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Who wants to live forever? Not wise-cracking demon hunter Bryce, that's for sure. After 500 years on this mortal coil, he's royally bored of Abba tributes and Only Fools and Horses repeats. And there's only so many times you can listen to people whining about The Phantom Menace before you want to rip off your own head.

Media Molecule delayed LittleBigPlanet 2 because a minority of PS3 owners fail to connect to the internet, the developer has said.

Champions Online and Star Trek Online didn't cut the mustard. Atari and Cryptic may tout "solid" subscriber bases - and the games themselves may have them - but STO and Champions underwhelmed. We know it, you know it, Cryptic knows it. The man responsible is CEO Jack Emmert. He's ready to admit he made some "extremely bad decisions" and "misread the market completely" - and that a change has to come. So, Emmert is shifting the focus of Cryptic from MMOs to online multiplayer games. The first product of this will be Neverwinter, a direct follow-up to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights.

Pirate-themed downloadable content for A2M's awful kill-em-up Naughty Bear is out now.

Capcom has lowered its forecasts for the first half of its fiscal year, blaming the delay to Dead Rising 2 and disappointing sales of Lost Planet 2.

Metacritic's games editor has said he thinks it's "too simplistic" to claim that high ratings on the review aggregation site are linked directly to increased sales.

The UK achieved its best ever result at the World Cyber Games in Los Angeles at the weekend, finishing joint second with Germany and Brazil.

Capcom has unveiled plans for a new freemium iPhone arcade game compilation.

World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm will be released on 7th December, Activision Blizzard announced this afternoon.

Panasonic has begun trailing a new handheld games machine called the Jungle "designed specifically for online gamers".

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that DC Universe Online, its superhero MMO for PC and PS3, has been delayed until "early 2011". However, the beta starts next week.

Street Fighter producer Yoshinori Ono has flown to the US to try to convince his American colleagues to release new characters and balance changes as downloadable content for Super Street Fighter IV.

Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury won't be released until spring 2011, D3Publisher has said.

Timothy Langdell has been beaten: EA has won its court case against Edge Games.

Rockstar has decided to bundle up the Grand Theft Auto IV family into a special edition compilation due out in the States at the end of this month.

Buyers of the Classic Edition of Wii-exclusive shooter GoldenEye 007 will get access to the Classic Conflict mode from the get-go – while others have to wait until they hit level 35 in online multiplayer to play it.

Konami is launching a Facebook application to tie-in with PS3 and Xbox 360 title Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.

FIFA 11 has enjoyed the biggest sports game launch ever, EA has said.

Sony is releasing a new batch of downloadable content for PS Move title Sports Champions.

Double Fine Productions' downloadable Halloween-themed role-playing adventure Costume Quest will be released on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade on 20th October.

TrackMania and Wii make for unlikely bedfellows, even if, as you launch off one of the game's gargantuan ramps, the console's name is the first thing your inner child wants to yell. It's an unusual match because TrackMania is a pretty harsh mistress: the finest of margins separates winners and losers, a single gentle nudge of the analogue stick often the difference between total success and complete failure. In other words, it's bloody hard.

An Xbox 360 demo for MercurySteam's excellent action game Castlevania: Lords of Shadow is available to download now.

The creator of indie game Explosionade has called on Microsoft to update its "stuck" Xbox Live Indie Games Top Downloads list.

We're really pleased to announce that this year's sell-out Eurogamer Expo was attended by more than 20,000 visitors over three days.

FIFA 11 has sold a whopping 821,000 copies in its opening weekend on sale in the UK.

Rockstar Games has accepted substantial damages after the Daily Star newspaper made up a false Raoul Moat story.

The headline, I'm told, became an all-too-regular mantra for Activision's beleaguered communications team long ago.

Epic Games boss Mark Rein reckons future Xbox and PlayStation consoles could be portable.

Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light has practically nothing to do with Final Fantasy. Certainly not modern Final Fantasy, in any case. This is nothing new for Square-Enix – you don't have to peer far back into the mists of time to find similar examples – and it's also no bad thing. For many, Final Fantasy has become emblematic of a genre still struggling to find its place in the modern world. Putting the name to a game that's not what you'd expect from it might help to redress that image.

Square Enix "wants" to do "something" that will allow players to "further understand" the Final Fantasy XIII story – and it could be a sequel.