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Red Faction: Armageddon producer Jim Boone has told Eurogamer that Dead Space definitely numbers among the sci-fi shooter's influences – and that once the team settled on a storyline involving dormant aliens the comparison was perhaps inevitable.

George "Geohot" Hotz broke open iPhone and broke open PlayStation 3. Apple wasn't happy and Sony has taken Hotz to court.

Nintendo has explained its decision to only release promising Wii Japanese role-playing game The Last Story in Japan.

Street Fighter IV 3D Edition lets you send a versus demo of the game wirelessly to a friend - which they can then use to play versus matches without the full game.

Streaming film service Lovefilm has told Eurogamer its console ambitions don't begin and end on PlayStation 3.

Sony's going on tour next month with a new campaign called PlayStation Access. This allows people of the UK to try new PS3 games long before they're released in shops.

Is he really still a kid these days? Wouldn't Dad Icarus be a more appropriate name? Or something more relevant to what he might have been up to for the past few decades, such as Middle-Aged Divorcee Icarus?

Ah, 2011. Full of optimism, hope and... wait, today's the most depressing day of the year. And it's raining everywhere. Yeah!

Online shop pioneer Amazon will soon become the new owner of film and game rental service Lovefilm.

Update: Zavvi has informed Eurogamer that the Pikmin 3DS listing on its website was a mistake.

Fresh from watching Jonathan Ross and his Nintendo chums announce a 25th March European launch date for the the 3DS and fail to announce a price (in Europe Nintendo has only set a trade price, leaving retailers to tag the console at £220-£229), David Yarnton, the man who runs the Big N in the UK, found the time for a chinwag with Eurogamer to discuss all things glasses-free 3D.

Microsoft's new Xbox 360 dashboard update adds "boot to disc" functionality and visually tweaks gamercards. But an undisclosured feature is new anti-piracy measures for Call of Duties Modern Warfare 2 and Black Ops, and Halo: Reach.

Propaganda Games, the studio behind the recent Tron: Evolution movie tie-in, has been closed, owner Disney Interactive has confirmed.

Nintendo has confirmed reports that all 3DS games will be region-locked.

Sonic creator and Prope boss Yuji Naka has unveiled his next project, an aerial shoot 'em up for 3DS and Wii called Tenku no Kishi: Rodea.

The Nintendo 3DS is going to set you back somewhere in the region of £230 when it goes on sale in March. Some of you reckon that's rather steep. Nintendo? Well, the platform holder believes you're actually getting a great deal.

PlayStation Plus members will get automatic access to the impending SOCOM 4 beta, Sony has announced.

2011 is a big year for THQ. After a harrowing fiscal 2009, the company closed divisions and restructured considerably, and began to prioritise quality over everything else while simultaneously minimising risk. This year's line-up – especially Homefront, but also Red Faction: Armageddon and, hopefully, Saints Row 3 – needs to start backing up those good intentions with strong sales.

It looks like the 3DS's online store, dubbed the Nintendo eShop, won't be online in time for the system's launch.

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.