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"So," says the silver-haired man with the steely blue eyes, "What's your favourite videogame?"

Take-Two Godfather Strauss Zelnick has dismissed allegations that Mafia II portrays all Italians and Italian-Americans as violent gangsters.

Introversion's Mark Morris has recalled how a Defcon sale on Steam kept the struggling developer from closing down.

Kazunori Yamauchi is excited. He's showing us three cars from the 1967 Le Mans 24-hour race - the Ferrari 330 P4, the Ford Mark IV and the Jaguar XJ13 - and they all look beautiful. The P4 is one of Yamauchi's favourite cars of all time.

Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has said that the kart racing features unveiled for Gran Turismo 5 at gamescom were originally destined for a future instalment in the long-running series.

As heroes go, I don't feel much cop at the moment. In fact I feel absolutely ridiculous. This is because I am dressed as a giant chicken. It's hard to feel heroic when you have a bloated feathery stomach, a floppy red comb and knobbly yellow knees. The fact that I have a flintlock strapped to my back and a giant hammer in my hands doesn't help.

Bethesda Game Studios is already designing the game it will make after the one the team is currently working on - which itself has yet to be announced, executive producer Todd Howard has told Eurogamer.

Sony has revealed that a third instalment in the PS3-exclusive Resistance series is on the way.

Virtua Tennis 4 for PS3 has been unveiled at Sony's gamescom press conference in Cologne, Germany.

Ubisoft is making a fighting game called Fighters Uncaged exclusively for Xbox 360 Kinect.

A musical Ubisoft has detailed the entire Just Dance 2 tracklist and teased a few of the songs appearing in Michael Jackson The Experience.

Valve has reportedly said Portal 2 will be released on Wednesday, 9th February 2011. The game is in development for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Konami has given PES 2011 an 8th October UK release date on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The other versions - PS2, PSP, Wii - will follow later that month.

Square Enix has pushed the European release of Front Mission Evolved back to 8th October, despite just under a month ago assuring us the UK was immune to collateral from the US delay.

The European PlayStation Store has been refreshed with demos for aerial combat game Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 and hockey game NHL 11.

2K Games has taken the unusual step of responding to negative fan comments over the PS3 version of its forthcoming Mafia II, claiming that the game code has been optimised for each specific platform.

Activision has finally spat out the entire 90-strong tracklist for Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock.

BioWare boss Ray Muzyka has confirmed Mass Effect 2 for PS3.

Microsoft bigwig Chris Lewis expects to see "hybrid experiences" on Xbox 360 that use Kinect as well as traditional controllers and therefore target both sets of consumers: casual and core.

The exclusive PS3 multiplayer beta test for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood will begin on 4th October, Ubisoft revealed today.

Earlier this week Microsoft announced that Xbox 360's Kinect control system would launch in Europe on 10th November. We already knew that it would cost a plump £129.99 for a bundle that includes launch title Kinect Adventures.

"Business rescue and restructuring" outfit Begbies Traynor has cited "lacklustre demand" for APB as the reason Realtime Worlds fell apart.

Ubisoft has confirmed a new Might & Magic game for PC. This will be known as Might & Magic Heroes VI and be released in 2011.

Gamers shouldn't expect Kinect, PlayStation Move or stereoscopic 3D in the FIFA series any time soon, EA Sports president Peter Moore has said.

So then, who's your favourite chemist? I know, tough choice. Mine's definitely Linus Pauling: one of the fathers of molecular biology, a Nobel prize winner and the man who said, "If you want a great idea, get a lot of ideas." (He's also the patron saint of specious opening paragraphs, as it turns out.)

The Ubisoft line-up for the Eurogamer Expo 2010 is in. The golden balls this year are Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Driver: San Francisco and Raving Rabbids Travel in Time.

Top Gear, season 14, episode one. Clarkson, May and Hammond traverse Romania in a range of hyper-expensive grand tourers in search of the Transfăgărăşan: 90km of high-altitude tarmac that just happens to be one of the exciting, environmentally spectacular driving routes in the world. This is the experience that sums up the new Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit - a celebration of driving some of the hottest cars in the world on the most exciting routes to emerge from the designers at Burnout studio Criterion Games.

Off-road racing game Nail'd will be released on 22nd October worldwide for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

There will a beta test for LittleBigPlanet 2 "soon", according to the official community website.

The latest episode of Gametrailers TV has an extensive video preview of the single-player campaign of EA's military shooter Medal of Honor, showing some early levels and cut-scenes.