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There are more than 30 million people that have Steam accounts, Valve has announced.

How can you try DJ Hero 2 without a turntable peripheral and a console? By going to the DJ Hero website on your PC and playing a specially crafted mini-game. That's how.

Two Football Manager 2011 demos will be released this week. The first arrives on Steam on Thursday, the second for everyone on Friday.

Ubisoft's trio of Kinect titles - Fighters Uncaged, Motion Sports, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved - are launch titles for Microsoft's flashy new sensor.

Platinum doesn't do games by half. From Wii skewer-'em-up MadWorld to the handgun stilettos of Bayonetta, Hideki Kamiya and chums always aim to surprise. Vanquish, the studio's upcoming third-person shooter, is their latest attempt.

The Xbox 360's download games service Xbox Live Arcade may have passed its tipping point, one of the platform's most successful developers has said.

EA apparently has Dante's Inferno and Dead Space maker Visceral lined up to tackle the Command & Conquer licence.

EA's unveiled MicroBot, an arcade shooter style game in development for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade.

Insomniac's now acclaimed PS3 alien shooter series Resistance could run and run and run; work-in-progress Resistance 3 certainly won't be the end of it.

3DS games Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater, PES, Contra and Frogger will all be released in Europe, Konami's confirmed.

DanceEvolution for Kinect will be released alongside the motion-sensing add-on on 10th November, Konami's announced.

Square Enix has extended the free trial of PC MMO Final Fantasy XIV because of "the current state of the game".

Final Fantasy's arrival on current gen hardware was good, but not brilliant - and game creators Motomu Toriyama (director) and Akihiko Maeda have now explained why.

Blizzard isn't stopping at wholesale bans of players using hacks to cheat at StarCraft II. It's going after the authors of the hacks themselves – in the courts.

UTV Ignition and Zombie Studios have announced that Blacklight: Tango Down will be released for PlayStation 3 via PSN on 26th October in the US.

Bungie has released the campaign matchmaking playlist for Halo: Reach and also plans to add new playlists and tweak other elements of the multiplayer experience tomorrow, 19th October.

Once upon a time I used to love difficult games. I've finished Ninja Gaiden. I've got all the platinum medals in Project Gotham Racing 3. I've even completed most of the levels in Maximo without phoning NHS Direct. In fact, at my peak I enjoyed a challenge so much that the levels of difficulty set by videogames were simply not enough, and I took to artificially enhancing them.

Hideo Kojima has begun holding daily meetings to discuss "planning, testing, research and scouting" on his next game.

The man with the world's highest Gamerscore has just hit the half million mark.

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King of Fighters 2002 Unlimited Match arrives on Xbox Live Arcade on 3rd November, developer SNK has announced.

Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock has sold just 86,000 copies in its first week in the US, across all formats.

The uDraw GameTablet, THQ's new peripheral for the Wii, will launch on 14th November in the US.

The next entry in the Bit.Trip series, Bit.Trip Fate, arrives on WiiWare on 25th October in the USA, developer Gaijin Games has announced.

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II didn't register on our radar until developer Dmitry Andreev revealed his exceptional work with frame-rate upscaling during this year's SIGGRAPH. The final game doesn't ship with the new tech, but it's still shaping up to be an exceptionally handsome release based on the quality of the demo code released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live this week.

A new StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty update has gone live, developer Blizzard has announced.

Microsoft has announced it will launch its Xbox Live service in nine new countries next month.

Namco Bandai has removed an image of Mr Driller from its website that it created to celebrate the successful rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners earlier this week.

A new Dead Space game for the iPad will launch in December, EA has revealed.

Concern over Kinect's ability to detect players sat down on sofas has been eradicated after Microsoft updated the software behind the tech, Eurogamer can reveal.