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Naughty Dog has patched Uncharted 2 to improve loading times in multiplayer and add clan tags, among a variety of other changes.

Sony has announced a European special edition of Heavy Rain and has also said it plans to release downloadable episodes following the game's release.

Who wouldn't want to live on the island of Tropico? Anyone who's been on an all-inclusive package deal to the real-life island it's inspired by and forced to eat boiled tongue and microwave pizzas for two weeks, that's who. And anyone who has suffered under the US-imposed sanctions on the communist dictatorship it's inspired by, presumably. Still, at least the music's jolly.

Kim Swift sprang to fame as the project lead on Valve's wonderful first-person puzzler, Portal. It was a game that managed to be brilliantly clever, incredibly funny, and yet accessible to a wider gaming audience. It's with this philosophy that Swift begins her new job heading up a team at Airtight Games. We took this chance to look back over the path that took her here, beginning with the game that inspired Portal, Narbacular Drop.

With the recent announcement of a PAL-only God of War Ultimate Trilogy Edition pack, combined with this week's reveal of the PSP emulator for PS3, Digital Foundry decided to take a good, hard look at Sony's God of War Collection: an HD "re-mastering" of the original PS2 titles, and an interesting new solution to the age-old, thorny issue of backwards compatibility on PlayStation 3.

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.

Disney's just given scenery-destroying racer Split/Second a date of May 2010.

It's okay everyone, the nastiness and xenophobia is all over. America and Russia are videogaming friends again. All these years of digital conflict, and suddenly it's all resolved. Splinter Cell: Conviction's multiplayer features a US agent and a Russian agent working not against each other, but together for the common good. Is this a videogaming first? Probably not, but I'm going to say it is anyway, because I like making grand statements. For instance: cats are smarter than monkeys. Baked beans can cure leprosy.

Sony's PlayStation Home trumpet is blowing as the company announces that 10 million users inhabit the virtual world.

This Tuesday, European Monster Hunter Freedom Unite players will finally be able to adventure together online.

Take-Two's financial results for fiscal 2009 are out and numbers are down, despite a sterling performance by Gearbox's new IP Borderlands, which passed 2m sales worldwide.

Codemasters has released an iPhone version of F1 2009 on the App Store.

Famed PSone RPG Vagrant Story's going to be re-released on PSN this Tuesday, 22nd December.

We know mother said never to talk to strangers. But what if those strangers are offering fabulous bargains?

BioWare's Ray Muzyka has explained that Mass Effect 2 allows players to choose their backstory through dialogue options should they not have a Mass Effect 1 saved game to hand. The sequel will also take educated guesses at what you would have done.

Nintendo Claus has stuffed the online Wii and DSi stockings with nine new games.

There's no point going to the shops today. You will not only be killed, but there aren't any new games to buy there. Only old ones.

Konami has announced top-down 2D shooter is in development for PlayStation Network.

The sequel to action adventure effort Mafia is slated for a release by the start of August next year.

Criterion has revealed various plans for downloadable content in Burnout Paradise that never made it into production.

SEGA has won its appeal against Aliens vs. Predator's refusal of classification in Australia, meaning the game can be released over there as an MA15+ title.

Sony has announced the God of War III Ultimate Trilogy Edition for PS3 in Europe.

Capcom has announced details of the second downloadable episode for Resident Evil 5, Desperate Escape.

Army of Two: The 40th Day producer Reid Schneider has been answering your questions live on Eurogamer this afternoon.

SouthPeak Games has smacked a 5th March UK release date on spooky DS game Dementium II.

There's plenty of new games you can play on the PlayStation Network today without spending a penny.

Sony has launched Sodium One, a new multiplayer online game space, in PlayStation Home.

"The one iconic action sequence that comes up time and time again is that idea of a big articulated lorry attacking the smaller hero car." Nick Baynes, game director on Split/Second, is about to show us a New Feature!

Poke around Relentless Software's website and you can make a strong argument that the developer has spent the last few years playing it safe. But it has played it so well in the process. The Buzz! series is always at its strongest when it's in the gentle, assured hands of its real parents, and it's as much for that reason as any that Blue Toad Murder Files arrives propelled by waves of critical interest apparently disproportionate to its status as a family mystery series.

Square Enix overlord Yoichi Wada won't be surprised when one morning he wakes up and consoles have disappeared forever, because he reckons that's what Microsoft and Sony have been planning all along.