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Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

All the DLC for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has finally been made available to PC gamers, a good month or two after it appeared for console versions of the game.

EA boss John Ricitiello believes that digitally delivered content will bring in more business than traditional packaged games by the end of 2011.

PC survival horror Amnesia: The Dark Descent has been purchased 200,000 times in the four months since launch - well above its creators' initial estimates.

Roll up, tat fans – TopWare Interactive has just detailed the Royal Edition of impending RPG sequel Two Worlds II.

The limited edition Wii reissue of Super Mario All-Stars has completely sold out in the US, leaving Nintendo considering a second print run.

Microsoft has unveiled its Xbox Live plans for the next few weeks, with Ubisoft shoot 'em up Zeit² leading the way on XBLA and Crackdown 2 on Games on Demand.

While the modding community has been having plenty of fun getting Kinect to work on platforms other than the intended Xbox 360, Microsoft has remained quiet on the prospect of official support for Kinect use with PCs. That could all be about to change though.

A Japanese spa resort has come up with an innovative way to boost visitors – ship in gamers looking for a slice of authentic Monster Hunter scenery.

Lord of the Rings Online is bringing in three times as much money now that it's free-to-play as it did when users were asked to pay a subscription fee.

The new Mac App Store saw more than a million downloads in its first day online, Apple has announced.

Razer has taken a tactile keyboard and a multi-touch screen and stuck them together to make a teensy notebook that runs all your favourite games.

The first piece of meaningful Dragon Age 2 downloadable content will be called The Exiled Prince, EA has revealed.

With Eurogamer reviews editor Oli Welsh on holiday in Cuba at the moment, no doubt partaking of some fine socialised medicine and sleeping under cigars, it falls to me to remind you that nothing much of any consequence is being distributed to the gaming public this week.

12 million may sound like an incredibly large number, but that's only because it's an incredibly large number. It's the number of people who subscribe to World of Warcraft at the moment according to Blizzard's last announcement on the subject. It's probably more by now, what with the launch of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm just before Christmas. Oli Welsh gave that 10/10, which suggests he thought it was quite good.

HMV has snagged the UK Helghast Special Edition of Killzone 3, and is asking a whopping (and awkward) £112.33 for it.

Gritty SSX reboot Deadly Descents features a rewind button to undo momentary bad boarding.

It's not really about the tech - it's about the buttons. Based on the PSP Phone specs leaked by Chinese site IT268 and mulled over by Engadget, the PlayStation Phone is a reasonably powerful but not barnstorming performer. However, the inclusion of a PSP-style controller setup means that the gameplay experience is going to be radically different, and perhaps more appealing to the core gamer, as a matter of course.

PC sequel Torchlight II won't so much feature co-op as grouping, developer Runic has said, meaning that parties could house as many as eight players.

It's long been accepted that the games industry basically turns off the tap of new boxed releases for most of December and January, but this year that only seems to have provoked the download sector. This past few weeks has produced some of its best games in ages, with the likes of Raskulls, ilomilo and echochrome II demonstrating the depth and quality you'd expect from games costing many times the price they ask.

How can SEGA follow the Dreamcast? By making a urinal console that responds to being weed on, obviously.

Every year around this time we smash up a list of the games we're looking forward to in the coming months. The contents of these lists are then duly delayed until the following year.

We know that Nintendo has been toying with 3D technology for years – since before the Virtual Boy in fact – but this week company president Satoru Iwata talked in a bit more detail about the experiments that have come and gone along the way.

The PlayStation Phone - somehow still unconfirmed by Sony - may pack a punch at least three times stronger than PSPgo.

Firaxis' superhero development bossman Sid Meier has revealed that its upcoming Civilization game for Facebook is now called Civilization World – and there's a closed alpha test starting on 12th January.

Capcom has announced that Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 will be released for PS3 on PlayStation Network on 1st February in the US and through Xbox Live Arcade on 2nd February.

Microsoft has reiterated that it has no plans to ditch the core audience that helped propel Xbox 360 to 50 million worldwide sales, despite the amazing success of Kinect, which sold eight million units during its first 60 days and still doesn't work in my house.

Thief 4 will make its long awaited debut at the annual Games Developer Conference in San Francisco next month, according to a schedule listing.

The UK release of Two Worlds II has been pushed back, publisher TopWare has informed Eurogamer - but only by a smidgen to Friday, 4th February.

With champagne corks no doubt still popping at Microsoft HQ following yesterday's news that Kinect shipped a staggering eight million units in its first 60 days on sale – three million more than its creator anticipated – industry analysts have conceded that the peripheral took them by surprise.