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Number crunching firm NPD has revealed that Alan Wake sold just 145,000 units during the month of May in the US.

Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe has explained the decision not to include unique driver and gunner models in the upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive vehicle smash-em-up.

Blizzard is inviting short story submissions for its 2010 Global Writing Contest.

Crackdown 2 looks set to receive a couple of premium downloadable content packs called Toy Box and Deluge.

Valve is finally updating the Engineer, the last character class in its multiplayer shooter Team Fortress 2 to get an overhaul.

Sony has announced that it will release new higher-capacity versions of the PlayStation 3 in Japan on 29th July.

Sony has announced the Japanese PlayStation Move launch line-up.

G.Rev's, Senko no Ronde was a curious shooter/fighter hybrid that was brought to the UK in 2007 under the pseudonym of WarTech. For those who've never played it - which, judging by the measly sales figures, is almost everyone - the gameplay can be loosely described as a top-down Virtual On with both players trading salvoes of projectiles.

There seems to be a certain formula for a great many third-person shooters in this console generation: target 30FPS, slip out of v-sync if you need to, perhaps use Unreal Engine 3. Square-Enix's Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days immediately makes an impact because it breaks away from that recipe. IO Interactive has targeted 60FPS, making for far more responsive controls and more arcade-like visuals.

Square Enix has told Eurogamer that PSP game The 3rd Birthday is coming to Europe.

60 per cent of gamers who subscribe to Xbox Live do so primarily to play Call of Duty, Activision Blizzard's head honcho Bobby Kotick has said.

Amazon France has listed an Ultimate Edition of Gran Turismo 5 for an eye-watering €189.95.

I think a mark of quality in a game is whether you can return to a room you've previously been in, and know you were there earlier by the destruction you wrought. Amnesia, the new first-person adventure from Penumbra developers Frictional, does not paint rooms in the blood of your enemies, but rather in strewn desk drawers, boxes and broken glass.

Peter Molyneux has agreed to take Fable III down to the Brighton Develop Conference next week.

LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 has Weasley held on to the UK all-formats chart top spot for a second week.

A survey has found that 64 per cent of people prefer physical copies of console games to digital ones - a higher figure than for newspapers, films or music.

Someone was murdered in Red Dead Redemption every six minutes during the first two weeks of the game's release.

Sony plans to release a Patapon 3 demo this week.

Senior designer Dan Teasdale has announced his departure from Harmonix and the end of his involvement with the Rock Band series.

Still eager to prove that it's actually making Fallout Online, Interplay has started sending out teaser newsletters to people who sign up at the MMO's website - and has announced the fact in a press release.

Nintendo wants to work with third-party developers to create 3DS games targeted at "serious gamers".

EA will offer a new piece of Skate 3 add-on content tomorrow in the shape of Danny Way's Hawaiian Dream.

Crackdown 2 developer Ruffian has said it wants to make a "disruptive" game that advances the openworld genre in a way that its peers so far have not.

An iPhone version of classic shooter R-Type is on its way to the iPhone.

APB, the action MMO from Dundee-based developer Realtime Worlds, launched in the UK on Friday. Great things were expected, not least because of the pedigree of the developer behind it. So Eurogamer's review, which criticised the game's combat, vehicle handling and matchmaking before dishing out a less-than-stellar 6/10 score, came as some surprise.

Dave Jones has told Eurogamer that Realtime Worlds will need to find a publishing partner in order to do a console version of APB.

Sony is "keen to look into" converting ICO and Shadow of the Colossus to HD for PlayStation 3, Shuhei Yoshida has said.

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Realtime Worlds' Dave Jones has responded to criticism of APB in a wide-ranging interview due to be published on Eurogamer next week.

David Cage has told Eurogamer that Quantic Dream has begun work on the next generation of "technology".