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Age of Conan executive producer Craig Morrison has written an interesting article on the inclusion of voiced stories and cut-scenes in MMOs. The upshot: "more isn't always better".

If, like me, you have a bit of a sweet tooth, Costume Quest is going to be deadly for your waistline. An hour in and I was craving a pack of wine gums. By the time I finished the game, I'd demolished a whole bag of Haribo.

Peripheral maker Mad Catz has priced its official Rock Band 3 instruments.

THQ has Fantastic Pets.

It appears a Marvel-themed pinball game is in the works.

Junior Senior's Move Your Feet is one of those records that has next to no virtue away from the dance floor. Its grating vocals, synth horns, cheap repetition and blaring, kitchen-sink production trample tastelessly all over the legacy of the disco legends like Nile Rogers that it rips off. Unfortunately for music snobs everywhere, it's also insanely catchy and great fun to shake your ass to.

The publisher of monster App Store hit Angry Birds has been snapped up by EA.

GAME will open loads of its stores on midnight 8th November for gamers eager to get their hands on Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer will be different to Modern Warfare 2. How? There won't be any drop-shotting. Instead, you'll be diving to prone.

LucasArts has contacted Digital Foundry to talk about the tech behind the forthcoming Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, based on points raised in our PS3/360 demo showdown.

The Collector's Edition of upcoming PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter Killzone 3 includes Helghast goggles.

A multiplayer beta for Section 8: Prejudice, the follow-up to last year's multiplayer space shooter, has just been announced by developer TimeGate Studios.

The Kinect and PlayStation Move versions of Michael Jackson: The Experience have been pushed back to Q1 2011.

John Romero, the co-creator of seminal shooters Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein, has emerged from the videogame wilderness with a Facebook app.

World of Warcraft and StarCraft II creator Blizzard's recent kafuffle with its fans over the use of Real ID in its forums has taught it a valuable lesson: gamers like anonymity because it ties into their desire to suspend reality.

Of the 250 million people who play games on Facebook, around 50 million are addicted and 50 million pay to play.

In the time-honoured RPG tradition, I've been collecting swords.

Keiji Inafune was "80 per cent certain" that the company would refuse Level 5's request to collaborate on a crossover Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright game, the Capcom producer has revealed in an interview.

Capcom has admitted to deliberately courting controversy with Dante's much-maligned new look in its recently announced Devil May Cry prequel.

The Mac is set to get its own version of the App Store, Apple has announced.

PC users are set to be the lucky recipients of a Medal of Honor patch, developer Danger Close has announced.

In early builds of Nintendo's classic platformer Super Mario Bros, the iconic plumber wielded a gun, creator Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed.

The PlayStation 2 is getting a new retail push, Sony has announced, with a Toy Story 3 bundle on the way.

The God of War Collection will be available in the PlayStation Store from 3rd November, Sony has announced.

The minimum system requirements to run World of Warcraft: Cataclysm have been posted for all to see.

Bethesda has assured Fallout: New Vegas owners that it's working on patches and updates "as quickly as possible".

Halo: Reach is already the biggest-selling game in North America this year - bigger than Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII, New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Madden NFL 11.

On 27th October fantastic downloadable game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light will finally be playable cooperatively online.

Six Days in Fallujah developer Atomic has a new multiplayer game called Breach that you can play months ahead of release.

Square Enix has promised to announce European release dates for PSP game The 3rd Birthday and console actioner Mindjack "soon".