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Warner Bros. has announced that Turbine's The Lord of the Rings Online MMO will relaunch worldwide this autumn as a free-to-play game.

PaRappa the Rapper creator Masaya Matsuura has announced a new music game based on sexually-charged crooner Marvin Gaye.

Update: Rockstar has clarified that the PS3 version of Outlaws to the End will be released on 23rd June.

Following the drop in the trade price of the Nintendo DSi, UK retailer ShopTo has plans to cut the cost price to consumers by £15.

Ubisoft - or rather, its UbiWorkshop multimedia hothouse - has revealed a couple of "secret projects" it's working on, teasing one with Egyptian-themed Assassin's Creed art. It is not a game, however, and not related to Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

Square Enix has warned the Final Fantasy XI community of a possible "breach" of server security that may put accounts at risk.

Treyarch studio leader Mark Lamia has affirmed that his team is now completely focused on Call of Duty.

That's that then. Bye bye games industry, see you after the World Cup.

Update: Konami has told Eurogamer that it is looking at a European Ninety-Nine Nights II release in September.

Square Enix has unveiled a pair of WiiWare games titled Kumanage.

Realtime Worlds has revealed the minimum PC specifications you'll need to play its online crime game, APB.

Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia has said that Call of Duty: Black Ops will include multiple co-operative modes separate from the single-player story.

Konami is bringing Contra to PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this winter in the shape of Hard Corps: Uprising.

With E3 less than a fortnight away and the internet rumour mill grinding away furiously, news has emerged that Rock Band developer Harmonix is working on a new title.

Rockstar has trumpeted the arrival of a Red Dead: Redemption title update "by the end of next week".

In a month like this when there are so few big-name games hitting the shelves, you'd hope that some of the left-field alternatives in the download arena would fill the cavernous void. Well, lucky you, because this week we have arguably one of the best titles ever to hit WiiWare.

Team17 has announced that Alien Breed: Impact is available on Steam, worldwide, now.

Warner will unleash an Xbox 360 demo of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 on Monday, 7th June.

Konami has announced that hip-hop karaoke game Def Jam Rapstar will be released on 5th November.

UK retailer GAME has revealed that Natal pre-orders will be taken from 13th June.

EA Sports has predicted that Spain will win the real-life football World Cup this summer.

2K Sports has made good on the rumours and announced Michael Jordan as the cover athlete of NBA 2K11.

Update: Activision has announced that the Resurgence Pack will be available to UK gamers at 6pm (7pm CET).

Nintendo's announced a midnight London launch for Super Mario Galaxy 2 next Thursday, 10th June [game's out Friday, 11th June -Ed].

The slide puzzle: crutch of every tired, lazy or creatively bankrupt game designer. Used to bulk out countless adventure games, these pictorial conundrums - in which you slide tiles one by one around a bordered play area while attempting to arrange them to create a picture - predate videogames by some margin. And yet there's gold in these simple clichés for the talented contemporary designer to uncover, as their occasional appearances in the Professor Layton series have demonstrated, with some cute twists on the antiquated formula.

THQ has announced that Company of Heroes Online is heading to the US. Evidently the publisher found success in South Korean and Chinese markets.

Pure Football has a theory. The theory goes that somewhere out there in the wild, gated communities of Esher there exists a sub-culture of professional football players who, rather than accepting defeat after matches, send each other text messages that say things like, "We wuz robbed. Rematch on Sunday. No referee."

Ubisoft's given RTS game R.U.S.E. a 17th September release date. That's on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, according to the publisher's latest schedule.

SEGA has confirmed the rumours and unveiled Shogun 2: Total War. The game will be released exclusively on PC in 2011.

Turbine has revealed details of Update 5 to its resurgent MMO, Dungeons & Dragons Online.