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EA boss John Riccitiello has called Project Ten Dollar and the new EA Sports Online Pass initiative a "positive consumer experience" that offers a "boat-load" of content buyers otherwise wouldn't have access to.

It turns out that Visceral Games is making a PC version of Dead Space 2 after all.

Black Rock Studios has unveiled the Air Strike and Air Revenge modes in Split/Second: Velocity, where you duel with a gunship.

If you thought Alan Wake took its sweet time getting out of the door, spare a thought for hardcore adventure gamers who have had to wait a patience-testing seven years for Gray Matter. Since the game was announced it has gone through various stages of development hell, switching publishers and developers multiple times before the point-and-clicker finally found a home - this time at German publisher dtp.

Activision has confirmed to Eurogamer that Call of Duty: Black Ops will launch on Wii, as well as Xbox 360, PC and PS3, on 9th November.

Capcom has mentioned a Mega Man online game as part of a new development strategy aimed at reversing a steep decline in its income.

Valve has announced that the first games available for Steam on Mac tomorrow will be Portal and Torchlight.

Inspired partly by the Green Party's triumph in Eurogamer's home constituency of Brighton Pavilion, and more truthfully by Ubisoft's decision to ditch game manuals, we've been ringing round the games industry to learn what publishers and platform holders are doing to make their businesses more environmentally friendly.

Eurogamer has decided to withdraw its review of Age of Conan: Rise of the Godslayer.

Microsoft's marketing manager for Entertainment & Devices in Saudi Arabia has said that Project Natal will "definitely" launch in October 2010.

In scenes which can only be described as amazing, this week the Eurogamer.net Podcast is infiltrated by three special guests, who join host Tom Champion and irremovable mood-hoover Tom Bramwell to discuss the issues of the week and all sorts of other jazz.

I'm on the train home from Disney's London offices and I'm wondering whether Black Rock has overdone the realism of Split/Second's crashes a little bit.

Update: Microsoft has told Eurogamer it will not comment directly on the LG deal. Instead, a broad statement on 3D was offered.

Two more lawsuits have been levelled at Sony over the removal of the PS3's support for Other OS operating systems, including Linux.

A PlayStation 3 Ape Escape game will be released sometime between now and Christmas.

The delayed BioShock 2 add-on, the Rapture Metro Pack, will be released today on Xbox 360 and PS3 (in the US - Wednesday on the European PSN, presumably).

Nier downloadable add-on The World of Recycled Vessel will be released today on Xbox 360 and tomorrow on PS3.

Ubisoft has popped up a teaser website for its next Assassin's Creed title featuring Dr Warren Vidic banging on about the Templars.

American newspaper USA Today has gained an exclusive look at a level of this year's Call of Duty: Black Ops, and has confirmed that the game's co-op mode will support four players.

In Skate 3, as the old T-shirt slogan goes, "skateboarding is not a crime" - and even if it were, it would be a white-collar crime. Departing from the anti-establishment trappings of Skate 2, the latest game in EA's kiss-our-butt-Tony-Hawk series is a tale of skateboarder as capitalist. After founding a new skateboard company, you set out to move 1,000,000 units. ("I have to pay for my summer home," growls your delightful business partner.)

Lionhead lead artist John McCormack has revealed that Fable III's 'morphs' - physical manifestations of the players' good and evil alignment, like wings, horns or halos - will be controlled by pressing a button. Previously these appeared of their own accord.

Update: Split/Second game director Nick Baynes has verified the DLC to Eurogamer and explained that the additional cars will offer no "unfair advantage".

Split/Second game director Nick Baynes has told Eurogamer that the Hyper Cars Pack DLC will offer competitive but not overpowered new vehicles to drive around in.

British publisher Codemasters has accused former CEO Nicholas Wheelwright of poaching staff.

As the name always suggested, LittleBigPlanet was pretty comfortable with its own contradictions. It used complex technology to render a world of needle and thread, tweed and cardboard. It had huge ambitions, but tried its hardest to keep things simple. Most tellingly of all, it was one of the friendliest games ever constructed, and yet it was capable of making some of its players feel very, very stupid.

Sony has officially unveiled LittleBigPlanet 2, confirming many of the details that leaked over the weekend, and said it will be released in 2010.

Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, may leave Facebook to create its own social gaming network.

EA has been spotted trademarking the name Darkspore.

A multiplayer patch to fix various BioShock 2 multiplayer niggles is "in the final stages of testing".

As we reach the quarter-century of cross-platform Face-Off features, we thought it was time to do a little spring-cleaning on the format itself. The idea was to supplement the already vast range of video and screenshot assets with additional analysis and data.