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BioWare has said it will not charge for any Mass Effect 2 downloadable content released alongside the game next week.

Blending genres seems like the very best kind of unpredictable fun - and the developer in charge is often the magic ingredient. Take RPGs and gunplay: in the hands of a seasoned Western FPS team like Gearbox, you end up with the twitchy, procedurally-generated madness of Borderlands - a bubbling stew of headshots, loot drops and perks. With tri-Ace in the kitchen, however, you get Resonance of Fate: a JRPG with random battles and bizarrely satisfying turn-based shootouts.

One of the most important elements in overall image consistency within console games has to the implementation of anti-aliasing - the process of smoothing edges and mitigating or eliminating the dreaded "jaggies". Both PS3 and Xbox 360 have AA technologies built into their respective GPUs, but as the console generation progresses it's becoming clear that for many games there are simply not enough system resources available to anti-alias images using traditional techniques. Developers are beginning to look beyond the hardware solutions and come up with their own methods. Some work well, some look awful, but it's all evidence of game-makers looking to eke out as much performance as they can from the current fixed architectures.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney heads today's WiiWare update, and brings Capcom's brilliant DS court-room adventure onto Wii for the first time.

IO Interactive has spent the last year or so thinking about what's real. That doesn't mean the developer's selling its car, renting out the flat and heading to Goa with an acoustic guitar, some awesome liquorice sticks and a dreadlocked chick named Mary-Beth it met on the Circle Line, however. Rather it means that the designers of Kane & Lynch have been studying the kind of things people associate with reality - prodding through the internet in search of whatever it is that has the power to jar and shock by virtue of its authenticity. They want something that will make you drop your ice lolly and think, "Ooh, that's a bit raw for a videogame". Sorry, Mary-Beth.

It's the last day of our 2010 preview, covering two genres that could easily have been one, or three, or more. All of gaming is here in one form or another, but for more specific thrills you should check out our four previous instalments: Shooters & Racing, Fighting, Puzzle & Arcade, MMOs & RPGs, and Strategy, Simulation & Sports.

Activision's confirmed "a future instalment" in the DJ Hero series, but stopped short of adding a number two to the name.

So far in our 2010 preview we've covered shooters and racing games, dabbled in the instant thrills of fighting, puzzle and arcade games and settled in for the long haul in what looks like a big year for MMOs and RPGs. In tomorrow's final instalment, we'll look at one genre to rule them all and another that's making a healthy comeback. Today, however, it's all about tactics and accuracy (and sibilant alliteration) as we explore strategy, simulation and sports games.

Empire: Total War was sloppy. Can we reach a consensus here? Even anyone who loved it - and for all its flaws we loved it enough to give it 9/10 - would admit its bugs were "a shame", the combat pathfinding "temperamental", the AI "distracted", the tutorials "lightweight" and its manual "environmentally considerate". It wasn't quite all style and no substance, but perhaps all style and a gelatinous, gloopy substance that you have to cut out if it gets in your hair.

DICE has told Eurogamer there is "no profit" made from forcing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 players to rent dedicated servers instead of building their own.

Nintendo's Wii and DS have broken single-month US sales records for their performance throughout December.

A Game of the Year edition of Batman: Arkham Asylum is on the way.

Sonic & SEGA's All-Star Racing will be released for DS, PC, PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 on 26th February.

Nintendo's announced plans to release DS nonogram puzzler Picross 3D on 5th March in Europe.

SEGA has revealed a 26th February release date for Napoleon: Total War and Napoleon: Total War - Imperial Edition.

Thanks to the infinite variety of videogames, no two weeks are ever the same. Take this week and last week, for example. Fresh from running, jumping, exploring and hacking things up in both Bayonetta and Darksiders, this week we emerge into the worlds of Army of Two: The 40th Day and Serious Sam HD on Xbox Live Arcade.

The Writers Guild of America has announced the nominees for the 2009 Videogame Writing awards.

Former Electronic Arts exec Mitch Lasky has taken a pop at his old employers, claiming they've got it all wrong when it comes to, well, everything.

Graphmongers the NPD Group have announced the US games market was down 8 per cent last year.

Data trackers NPD have announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for Xbox 360 was the best-selling game in the US last year.

The absence of Beyond Good & Evil 2 from any of Ubisoft's financial chatter raised questions - but fear not, the sequel is still in development.

Capcom has said it chose to delay Dark Void from September until January because it didn't want to run into Halo 3: ODST at retail.

Former Electronic Arts exec Mitch Lasky has said that the Madden publisher has the wrong business targets, team and cost structure, and its digital and distribution business is the only successful division in the company, our sister site GamesIndustry.biz reports.

BioWare has said it is uncertain when troubled Dragon Age DLC Return to Ostagar will be released on any format following yesterday's second snafu.

Polyphony Digital boss Kazunori Yamauchi has declared that Gran Turismo 5 doesn't use all of the PlayStation 3's power.

Ubisoft's told Eurogamer that prizes for the Assassin's Creed II Live by the Creed promotion will be sent out "within the next week".

UNO's on the PlayStation Store this week for £6.29/€7.99. It's a card game for you and your friends. There's not much else to say, apart from that Ellie praised the game on Xbox Live Arcade.

Reggie Fils-Aime has reassured/upset Nintendo fans by promising them that the Wii will be around for years to come.

Irrational Games has recalled how in 2005 the developer was pitching zombies and not Big Daddies to publishers.