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The arrival of 2010 brings us into year three of Eurogamer's cross-platform development coverage, and with it the arrival of a brand new release that defies analysis. It's full 720p. It's a rock-solid 60 frames per second. It's literally the same game on both platforms. A great way to kick off the New Year.

Heroes of Might and Magic Online has plunged into closed beta. You can take part by swishing like a wizard over to the official website.

Remedy's Alan Wake features just 2.41GB of actual game data for all six of its in-game episodes.

Probably one of the most criminally overlooked racing games of recent times, Black Rock Studios' Pure was a hugely impressive off-road title, combining ATVs with SSX-style gameplay to produce superb visuals with deeply satisfying gameplay.

Left 4 Dead 2 mutation "Realism Versus" has become a permanent fixture for the game.

EA Sports is set to launch a new Facebook game called FIFA Superstars to coincide with the real-world FIFA World Cup in South Africa next month.

If you haven't checked in on it over the weekend, you might be interested to know that Invasion mode is now live in the Halo: Reach beta.

Alan Wake developer Remedy has said it's "no secret that we'd love to make a second one if the first one does well".

Enterprising heroes from the brilliant PinataIsland.info community have managed to reverse-engineer the Pinata Vision barcode system used in Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise.

LittleBigPlanet 2 will be revealed in full at 2pm BST today.

Final Fantasy XIII on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was one of the biggest Face-Offs we've produced, but more than that it was an analysis of one of the biggest games - in terms of actual scope - that we've ever had to cover. In putting together the original piece, we were about a week ahead of the release: enough to do the game justice in terms of the comparison coverage, but not enough to see the whole game through to its conclusion, let alone on both platforms.

Smoke-wreathed Sicilian vineyards are my sky, Prussian-blue firmament studded with black flak flowers is my ground. I'm upside down, hurtling along at 300mph, and there's a big juicy Messerschmitt sliding helplessly into the crucible of my gun sight. Ask me what I think of Wings of Prey at this precise moment, and I'll tell you it's the best WWII flight sim ever made.

Square Enix has revealed that the PlayStation Network re-release of Final Fantasy IX will hit Japanese consoles on 20th May.

Sony's PlayStation Portable once again topped the Japanese sales charts for the week ending 2nd May, selling 61,205 units on the strong launch of Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

A listing from a Nintendo financial document suggests the company plans to release a new Kirby game for the Wii in the future.

DICE has announced a new patch for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 that will fix balancing issues on the console version of the game.

Listings from online retailers suggest a new Call of Duty compilation pack, The War Collection, may be coming to retailers this June.

Legendary Nintendo designer and head of Entertainment Analysis and Development Shigeru Miyamoto has said Nintendo may have to start charging directly for its online features in the future.

There's new evidence to suggest that 2002 side-scroller Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project may be coming to Xbox Live Arcade.

On Thursday night UK time, Microsoft and Bungie began to distribute the first Xbox Live redeem codes for the long awaited Halo: Reach beta, and Digital Foundry was one of the first 300 to acquire access to the sampler.

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Update: Sony has been in touch to let us know that the ModNation Racers PSP demo will be out here on 19th May.

Details on Gears of War 3's weapons, dynamic environments and additional combat systems have tumbled out in a new translation of the Russian preview that Cliff Bleszinski was grumpy about the other day.

Nintendo has unveiled a new multiplayer game titled Wii Party.

Apple has announced a new release date for the UK launch of the iPad.

Clearly no introduction tapped out in the aftermath of hung parliament fun could resist making some reference to the fact Eurogamer now resides in the UK's first Green constituency. Appropriate, really, because part of the mandate for any download-friendly game is to lovingly recycle the things that other people leave behind.

"It's ready when it's ready." Developers must love being able to say that. It means they're so rich and successful they don't have to worry about trivialities like release dates. The publisher will wait patiently for them to hand over the finished product, and won't dare bang on about seasonal purchasing trends in the meantime.

Remedy has said that it has adopted some improved facial animation techniques for the upcoming Alan Wake downloadable content.

Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Things on Wheels is due to arrive on Xbox Live next week - finally.

Activision plans to release its second map pack for Modern Warfare 2 in the "back half of the year" according to CFO Thomas Tippl.