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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.

The only taste of Mass Effect 2 on PlayStation 3 that gamers have had so far is a demo that we took a look at before breaking off for the Christmas holiday. Our first thoughts? Aside from an unlocked frame-rate and lighting variations, it was much the same as the Xbox 360 version.

The news that Mass Effect is now a cross-platform franchise has been met with many questions. Just how well can a previously Xbox 360-exclusive title operate on the opposing platform? How well does the Dark Horse interactive comic do at filling players in on the events of the first game? Does the final game justify the various claims being made for it, most notably that it will be the "definitive" edition of the game?

Either Digital Foundry's PlayStation 3 debugging station is in desperate need of a new hard drive or else Mass Effect 2 can take anything up to 52 minutes to install for a relatively paltry 4272MB of data, not including the additional downloaded DLC.

The Andy Murray-fronted Top Spin 4 will release in the UK on 18th March, 2K Games has announced.

Eurogamer's second podcast of 2011 is also Eurogamer's 52nd. Coincidence? Of course! This week, host Tom Champion is joined by editor Tom Bramwell and news editor Wesley Yin-Poole for chat, topical debate and rant after rant after rant about Twitter.

Konami's so-so Kinect game DanceEvolution welcomes a demo and a free batch of costumes today.

It's a true testament to the game that 15 years after release, the original Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together is still rated as one of the best titles in its genre. In fact it was such a triumph it's featured in Famitsu's Top 20 Games list for 14 years running.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 will launch in Europe and other PAL territories next winter, Square Enix has announced.

Final Fantasy Versus XIII remains a PlayStation 3 exclusive, Square Enix has confirmed.

Prishe, the non-playable character from Final Fantasy XI, is in PSP section game Dissidia 012[duodecim] Final Fantasy, Square Enix has announced.

Cannon Fodder 3, from unknown Russian developer GFI, is currently set for release in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) only.