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After half a decade of development, a very high profile delay and constant speculation, PlayStation 3-exclusive simulation racer Gran Turismo 5 releases this week.

Perhaps the biggest PlayStation 3 exclusive ever goes on sale at midnight tonight: Gran Turismo 5.

The Majin is everything that Ico's Yorda is not. In Fumito Ueda's classic, you lead the waif-like girl-child along a castle's craggy ramparts, crying out to her to follow your footsteps, catching her by her wrist when she falls, and batting away the black ghouls that tug at her bright white dress. It is a game about custody, about caring for someone weaker than yourself at the expense of the speed of your progress – a rare theme in a medium obsessed with the relentless exertion of power and dominance over others in search of the quickest route to a goal.

The iPad is at the top of your average kid's Christmas list, according to new research - well above traditional gaming consoles.

Apple has finally added Game Center functionality to the iPad.

Gamers who download upcoming PC exclusive The Witcher 2 illegally could receive a letter demanding they pay a fine or face legal action.

Good news: ace physics-based puzzler World of Goo is heading to the iPad. Better news: it'll be ready any day now.

The first in a series of free level packs has just gone live for vicious Xbox Live Arcade jumper Super Meat Boy.

Microsoft remains adamant that a Halo movie will be made at some point – and it may even fund production itself.

Radiant Historia, the latest offering from developer Atlus' crack Shin Megami Tensei RPG team, is coming to the US.

A second batch of DLC has been confirmed for Harmonix's Kinect hoedown, Dance Central.

Microsoft has softened its approach to alleged hackers tampering with its Kinect hardware, insisting it had intended users to get creative with its new gadget all along.

Mindjack, the third-person online action shooter from Japanese developer feelplus, will be released in Europe on 21st January next year.

UK World of Warcraft fans will get their wizard on at an official launch event for expansion Cataclysm.

Blitz Games founder Phillip Oliver says that the "technicalities of the Xbox" are holding back Kinect from providing higher resolution images. Talking about Blitz's new game, Yoostar, with Gamesindustry.biz, Oliver describes how Microsoft added a digital zoom to the Kinect feature-set as the full high resolution image was not available for the developers to access themselves.

Crystal Dynamics has finally enabled online co-operative play for the PlayStation 3 version of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light nearly a month after it turned the feature on for the Xbox 360 version.

Thank goodness we don't have to unlock all of the Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit cars ourselves; thank goodness for the new corner-cutting downloadable content.

Would it be cynical to suggest that Rage for the iPhone and iPad feels like little more than a promotional piece for the upcoming PC and console game? Maybe it was the minute-long trailer for Rage proper at the start of the app or the big "Pre-order Rage" button in the menu that gave me that idea.

EA pulled the plug on NBA Elite 11 because "ultimately it was just going to be a bad game", EA Sports bigwig Alan Wilson has admitted.

Xbox Live chief of police Stephen Tolouse will ban anybody who uses a swastika as a Call of Duty: Black Ops logo.

Call of Duty: Black Ops has denied Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit a top spot in the UK all-formats chart.

Duke Nukem Forever will finally release next year after a decade of development, but why has it taken so long?

Sony Ericsson has all but run around screaming, "Yes yes we're making a PlayStation Phone at last whoopee!"

Fallout: New Vegas creator Obsidian has revealed the first details of Xbox 360-exclusive add-on Dead Money.

Why is Microsoft closing the Halo Wars forums and getting rid of the game's online stat tracking? So that Halo Wars can move under the Halo Waypoint umbrella.

An image detected in an advert for the Video Game Awards has sparked speculation of a Left 4 Dead-related reveal.

Sony plans to unveil a PlayStation 3 exclusive the day after the Spike Videogame Awards - and word on the street is it's Uncharted 3.

Like most people, I don't make sweeping generalisations. It's probably fair to say, however, that no one wants to be treated like a human d-pad.

Criterion Games' Burnout Paradise was a revelation for its time - a gameplay and technical accomplishment on a par with the best of the platform holders' first-party developers in a release that was equally impressive on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. If anything, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is an even closer cross-platform product, and a remarkable 9/10 game to boot.

"So, 30Hz... it'll be really interesting to see what your latency measurements come out as. We think latency is pretty good... We think we might be 83ms... or 100ms."