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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:

Ubisoft's North American boss Laurent Detoc has said his company wants to be the largest third-party supporter of Kinect, which he likens to Apple iPad in terms of its allure.

2K Games has announced plans to offer a special treat to those buying the Game of the Year edition of hit shooter Borderlands.

Eutechnyx's new PSN racer Ferrari The Race Experience will be cheaper for anyone who owns the studio's previous prancing horse simulator, Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli, on PS3.

The US military has no plans to reverse its decision about stocking Medal of Honor on Army and Air Force bases around the world.

Bungie's updated science fiction shooter Halo: Reach.

The long-rumoured Prince of Persia Trilogy is a PlayStation 3 exclusive and will only be released in Europe, Ubisoft has announced.

Red Dead Redemption cowboys will be able to download a free Hunting and Trading Outfits Pack next week, starting Tuesday, 12th October.

Clone Wars Adventures knows what its audience wants. As soon as you've signed up on the game's website, you're greeted by Yoda, Obi Wan and the other Jedi and given your own lightsaber. After a pep talk in which they emphasise just how important you are to the ongoing war against the Separatists, you're let loose in the Jedi Temple to begin life as a defender of the Old Republic.

If a person wants to sell-on a copy of a game they legally own, "It's up to them," HMV has said.

All three versions of guaranteed behemoth Call of Duty: Black Ops will support stereoscopic 3D at launch, Activision's announced.