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THQ and American television network Syfy have announced that a two hour Red Faction live action movie pilot will air in March 2011.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima is working on an adventure game, says collaborator Chiyomaru Shikura - boss of Japanese media company 5pb.

Upcoming stab-em-up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is not Assassin's "2.5", Ubisoft has insisted.

Xbox 360 exclusive Crackdown 2 is number one in the UK all formats chart for the second week running.

The submissions process for the Indie Games Arcade is now open.

Microsoft's redesigned Xbox 360 has enjoyed the biggest launch for a "revised" home console in UK history, GFK Chart-Track has said.

Microsoft's redesigned Xbox 360 accounted for just 40 per cent of the 451,700 Xbox 360s sold in the US in June, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter has said.

Interesting reports from Develop last week say that Sony is mandating 720p for all 3D titles, even though Blu-ray 3D movies will all use the full 1080p capabilities of the spec. The question is, why? Are gamers being short-changed by a heavy-handed dictate from Sony High Command?

Either the quality of graphics or the frame rate has to be sacrificed when games are running in 3D.

SEGA has announced that it will release exclusive add-on missions for Valkyria Chronicles II as an incentive for pre-ordering the strategy RPG.

The host of Xbox Live quiz game 1 vs. 100 has given his reaction to the news there will be no season 3.

Valve will release Alien Swarm - a four-player, co-operative, top-down shooter - on Steam for free today.

The first batch of downloadable Mafia II content will be exclusive to PlayStation 3, 2K Games has announced.

Codemasters has confirmed there will be no playable demo for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 racer F1 2010.

BioWare has revealed that it's releasing a patch for the PC version of Dragon Age: Origins today.

Today, PlayStation Plus subscribers will be treated to an automatic demo of Kane & Lynch 2.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series, may not be about to retire after all.

I am the sort of gamer that publishers loathe. I never pre-order, rarely buy a new game until it has at least halved in price, and wouldn't touch a pay-to-play MMO with a Savlon-smeared barge pole. If the Ubisofts, EAs, and Take-Twos of this world, want to reach tight, patient, super-picky souls like me, they must change their ways pretty radically. For starters they've got to slash their RRPs and rethink their dastardly DRM schemes. To be on the safe side they should probably also seek out and assimilate or assassinate all the splendid bedroom coders that have been keeping me in free strategy clover for years.

Blizzard may have about-turned on the decision to require and use people's real names for the StarCraft II and World of Warcraft forums, but the social gaming platform goals of the Real ID feature remain.

Guerrilla Games is promising tighter, more responsive controls for the forthcoming Killzone 3.

It's game engines as art, innit? In a week where Red Dead Redemption proved its sales dominance throughout the summer, with DLC announcements just yesterday, Digital Foundry set about completing its own RDR project: the world created by Rockstar San Diego, displayed via the beauty of time-lapse video.

Singer Joss Stone has revealed she plays "a posh version of Paris Hilton" in the new James Bond game, Blood Stone, due this autumn.

Dead Rising 2 producer Keiji Inafune is working on downloadable Xbox Live and PlayStation Network title Mega Man Universe, Capcom has confirmed. "For the next chapter in this legacy of excellence, Capcom aims to deliver the most creative Mega Man experience yet. In Mega Man Universe, imagination is the star of the game," the official blurb says.

Celebrated screenwriter Alex Garland (The Beach, Sunshine, 28 Weeks Later) can be "quite intimidating" to work with, according to Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades.

Sony has proclaimed the benefits of 3D gaming to its hardcore fans, saying it provides a "competitive edge".

Gears of War main man Cliff Bleszinski has responded to a UK independent developer's claim that Epic vice president Mark Rein "is a jerk".

Damn it, people. Will you stop releasing so many good downloadable games so I can revert to being miserable about the state of gaming? Every week I think we're due a fallow period, up pop another clutch of outstanding titles that embarrass most of the games lining up on high street shelves.

Hello and welcome to this lovely bonus edition of the Eurogamer.net Podcast! This week our home town of Brighton has played host to the Develop Conference, and to celebrate we got together with Revolution Software boss Charles Cecil to chat about the headlines from the best sessions.

NCsoft has stamped a 10th September date on Aion free expansion Assault on Balaurea.

Owners of the Steam version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 have been granted access to the Medal of Honor beta test.