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SEGA has removed Sonic games with average Metacritic scores from shop shelves to combat franchise fatigue.

Sony Online Entertainment has told Kotaku that it's working on a Mac port of its popular kids' MMO Free Realms, and that the long-promised PS3 version of the game is "still definitely coming".

The iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch version of Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 is out now.

Blizzard has published the schedule and panel descriptions for this year's BlizzCon fan convention, which takes place on 22nd and 23rd October in its usual venue of the Anaheim Convention Center south of Los Angeles.

Deep Silver has announced global release dates for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 racer Nail'd.

SEGA has announced plans to release a new instalment in the Shenmue series.

You can't import Dragon Age: Origins characters into Dragon Age 2, but your old saves will shape the world you play in.

Nintendo has announced plans to release a shiny red iteration of the Wii.

Electronic Arts and Hothead Games have announced that DeathSpank will be released for PC and Mac on 26th October.

Microsoft is bundling stuffed Kinectimals toys with special edition copies of the game for its November launch, according to US retail listings.

Sony has explained how the Facebook integration quietly introduced to PlayStation 3 by firmware 3.50 might manifest itself in future games.

Four DLC Theme Packs for zombie smash-em-up Dead Rising 2 will be released over the course of the next month, Capcom's announced.

Nintendo DS adventure Kingdom Hearts Re:coded will be released in Europe on 14th January 2011, Square Enix has announced.

Activision is giving away a copy of DJ Hero 1 to anybody that buys the DJ Hero 2 Party or Turntable bundles.

So, boom! Activision opens its secret payload to deliver a special Christmas tech megaton - Call Of Duty: Black Ops will hit in proper, stereoscopic 3D. That was the news being blasted out as I sat in a swish New York hotel last week, expensive electrical glasses perched on nose. Expectations were high and for the most part, Activision didn't disappoint.

A DJ Hero 2 demo is the most interesting piece of content added to the PlayStation Store today. Will the full game be any good? Should be, the first one was. Does anyone care? Can't say, but this could be the last attempt if the answer is no.

Torfi Frans Olafsson, the creative director of EVE Online, doesn't answer to a board of a dozen faceless suits. He answers to 330,000 paying subscribers and their elected representatives, the Council of Stellar Management.

With Nintendo's Wii has arrived a new kind of videogame injury caused by the carefree swing of a motion-sensing Wiimote: "bystander injuries". And those particularly at risk are children, a new study has found.

Treyarch has eased the Xbox Live party chat restrictions for Call of Duty: Black Ops because not all of the blocks instated by Infinity Ward for Modern Warfare 2 were really necessary.

So anyway, Beth Orton, Garfield the cat (he just hates Mondays, right?), former Liverpool defender Mark Lawrenson and I were racing around in little buggies, popping balloons the other day. Mark Lawrenson was in the lead for almost the entire game, but then he suffered a terrible bout of engine trouble and started spinning in harmless circles.

UPDATE 2: GAME's changed its mind and confirmed the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Collector's Edition will be released in the UK, but after the standard edition.

Fairy-tale film maker Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hell Boy) is staunch in his belief that videogames are a form of art. People who refuse to accept that, he said, are "out of touch" and have "never f***ing played them".

Harmonix has announced that more than 2000 tracks will be available for Rock Band by the end of this month.

Dead Space 2 will be preceded by a downloadable Choose Your Own Adventure-style comic this autumn, EA has announced.

Visceral Games' downloadable Dead Space 2 primer, Ignition, is due for release on Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday.

Dead Space 2 isn't out until January next year, but developer Visceral Games hopes it'll be successful enough for EA to sound the call for a third game in the action horror series.

LucasArts has revealed that the demo for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II will be released next week on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network.

SEGA has announced a Captain America: Super Soldier game for DS, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360.

UPDATE: Microsoft has just issued Eurogamer the following statement: