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A couple of familiar faces from the Gears of War series are set to star in the next Lost Planet game.

Capcom has announced a whole bundle of release dates for its forthcoming titles.

Square Enix has revealed the contents of the European Collector's Edition of Final Fantasy XIII.

For games that are so obsessed with their own fake histories that their creators often commission novels to promote them, RPGs are curiously happy to ignore their real-life predecessors. Fable II takes place in the same world as Fable, but only notionally. Fallout 3 was inspired by its ancestors, but made its own radical way. And virtually everything Square has made since 1997 has Final Fantasy stamped on it, but the majority of the games wouldn't recognise one another at a family picnic.

Funcom has stirred up the mystery and hype surrounding The Secret World by creating a website for Kingsmouth, a fictional New England town and a location in the occult, modern-day MMO.

Get Games, the fledgling download service from the Eurogamer Network, has expanded its catalogue and is offering promotional deals on a selection of PC games to celebrate.

Harmonix boss Alex Rigopulos has dismissed suggestions that the dream is over for music-based videogames.

Interplay has said that its "post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online game", codenamed Project V13, will enter public beta in 2012.

PomPom Games is possibly the most platform agnostic of all developers. Since the launch of Space Tripper as a downloadable PC title, the mostly two-man design team (Michael Michael does the art, Miles Visman handles the programming, while audio specialist James Drabble is also a regular collaborator) has spent the best part of a decade working on everything from the original Xbox's fledgling Live Arcade service to the iPhone. PomPom's games have even been ported to exercise machines - not a device with a particularly vocal fan-base.

Square Enix is re-releasing Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy II on the iPhone.

Free downloadable content has already been released for Mass Effect 2, days ahead of Friday's launch. Don't read any further if you're allergic to even tiny spoilers.

Ubisoft's surprise chart leader Just Dance has topped the UK all-formats top 40 for another week.

The downloadable add-on for Uncharted 2 revealed by Sony Japan last week has been confirmed for worldwide release, although it's not free as was originally reported.

Marvelous Entertainment has sold its 50 per cent stake in Rising Star Games.

Remember Company of Heroes, the 2007 World War II strategy game from THQ? Well, you might like to know it's currently going cheap on Steam.

Valve's working on a couple of tweaks to the Versus side of Left 4 Dead 2.

Revolution Software has released Broken Sword: The Director's Cut for iPhone and iPod touch.

SEGA has signed a three-year deal with Alton Towers, the UK's most popular theme park.

Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has claimed videogames are messing up the kids with their crazy violent ways.

The Aion community manager known as Tamat has posted advising players that the first new account services will be available "as early as February" (via IncGamers.

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.

This is it. It's happening. Having had a strong interest in stereoscopic 3D pretty much since the Digital Foundry blog launched, today is the day I'm finally going to be able to try my hand at the first mainstream adoption of the technology: Sony's fledgling stereoscopic system for PlayStation 3.

The PlayStation 3 has now sold over 3 million units here in the UK.

Delayed sneak-'em-up Splinter Cell Conviction has reappeared on the radar with an April 2010 date.

Batman: Arkham Asylum got off to a bad start in Japan this week, managing to enter the chart at 23rd on PS3 and 42nd on Xbox 360.

Rising Star Games has plucked the European rights to Samurai Shodown Sen and plans to release the Xbox 360 fighting game over here in spring.

Update: Naughty Dog has Tweeted (thanks, Zero_) that this information may not be right at all. There's no word on what is, however - only a warning:

Bungie has reaffirmed Halo: Reach as a standalone entry for the series, stating that both spiritually and in terms of content, "Halo: Reach for us is not Halo 4."

It's a MAG press event just off Baker Street. PS3s and huge HD screens are lined up in a subterranean hall, waitresses move through the crowds with bullet-studded belts, nobody during a presentation ever misses an opportunity to refer to the assembled gaming press as 'operatives' or exclaim 'Let's DO IT!' and a nice Sony PR lady has just taken to the stage to set things rolling.

This week's PSN Store brings a whole new batch of special offers for PS3 and PSP downloadable games.