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EA's marketeer Jeff Brown has clarified that the company will not charge for "traditionally free game demos".

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment has announced plans to open a brand new development studio in Montreal.

Anyone that pre-orders Wii game Monster Hunter Tri early enough will receive a free head from Capcom. The head of a dragon-like Rathalos creature, to be precise.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 will ditch the hub world and opt for a traditional world map instead.

Microsoft has revealed exactly how much space you'll need to clear in order to play Project Natal games.

Relentless Software has announced the release of a patch for Buzz!: Quiz World that adds in-game Facebook publishing features.

Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada has said that the company may consider remaking Final Fantasy VII after all.

EA intends to release large, paid-for demos in an effort to measure a game's popularity before release. If enough copies are sold then the publisher will confidently produce full-scale boxed products for shops.

A small number of excellent people made an awful lot of brilliant things using LittleBigPlanet, but if Media Molecule's game taught us nothing else (apart from "don't sing the Qur'an"), it's that a blank slate can be overwhelming unless you approach it with a clear idea of what you want to do, especially in a 2D world where "platform game" is more of a suggestion than an instruction.

Project Natal may not be in shops yet, but creator Microsoft is already thinking about "a second version".

You know, if you're going to choose any clearly-defined videogame stereotype to model your life on, you could do much worse than pick the lonely, down-at-heel yet sassy male teenager who heads up about 95 per cent of JRPGs.

Switzerland's parliament has passed a proposal to ban any videogame that "requires cruel acts of violence against humans and human-like creatures for in-game success".

The God of War Collection has finally been dated for Europe.

BioWare's offering a new set of costumes for Mass Effect 2 tomorrow alongside the known-about Firewalker DLC.

Sony's huge PS3 exclusive God of War III has rampaged to the top of the UK All-Formats chart.

Heavy Rain's writer-director David Cage has said he's already written the plot for his next game, and it's going to be "very different" from the dark thriller.

EA has pushed Lord of Ultima into open beta. The latest in the long-running Ultima series of fantasy games, originally created by Richard "Lord British" Garriott at the dawn of computer gaming, is a browser-based, free-to-play multiplayer strategy game by BattleForge creators Phenomic.

Nintendo's revealed a new DS puzzle game called Rooms: The Main Building, which will be released on 21st May.

Quizzed by MTV Multiplayer on the lack of games using the Wii's MotionPlus add-on, Nintendo's American president Reggis Fils-Aime has defended the company's policy of never forcing its developers to use certain controllers or control schemes.

Command & Conquer 4's requirement of a permanent internet connection is causing problems, with some purchasers unable to play properly since the game's release last Friday.

Sony Computer Entertainment America boss Jack Tretton has said a third instalment in the Killzone series is on the way.

Infinity Ward has revealed plans for a double-XP weekend for Modern Warfare 2 when the upcoming Stimulus Package DLC goes live.

Shigeru Miyamoto has reportedly offered an update on development of a third game in cutesy strategy series Pikmin.

Peter Molyneux has said PC gaming is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to the rise of social gaming.

Good news for fans of GameCube classic Pikmin - a sequel is on the way, according to none other than Shigeru Miyamoto.

Valve has revealed the tagline for Left 4 Dead 2 downloadable add-on The Passing, and with it some big news about the original Left 4 Dead survivors.

Episodic adventure mastermind Telltale Games will give you a free episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People on Wii if you take a couple of minutes out of your time and fill out a short survey.

Two years ago I would have struggled to get enough people together for some casual games of Third Strike, yet now the European fighter scene is once again thriving and it's all thanks to the spectacular Street Fighter IV. What an awesome year it's been. Now we're on the verge of the next instalment in the SFIV saga, and fans are hoping for more than a mere update.

Much delayed with rumours of massive re-tooling work behind the scenes, Splinter Cell: Conviction is finally in the last furlong of development and Ubisoft released a playable demo on Xbox Live just a few days ago.

Rapacious seduction is a trick Capcom has been honing for a long time now, constructing entire franchises around the painful allure of the apocalyptic boss encounter. But although the publisher seems to have been on a mission to outdo itself via Resident Evil, Dino Crisis, Onimusha and Monster Hunter, it wasn't until Lost Planet came along in 2007 that it was brazen enough to build a game almost entirely around slaying nightmarish, colossal, screen-filling beasts.