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id Software boss John Carmack wants to make a Kinect game – but it won't be a lift of one of its current FPS titles.

Mac gamers miffed at being left out of last month's multi-platform Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition release can quit sulking. Publisher 2K Games has announced a release date: 3rd December.

Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 were the two most active titles on Xbox Live last week.

The developer behind the lauded PSP God of War games has claimed that Sony's handheld was doomed to failure from launch day.

Cute downloadable adventure Costume Quest is getting measured up for some winter-themed DLC, developer Double Fine has announced.

Still smarting after the LittleBigPlanet 2 delay? Fear not, a demo is on the way to ease your pain, publisher Sony has announced.

Sony and Microsoft could be working together on a single platform within the next 10 years, Sony Computer Entertainment's former European president has claimed.

Rift: Planes of Telara, an MMO we called "worthy of attention" recently, is soon to enter closed beta. And you can take part.

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is to get two different special editions for its May 2011 release, publisher Namco Bandai has announced.

It's a 10! Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood expertly refines and improves ACII's winning formula, adds in a highly enjoyable online multiplayer mode and sets the stage nicely for the next (final?) instalment in the saga of Desmond Miles.

The new Red Wii bundle has had the desired effect for Nintendo in Japan, with sales of the console rocketing by nearly 300 per cent in its first week on sale.

How do you define Need for Speed? A perennial stocking filler for Electronic Arts' long-suffering investors? A neon love letter to Vin Diesel and Paul Walker's The Fast and The Furious? After last year's Shift, perhaps it's just the latest addition to a long line of challengers in a field previously dominated by Bizarre Creations?

It's getting closer. We still don't know exactly when Deus Ex: Human Revolution will be available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, but we do know it will be early 2011, and we do know we're excited about it in around 50 different ways.

The next mega-licence to be given the LEGO treatment will be Pirates of the Caribbean, Disney has announced.

UTV Ignition has announced that Hothead's upcoming action puzzle game thing, Swarm, is heading to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

Scary game about a writer gone mad, Alan Wake, is now available to download from Xbox Live Games on Demand. It was only released earlier this year.

Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops beat Modern Warfare 2's five-day sales record by $100 million.

Having criticised the red tape of Xbox Live, Blueside has said it is also making a PS3 version of Kingdom Under Fire II.

In an age when videogame names are getting longer and rarely arrive without at least one colon, it's good to see a title as brisk and instantly understandable as FlingSmash. It's a Ronseal kind of title: you fling a ball and it smashes things. And you'll be doing an awful lot of that from the game's start to its finish, a little over two hours later. Yes, you did read that correctly.

Kinect can do everything!* Soon the motion-sensing camera will help Microsoft deliver "probably the most important thing to happen to the office worker since the PC came along".

UK sales of the PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii were not impacted by the recent surge in Xbox 360 sales that coincided with the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops and Kinect.

Microsoft has been busily updating the Xbox Live Marketplace these past 24 hours with treats including a redux of Pac-Man Championship Edition, the third Alien Breed episode and a demo for CSI: Fatal Conspiracy.

DeathSpank developer Hothead wants you to come up with a name for its new game.

US videogame scriptwriters are paid between $10,000 and $20,000 to do the dialogue in a game these days.

After its sensational - and controversial - debut at GDC last year, little has been heard publicly about the OnLive cloud gaming system. During the summer, the firm kicked off its promised beta sign-up phase, but in a world where footage is leaked from betas within hours of their debut, the lack of any tangible feedback on the system from testers was telling. Was OnLive still on schedule? In the run-up to Christmas, momentum picked up: many confirmed OnLive beta testers finally broke cover and a mammoth 48-minute presentation from company front man Steve Perlman was released.

Nintendo has released a cute little gizmo for DSiWare in Japan that lets people broadcast image and audio samples to nearby DS systems via Download Play.

Sony has relaunched the SingStar website with all sorts of new features that let you browse the series' back catalogue of songs and view performances from other players.

High definition may be all the rage these days, but the recent rush of HD collections – God of War, Sly Cooper and now Prince of Persia – owes more to the unique way videogame platforms used to be sent off to the glue factory four or five years after release.

Sony has said that certain PlayStation Network services will experience downtime today between 4.05pm and 1am tomorrow morning. (Downtime? What's that?!)

With winter drawing in and only one evening a week to spend watching The Apprentice, it's getting more tempting to spend loads of money on downloadable entertainment – but don't worry, if you spend 1600 Microsoft Points on certain items at the moment, Microsoft will give you 400 MSP back.