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Sony Online Entertainment's espionage MMO, The Agency, is set to return to the public eye in some kind of playable form "within weeks", according to SOE president John Smedley in a GDC interview with GameTrailers (via VG247).

505 Games has announced plans to release Naval Assault: The Killing Tide exclusively for Xbox 360 on 11th June in Europe.

Bizarre Creations' Gareth Wilson has revealed that the studio doesn't plan to continue its classic Xbox Live Arcade series, Geometry Wars.

Swedish racing game studio SimBin has announced that work is underway on a new game in its GTR series.

Activision has used a press release to reveal the first details of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, the web-slinger's next game, due for release in September this year. It's being developer by Quebec City studio Beenox.

While EA and DICE have previously referred to an "extensive paid digital content plan" for Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the developer has said it wants to avoid charging for maps.

Microsoft has blamed the foul-up that led to hours of misery for Modern Warfare 2 fans on a "process failure" during deployment of the Stimulus Package DLC and its associated Title Update (patch).

Reports in the wild suggest that users are being prompted to grab the controversial 3.21 firmware update for PlayStation 3, announced earlier this week.

Epic Games' Cliff Bleszinski is booked to appear on a US late-night talk show next week to show a "new game".

Rune Factory is a deceptive little bugger. It's a Harvest Moon spin-off, and to the casual observer it must resemble a pretty little farming game with a bit of colourful monster-bashing, which means it frightens away most of the audience who would really appreciate it before they even get it off the shelf. By flashing its schmaltzy anime portraiture and pastoral plumage, Rune Factory disguises a hugely complex and extensive RPG, which just happens to orbit the binary stars of market gardening and playboy romance.

Microsoft has finally confirmed that Israeli company PrimeSense is providing the 3D sensing and recognition technologies in Project Natal.

It's hard to imagine now, but the day Shigeru Miyamoto started work at Nintendo he didn't have a clue what he was going to do, let alone achieve. Yet what the designer - who has had a more profound, towering influence on the evolution of interactive entertainment than any other single figure - did have was a desire. And in Nintendo he found the company to help him fulfil it.

Veteran Nintendo games designer Shigeru Miyamoto has said that videogame technology is still intimidating to new audiences.

Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition was supposed to be released today on Xbox Live Arcade. It hasn't been and won't.

This week marks the launch of Eurogamer's dedicated kids site, Megaton.co.uk. Check it out and if you're a parent, we're interested in your feedback - either via the contact form or on the Editor's blog. Thanks!

BioWare bosses Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have apologised for restricting the BioWare Bazaar competition to North American residents only (but not those in Florida or New York).

The Sims and SimCity mastermind Will Wright is hard at work on a new project, but this time he's not making a videogame.

God of War III may receive a multiplayer fighting mini-game as downloadable content in April.

Polish outfit City Interactive has announced that it will release its debut FPS, Sniper Ghost Warrior, for 360 and PC in Europe in June.

High Voltage Software has said that it would still like to release zombie shooter The Grinder on Wii.

Former Sony Europe boss David Reeves is to take control of Resident Evil and Lost Planet publisher Capcom in Europe, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

THQ will reveal a new fighting game from a "major developer" at E3 this year, its core games boss Danny Bilson has told CVG.

Activision has reorganised its executive team and split the company into four specific divisions to oversee its portfolio of titles.

Japanese developer Shift has announced a Wii quiz title where you compete in mini-games based around which terms have more hits on Google.

Update #6: "The MW2 Title Update is now live! It may take a few minutes for everyone worldwide to get it - our apologies for the delay." Not our words - the words of Xbox Live's Major Nelson. "It may take a few mins for you to get the update, or for it to work properly. Once things get in order all should be fine."

THQ has announced that biblical romp Darksiders is heading to PC this June.

Episodic series Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness is no more.

You can't get two more different approaches to open-world gaming than last week's Just Cause 2 and Mafia II. Both, it's true, descend in a straight line from the same revolutionary inspiration - Grand Theft Auto III - and in both, the world that's opened to you is the game's lead actor.

You have to feel for Robert Bowling. Infinity Ward's creative strategist has over 100,000 followers on Twitter (dwarfing ours, obviously), the press hangs on and repeats his every substantive word, and he's on the phone doing rounds of interviews for the Modern Warfare 2 "Stimulus Package" map pack.

Outrageously, all three leading UK political parties have agreed about something: giving UK game developers tax breaks.