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Like a parenting bird, Atari is regurgitating nutritious PSone games for PS3 and PSP.

On the day of Kinect's US launch, Microsoft has confirmed that games that combine motion control with traditional controller input are in the works.

Microsoft has insisted Peter Molyneux's rumoured to be cancelled Kinect title Project Milo "was never a product" and "was never announced as a game".

Irrational Games has outlined a range of extensive modifications it has made to Unreal Engine 3 in order to run the unique game world in the forthcoming BioShock Infinite.

Once the king of core, Rare's latest incarnation in a turbulent existence is as standard-bearer for the Xbox casual revolution Microsoft hopes will be ignited by the arrival of Kinect.

It's the dance mats I feel sorry for. Where do they go to die? Is there some sort of dance mat glue factory where their electronic innards are ripped out and their PVC shells turned into Wendy houses?

Ah, the strange case of the bundled game. That spot in the hardware box at launch was once reserved for cast-iron classics that would instantly justify your purchase. Now, as gaming's technology and audience diversify, the pack-in tends to act as demo and marketing tool, adding value and pointing the way to potential rather than attempting to define hardware with software.

Unlike Kinect Sports and Adventures, Joy Ride doesn't actually make you move very much. You can even play it sitting down with moderate success. You simply hold your hands out in front of you on an imaginary steering wheel and veer left and right, and your avatar will do the same in its little sportsmobile. There's no need to worry about accelerating and braking, as the game does that for you. You've got more important things to fret over, like how you're going to pay the rent after spending £165 on a magic camera and a racing game.

If you're looking for just one game to buy with your new Kinect unit, you might feel like you're in a difficult position. Would you rather race pretend cars, or play imaginary football and tennis? Without spending upwards of another £70, you're not surely seeing the full range of the camera's potential. But you don't have to buy all of them to see everything that Kinect can do. There's another option, and Kinectimals is it.

As promised last month, Bungie has lifted the level cap for Halo: Reach.

Alex Kipman - Xbox's director of incubation, and guiding mind behind the Natal project - has given a remarkable interview to sister site GamesIndustry.biz, going into considerable depth on some of the most crucial and controversial elements of the motion sensor. It's the interview Digital Foundry would've killed for, but luckily we were able to sneak a few questions to the GI.biz team that reveal new information on how Kinect works and the ways in which its systems are integrated into the Xbox 360.

It's been a tough few months for THQ, judging by the publisher's Q2 financial report released today.

Fans of delightful WiiWare platformer LostWinds rejoice – there's more on the way, developer Frontier has revealed.

Metal Gear Solid: Rising lynchpin Raiden is all set to moonlight in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.

Microsoft has revised its sales targets for the Kinect system from three million by Christmas to a whopping five million.

The studio behind Shadow Complex, Epic's fantastic Xbox Live Arcade platformer, is stockpiling ideas for the future of the franchise.

Problems you have had on PS3 exporting Rock Band 2 songs to Rock Band 3 have been "solved", Harmonix has told Eurogamer.

Update: A Dragon Age Legends website is up. You can sign-up to beta test the game there.

Sony's HD remasters of acclaimed PS2 games God of War I and God of War II are on the PlayStation Store right now.

With James Bond's cinematic future in limbo thanks to the bankruptcy of MGM, Activision's blockbuster license finds itself in an unusually strong position. Based on an original story by an actual Bond screenwriter, starring Daniel Craig and Judi Dench, Blood Stone is this year's official Bond adventure by default.

Every time you play with Kinect - out now in the US and on 10th November in the UK - it will see and it will learn. And in a similar way a baby understands the world so, Kinect creator Alex Kipman believes, will his camera decipher you.

Regardless of how bad the current home ownership crisis becomes, please don't buy property on Helghan. The homeworld of humanity's bitter and amber-eyed enemy is toxic, cramped and filled with brutal conflict.

Darkspore open beta sign-ups have begun.

Crytek UK, the developer that rose from the ashes of the collapsed Free Radical Design, hopes that when gamers look back on PlayStation 3 exclusive Haze they'll remember it more fondly than they did at launch.

In 2009, after slipping into administration following the failure of PS3-exclusive shooter Haze, Free Radical Design was bought by Crytek and renamed Crytek UK. The Nottingham studio then set upon work on the multiplayer portion of next year's Crysis 2.

Gran Turismo 5 discs "are being stamped as we speak", game creator Kazunori Yamauchi has said.

Activision's mega-blockbuster Call of Duty: Black Ops has been given an age rating of 18 by the BBFC.

Update: Ubisoft has informed us that Copernicus Conspiracy will be available from 19th November - the original date was wrong.

The Squier Rock Band 3 guitar – both a working instrument and game controller – will be available on 1st March 2011 in the USA, manufacturer Fender has announced.

Despite middling review scores and analyst scepticism, Medal of Honor has been an unmitigated success story for EA, CEO John Riccitiello has insisted.