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Blizzard has been awarded an $88 million judgment in a lawsuit against Scapegaming, which operates unauthorised, or "private" World of Warcraft servers, Gamasutra reports.

F.E.A.R. 3 has been delayed to some point in 2011.

Bethesda Softworks' war on ladders continues unabated. Yesterday we discovered Todd Howard's team has almost given up on them because they always turn out rubbish - hence no ladders in Fallout 3. But Splash Damage has banned them outright for Brink.

While Sony and the PlayStation 3 are doing most the pioneering work in establishing stereoscopic 3D gaming, Microsoft's public approach has been to ignore this new dimension in gameplay, instead concentrating its resources and marketing on its Kinect motion control system.

Microsoft has said that its gamescom "Play Day" event will allow press to see new games and interview developers and executives, but will not adopt the format of a traditional trade show press conference.

Before Eurogamer sits down with Todd Howard at QuakeCon to bully him into talking about his new game, we catch his panel with Tim Willits from id Software and Jason West and Vince Zampella from Respawn Entertainment.

A demo for Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 will be released for PlayStation Network and Xbox Live this week, Ubisoft has announced.

Toy Story 3 has claimed a third week atop the UK all-formats top 40 chart.

An unannounced Mortal Kombat game has popped up on a UK retailer's website.

One day, somebody is going to make a game where humanity climbs into the bunker, waits for the apocalypse to pass, emerges from shelter and really does rebuild society, rather than clambering out and getting butchered by mutant wasps before anyone's had time to break ground on a new Millets. It probably won't be Bethesda Softworks, though, because games like Fallout: New Vegas suggest there's still lots more mileage in things going wrong at the end of the world.

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is set to take centrestage at EA's press conference next Tuesday at gamescom, but what you may not know is that Mirror's Edge and Battlefield developer DICE has worked closely with Criterion in building the new racer's massive open world. Speaking to Digital Foundry during our recent studio visit, key Criterion staff talked in-depth about Need for Speed's Swedish connection.

We've spoken to various people from id Software during QuakeCon - Todd Hollenshead, Matt Hooper and the mischievous Tim Willits to name three - and there's one question we've asked all of them: Do they ever worry that people have forgotten about id Software? Haven't all these kids grown up playing Halo and Modern Warfare?

It's not the end of the world! Not in Hunted: The Demon's Forge, anyway, which marks this game out as rather unusual. If there's a common theme among Bethesda Softworks titles it's apocalyptic events causing people to squabble over whatever's left. Whether it's Fallout: New Vegas (nukes), Rage (asteroid) or Brink (flood), it is the end of the world, and you have an interesting, usually rather violent role to play during the death throes.

Halo: Reach features over 40 custom assassinations, Bungie's revealed.

BioWare has revealed the two Advanced Class specialisation that will be available to Jedi Knights in its MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Konami will dish out keys for the Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 Master League Online beta test today.

An Ultimate Edition of shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will be released in the UK on 3rd September, according to online retailers.

X-Com: UFO Defense creator Julian Gollop is working on a turn-based tactical RPG due for release on Nintendo 3DS when the console launches.

GSC has announced a multi-platform sequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Songs by German rockers Rammstein, reggae legend Bob Marley and Australian post punk band INXS will be in Rock Band 3, MTV Games has announced.

id Software has announced that Rage will be released on 13th September 2011 in North America and two days later on 15th September 2011 in Europe.

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Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard has told Eurogamer that we shouldn't read anything into Respawn Entertainment's presence at QuakeCon.

Respawn Entertainment founder Vince Zampella feels there's "nothing more frustrating" than games journalists who review games without completing them.

The time for CGI is over. With the next instalment in the Deus Ex series nearer to its "early 2011" release, the time for gameplay has arrived. And Eurogamer has it: Deus Ex: Human Revolution's first gameplay trailer, below, for your viewing pleasure.

Crysis 2 will be released in Europe on 25th March 2011, developer Crytek has announced over Twitter.

Scottish developer Realtime Worlds has insisted it remains "fully committed" to action MMO APB after the studio reportedly made 60 staff members redundant.

Eidos Montreal, the developer behind the upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution, has reassured fans that the studio is not taking the critically-acclaimed series in an action FPS direction.

UPDATE: A community officer called APBMonkey has posted on the European APB forum in response to the current rumour surrounding Realtime Worlds.

Tropico 4 is in development at Bulgarian studio Haemimont Games and is due out in Q2 2011.