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EA's new Medal of Honor game features multiple playable characters, according to the UK's Official Xbox Magazine.

EA's explained to Eurogamer that Xbox Live users awaiting an 800 MSP bonus (offered as part of a Christmas 'buy our stuff' campaign) will be credited when the promotion has finished.

Reuters reports that World of Warcraft's operator in China, NetEase, may be close to ending its dispute with regulators over the running of the game.

Darksiders creative director and comic-book hero Joe Madureira is joining us on Eurogamer this afternoon to answer your questions about his new game.

Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond is due out on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade this week.

Zac Efron, star of High School Musical and the stunning tour de force 17 Again, is said to be suffering from a serious addiction to games.

EA Sports has said it will stick with Tiger Woods as its golf series front man despite the three-time grand slam winner's "mistakes off the course".

Editor's note: This interview was conducted in mid-December last year. Shortly after we spoke to Raph Koster, it was announced that Metaplace, which much of the interview is about, would shut down on 1st January. However, we thought that Koster's comments were still interesting in light of that news - perhaps even more so - so we decided to run the interview in its original form. We also contacted Koster for a comment on Metaplace's demise, and he had this to say:

One-man development band Eskil Steenberg has announced that his beautiful, abstract mini-MMO Love has gone into beta testing (via Massively).

BioWare's announced that the next batch of Dragon Age: Origins DLC, Return to Ostagar, will be released tomorrow on PC and Xbox 360. The remaining PS3 version will appear later this month.

Indiana newspaper The Kokomo Perspective (thanks, RPS) reports that a local Sherriff's Department successfully tracked down a fugitive from justice through his World of Warcraft account, with Blizzard's co-operation.

Boffins at Microsoft have worked out a way to control games using the muscle movements in your forearm.

The finalists for this year's Independent Games Festival have been announced.

A couple of nights ago I hit the jackpot. Borderlands had been quietly chucking the odd new gun my way for the past few weeks, of course, but suddenly, wandering around Crazy Earl's Scrapyard, it started lobbing them at me with dangerous abandon.

Broadmoor Hospital, Britain's high-security psychiatric hospital and home to many of the nation's most notorious criminals, has bought a truck-load of Nintendo Wiis.

Activision's Modern Warfare 2 has dominated the UK all-formats chart for an eighth consecutive week - the longest unbeaten run since Need for Speed: Underground 2 in 2004.

Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in this year's New Year's Honours list. It follows the same title being bestowed on the company's founders, Richard and David Darling, in 2008.

Valve's released a Left 4 Dead 2 toolset that allows the PC community to build maps for each other.

Disenchanted with long-distance relationships, Capcom has decided to develop all major new game IP at home in Japan. Company president Haruhiro Tsujimoto said he would drop Western studios entirely if there weren't so many games to make with so few resources.

Capcom has delayed the release of Lost Planet 2, Super Street Fighter IV and Monster Hunter Tri.

Electronic Arts has announced plans to shut down a bundle of servers for games no one is playing any more.

Warsaw-based developer People Can Fly has trademarked the title "Bulletstorm", according to Kotaku.

LucasArts and Traveller's Tales have uploaded a LEGO Indiana Jones 2 demo to both PlayStation Network and Xbox Live over the Christmas break.

Microsoft has released classic Xbox 360 exclusive Gears of War as a Games on Demand title.

In a New Year message on his blog (via VG247), Hironobu Sakaguchi, head of Japanese RPG studio Mistwalker, has promised two new games for 2010: a "blockbuster" and an iPhone game.

BioWare has incorporated "New Game+" into Mass Effect 2, despite originally ditching it because it would make it harder to handle the transition to Mass Effect 3.

The iPhone version of Plants vs. Zombies is due for a release later this month.

THQ has agreed an exclusive deal to make WWE videogames for the next eight years, the publisher announced over the holidays.

EA and BioWare may be readying a hulking Dragon Age expansion for release at retail in March.

The Christmas and New Year break affords us a chance for reflection; a glance over the shoulder at a year passed, the games released, the games announced, the shows that have been and gone and the promise of the year ahead.