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Square Enix has announced Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light for the West.

505 Games' interpretation of hit musical Grease is coming to Wii and DS this September.

Guild Wars 2 players will be asked "several detailed questions" about their character's personality, history and background that will shape their personal stories, their homes and the way they interact with NPCs.

"Phew!" That's what all the publishers with games out this week are thinking, because as keen observers of release date trends well know, they've all been engaged in a kind of "reverse Gareth Barry" - trying to get out of the way of the real-life football World Cup, which kicks off on 11th June.

Apple has surpassed Microsoft as the world's most valuable technology company.

Counsellor and therapist Steve Pope has failed to produce evidence to defend his publicised claim that "spending two hours on a game station is the equivalent of taking a line of cocaine in the high it produces".

2K Sports may have signed basketball legend Michael Jordan to front NBA 2K11.

High street retailer GAME has dismissed rumours of a bust-up with Activision.

Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project is definitely heading to Xbox Live Arcade.

With Killzone 3 revealed (somewhat prematurely) this week, announcements, details and our old friends rumour and speculation have been flying around like nobody's business - but the gushings of journalists can only ever reveal so much.

Borderlands maker Gearbox Software has trademarked the name Z-Day.

Final Fantasy IX has been added to the European PlayStation Store and can be downloaded for £8. What's more, this archaic treasure can be played on both PS3 and PSP. The Euro PlayStation blog has pictures and a video.

Blizzard still has "a lot of work to do" in order to come to terms with its enormous growth since World of Warcraft launched.

CCP has released the Tyrannis expansion for space MMO EVE Online and moved the web-based social portal EVE Gate into open beta.

Eleven million players. Two expansions. $1.2 billion a year in revenue. 16GB of your hard disk. Billions of hours played. Acres of news-print. A Sam Raimi-directed movie in the works. A billion-dollar grey market in gold and items. An episode of South Park. Therapists creating in-game characters for addiction counselling. Eleven million players.

Team17 has announced that Alien Breed: Impact will be released for PC through Steam and for PS3 this summer.

Atari has announced that Test Drive Unlimited 2 is due out in the US on 21st September for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Activision-owned studio Sledgehammer Games is looking for new staff members to work on a "Call of Duty first-person shooter".

Namco Bandai has said that Puzzle Quest 2 will be released for Xbox Live Arcade on 23rd June and for DS in Europe on 16th July.

You may not remember Black Mirror. I reviewed it, and I still couldn't remember a thing about it. But then, it was seven years ago. It was a peculiar Czech point-and-click adventure, in which you played a wretched man called Samuel Gordon - a character who went around being rude to everyone, leaving you feeling completely alienated from the experience.

There's no doubt about it, Apple's iPad is a hugely polarising product. Some say it's the device the netbook should have been, an ultra-portable net browser and movie player, functionally rich and possessing phenomenal battery power. Others criticise it as little more than a mammoth, over-expensive iPod Touch, deliberately hobbled in several key technological aspects and prevented from full compatibility with a huge range of websites out there owing to Apple's dogmatic refusal to support Flash.

2K Games has revealed that Mafia II will be available as a Collector's Edition for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Insomniac Games' Ted Price has told Eurogamer he is excited about working with Xbox Live for the very first time - it's a platform he's admired from afar.

Valve has announced that it will release Half-Life 2 for Mac OS X on Steam later today, 26th May.

Filthy, rotten money. It's mankind's dirtiest multiplayer game, bringing out the very worst in humanity, and capable of making backstabbing bastards out of even the most benign soul - and Danish game developer IO Interactive knows it.

UTV True Games, the publisher of Warrior Epic and Mytheon, has revealed a new and internally developed MMO called Faxion Online.

Blizzard high warlord Frank Pearce has revealed that micro-transactions are not yet part of the StarCraft II plan.

Close your eyes in a room full of StarCraft II players and you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the presence of a giant space cockroach, or a vast interstellar weevil, or something else with nasty chattering mandibles.

UK retailer Play is selling DJ Hero with turntable peripheral for the ludicrously low price of £35.

Rockstar has released a 'Lite' version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the App Store.