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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.

Dead Rising 2: Case Zero has been a resounding success, breaking Xbox Live Arcade sales records - and all along it was just half of a two-part Capcom experiment.

Team17 has finally divulged news of the latest Wii entry in its long-running Worms franchise.

PlayStation Plus subscribers will be able to download the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow demo today - a week before everyone else, the European PlayStation blog announced.

A demo of Milestone's new WRC rally game is available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers now.

Blizzard has released the first patch for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, predominantly focusing on some changes to the game balance, but also including a few new interface features, nVidia 3D Vision support, and improvements to the game's editor.

The final tracklisting for DJ Hero 2 has slipped out of Activision HQ. Kanye West, DJ Shadow, Tiesto and RZA feature prominently.

Xbox Live Arcade enjoyed its strongest sales month ever in August, a market research firm has claimed.

Phil Spencer's Microsoft Game Studios is trying to figure out how to make Halo "a more persistent engagement" that doesn't go "dark" for a period while a new pillar release is developed.

The 3DS will boast 1.5GB of flash memory, 64MB of RAM and two 266MHz ARM11 CPUs, if specs leaked to IGN are to be believed.

Xbox Live Arcade revival Hydro Thunder Hurricane will get a boatload of new content later this year, developer Vector Unit has announced.

Capcom and Dragon Quest IX developer Level-5 are teaming up on a mystery project.

Super Street Fighter IV will not head to PC because too many gamers pirated Street Fighter IV, Capcom has declared.

A videogame adaptation of Inception – the recent headache-inducing masterpiece from The Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan – could be on the way.

A new BioShock Infinite gameplay trailer has hit Xbox Live.

Ancient Capcom arcaders Commando, SonSon and Exed Exes are heading to Wii's Virtual Console.

Microsoft has unveiled its Xbox Live Marketplace plans for the next couple of months, detailing all add-ons, Arcade titles and Games On Demand releases.

Pokémon Black/White is the fastest-selling Pokémon game ever in Japan, shifting a staggering 2.63 million copies in its first two days on sale.

Despite the deafening racket made by the sheer weight of music games on the shelves, Def Jam Rapstar still feels unique. It's dedicated to hiphop, a massive music genre which is under-served in the games market.

Yakuza 3 producer Masayoshi Kikuchi has apologised for the cuts made to the Western version of the game.

Street Fighter fans hoping to see Yun and Yang made available to download to the console versions of Super Street Fighter IV received a boost today after producer Yoshinori Ono refused to deny that Capcom plans to add DLC characters.

When I first got my hands on Sid Meier's Civilization V, my life became a fight. I don't mean I was struggling to guide my civilisation to global renown, languidly picking my way up the research tree, sending little men to die in little wars. It wasn't that kind of fight. I mean I was fighting not to click the icon that led to the game that led without fail or mercy to me entering a kind of strategy fugue, which I'd emerge from, hungry and dehydrated, between three and seven hours later. To say this game is addictive is like saying that dry toast is edible. Of course it is, but that's not the whole picture.

A demo for Civilization V is available right now on Steam.

The widely-publicised launch of Halo: Reach helped double sales of Xbox 360 in the UK last week, according to official chart monitor Gfk-ChartTrack.

The sequel to PSP-exclusive Final Fantasy fighting game spin-off Dissidia will be released in Europe, Square Enix has announced.

In the top left corner of a screen is a giant percentage counter. It is counting down from 100. I have no idea why. In the bottom left corner is a mini-map with glowing yellow and blue dots. I have no idea what these represent. In the bottom right corner is a calorie counter, a picture of a chicken and the number 3. No idea.

That "major update" to PlayTV that Sony's promised since April: well, it's going to cost you - even if you subscribe to PlayStation Plus.

Square Enix has delayed Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light's online cooperative function for a second time.