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Infinity Ward's first game since the headline grabbing sackings of early 2010 will be a prequel to the first Modern Warfare, according to insider chit-chat.

Maybe Activision isn't content with three studios working on Call of Duty - perhaps Raven Software is being deployed on the record-shattering brand as well.

Notebook maker MSI has unveiled a fleet of ridiculously macho machines and claims they're the "the fastest, most powerful gaming notebooks in the world".

Fired Call of Duty creators Vince Zampella and Jason West have claimed the bitter legal battle between themselves and Activision is preventing their new studio Respawn Entertainment from getting going.

Few games leave no room for a sequel. It makes for poor business and, let's not forget, while the intended destination for most videogame makers is fun, the fuel that gets them there is potential profit. These days, if you want to make money from a blockbuster, the sequel is part of the business plan. But at the beautiful, altruistic core of LittleBigPlanet was the dream of a world that could not only nurture and grow life, but also sustain it. And nearly two years since its debut, this patchwork dimension is still achieving just that.

With today's PlayStation Store restock comes an apology - a sorry to anyone who bought the cut-price Tales of Monkey Island series during the Christmas break.

THQ could be making a game about none other than the most powerful man in the universe, He-Man.

The official Gran Turismo 5 steering wheel, the Thrustmaster T500RS, goes on sale today in Europe, Africa and Australia with an eye-watering RRP of £450/€500.

Jeff Minter's wacky new creation Solar Minotaur Rescue Frenzy has been released on the App Store.

HMV will exit 60 UK stores this year in an attempt to cut costs.

The lead designer and gameplay programmer of Civilization V - Jon Shafer - has been hired, double-quick, by Elemental: War of Magic maker Stardock.

ilo and milo (lower case: it's important) are safkas, red and blue thumb-shaped creatures with tiny arms and legs and one long curly hair sticking out of the top of their heads. They're the best of friends but they keep finding themselves separated by the mazes of cubes that make up their world. To get back to each other they need to call upon the help of a fashion-forward Frenchman who rides a ladybird, walk across stretchy cuboid dogs in Pringle sweaters, drop through trapdoors with faces drawn on in crayon, and ride creatures that like to eat square apples.

PC and PlayStation 3 MMO DC Universe will end its beta today for US gamers and tomorrow for European gamers, but not without one last bang.

Gallons of mulled wine later, we're back – and so are you! December's haul of reader reviews is as strong as ever and our finalists for Reader Review of the Month take in three of gaming's oldest and besterest themes: driving, shooting and jumping.

Silver-haired EA overlord John Riccitiello finds it "really hard to imagine" a future where he's "hiding behind my couch, making a gun out of my finger" and shooting baddies in Call of Duty or Medal of Honor.

The very first modified firmware for retail PlayStation 3 consoles has been released, allowing any PS3 owner to install their own programs onto the XMB.

Microsoft has further expanded the gargantuan Halo universe with a new novel that reveals the truth behind the mysterious alien race known as the Forerunners.

After various bouts of testing, solid and promising MMO Rift has a release date: 4th March 2011 (or 1st March if you're American).

SEGA's bizarre PlayStation 3-exclusive Yakuza game Of the End includes a reference to perhaps the most beloved Dreamcast title of all time: Shenmue.

Ubisoft will patch out its controversial always-on PC game digital rights management on a case-by-case basis.

Monster Hunter Freedom 3, or Monster Hunter Portable 3rd as it's known in the west, looks set to become the best-selling game in Japan for the 2010 financial year.

It's a pity that the vagaries of publishing schedules mean that this review will be appearing in early January, rather than alongside the shrewd pre-Christmas release date of A World of Keflings, because in more ways than one this is a very festive game. Not just for the snowy landscapes that have been placed front and centre in its Xbox Live promotions (they're hardly central to the game, it turns out) but for the sheer generosity of spirit that infuses the experience.

EA has denied it's leaving Tiger Woods behind following its new focus on the Augusta National course and the golfer's omission from box art with PGA Tour 12: The Masters.

GAME has promised to combat the inevitable VAT-forced rise of videogame prices by even more aggressively discounting games through bundles and special deals.

The world's most famous golfer, Tiger Woods, appears to have been dropped by EA Sports for the box art of the latest game in the long-running Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf series.

EA Sports has unveiled the next game in the long-running Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf series.

In the PlayStation 3 version of stupendous fighting game Super Street Fighter IV you can't see downloaded alternate costumes worn by your opponent if you haven't downloaded them yourself. In the Xbox 360 version you can. Why?

Nintendo's DS is the best-selling console ever in the US.

Videogames can lose value faster than used cars, a new report claims.

A whopping 63 million console and PC games were bought in the UK last year - that averages at over one game per UK resident.