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The Two Worlds II release saga continues: now Euro publisher TopWare/Zuxxez is "hopping mad" with Sony because the PS3 version of the game wasn't made on time.

Sonic the Hedgehog maker SEGA wants to stop people squashing real hedgehogs with their cars - splat!

After months of speculation, down-and-out MMO APB finally has a new owner.

EA has announced four new downloadable titles for PC, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade, and they come from promising places.

The noob-friendly shop-shelf edition of online spaceship game EVE Online is coming to Europe.

A game called Sackboy's Prehistoric Moves looks to be in the works for PlayStation 3.

It seems my arcade stick skills are getting rusty. I used to play 2D fighters with an aptitude for meticulous motions and flawless timing, but since Street Fighter IV, the shift towards more lenient input recognition has made me complacent. It's not like I can't put together some decent combos, but when playing The King of Fighters 2002: Unlimited Match, I'm reminded of a less forgiving time.

Ubisoft has shown off another new strand of its ever-expanding Assassin's Creed franchise.

Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami has revealed how he very nearly joined Nintendo rather than Capcom at the outset of his career.

Call of Duty: Black Ops has no doubt found millions of fans this week, but the Cuban government is not among them. On the contrary – it's seething about a sequence detailing a failed assassination attempt on leader Fidel Castro.

A sequel to Nintendo's much-derided 2008 effort Wii Music could well be on the way, judging by comments made this week by the game's creator Shigeru Miyamoto.

The beleaguered studio behind long-in-the-offing MMO Stargate Worlds has been stripped of the franchise license by owners MGM Studios.

A bumper year for Cryptic Studios – the MMO specialists behind Star Trek Online and Champions Online – has encouraged owner Atari to shift its focus to the online market.

In what is swiftly becoming an annual tradition, Activision's latest Call of Duty looks set to be the biggest launch of the year. Luckily for us, it's also a damn good shooter. What it lacks in innovation it makes up for with a highly polished campaign, the traditionally phenomenal multiplayer modes and a raft of cool bonus additions: split-screen, 3D, zombies, a full hidden game... It's all there. Once dismissed by hardcore players as the "other" COD studio, Treyarch is now a real force to be reckoned with in the FPS genre thanks to World at War and, particularly, Black Ops.

A patch for bug-infested Fallout: New Vegas has gone live, but only for the PC version.

Nintendo has filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office for ownership of the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong."

Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has warned anyone thinking of exploiting glitches in the game that they will be taking a zero tolerance approach to cheating.

Don't believe the 11th February 2011 date given to Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on PC. That ShopTo telly advert hasn't been finalised yet.

It may only have been on sale here for a few hours, but Microsoft has already promised to support Kinect with a raft of new abilities in the future.

Extra costs have been introduced for Rock Band 3 downloadable tracks. If you want old songs to support the new keyboard instrument or the vocal harmonies you must buy an "RB3 Version" of it. Similarly, if you want the Pro Guitar and Pro Bass parts in the song you will need to pay more.

The demo of Criterion's superb racing game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit was downloaded more than two million times within two weeks, EA's shouted from the rooftops.

EA's announced a 3DS Madden NFL game – it's first game for Nintendo's exciting new handheld console.

Ignore the title: Shaun White Skateboarding has surprisingly little to do with the sport. Not in the sense that the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, with its physics-defying stunts and 5000-metre grinds, was a world away from the bruising realities of skateboarding. But rather, the story, themes and systems that underpin Ubisoft Montreal's game have little to do with trucks, tricks and grip-tape – the game instead drawing its primary inspiration from the stoner-athlete world-view of the sport's practitioners.

With Kinect going on sale across Europe today amid concerns over hardware shortages, Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson last night insisted new stock would be coming in "more or less every week".

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - the one what did multiplayer - arrives next week, and Ubisoft is banging its drums by discounting AC2 downloadable content.

Microsoft's motion sensor Kinect is "incredibly liberating" for women.

A sequel to 2009 Wii-exclusive on-rails shooter is in the works, a new report has claimed.

It's finally here - the new peripheral we've all been waiting for. Well, some of us have been waiting for. And technically it's not a peripheral - it's a whole new platform, a brand new expanded multimedia entertainment experience which will revolutionise social interaction in exciting new ways and offer us new options for engaging with the home entertainment interactive experience in revolutionary and exciting new interactive ways.

Who would you trust - an analyst or an octopus? Because Ollie the psychic octopus reckons Move will outsell Kinect this Christmas.

Activision is giving away codes to download Call of Duty: Black Ops Avatar clothes for free – but only for female characters.