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BioWare fantasy role-playing game Dragon Age 2 has a whopping 103 minutes of cutscenes.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be a darker tale than Final Fantasy X-2, the last direct Final Fantasy sequel, according to Square Enix comments reported in Dengeki (thanks Siliconera).

Playing this year's Tiger Woods game with the PlayStation Move controller will be much better than it was with last year's game, EA's promised.

Consumer rights group Gamers' Voice has made good on its promise to report Activision UK to the Office of Fair Trading over the PC and PlayStation 3 versions of Treyarch's shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Japanese role-playing games need to change if they're to reclaim their former glory, the creator of the Final Fantasy series has said.

Namco Bandai's upcoming 3DS version of Ridge Racer has been built with younger and broader audiences in mind than usual, according to localisation producer Ryo Totoyama.

Infinity Ward is still working to resolve hacking issues that have impacted Modern Warfare 2 players on PlayStation 3, which it last week blamed on crumbling PS3 security.

Disney has confirmed a "restructuring process" at its Interactive Media Group – owner of Epic Mickey creator Junction Point and Split/Second maker Black Rock - that marks its transition from a boxed game publisher to a digital publisher.

Spare Parts finally, spectacularly, irrevocably falls to pieces right on the finish line. After several hours of just about holding itself together over four stages of passable late-nineties platforming and mindless button-mashing, it staggers into a final boss fight so horribly misconceived that I was almost convinced it was an elaborate prank of some sort.

PlayStation 3's Home service is getting a Killzone 3-themed makeover to tie-in with the impending release of Guerilla Games' shooter.

Disney Interactive is handing out P45s at Warren Spector's Junction Point studio, according to numerous industry sources.

EA's investors are "betting against" the publisher's forthcoming MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic, a top analyst has claimed.

A German TV station has broadcast what appears to be an early glimpse of an Angry Birds sequel.

Portal 2 will offer two different endings, one for single play and one for co-op play, developer Valve has confirmed.

Downloadable platformer Explodemon! ignites on PlayStation Network from 8th February, developer Curve Studios has announced.

The PlayStation 3 version of DC Universe Online has outsold its PC counterpart, helping the title become Sony Online Entertainment's fastest selling game ever.

In space no-one can hear you scream. That is, of course, unless you're wearing a headset and are playing online in gory multiplayer battles to the death. This week sees the release of Visceral's science fiction horror game Dead Space 2. We're promised scares the likes of which gaming has never seen. Oh, and with multiplayer, fast-paced online action.

If the rumours are correct, Sony will lift the lid on PSP2 – arguably the industry's worst kept secret – later this week in Japan. And Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has further fuelled speculation by telling Eurogamer that suggestions the console is as powerful as PS3 are "true".

Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire will launch in the UK on 20th May.

Dare to be Digital, a competition that seeks to find the best young computer game designers, has opened its doors for applications.

The presentation by a charmingly exuberant Yoshinori Ono was the highlight of Nintendo's 3DS conference in Amsterdam last week, an event which was otherwise often dreary and overlong. And, despite a warehouse-load of competition, the Street Fighter producer's game was arguably the highlight of the entire event.

More than half of GAME's customers trade in their old games to help buy new games.

Mass Effect 2 is available to download from the European PlayStation Store – and it costs a whopping £48.

42 per cent of all games sold for Xbox 360 motion-sensing add-on Kinect since launch were created by UK developers, new figures from UKIE/GfK Chart Track show.

Silent Hill: Downpour, the eighth Silent Hill game, releases this autumn on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Konami has announced.

Critically acclaimed 2006 action adventure Okami flopped because gamers were too entranced by excitement generated by new consoles.

Ever noticed how snooty some people can be about mobile games, or downloadable games in general? As if the fact that they're cheap, and possibly short, somehow disqualifies them from being considered 'proper' games?

How much are you willing to spend on a game-related figurine?

The release of movie Silent Hill 2 is up in the air after the writer/director spent time in prison.

Konami has shown the first footage of the next Silent Hill at its E3 press conference. The game will be released for Xbox 360 and PS3 in 2011.