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David Cage and Sony could be considered visionaries for what they are attempting with Heavy Rain. Rarely before has so much money been gambled on emotion and story without the safety net of a post-apocalyptic American city full of monsters to shoot in the face.

BBC reporter Marc Cieslak has told Radio 4 that he was "saddened" after playing Modern Warfare 2 as it disproved his belief that the games industry had "grown up".

The Eurogamer Expo is long over, and once again we must say thanks to everyone who attended and especially to anyone who took the time to fill out the exit survey online, which helps us to figure out what we can improve on next time.

The concept for this eerie WiiWare puzzler could have come straight from a meeting of the Silent Hill school board. Our young hero - described as "emo" in the game blurb, thus saving us the effort of establishing his character - is trapped in school. At night. Oh, and the school is haunted, infested even, by a strange malignant darkness. Contact with the dark results in immediate death, as spectral hands claw through the murky miasma and pull him to his doom. There are 30 rooms of nocturnal menace to negotiate before escaping, and working out how to keep the shadows at bay forms the core of the gameplay.

NCsoft has indicated that it doesn't expect to release its MMO sequel Guild Wars 2 until 2011, although it might get as far as closed beta testing in 2010.

Hold on to your pointy hats as Wizards of the Coast plans to bring The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers to PC and PS3.

Electronic Arts has announced plans to make 1500 employees redundant by April of next year.

EA has once again teased the rejuvenation of the Medal of Honor series following its latest round of financial results.

A big batch of probably quite good new games are popping up for the iPhone.

EA Games president Frank Gibeau has said confirmed that Criterion's Need for Speed game will keep up the series' yearly pace and launch in 2010.

Valve has finally patched Left 4 Dead 1 on PC to introduce competitive matchmaking for groups of four players.

Those of you who bought Modern Warfare 2 on Steam will not be able to play until Thursday.

Labour MP Tom Watson believes a Facebook 'pressure group' he created for gamers could be "a game-changing move for Parliament" - after being "incensed" by remarks made by fellow MP Keith Vaz on the violent content of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2.

The launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 kicked off with a special event in Leicester Square tonight.

The release date for Modern Warfare 2 has been one of the most disregarded in the history of UK games retail, according to SimplyGames MD Neil Muspratt.

The UK government has defended mature videogame content, and stated that when it's rated properly grown-ups "can get what adults should be able to".

Nintendo has revealed that The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks will include sections where you play the DS like a woodwind instrument.

BioWare staff writer Patrick Weekes has defended the way the developer structures stories in its games, picking apart a tongue-in-cheek, fan-made "RPG Cliché Chart".

SEGA's classic Moonwalker game may be heading to Virtual Console months after the death of the man it's based on, Michael Jackson.

The moon has exploded. Needless to say, that means only one thing: astronaut deathmatch! Shattered Horizon is set in the not-quite-possible near future in which humanity has been plundering the moon for its cheese, and the resulting accident ends up blasting billions of tonnes of rock into orbit. This means that thousands of space workers are trapped up in the sky, with just a broken moon and the remains of Earth's by-then-extensive space infrastructure to live on. Two factions who were feeling a bit grumpy with each other now see this as an excuse for open hostility, and fighting in zero-gravity commences.

Wii Fit Plus finds itself on top of a busy UK chart this week, following positive reviews from the likes of us.

Bayonetta has stormed Japan and taken top chart honours on PS3 and seventh place on Xbox 360.

"Play, create, share." That's the official motto - or tagline, depending how cynical you are - of LittleBigPlanet. The idea being you play through a series of platforming levels, create your own (with the option to throw in items collected during the platforming bit), and share them online.

StarCraft II producer Chris Sigaty has confirmed that the game's beta test, promised for late 2009, has been pushed back to 2010.

Xbox Live will restrict the use of Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm to Gold subscribers aged 18 and over.

Mythic is moving Warhammer Online to an "endless" free trial which offers unlimited access to the MMO up to level 10 in the Empire versus Chaos zones, reports GamesIndustry.biz. Previously, the game's free trial had a 10-day time limit.

Dhani Harrison, son of George Harrison, has said he is helping to produce ambitious new controllers for Rock Band.

BioWare has released the tool set for its monster RPG Dragon Age: Origins on PC.

PopCap and Square Enix will release PC and Xbox Live Arcade game Gyromancer here on 18th November.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime reckons that New Super Mario Bros. Wii will outsell either the PS3 or Xbox 360 version of Modern Warfare 2.