store will receive a free digital download of bloody platform game Shank.

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono reckons the "time is right" for samurai action series Onimusha to return.

Mobile phenomenon Angry Birds will launch on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii.

The Xperia Play – Sony Ericsson's "PlayStation Phone" – was finally made official last night with a bonkers telly advert that premiered during the Super Bowl.

Here's what we were picking from: Out This Week.

Dead Space 2's single player campaign is an anxious creep through a string of dark corridors to a soundtrack of groaning steelwork and laboured breath. There are, of course, interruptions to the taut atmosphere: the burst of a gangly Necromorph through a dilapidated wall, or a screaming phantom that breaks through the fragile sanity of your mind. But the journey through Dead Space II is characterized primarily by its bars of rest, not by its bars of fury.

Editor's note: A joke may be considered to have missed its mark when it requires further explanation to a reasonable number of people, and we apologise if anyone confused Will's tongue-in-cheek pillorying of gamers' attitudes and his future brother-in-law in this review with actual bigotry. For the record, Dave is a real person, is a casual gamer as described, but is in on the joke.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Another racing game developer has criticised Polyphony Digital's PlayStation 3 exclusive sim Gran Turismo 5 for its "grindy levelling up".

A new playable character hits ace indie side-scroller Castle Crashers next week. He goes by the name of The Pink Knight and he comes in the name of charity.

LittleBigPlanet 2 users have created 3.6 million levels since the DIY platformer launched on PlayStation 3 last month, Sony has announced.

Two-for-one retro bundle Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions is on its way to 3DS, publisher Namco Bandai has announced.

The first chunk of Telltale Games' episodic Back to the Future tie-in will arrive on the US PlayStation Network on 15th February, the developer has announced.