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Lionhead Studios boss and all-round industry chatterbox Peter Molyneux is to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next month.

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Mid-morning – something like that. Poor little Charlie Blackmore and his family were sitting at home shivering in their Dickensian surroundings of bare, splintering floorboards, thin soup and Hounds of the Baskervilles, while their greased-up windows were busy framing bleak-looking chimneys. Outside, interminable Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals stalked the streets and factories. Then, all of a sudden, old man Blackmore burst into the kitchen-lounge-bedroom-refectory, and announced that he had secured gainful employment and the family was saved. There was much rejoicing.

PES 2011 3D will be region locked, Konami has this afternoon confirmed at a question and answer round table presentation at Nintendo's 3DS preview event in Amsterdam.

3DS software will sell for £39.99 at launch, retailer GAME has confirmed.

The 3DS will use a revamped, more user-friendly version of the much-maligned Wii Friend Codes system for online matchmaking.

Nintendo has partnered with Sky 3D, Aardman and Eurosport to bring 3DS users free content delivered via the handheld's always-on Spot Pass wi-fi feature.

Finally, Nintendo has confirmed the European 3DS launch date.

There will more than 25 3DS games made available between its 25th March EU launch and the E3 event in June, Nintendo has confirmed.

US gamers will get their hands on the Nintendo 3DS on 27th March, at a recommended retail price of $249.99.

Ubisoft top-dog Yves Guillemot has pledged to release eight games for Nintendo's new handheld, 3DS, during the launch window period.

Activision's suited and booted legal team has mobilised against the inventive StarCraft 2 MMO mod maker who provocatively called his creation World of StarCraft.

Activision has recommended that its Bizarre Creations subsidiary be closed, after no buyer came forward for the Liverpool-based studio behind Blur and James Bond 007: Blood Stone.

On the re-stocked PlayStation Store today you'll find Costume Quest on Ice and add-on content for Mass Effect 2.

There are two mandatory Xbox Live Dashboard updates happening this week.

What if Sony and Microsoft were to turn around tomorrow and announce the arrival of PS4 and Xbox 720 within three years? For THQ core games boss Danny Bilson, that would be a disaster.

It's fair to say that gaming on Macs has hardly been Apple's number one priority over the years. But whether it intended for it to happen or not, the vast success of game sales on its various iOS devices has given the Cupertino giant reason to try and tap into Mac gaming as well.

Steve Jobs may have taken an open-ended sick day, but his giant Apple business still has reasons to celebrate.

Just how small can a functional PC be? As big as a 20 pence piece. And just how cheap can a functional PC be? Between £10 and £15.

Nintendo is holding a press conference in Amsterdam this afternoon at 2pm GMT / 3pm CET to (hopefully) reveal European launch details for its new 3DS handheld.

UPDATE: Google has removed Kongregate Arcade from the Android Market just a few hours after it first launched.

Jack Thompson, the disgraced lawyer notorious for his outspoken views on the evils of gaming, is plotting a new career in the church.

It looks like Gears of War 3 isn't the only dose of Epic's Xbox 360 franchise currently in the pipeline. A trademark for something called Gears of War: Exile has just popped up too.

Xbox 360 users are being treated to 50 per cent discounts on a range of EA Xbox Live content this week, Microsoft has announced.

UPDATE: Epic Games has confirmed that the Gears of War Triple Pack is currently a US-only release.

Castlevania: Harmony of Despair has a fresh batch of DLC ready to explore, publisher Konami has announced.

A prodigious 14-year-old game developer has flown past perennial iOS best-seller Angry Birds in the App Store top 10 with his first game, a physics-based puzzler called Bubble Ball.

The BBC iPlayer boasted more programme requests in December than ever before, helped along by a big jump in PlayStation 3 usage.

New DJ Hero 2 DLC adds in a trio of trance mixes from genre heavyweights like Armin van Buuren and Paul Oakenfold.

The latest entry in the IL-2 Sturmovik aerial combat sim series, subtitled Cliffs of Dover, will take off on 25th March for PC, publisher Ubisoft has confirmed.

The Mass Effect franchise has gone cross-platform, but for licensing reasons it's unlikely that PlayStation 3 owners will ever get a version of the original game for their console. This is something of a problem, because BioWare envisaged the series as an interlinked story where decisions you make in the first game have ramifications in both the sequel and this year's concluding chapter.