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Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has said that one of the biggest changes he's noticed over his long career is the way mainstream media feels about videogames.

Google has invested between $100 million and $200 million in Zynga, the social gaming company behind titles like Farmville and Mafia Wars.

Daigo "The Beast" Umehara has successfully defended his Street Fighter world championship crown after a 3-1 win over Ricky Ortiz in the final of the Evo 2010 tournament.

The Chinese Government is introducing tough new rules restricting the type of content used to advertise online games.

Maxis plans to discuss a new action role-playing game based on the Spore series at Comic-Con next week.

Saying that Mabinogi looks like a Korean free-to-play MMORPG from 2004 isn't an elaborate insult, just a statement of fact. It was originally released in its homeland six years ago. The Americans have had it for two years. On the plus side, though, we're theoretically getting an MMORPG already a half-decade into its life, with all that early tweaking and refinement well behind it.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz's widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial, is a weekly dissection of an issue weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

After a week of angry online protests Blizzard Entertainment has scrapped its controversial plan to force gamers to use their real names when posting on its official forums.

Three years on from its release and Realtime Worlds' Crackdown still commands an incredible level of respect from committed Xbox 360 gamers, and we count ourselves among its many fans. Indeed, the very first Digital Foundry feature in the now-regular Saturday slot was a tech retrospective of this very special game.

January's CES may have been the breakout event for 3DTV technology, but E3 was a similarly impressive showcase for the new format's gaming credentials. Nintendo 3DS will do more to make 3D a mainstream proposition than anything else to emerge from the games business this year, while at the elite, premium-priced end of the spectrum, PlayStation 3's full-on glasses-based stereoscopic 3D offering can only benefit from the additional exposure.

A young woman who works tirelessly to honour her father's memory by making the inn she inherited a success. A knight caught in purgatory under a witch's spell that, down the generations, has cruelly kept him from his one true love, her memory now limited to a likeness in a distant descendent. A village brought to its knees by sickness, its mayor wheezing desperate cries for help.

Eurogamer's review of monster Japanese RPG Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies will be published at 2pm BST tomorrow.

2K Games has whipped the curtain back on the Special Edition of Civilization V.

Sonic creator Yuji Naka has had enough of the speedy blue hedgehog.

It says a lot about the health of the downloadable gaming sector that you could probably do one of these roundups every single day and still not cover everything. As Americans refuse to say, let's do the maths.

EA's and FIFA Manager developer Bright Future's hopes to win the loyalty of the UK audience in the next "two years or so".

Update:Turns out that the 10th July start date for the beta test applies worldwide. It's been confirmed on the game's English Twitter.

Two World Cup-themed weapon tags for Xbox 360 download shooter Blacklight: Tango Down are available.

505 Games has unveiled an underwater third-person shooter called Deep Black for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Inbound Japanese role-playing game Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies was inspired by some unlikely candidates: Bethesda's Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Blizzard's Diablo.

US mega-retailer GameStop has listed a strategy guide for a Game of the Year Edition of Borderlands.

Guild Wars 2 will have no dedicated healing class, no "tanking" in the classic sense, an intermediary stage between defeat and death and almost no death penalty, developer ArenaNet has revealed.

27 per cent of iPad owners in a recent study said they no longer planned to buy a home games console having bought the Apple tablet.

It's been confirmed that Racquet Sports is coming to PS3, complete with support for the new Move motion controller.

Microsoft Game Studios general manager and chief Kinect cheerleader Kudo Tsunoda has said it's "almost laughable the way people hold on to rumble as the holy grail of haptic feedback".

Capcom has revealed the Collector's Edition - the Outbreak Edition - of Dead Rising 2 and launched the official website for the game.

Sony has offered further details of its rollout for 3D support on PlayStation 3, including movies, PlayTV and photos.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima has said the new generation of Japanese game designers don't have enough motivation to keep up with the West.

One of 38 Studios' upcoming projects will be unveiled at the San Diego Comic-Con later this month.

FIFA 11 will be coming to PC this October in fully realised form, EA Sports has announced.