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Zombies will turn up in Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops via map packs, a retailer has confirmed.

Give people what they want and they'll only want more of it. At least, that's the trend that appears to be emerging when it comes to the weekly Download Roundup.

Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima has tweeted to say he'll make an announcement about something or other this weekend.

A report by Pocket Gamer says Nintendo considered producing a mobile phone back in the early 2000s.

Blizzard's science fiction real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty obliterated sales of all other games released in the US in July, NPD said.

Analyst firm EEDAR has predicted that the future of the games industry will be determined by the success or failure of the new motion controllers coming to market.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 outsold Nintendo and Sony hardware in the US in July, according to sales data from NPD.

The life of a Space Marine is not an easy one. Setting aside blood-soaked galaxy-spanning conflict and the fact that simply writing down the date in the year 40,000 is a bit of a faff, just look at that one-ton outfit they're clad in.

id Software boss Todd Hollenshead has told Eurogamer that id Tech 5 will not be licensed out to third party developers and publishers.

id Software boss Todd Hollenshead has said that Doom 4 will not be shown at QuakeCon 2010 despite rumours to the contrary.

id Software technical director John Carmack has shown off a tech demo of Rage running on iPhone during his keynote address at QuakeCon 2010.

Bethesda Softworks mother company ZeniMax has acquired Arkane Studios, adding to its stable of studios that already includes id Software.

Irrational Games founder and BioShock creator Ken Levine passed on the opportunity to create BioShock 2 because he'd said all he wanted about underwater city Rapture.

It's a sultry August night in New York and Ken Levine, president and creative director of Irrational Games, writer and designer of Thief and System Shock 2, creator of BioShock, has just revealed his next game to the press for the first time. BioShock Infinite, which you can read about in detail in our preview, inverts the original's claustrophobic, art deco undersea horror to create a bright, brutal satire on early 1900s America aboard Columbia, a city in the clouds.

Irrational Games has announced BioShock Infinite, due out for the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012.

HMV, GAME and Gamestation are taking pre-orders for the Prestige Edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Publisher Square Enix stripped down a Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days advertisement after regulators deemed it too violent for telly.

Publisher SouthPeak plans to release Firefly's castle-building game Stronghold 3 early next year.

Nine new maps make up the meat of this multiplayer sandwich, the second batch of DLC for Rockstar's Western elegy, the first to demand payment. Ranging from open rural expanses to cover-heavy towns, all are extracted from the existing terrain, but some have had more of a makeover than others. Since these locations were created for atmosphere and single-player adventuring, they don't always lend themselves well to a nuanced multiplayer experience.

Massively multiplayer first-person shooter Global Agenda will be available to buy from UK shops on 10th September.

id Software will reveal a new game at QuakeCon tonight.

UPDATE: Atari Europe's just sent us this note:

Ubisoft has announced plans to abandon its proprietary digital rights management system for the PC version of R.U.S.E.

Engadget is reporting that Sony Ericsson is on the cusp of releasing a brand new Android-powered smartphone with PlayStation branding.

The next instalment in the Metroid series is so emotionally charged it brought one of the game's creators to tears.

Saints Row and Red Faction developer Volition is hiring for a third-person role-playing game Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro may be involved in.

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux has said he has high hopes the next instalment in the Fable series will be the biggest, best and most lucrative yet.

Call of Duty: Black Ops developer Treyarch has warned gamers of a scam that involves impostors posing as members of the development team over Xbox Live.

Another year, another Football Manager game. But this time developer Sports Interactive has chucked in dynamic league reputation, the most requested feature from the community.

Gorgeous-looking Wii-exclusive 2D side-scrolling platformer Kirby's Epic Yarn will be released in Europe early next year, Nintendo's confirmed.