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A confident Warren Spector reckons Epic Mickey is the best-looking Wii game ever.

Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat wants to make one thing clear: there will never - not in a million years - be Super Meat Boy on PS3.

Gold subscribers spend on average three hours a day on Xbox Live, Microsoft has claimed.

The Saints Row film will be formally announced next month.

InstantAction, the company behind the InstantAction.com streaming games technology and the InstantJam Facebook game, has shut down.

Hackers playing around with Kinect using home-made PC device drivers have already produced a proof-of-concept video showing a multi-touch interface similar to the one Tom Cruise's character uses in Minority Report.

Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has tweeted that a Gran Turismo 5 date announcement is imminent.

Bungie's mysterious Activision-published "universe" looks set to hit the PC as well as consoles.

That networked version of Civilization that Sid Meier has been labouring over - it'll be out next year.

Treyarch's improving gargantuan phenom Call of Duty: Black Ops with a string of updates.

In graphical terms, next-gen consoles have matured to a point where developers are really pushing at the edges of platform capability. It's an arena in which the Wii, with its sub-HD capabilities, was never designed to compete.

If you were to go shopping for all the constituent parts of Microsoft's Kinect peripheral you'd land up with a bill for an estimated £34, according to tech analysis published today.

Microsoft might soon start using its Kinect technology to automatically customise Xbox 360 content depending on who is using the system.

Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has revealed how many consoles the platform holder has shifted in the US to date compared to rivals Sony and Microsoft.

Acclaimed iOS puzzler Zen Bound 2 is making the jump to the PC this month, with a 16th November Steam release date lined up.

Publisher THQ believes the current retail model for games is all wrong and reckons it has the answer: keep prices low at the outset then sell in additional content later.

Square Enix is all set to break Nintendo characters' monopoly on Mario's sporting spin-offs with the announcement that a number of Final Fantasy favourites are limbering up for Mario Sports Mix.

Viacom's decision to sell Harmonix will have no knock-on effect on support for Rock Band 3 and Dance Central, the games' developer has insisted.

Rockstar's new open world detective game L.A. Noire will be released in the spring of 2011.

PC strategy game Shogun 2: Total War will be released globally on 15th March 2011, SEGA's announced.

Blitz Games claims to be getting nearly twice as much out of Kinect as everyone else. Those games you see on the shelves today - they're using barely a third of what the new device can do.

A Kinect Sports Facebook app that sorts times set in the main Xbox 360 game into online leagues has been released.

At least two "major" shops will demand publishers remove Steam functionality from PC games, a new report claims.

UPDATE: In a question and answer session Viacom said Harmonix made a loss of around "$65 million" for the financial quarter. "That loss reflects how we've been informed by the potential buyers we've been talking to," it said. The loss would have been half that number otherwise.

Call of Duty: Black Ops sold 5.6 million copies in the US and UK combined - in one day. That's more than Modern Warfare 2's opening record of 4.7 million copies.

"New hairdresser discovered!" When this message flashes across the bottom of the screen in the middle of a time trial, you know you're playing a unique (and some might say, uniquely French) racing game.

Football Manager 2011 hit the shelves last week, prompting a period of self-imposed solitude for the series' army of fans - the ones who willingly immerse themselves in an alternate reality of formation-tinkering, transfer negotiations and player discipline for days on end.

ZeniMax Media - the company that owns Bethesda, id, Arkane and Tango - has bought another studio: MachineGames.

Today, PlayStation Home is transformed - big patch 1.4 has arrived. We knew that was coming, but we had no idea multiplayer LittleBigPlanet paintball was on its way.

Massively multiplayer role-playing game Final Fantasy XIV was slammed by critics and gamers upon its September release, but today, as Square Enix revealed a raft of updates designed to improve almost every aspect of the game, Final Fantasy XIV's creator reassured fans it understands their complaints and explained why the fantasy online game failed to meet expectations.