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Late last year, when rumours began to swirl around the 'PlayStation Phone' which Sony Ericsson reportedly had in development, I voiced some confusion over what, exactly, Sony was planning on doing with the portable and mobile end of its console development strategy.

Akuma and Taskmaster have joined three-on-three fighting game Marvel vs. Capcom 3's roster.

Gamers who criticise sports titles for a lack of creativity are misguided, EA Sports president Peter Moore has said.

Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other: that's how Eurogamer compared the PS3 demo performance of Mass Effect 2 to the existing full Xbox 360 game.

A 10-episode web series based on gory fighting game series Mortal Kombat is in the works, the wonderfully-named website Bloody Disgusting reports.

Gran Turismo Anywhere, the curious feature that allows gamers to interact with a Gran Turismo 5 race from a PC, will launch in early February.

Capcom has given PC gamers a glimmer of hope that a Windows version of stupendous fighting game Super Street Fighter IV may one day see the light of day.

What's your favourite loading bar? One of PopCap's, perhaps? You know, the ones with those cute little jokes. Or how about that one that popped up way back in the first 3D Indiana Jones game - the one that riffed, wittily, on the movies' map sequences?

It's not been a particularly good week for hackers, with the process of opening up a hardware platform under the spotlight for its links to piracy. However, the recent reverse-engineering of Microsoft's Kinect has showcased effectively how hacking can lead to an outpouring of homebrew innovation without any impact whatsoever on the livelihoods of those working in the games business.

Disney Interactive's Epic Mickey has sold 1.3 million copies in the US alone since launch.

A free-to-play road safety MMO launched by the Department of Transport last year that has only managed a few thousand sign-ups in recent months has cost UK taxpayers nearly £2.8 million, it has been revealed.

What with its disembodied floating heads, terrifying supernatural antagonists and dark, pill-strewn corridors, we wouldn't have pegged Pac-Man as an obvious candidate for a reality TV adaptation.

Rock Band 3 developer Harmonix has hit a bum note with Wii users, announcing it's to stop offering new Rock Band Network tracks for the console as of next week.

All-star motion-controlled romp PlayStation Move Heroes hits US shelves on 22nd March, Sony has announced.

There's a sequel to 2010 downloadable shooter Blacklight: Tango Down on the way and it will be free-to-play, developer Zombie Studios has announced.

The creator of Doodle Jump has explained its attempt to keep similarly titled games out of the App Store and asked Apple to retract its cease-or-desist demands against competing developers.

A forthcoming study which claims to establish a link between gaming and metal health problems in children has been junked by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) as "questionable" and "dubious".

The new Silver Xbox 360 controller will be available in the UK from 4th March, priced at £44.99.

UPDATE: Major Nelson has just updated his blog with the following information: "ALL future Homefront downloadable content will come FIRST to Xbox 360 and our Xbox Live community. When Homefront hits shelves in March, Xbox gamers will have an exclusive multiplayer map called Suburbs. Look for more details on Inside Xbox next week."

PlayStation 3-exclusive FPS Killzone 3 will launch in the UK on 25th February – and go head-to-head with Epic Games' own FPS Bulletstorm.

SEGA has announced that film-game Thor arrives on 29th April - a week earlier than previously thought.

Sacked Call of Duty creators Jason West and Vince Zampella would have signed with publisher THQ but for one dealbreaker.

Breach, the downloadable multiplayer shooter by Six Days in Fallujah dev Atomic Games, will release on 26th January on PC and Xbox Live Arcade.

Sony Online Entertainment has hinted to Eurogamer that EverQuest 3 will be released for PS3.

Every year at around this time the internet is inundated with lists of games coming out in the next 12 months and punchy little paragraphs about why they're exciting. We're not dissing it – I mean hey, we're as bad as anybody! You've probably already read our Readers' and Developers' Picks, although obviously they were respectively your fault and awesome, so get over it.

A demo of People Can Fly's first-person shooter Bulletstorm will release on 25th January on Xbox Live and 26th January on the PlayStation Network, EA has announced.

Why won't there be a third Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness game?

EA's inclusion of the Taliban as a playable faction in the multiplayer portion of last year's Afghanistan shooter Medal of Honor turned enough heads to force it to scrap the idea at the 11th hour, but for THQ core games boss Danny Bilson, the Taliban should never have even been considered.

We knew it couldn't last. After the giddy heights of last week's astonishing roundup, we were denied similar excitement this time around. It was tumbleweed on PSN and Minis, complete dross from WiiWare and a solitary XBLA release to focus on, Zeit², also available from Steam.

In the US last month Sony did worst, Microsoft did well, Nintendo did the best - the DS and Wii were once again rampant.