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Activision has announced that the Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack will be released for Xbox Live users on 3rd June.

EA has revealed the next significant paid add-on for Mass Effect 2. It's called Overlord and will be available in June for 560 Microsoft Points (£4.80/€6.70).

I've read a number of previews of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It'd be hard not to - people have been writing about it for over a year. Not to mention, I sat in a room at 2009's E3 and voted to kill some captain or other. But until yesterday, I still had no strong mental image of what the game would play like. That's not the fault of the writers - it's the fact that the particulars of what BioWare is doing are still in flux, and the developers refuse to talk about anything that's still in flux. Remember that sentence, you'll be hearing more of it later!

Polyphony Digital has revealed that there will be three circuits from Germany's motorsport Mecca, the Nürburgring, in Gran Turismo 5.

Alan Wake downloadable add-on content will be released in July.

Ars Technica reports that the United States Air Force is among the customers upset by Sony's decision to remove Other OS support from PS3s to improve security.

Majesco has announced a DS game called Monster Tale, and Henry Hatsworth developer Dreamrift is at the helm.

Poor old Alan Wake. Like many of us, he just wants a break from the day job. A chance to unwind in calmer surroundings and be rude to peasants at the local café. A release from the stress and intensity of not having done any work for several years.

PlayStation 3 sales rose to 13 million units in the company's latest financial year, ended 31st March 2010, an increase of 3m units year-on-year.

Few things could ever hope to top the gurning onomatopoeic satisfaction of pruning malicious spindly limbs from Dead Space's necromorphs. The whump of the stasis blast to stop them in their tracks, the surgically precise thunk and schlick of the plasma cutter carving through bone with merciless efficiency.

Eurogamer can exclusively reveal that Star Wars: The Old Republic's eight character classes will each split into two specialised Advanced Classes, giving the player a total of 16 choices of career in BioWare's MMO.

Valve's charming triumph Portal is being given away for free to anybody who downloads Steam.

ArenaNet took chances with Guild Wars, scrapping all fees past game and expansion purchases, establishing an obtainable level cap (that even I reached, twice) and insisting on an instance-led approach where cities and outposts were the only evidence of a massively multiplayer world. It was and is unique. And it worked; the game initially scored higher than World of Warcraft, Blizzard's behemoth that had launched a couple of months prior, and WOW never trampled Guild Wars into the ground.

A confident ArenaNet has told Eurogamer that Guild Wars 2 will epitomise what players hoped the MMO genre could be.

Bit of a slow week on PlayStation Network, this one, despite the mountain of itemised PS3 downloadable content listed below.

Update: Publisher THQ has announced the details.

THQ has confirmed that the upcoming Metro 2033 downloadable content mentioned earlier is due "in the very near future", and detailed the contents.

DICE has announced a new, four-player co-op pursuit for Battlefield: Bad Company called Onslaught mode.

If you don't like cars, I guess all these car games are quite hard to tell apart. If you do, however, you'll know that you're not dealing with a single genre so much as dozens of the things.

If you read about videogames on the internet then you've probably heard of Michael Pachter.

Namco Bandai and Eden Studios have revealed that Test Drive Unlimited 2 takes place in Ibiza, but that at some stage you unlock the airport and get to fly to the Hawaiian island of Oahu from the first game.

The Collector's Edition of Fallout: New Vegas will include poker chips, playing cards and a graphic novel. That's on top of the usual "Making Of" DVD.

Microsoft and Turn 10 have released the Exotic Cars Pack for Forza Motorsport 3.

Rockstar has revealed details of how its Social Club online system will work with Red Dead Redemption, promising exclusive unlockable content.

Valve has announced that an "extensive update" to Counter-Strike: Source is now in beta testing.

Assassin's Creed antagonist Dr. Warren Vidic has popped up on Facebook and left a mysterious message.

Ubisoft plans to produce games based on its biggest franchises more often and wants everything to have multiplayer in it, according to CEO Yves Guillemot.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said that the Assassin's Creed episode mentioned last month picks up after ACII and takes place in Rome.

Ubisoft has said to expect more Assassin's Creed during its next fiscal year, which begins in April and ends on 31st March 2011.

Ubisoft has announced that Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood will ship on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in late 2010.