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Nintendo will reveal the date and price of the 3DS in Japan on 29th September 2010.

Nintendo lost money during the three months ended 30th June 2010, with worldwide DS sales down 44.7 per cent year on year to 3.15 million, while DS software sales slumped 22.9 per cent to 22.42 million.

Valve has updated the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 with a few small changes intended to stop players "rage quitting".

APB developer Realtime Worlds has given the first glimpse of Project: MyWorld, a social game set in a 3D recreation of the real world that players help build themselves.

Sony's latest financial results reveal that worldwide sales of PlayStation 3 now stand at 38.1 million units, following 2.4 million sales of the console in the company's first quarter, which ended 30th June 2010.

Ubisoft has announced that air-combat sim HAWX 2 will have an adversarial, local and online multiplayer mode for up to eight players.

Ubisoft tells us to meet at Hammersmith tube station, but once we do we're taken around the corner to a car park and a waiting Land Rover. There a slightly embarrassed man dressed as a 'Future Soldier' ™ stands shiftily, plastic rifle in hand.

LA Noire developer Team Bondi has "defeated the uncanny valley" according to founder Brendan McNamara.

Film director Guillermo del Toro has said that he is on the verge of announcing a deal to make videogames.

Hands up who's seen the (original) Poseidon Adventure? It's about a boat having a bad day, and it traumatised me, combining latent fears of confinement, deep water and Gene Hackman into one package. Every family holiday that involved a ferry was soon tinged with trepidation.

Atari and Cryptic have launched Season Two of their space MMO Star Trek Online, and cut the price of the retail game to $19.99.

R4 cartridges, which are used to play pirated copies of games on the Nintendo DS, are now illegal in the UK.

Konami is bringing three big-budget blockbusters to the Eurogamer Expo 2010: Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Def Jam Rapstar and SAW II: Flesh & Blood. And they'll be playable - all three before their UK release.

It's a typically peaceful Monday lunchtime in the pub closest to Zombie Cow's Kingston HQ. Two grey-haired pensioners nuzzle sandwiches in the corner, while at the bar two businessmen mutter about a particularly important deal that may, or may not, be on the table. It's all rather serene, but that's nothing compared to the silence that descends after chief ZC developer Dan Marshall opens his trap. The phrase, "I think I'm most proud of the ascent through the anus," is something that no-one present will ever manage to un-hear.

PC, PSN and XBLA game Faery: Legends of Avalon has revealed itself.

Gameloft's touched-up version of vintage platformer Earthworm Jim is out today on PS3 for £7.99/€9.99.

In theory, massively multiplayer gaming isn't a genre. It's everything else - a business model (or several), a technological framework, a social philosophy. There's little to dictate that MMOs have to fit a particular style of design or gameplay.

In 2011, THQ will introduce the West to a different kind of WWE game.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's sort of cel-shaded art style was chosen to highlight the "exaggerated characteristics" of the game's characters, Zelda mega man Eiji Aonuma has said.

The Wii is the best console for platform games because it's got a more casual and nostalgic audience, the creator of Wii-exclusive platformer Flip's Twisted World has said.

The dance videogame Michael Jackson: The Experience will sell a million copies, Ubisoft reckons.

EverQuest II is the latest subscription MMO to jump on the free-to-play bandwagon. Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it's to launch a free service called EverQuest II Extended later this year.

EA has secured the worldwide debut of Linkin Park's new single "The Catalyst" for a Medal of Honor video.

US videogame shop GameStop has bought browser gaming hub Kongregate.

Along with yesterday's launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty came the opening of the game's official forums on Battle.net. Rooting around in the technical support folders has revealed the current state of play with the game's launch bugs and detailed advice on its system requirements and compatibility.

Activision's new Transformers game - War For Cybertron - has been given four new multiplayer maps and five new playable characters.

Disney has snapped up social game developer Playdom in a $563.2 million deal that could rise to $763.2 million based on future performance.

Irrational Games has teased the forthcoming announcement of its new game, codenamed Project Icarus.

PlayStation 3-exclusive shooter MAG is set to receive a patch next month.

PopCap has decided to bin the Michael Jackson-inspired enemy in Plants vs. Zombies after the late singer's estate got in touch about it.