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UPDATE: Microsoft and Lionhead have responded to Eurogamer's enquiries with the standard: "Microsoft does not comment on rumour or speculation."

Atsushi Inaba, the producer on forthcoming Platinum Games shooter Vanquish, has given his take on the difference between Japanese and Western gamers.

Activision may be poised to reveal its true colours as the new owner of the NASCAR brand.

2K Games producer Denby Grace has apologised for a recent comment he made regarding the biggest issues facing the games industry.

Games have been attempting to make us feel like we're exploring a living cartoon for a large part of the medium's history, and some have achieved spectacular results. The Wind Waker-style Zeldas seem more suited to their expressive, beguilingly childish look with every instalment. Level-5's colourful, lively worlds are often bursting with animated verve, whether in Dragon Quest and Rogue Galaxy's animé cel-shading or Professor Layton's more laid-back but equally distinctive style.

Microsoft is asking Xbox 360 users to vote on which game they would like to see secure Deal of the Week status.

Sony has dropped the ball when it comes to portable entertainment and should copy the 3DS for the PSP2, insists industry analyst Michael Pachter.

Games for PlayStation Move and Microsoft's Kinect are for a mass market, and therefore much cheaper and quicker to develop than core titles, according to THQ.

Acclaimed homemade platformer Cave Story is heading to DSiWare, according to a hint in the new issue of US mag Nintendo Power.

Microsoft is looking for willing guinea pigs to test its new Xbox Live dashboard update.

200 million people play games on Facebook every month, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Big THQ franchises like Saints Row and UFC could be coming to Facebook and other social gaming networks, according to CEO Brian Farrell.

The game may not even be in stores yet but Namco Bandai is already talking up downloadable content for Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.

Gamers who download songs with the upcoming Zune Pass will be blocked from listening to their music if they allow their subscription to expire.

Universal is the latest publisher to jump on the Kinect dance game bandwagon. It's just announced Dance Paradise for a November release.

Square Enix has announced details of the new in-game currency launching with its forthcoming MMO, Final Fantasy XIV Online.

BioWare's mammoth role-playing sequel Dragon Age 2 and People Can Fly's thousand-mile-an-hour shooter Bulletstorm will both be playable at the Eurogamer Expo 2010.

"Interactive entertainment will never be the same, with the launch of one title that has changed the way the world thinks about video games."

The Eurogamer Expo 2010 will host an official Trials HD tournament that will crown one of you the best player in the land - well, the UK.

Deathspank follow-up Thongs of Virtue arrives on the PlayStation Store today. It's only been two months since Deathspank turned up, mind you, and game creator Ron Gilbert has left developer Hothead Games. Will this be a turkey? Smother us in early impressions below.

After a false start in 2009 - ably covered by stand-in Sumo Digital with its enjoyable F1 2009 for Wii - Codemasters' new Birmingham studio has finally got its first Formula One game off the grid. If you've read our review, you'll already know that it was worth the wait.

A second demo of PlatinumGames' Vanguish will be released in Europe and North Amercia, SEGA's confirmed to Eurogamer.

Codemasters' F1 2010 will release this Friday - but its senior producer Paul Jeal and lead designer Stephen Hood have revealed that they've already started work on the next instalment.

Last night's leak of the Nintendo 3DS tech spec reveals a lean, power efficient device assembled from a relatively mediocre set of components. Once again, the platform holder has used a selection of established, cheap, off-the-shelf chips and made it feel fresh and new thanks to the implementation of a game-changing concept: in this case, glasses-free stereo 3D.

Capcom easily won the unofficial award for the publisher of the show in Tokyo this year. Not content to sit back and watch people come flooding in to see Monster Hunter Portable 3rd - which they did, of course, in their thousands - the publisher made three major new announcements. At Capcom's pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference, Keiji Inafune told the world that as long as Capcom's around, the Japanese games industry is alive and kicking.

CCP has announced a 14th expansion for EVE Online called Incursion. It's due out in November.

Capcom's controversial reboot of action series Devil May Cry was inspired by actor Daniel Craig's "rougher" James Bond, the producer of the game has revealed.

The news that Devil May Cry was to get a renovation was probably the most controversial announcement of this year's Tokyo Game Show. The words 'series reboot' are enough to jangle any fan's nerves, and the trailer proved divisive.

The trailer for Asura's Wrath has got to be one of the most awesomely weird announcement videos of all time. Developed in collaboration with Capcom's newest partner, CyberConnect 2 - famous in Japan for the .hack games and Naruto fighters and in the West for, well, nothing in particular - the game is a bizarre and ambitious hack-and-slasher. It's seeking to redefine the action genre, though it's leaving us guessing as to exactly how. Take a peek at the video for a clue.

Capcom has denied it is "alienating" PS3-owning Dead Rising fans following the announcement of Xbox Live-exclusive downloadable game Dead Rising 2: Case West.