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Brian Fargo. It sounds like the name of an Old West gold prospector. It's true that this veteran of the 1980s California development scene - founder of Interplay, and so publisher of the Fallout games - doesn't really look that part, preppy and trim in his Orange County casual-smart-casual. But he can't resist opening his unveiling of his studio's latest game by schooling us kids in a potted history of the great gaming gold rush.

Bethesda has announced plans to publish Hunted: The Demon's Forge for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, developed by Brian Fargo's inXile Entertainment.

Gavin Cheshire, Codemasters Studios vice president, isn't a great believer in the PSP.

New research has shown that nearly a quarter of Xbox 360 owners earn less than 10 per cent of a game's Achievements, and that only four per cent seek out every reward.

Codemasters bigwig Gavin Cheshire has confirmed Colin McRae: DiRT 3's existence.

Microsoft has announced a 9th July 2010 release date for Crackdown 2.

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer that it's "too early to even think about DLC" for Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Final Fantasy XIII has become this year's fastest selling game and has topped the UK All-Formats chart.

Making rice cakes. Bribing a cat. Finding an old lady's knickers. Spanking a radish thief. These aren't the sort of things you expect in a samurai game, but you find yourself performing a lot of bizarrely inconsequential tasks in Acquire's disappointing third entry in its cult series of flexible feudal narratives.

Microsoft has been spotted patenting an idea to upsell Xbox Live content to Xbox 360 owners.

Mark Rein has said that Epic Games is free to do what it likes with Gears of War.

Ubisoft Montreal has confirmed that it's working on Splinter Cell: Conviction demo.

2K Games has seemingly confirmed that the Sinclair Solutions Tester Pack premium downloadable content is stored on the BioShock 2 disc, arguing that it had to be this way to avoid splitting the player base.

God of War III director Stig Asmussen has promised that if the scrapped epilogue from the game were to be released as DLC then the content would be free.

id Software's John Carmack has said he expects Rage to appear on iPad.

Infinity Ward has detailed the Modern Warfare 2 "Stimulus Package" downloadable content and said it will cost 1200 Microsoft Points (£10.20 / €14.40).

Episodic emperor Telltale will finally venture into PS3 territory this April with the launch of Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse.

BioShock 2's first batch of DLC, the Sinclair Solutions pack, may have been on the game disc all along.

GDC 2010, and LucasArts is bussing journalists from the bedlam of the Moscone conference centre to its plush, tranquil campus on the Presidio, on the other side of San Francisco. We're ushered through a side lobby as spacious as most company's front doors, then past a huge hand-painted mural of Indiana Jones surveying the nearby Golden Gate Bridge while AT-ATs stalk over the San Francisco skyline. Discreet on the outside but for a small Yoda statue, the Lucas offices aren't afraid to revel in their heritage once you're through those hallowed, high-security doors.

The current generation of MotoGP games hasn't had the smoothest of rides in terms of consistency and quality. After MotoGP '08, fans were left wondering whether Milestone would reprise its role for the 2009 season, but the Italian company went back to the Superbike World Championship instead. So as an alternative, Capcom opted for Monumental Games - a studio founded by ex-Climax employees - for the new MotoGP developer. But the question is, after two years in development, will Monumental finally be the one to do MotoGP justice?

Former employees of Ensemble Studios and Pandemic Studios have blamed the developers' demise on their own company cultures, rather than the publishers that owned and closed them, Microsoft and EA.

Sims creator Will Wright made a surprise appearance at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today.

Sony tech wizard Simon Benson has confirmed the first batch of 3D games for PlayStation 3 will be available this summer.

It's been less than 24 hours since I attended the PlayStation Move reveal event at GDC, and I'm gathered in a small conference room of game-makers and press for Sony's presentation to developers. I'm looking for answers. Yesterday's event established release date, ballpark pricing and bundling options. I got to play a bunch of games too, but many of them were so early in development that accurately gauging the potential of the controller was a tough call.

Speaking at the Game Developers Conference, Sid Meier has declared that 2011 is "the year of Civilization".

David Jones, boss of Dundee's Realtime Worlds, is hanging out on Epic's thronged, buzzing, walled-in stand on the Game Developers Conference show floor. He's been helping Mark Rein hawk the Unreal engine by running live demos of the Unreal-powered APB, direct from the online crime game's beta servers.

Realtime Worlds has told Eurogamer that its long-term roadmap for APB will see the game change considerably over its lifespan.

Nintendo's Hanabi Festival returns today, making NeoGeo game Iron Clad and NES game Lode Runner available in Europe for the first time.

GamesIndustry.biz, the trade arm of the Eurogamer Network, recently completed the next step in its evolution toward greater support for the videogames business with the implementation of a full registration system.

Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 game will not support Project Natal but will support PlayStation Move.