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An individual who claims to represent the wives of Rockstar San Diego staff has claimed that the studio is running its employees into the ground.

Porn star Ron Jeremy has declared that videogames have a worse influence on children then videos of the type he makes.

BioWare's Mass Effect project director Casey Hudson has said the second game in its space opera trilogy will have an "intense schedule" of downloadable content, the first fruits of which will appear "shortly" after launch.

Halo 3 was the most popular game on Xbox Live in 2009, but spots 2-4 in the list were occupied by the last three Call of Duty games.

So much for The Future. It's 2010 and there are still no monorails, not to mention all the other stuff we were promised. Where are the hoverboards? What happened to robot butlers? Why don't we spend our leisure time drinking dry ice cocktails, eating burgers in pill form and playing holographic chess? And why are game developers still making 2D side-scrolling shooters?

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.

It's amazing how far Star Trek Online gets just by having the right sound effects. The high-pitched warble of scanners and transponders, the hiss of phasers, the shimmering harmonics of the transporter: these sounds beam you directly to a universe which, you find, you already know by heart. It works even if you're not a particularly big fan, Gene Roddenberry's benign science-fiction now being so ubiquitous that everyone has absorbed it by a kind of cultural osmosis, whether they wanted to or not.

Heavy Rain will be released in Europe on 26th February.

First-party exclusives are polarising beasts by nature, but Zipper Interactive's ambitious MMOFPS will likely prove more divisive than most. Some will dive in and find a game of uncommon depth and freedom, a richly designed long-term commitment that doesn't just recreate the boom-bang-a-bang of large-scale military conflict, but fosters the loyalty and fraternal co-dependence that holds armies together as well. Others, however, may find its epic 256-man battles too hardcore. To paraphrase Obi-Wan, both will be right. From a certain point of view.

Nintendo's Friday WiiWare, Virtual Console and DSiWare update brings six new games to the table.

Greenpeace has more highlighted Nintendo as the most environmentally unfriendly of all its annually surveyed electronics companies.

Square Enix's PS3-exclusive Final Fantasy XIII continued to do big business in Japan as the Far East led the way into 2010.

They must have thought they were so clever! 8th January isn't the most coveted time of the year to release games (apparently that's 10th November), but with everything fleeing from Call of Duty they must have calculated there were still coins rattling around in pockets, and that after a lengthy Christmas break gamers would have finished all their favourites and be ready for more.

Nintendo's revealed a 5th February release date for Wii game Endless Ocean 2.

Silver members of Xbox Live will be able to experience Left 4 Dead 2 multiplayer next weekend for free.

Glen Schofield, creator of Dead Space, has said the first game for Activision at his Sledgehammer studio will be "quite unique" and "bring something new and exciting to our fans".

Ruffian Games has revealed that the Pacific City of Crackdown 2 isn't just broader and more diverse than its predecessor, but towers over it as well.

The games industry's most luminescent luminaries are predicting Halo: Reach will be the biggest selling title of 2010.

EA Sports has made official the hiring of NBA Jam creator Mark Turmell.

Square Enix's North American arm yesterday said it had slated Nier for a spring release. It's not confirmed if this also applies to Europe; we've contacted Square Enix to find out.

The next instalment in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare series will not be developed by old hands Infinity Ward.

Vigil plans to patch the Xbox 360 version of Darksiders as soon as possible to reduce the amount of screen tearing.

This week's PlayStation Store refresher offers a demo version of Dark Void, due out for the Sony console and Xbox 360 on 22nd January, among other treats.

Several months ago, I buried John Romero. I dug a little hole for him in the garden, covered it with dirt, and said a few poignant words over the spiteful-but-soothing strains of Paul McCartney's Too Many People. It was an emotional moment for me, because I really loved the guy. We'd had some great times together: the time, for instance, that his home was destroyed and we went out to get a new one. Or the time he chased his girlfriend around for over an hour, before finally taking a nap in the miniature Taj Mahal nearby. Mostly, though, I just remember him pressing his face up to the water jet, his jet-black, silky, slimy mane billowing out like a raven's wing. He was a spectacular goldfish.

Microsoft's announced the pricing for the newly announced Game Room for Xbox Live and Games for Windows - Live.

Sony's given God of War III a concrete Japanese date of 25th March 2010.

Retailer HMV has clarified to Eurogamer that Heavy Rain's release date - listed on HMV.com as 26th February - is actually still unconfirmed.

According to GamesIndustry.biz, Project Natal will launch in a cut-down format, omitting the originally planned onboard processor, which will see its workload hived off to the Xbox 360's CPU.

The joke, so it goes among Final Fantasy's legions of hecklers, is that aside from some new belts, buckles and hairspray nothing ever really changes in Japan's most misleadingly-titled RPG franchise. Rather, each subsequent release echoes the preceding one in both form and function, the aged, crumbly mechanics that drive each game merely obfuscated by ever more dazzling CGI.

Sony's pledged to enable stereoscopic 3D on PlayStation 3 this year via a firmware update, and has shown the fruits of its endeavours this week at CES 2010.