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GameStop's COO Paul Raines doesn't reckon the second-hand market will suffer at the hand of initiatives like EA's Project Ten Dollar.

Age of Conan game director Craig Morrison is presenting the game's first expansion, Rise of the Godslayer, to the press in a darkened hotel suite in San Francisco, a stone's throw from the Game Developers Conference. He's got a neat slide summarising how Funcom's focus has shifted during the development of its MMO, from the three Cs of "combat, combat, combat" at launch to "combat, community, content" as it consolidated an initially shaky live game over the last 20-odd months. The mantra for the expansion, he finishes, is "combat, choice, consequence".

Shopper enthusiasm for Battlefield: Bad Company 2 may not have been as fervent as for Modern Warfare 2, but DICE's shooter has gone on to break a record of its own, becoming the best-selling March release on record in North America and Europe.

Warner Bros. has excitedly announced a "mature", action-RPG take on The Lord of the Rings for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Tomb Raider is my favourite game of all time. Of course, this is mainly because it allows me to live out fantasies of being intrepid, acrobatic, clever, rich, posh and chesty. But it's also because of the classic third-person action-adventure gameplay, the emphasis on puzzles and exploration over gunplay and explosions, the detailed visuals and the sweeping vistas. Most of all it's the atmosphere - the feeling you're all alone in these lush jungles and echoey chambers, just you and Lara.

Codemasters has announced International Cricket 2010 for release this summer on PS3 and Xbox 360.

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Namco Bandai Partners has sent word that Dead to Rights: Retribution will be released on 23rd April on PS3 and Xbox 360.

Tom Clancy has put a Splinter Cell: Conviction demo on Xbox Live.

Q-Games's new PixelJunk Racers content, dubbed 2nd Lap, will be released in April.

War! Lots more war to chomp down on this week, just in case the last few weeks of shooting people in the face have somehow left you malnourished.

Sony has a patch for Heavy Rain in the final stages of development, and reckons an update will be released "very soon".

Ian Fischer, a former member of Ensemble Studios - the Halo Wars and Age of Empires studio shut down by Microsoft - has disputed that a reliance on "crunch" was what killed the studio.

Crystal Dynamics has revealed to Eurogamer that it may incorporate motion controls into a future Tomb Raider game - perhaps even the one due out this summer.

Former Valve studio Turtle Rock has reformed and appears to be working on new projects, according to updates on its website and Facebook.

SEGA West boss Mike Hayes has said the company is already working on a Project Natal demo - and will be showing it off at E3.

DICE has said it won't rule out single-player downloadable content for high-flying Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and in the meantime its multiplayer endeavours will be designed not to fragment the audience.

The Independent Games Festival, the Sundance of the gaming world, threw some classics into the mix this year. Of these Limbo, Super Meat Boy! and Joe Danger need less of an introduction - so here are Eurogamer's five other hot tips from the most worthy (and crowded) corner of San Francisco's Moscone Centre.

Square Enix has sent word that Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days will be released on 27th August.

Codemasters has lifted the lid on its next Formula 1 game, F1 2010, at a press event in London, revealing an extensive career mode that will simulate the drivers' life in the paddock as well as on the track.

Leaked photos have emerged purporting to show a new, smaller revision of the Xbox 360 motherboard, provoking speculation that Microsoft is set to relaunch its console later in the year. Xbox 360 Slim any one?

Konami's putting considerable weight behind PSP Metal Gear Solid game Peace Walker. Case in point: a viral web-game based around matching squares in a grid of a greyed-out, game-related picture.

EA has announced a 14th May release date for Skate 3 in the UK.

Promising PSP game Patchwork Heroes arrives on PSN tomorrow in Europe.

Saying I'm a fan of Planescape: Torment is a bit like saying that Vlad III Dracula enjoyed a spot of impaling - it gets the point across, but doesn't quite convey the extent of the fervour.

On the way to my interview with Suda 51, I go over what I know about him in my head. Firstly, he's the head of Grasshopper Studios, and the creator of Killer 7 and the No More Heroes series. He's in town to promote No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, which scored 8/10 in Eurogamer's review of the US import.

If you were to list the game concepts that should be automatically awesome, going by their base ingredients, then cars with guns would have to come somewhere near the top. People like driving. People like shooting. Squish them together and, at the very least, you should have a game that ticks the box marked "Wheeee! Fun!"

DICE has added Battlefield: Bad Company 2 content to Battlefield Heroes, but you'll have to pay to use it.

Action role-playing game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is heading to Europe this summer.

The Steam edition of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 will ditch SecuROM in an upcoming game patch. Valve's own authentication service will be used instead.