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It's just over two years since CryTek released its astonishing first-person shooter Crysis, and despite enormous technological leaps in the PC space, it remains the single most important game available for testing graphical performance. At maximum settings, even the most powerful available combination of CPU and GPU still cannot run this game at 1080p with a sustained, v-synced, 60 frames per second.

A demo for PlatinumGames' superb third-person action game Bayonetta is star attraction this week on the PlayStation Store.

So, a while back I bought myself an nVidia GTX295 graphics card (the world’s most powerful GPU). The aim here was to get Crysis running at maximum settings at 1080p60. Crytek’s most ambitious FPS remains one of the most technically challenging games ever devised, and early benchmarks seemed to indicate that the GTX295 could run the DX9 version at maximum everything at the current top resolution and refresh rate of ‘living room’ HDTV technology.

Aliens vs. Predator developer Rebellion has refused to "sanitise" its game, claiming the Australian Government does not consider adults "able to make their own entertainment choices".

Another day, another puzzle game. Like so many others this one involves matching coloured objects as they drop down the screen. Yet again you'll spend your time pulling off combos, racking up points, gathering gems, collecting power-ups and vomiting rainbows of sick into your son's mouth. Hang on what?

At first glance, Reset Generation shares common elements with many other mobile games. The gameplay revolves around falling coloured blocks. The control system is simple, requiring only two buttons and one thumb. The music sounds like it's being banged out on a miniature Commodore 64 by a pixie in a biscuit tin. However, there are two key factors which set Reset Generation apart. Firstly, it hasn't been designed with a casual audience in mind, and secondly, it's not rubbish.

Team 17's reincarnation of Alien Breed will be released on 16th December on Xbox Live Arcade. PC and PS3 owners must wait until next year for the game.

The army has explained to Eurogamer that Medal of Honor's Tier 1 soldiers really are the best of the best, and "take on missions that no one else can handle".

Gearbox has trademarked the name Borderworlds, suggesting that Borderlands will expand into a series - as if you ever believed otherwise.

Former Major Neil Powell has said that in terms of age, gender and background, gamers are "precisely the target audience the British Army wants". However, the establishment is so timid and out-of-touch that it "would never dream" of emulating the US Army, which funds its own interest-boosting game, America's Army.

The Australian Classification Board has refused classification to SEGA and Rebellion's Aliens vs. Predator, barring it from sale in Australia in its current version.

Microsoft has announced another instalment in Xbox 360 karaoke series Lips is on the way.

Electronic Arts has revealed the next Medal of Honor game will be released in the "fall".

Take-Two has pushed the released of Max Payne to the second half of 2010, sometime between the start of August and the end of October.

BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect 2 will ship on two game discs when it's released for PC and Xbox 360 early next year.

Difficulty setting: Easy, Normal, Apocalyptic? Darksiders is having fun with the end of the world, rebranding the four horsemen so that they sound like American Gladiators (tempted by the sound of Strife and Fury? They're both totally killer at Powerball), pillaging its favourite pieces of God of War and - yay! - Zelda, and lavishing the whole thing with Joe Madureira's hulking comic book art. If the combined id of antisocial teenage nerds the world over ever vomits up a game, it's going to look a lot like this.

Apologies for mangling a quote I can only half remember, but I'm pretty sure someone clever once said the true appeal of fascism is largely aesthetic. That's a fairly depressing notion: the 'philosophy' that reduced so much of Europe to a crumbling cinder was, at least in part, born from Hitler being crazy enough to have an idea about how the world should actually look.

Fantasy fulfiller Square Enix has adapted Song Summoner: The Unsung Heroes for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Nintendo's Wii is the fastest-selling UK console of all time, having passed the six million mark on 28th November, Nintendo announced today.

EA has officially announced the new Medal of Honor game for release on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 in 2010.

SEGA has popped a Bayonetta demo on Xbox Live.

Sony's iconic PlayStation brand is 15 years old today, having first been unleashed in Japan on 3rd December 1994.

Konami has announced a 28th May release date for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker.

Sony's announced that the GT Academy competition will begin this year on 17th December.

Developer Fuzzyeyes has revealed that work on Edge of Twilight, while temporarily suspended, will resume again in January.

Digital Foundry "hearts" DICE and has a particular penchant for Nordic developers in general. There's always a sense that we'll see something unique in the games that hail from this part of the world, and we're pretty much always guaranteed some lovely technical curiosities to set these games apart from the norm.

Electronic Arts boss John Riccitiello has said the Modern Warfare games are all starting to look the same to him.

THQ's near-future FPS Homefront doesn't even have a release date yet, but the publisher's already planning a sequel.

FUZZYEYES has said its upcoming action adventure game Edge of Twilight will blur the lines between good and evil like no game has done before.

Q-Games boss Dylan Cuthbert has announced that PixelJunk Shooter will be released next Thursday on PSN.