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George Hotz, aka, Geohot, the man who hacked the PlayStation 3, has defended his actions, describing Sony's high profile lawsuit against him as "about a lot more than what I did and me".

Five years after the 360 arrived, Microsoft has crowned 2010 as the biggest year in Xbox history.

Sony Online Entertainment has been working on DC Universe Online for a long time, and this week it's finally ready for public consumption. So why should you care? Well, it's a superhero MMO based on the official DC licence, for a start.

The Xbox 360 enjoyed its best ever US sales month in December, according to sales data released by The NPD Group.

Not all 3DS games will have to make use of the device's 3D capabilities, Nintendo has revealed.

The UnderGarden, an eccentric puzzler from indie developer Vitamin-G that blossomed on PC and Xbox Live Arcade last year, is heading to PlayStation Network.

As of today, Microsoft is dishing out free Microsoft Points as rewards to US 360 owners who encourage their friends to sign up for Xbox Live Gold membership.

BioWare has shown off some of the goodies it's offering early birds who slap down the cash for a Dragon Age 2 pre-order.

Piracy on the newly-hacked PlayStation 3 could be worse than on the notoriously compromised PSP, according to the co-founder of Ubisoft subsidiary Massive Entertainment.

Activision has handed Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions developer Beenox the reins to Marvel's franchise, confirming it will be working on further games starring the crime-fighting web-slinger.

Capcom has responded to the uproar surrounding the similarities between its forthcoming iPhone game MaXplosion and Twisted Pixel's 2009 Xbox Live Arcade platformer 'Splosion Man, insisting it's "saddened" by the situation.

The composer of Still Alive, the infectious ditty that closed out Portal, has written a new tune for the impending sequel.

Nintendo's 3DS is sticking with the DS and Wii's cumbersome Friend Codes online matchmaking system, if early impressions of Capcom's Street Fighter IV 3D Edition are to be believed.

OTT PlayStation 3 racer MotorStorm: Apocalypse hoons into European stores from 16th March, developer Evolution Studios has confirmed.

Square Enix will launch PlayStation Portable strategy RPG Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together in Europe and other PAL territories on 25th February.

Slightly Mad Studios' simulation racer Shift 2: Unleashed will launch in the UK on 25th March, the rest of Europe on 24th March and in the US on 29th March.

Kojima Productions is hiring for "Next Generation Metal Gear Solid Series Production Staff".

Have you heard about 1378(km)? It's a German PC game that challenges one "refugee" team to escape over a Cold War Berlin Wall and the other "border soldiers" team to shoot them.

Llamasoft starts 2011 with an assault on the App Store that manages to be both cuddly and ferocious. Design legend Jeff Minter is up to his old tricks, taking inspiration from the arcade classics like Asteroids and delivering something that's vivid, hectic, and idiosyncratic.

He was the guest that no-one expected to see – and yet Keith Vaz MP, Parliament's most hostile critic of the industry, turned out last night at an event in support of gaming, claiming: "I've never been against games".

Day 1 Studios is taking a fresh approach with F.E.A.R. 3 – and it hopes to pull a new crowd of gamers into the FPS horror series as a result.

Some fans of F.E.A.R. have a problem with the third instalment in the series. They see original creator Monolith passing the torch to Day 1 Studios and worry. They see gameplay videos packed with mechs and worry some more. Then they hear strange noises about something called divergent co-op and Alma's son's Point Man and Fettel sharing destruction duties and they start worrying all over again.

Sony will likely force the PlayStation 3 hackers to stop distributing the tools they created and released online it alleges are directly responsible for enabling piracy - at least temporarily.

Sledgehammer Games has advertised a job vacancy that relates to what it describes as "the next Call of Duty game".

The way Remedy's talking, Alan Wake 2 could have some nifty Windows Phone 7 crossover going on.

Blizzard appears to be saying one thing and doing another - patch 4.06 will make many of the World of Warcraft: Cataclysm dungeon encounters considerably easier than they currently are.

Looking forwards is a big part of being a gamer. What delights await in 2011? Which developers will rock our virtual socks off? What are the big blockbusters, cult classics and surprise hits we'll be playing over the next 12 months?

Explosive Nazi sci-fi shooter Reich still exists - UTV has moved development to an internal studio in Austin, Texas.

Microsoft doesn't expect the Xbox 360 to have sold more units than its rival consoles in the US during the crucial month of December.

Ex-Team Ninja boss Tomonobu Itagaki is partnering with Dawn of War developer Relic Entertainment on the technology behind his upcoming game Devil's Third.