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The Futureheads would have you believe that Christmas was better in the eighties. Not if you were into videogames, it wasn't.

Nintendo talisman Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted that at one time he intended to try and "destroy" the game genres that he had helped create.

A new version of SNES RPG classic Final Fantasy IV is heading to the PSP, incorporating recent WiiWare expansion The After Years as well as the 1991 original.

You'll be able to square up to the new back-to-basics Mortal Kombat from April 2011, publisher Warner Bros. Interactive has confirmed.

The next Dead Rising 2 expansion, Case West, will be available from 27th December, publisher Capcom has announced.

Given the mixed reviews for the original Prototype, a sequel perhaps wasn't a foregone conclusion. However, once it sold two million copies, the recently announced follow-up became inevitable, developer Radical Entertainment has revealed.

As the battle for motion-sensing supremacy heats up this Christmas, Sony has cast doubt on the wisdom of Microsoft's blockbuster Kinect launch.

Shinji Mikami walks away from PlatinumGames with a revelation - originally, Vanquish was a very different game.

Is Epic's iOS debut Infinity Blade the fastest-grossing App ever? With sales totalling $1.64 million in just over four days, it may well be.

The third World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm, is the world's fastest-selling PC game.

The community has failed Criterion - the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer was not watched one million times. In fact, it was only watched 658,764 at the time of writing.

A demo of the PlayStation 3 version of Mass Effect 2 will be released on the European PlayStation Network on 22nd December, EA has announced.

Criterion has delivered a crushing blow to PC owners of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit: there will be scarcely any premium DLC for you - mostly bug fixes.

Movie tie-in Thor: God of Thunder will launch on 3rd May 2011.

Installing an SSD flash drive to your PlayStation 3 can radically cut down the loading times in Polyphony Digital's PS3 magnum opus, Gran Turismo 5.

Guillermo del Toro and Volition's 2013 horror game inSANE is the first chapter in a planned trilogy.

The PS3 blogosphere is alive with reports that PlayStation 3 is set to be beefed up with the release of a new Cell co-processor, based on a recently unearthed patent application located by FreePatentsOnline. However, such reports appear to be a combination of wishful thinking and a fanciful interpretation of the paperwork released by SCE.

A new Spike VGA trailer released for Mortal Kombat has confirmed God of War's Kratos as a playable fighter. Check it out below.

Released a year after the Xbox 360 version, shorn of some of its visual magnificence, afflicted with an ugly blur and featuring exclusive DLC you actually had to pay for despite the long wait, it's fair to say that PlayStation 3 owners didn't fare too well at the hands of 2K Games when it came to the belated release of the original BioShock.

Insomniac Games has promised fans of Resistance multiplayer a much better experience from the third game in the series.

Activision's money-maker has beaten its other money-maker: Call of Duty: Black Ops remains top of the UK charts while World of Warcraft: Cataclysm spends a first week in third.

UPDATE: EA has just confirmed to Eurogamer that SSX: Deadly Descents will be released on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 only.

Telly-loving PlayStation 3 owners are in for a treat this week – the ITV Player and Channel 4's 4oD are set to join the BBC iPlayer as PS3 applications.

All three versions of Mass Effect 3 will launch simultaneously next Christmas, EA has confirmed.

Bulletstorm is a game about shooting other people in the nuts and being rewarded for it. It's a game about kicking people into sparking control panels and watching as their limbs twitch and their eyeballs melt.

This is the reason that Sony and Polyphony Digital will always command an ultimate level of respect amongst the technologically obsessed. The Gran Turismo makers have synchronised four PlayStation3s running GT5: Prologue and merged the video outputs to produce what must surely be the world's first videogame running at an astonishing 240FPS. No current generation display can handle this. Instead, Sony demoed its prototype 19 inch nano-Spindt FED screen capable of this supreme refresh rate.

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Stop us if we're getting too technical... on the other hand, don't bother! When the opportunity arose to talk tech with Bungie on any topic of our choosing, let's just say that we didn't hold back. And luckily for us, neither did the studio. What we have here is a titanic 6000 word insight into the technical make-up of the Xbox 360's biggest exclusive of the year.

Horribly addictive iOS time-waster Cut the Rope has just received a free festive level pack.