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DICE is sneaking a Japan-based World War II level into Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

MTV Multiplayer (via Joystiq) reports that Obsidian's espionage RPG Alpha Protocol is now down for a "summer 2010" release.

Peter Molyneux has said to expect more details on Fable III at this week's X10 event in San Francisco, and warned that people are going to be "super pissed off".

2K Marin's Jordan Thomas has said that the console wars are "silly".

L.A. Noire, the stylish new period drama from Rockstar, is no longer exclusively in development for PS3.

Bungie's organising a send-off for Halo 2 a day before Microsoft shuts off Xbox Live support for Xbox 1 games.

BioWare writer Rebecca Harwick has explained the developer's decision to create two Sith classes in its upcoming Star Wars MMO, The Old Republic.

BioWare co-founder Dr Ray Muzyka has said that the absence of gay relationships in the Mass Effect games is a storytelling decision.

The pressure to reinvent is the curse of every one-time maverick. Find success in tearing up the rulebook with bold originality and it's only too easy to merely iterate on that first idea or innovation for the rest of your life. So the idea becomes a series, becomes a franchise, becomes an institution. And the young, brash innovator finds herself head of a new establishment, replacing that which she came to undermine.

Sony has announced plans to release a PSP version of ModNation Racers.

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.

So, Chris Taylor wants to take us all down, down to robot town. He wants to make Supreme Commander more accessible and less unwieldy, pushing a kind of technological miniaturisation. Same product, just a little smaller, smoother, shinier and more refined.

Update: Ubisoft has confirmed to Eurogamer that the game will be released in Europe on 16th April.

Four years in development, Final Fantasy XIII is one of the most important games Square Enix has ever released. It's the first game in the mega-selling Final Fantasy RPG franchise to arrive on PlayStation 3 and next month, with the game's debut in the West, Final Fantasy will transition into a cross-platform franchise, arriving in-store simultaneously on both PS3 and Xbox 360. We'll be covering the 360 version of FFXIII in due course, but for now our focus is on the Japanese version of the game, released at the tail-end of 2009.

Visceral Games has said that Dante's Inferno is a better-looking console game because it runs at 60 frames per second, as opposed to more standard 30FPS.

Rare has announced that Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade will be shown off at a Microsoft press event next week.

It's a big night. The Eurogamer Star Alliance, our very own forum guild for Star Trek Online, has made a date to assemble and enter a Fleet Action, one of the game's repeatable large-scale space battles, en masse. We meet at Earth Spacedock and assemble our flotilla of cruisers, escorts and science vessels in picturesque orbit over the Mediterranean. We warp out in splendid unison and charge majestically across sector space to Starbase 24. We warp in... and cross our fingers, close our eyes and hope for the best.

Rebellion has apologised for problems affecting matchmaking on the PC and PS3 versions of the Aliens vs. Predator demo released yesterday.

The Eidos bit of Square Enix has announced on Twitter that there is a "Just Cause 2 demo on its way".

Capcom has announced that Dark Void will receive an infusion of Horde-style arena mode downloadable content next week.

Microsoft has announced that it will discontinue Xbox Live support for original Xbox consoles and games on 15th April.

It's my 10th anniversary working for Eurogamer today. Well, it's the 10th anniversary of my first review as a full-timer being published (it's rubbish, don't waste your time).

Silent Hill musician and producer Akira Yamaoka has resurfaced at Grasshopper Manufacture following his departure from Konami in December.

A second instalment in the EyePet series is on the way, according to Gamekyo.

Microsoft has made two new additions to the Classics collection of Xbox 360 software.

New DS title Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi has gone straight to the top of the Japanese charts, according to Media Create.

BioWare has said that it can't do anything to bump up the text size in Mass Effect 2 to placate struggling SDTV owners, but that it will try to avoid the problem next time.

NECA has unveiled its Big Daddy Bouncer plush toy and replica EVE syringe ahead of BioShock 2's release next week (thanks Destructoid).

The Sims is celebrating ten years since the first instalment in the series was released.

The Sims is 10 years old this week! To celebrate, we're dusting off our long look back at the series from the start of 2008, prior to the release of The Sims 3. For the full picture, make sure to check out our more recent reviews of The Sims 3 and The Sims 3: World Adventures. What's "happy birthday" in simlish?