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THQ has announced that de Blob 2: The Underground will appear on DS, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 in spring 2011 and that the high-def versions will support 3D.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood is due out on 16th November this year.

Harmonix has confirmed its first Kinect title, Dance Central, will regularly receive new tracks to download - but "it won't be weekly".

Bethesda Softworks has announced that Fallout: New Vegas will be released on 19th October in the US and on 22nd October in Europe.

Red Dead Redemption maintained its horseshoe-like grip on the top of the UK charts this week despite the launch of Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Wii on Friday.

Update: Kotaku has found marketing material bearing the "November 2010" legend.

Microsoft's Stephen Toulouse believes that the name "Kinect" is a great fit for the Project Natal concept even though he admits it will be polarising.

The videogame inspired by the 2010 film inspired by the 1982 film inspired by 1982's videogames: it would be a weird enough conceptual feedback loop without the 28-year temporal kink in it.

SEGA hasn't done badly out of its four-game deal with Platinum Games, certainly not in terms of variety. We've had a score-chase playground for sadists in MadWorld; Infinite Space gave us a space-RPG for obsessive-compulsives; Bayonetta is an action heroine as gloriously over-the-top and under-dressed you could possibly hope for; and Vanquish, a third-person shooter set on a space station in the grip of a future Cold War, is nothing like any of them.

Crytek's upcoming first-person shooter Crysis 2 will be playable entirely in 3D.

World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is a uniquely ambitious expansion to an MMO, or to any kind of game, for that matter. Alongside the usual hefty suite of new content and features - a raised level cap, new endgame, two new races, new profession, guild levelling, new Battlegrounds - is a complete overhaul of the questing and levelling experience of the original game.

Only a small percentage of gamers know about or intend to buy Project Natal or PlayStation Move, according to a pair of studies.

Take-Two has settled its lawsuit with 3D Realms over Duke Nukem Forever, according to spokespeople for both parties.

Konami has announced that Hideo Kojima and Yoji Shinkawa will be signing copies of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker at HMV on Oxford Street in London this Friday.

Microsoft and Epic have announced that hip hop musician Drake will voice a new playable character in Gears of War 3.

Sony has whacked up a countdown clock for what very much looks like a new Patapon game.

Q Entertainment is set to unveil its new game at Ubisoft's E3 press conference tomorrow, 14th June.

Infinity Ward has announced that Modern Warfare 2's Resurgence Pack will launch for PC and PlayStation 3 on 6th July in the US, with the European PS3 version hitting on 7th July.

More details in inFamous 2 have made it out ahead of E3 this week courtesy of a Game Informer cover story, which also reveals the game is due out in 2011.

The LA Times has revealed details of the Cirque de Soleil event Microsoft has commissioned to introduce its final vision of Project Natal to the world this evening in Los Angeles.

Ubisoft has confirmed that Patrice Désilets "has decided to take a creative break from the industry".

The first thing you do when you spawn outside the gates of Orgrimmar is run in and see what they've done to your home. The scooped plaza of the once-ramshackle desert town is changed forever. The low-slung bank is now a menacing, fortified tower studded with black iron from which the zeppelins fly around the world; the surrounding architecture has gone from tumbledown to terrifying.

Blizzard has shown third World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm to the press, revealing that it will ship with three times as many new quests as last effort Wrath of the Lich King. But much has been cut from the game too, including the planned new customisation system Paths of the Titans.

Housemarque has said that the 3D update to its stunning PSN shooter, Super Stardust HD, also significantly boosts elements of the existing 2D version of the game.

Sony is rumoured to be preparing a premium PSN reveal for E3 next month.

In Digital Foundry's last Saturday feature before the onslaught of E3, we talk to one of Media Molecule's tech masterminds, Alex Evans, about the origins of the company's association with Sony and how they got to grips with unique PlayStation 3 architecture.

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.

Danny Bilson, THQ's executive vice president of core games, has told Eurogamer that the publisher has "to compete at the highest level of excellence" these days and he sees it as his job to protect software from being released in a poor state.

Codemasters has told Eurogamer that it does not plan to support PlayStation Move or Project Natal in F1 2010, which is due out later this year, and that we're also not going to see any downloadable content.

With E3 just a few days away, it looks as though Sony could be set to unveil a new iteration of the PlayStation 3.