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Infinity Ward appears to have dumped dedicated servers for the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 in favour of its own proprietary matchmaking service.

Charles Martinet, the man who provides the voice of Mario, has said a new instalment in the series is on the way.

Xbox Live's upcoming social update (Facebook, Twitter, Last.fm) may bring more features than first expected.

Kotaku and our forum report that invites have been sent out for the closed beta test for Realtime World's APB.

BioWare has announced that Mass Effect 2 will be released in the UK on 29th January for PC and Xbox 360.

Turbine has said that its free-to-play relaunch of Dungeons & Dragons Online has actually boosted subscriptions by 40 per cent as well as attracting large numbers of free players.

Case, the lead character in William Gibson's excellent Neuromancer, has a point when he talks about his brain occasionally moving faster than his consciousness. It's a zen-like state in which trying to process what you're doing is actually an impediment; in which it's best to simply let your hard-wired responses do the work without going through the filter of personality. He refers to these as 'moments of grace', and they'll be familiar to anyone who's ever progressed very far in a modern twin-stick shooter.

For a football game that once lived or died on the pitch, it's surprising to discover that PES 2010's most dramatic changes are to be found in the menus. Or at least it would be surprising, except nowadays we live in a world where dogs and cats play together, the FIFA games are recognised for their football simulation, and Robinho may be surplus to requirements because of Craig Bellamy.

Halfway into Borderlands' development, Gearbox Software changed everything. A game that started out a dour shower of browns, greys and post-apocalyptic shadows was fed through the Crackdown filter and came out a blaze of SEGA blues, Mario shine yellows and Jet Set cel-shading. The visual rewrite has done more than merely distinguish the game from its nearest rival, Fallout 3. It also accentuates the Mad Max humour of planet Pandora's inhabitants and scenarios, turning grisly headshots into party-popper exclamations while, to be frank, making the world a far more pleasant place to be. Any tourist of a science-fiction planet overrun by rag-wearing sand-bandits acknowledges the risk of having one's balls torn off by a pet rabid mutant hyena. So why not balance the dark risks with some bright, happy vistas?

Activision has announced a 6th November release date for Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron on DS and PSP.

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EA Sports has released its FIFA Earth website to the masses, bombarding us with stats ripped from the PS3 and Xbox 360 game.

Hip-hop's prime producer Timbaland has said he used PSP game Beaterator to make a pair of tracks for his upcoming album Shock Value 2.

We don't normally interview developers the day their game comes out. And to be fair, we didn't exactly speak to Naughty Dog just now - we've been sitting on this for a couple of weeks. But we did speak to them after we'd made up our minds and given Uncharted 2: Among Thieves a honking 10/10 review.

Sony has told Eurogamer that the God of War III demo will not appear in Europe this year.

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has rekindled HD Wii speculation by promising to support 'new' technology "as it comes out".

VG247.com won big at last night's Games Media Awards, with bossman Patrick Garratt picking up three trophies.

Sony has unveiled a new PS3 Slim model with a 250GB hard drive.

Microsoft mouthpiece Aaron Greenberg has said the company is confident Xbox 360 will outsell PS3 this year, even if that wasn't the case last month.

Is it naïve to think you can judge the character of a racing game from its choice of cover star? Probably. Yet the Project Gotham Racing series' love affair with Ferrari was perfectly suited to its flamboyant character; Race Driver GRID's hulking Dodge Viper in race trim captured its brutish, high-octane track-day drama. And Forza Motorsport 3 couldn't be more aptly summarised by the car that adorns the box (and kicks the racing campaign off in the obligatory high-speed teaser, before you're relegated to buzzing around in superminis): the Audi R8.

I can't remember exactly when I first met Patrick Garratt, which - as anyone who knew the man back in the day will attest - is sort of appropriate. He's lived a life. Known for many things, perhaps the best story about Pat is that he's the only games journalist ever missing, presumed dead off the coast of a Spanish press trip.

It's hardly a quiet day for PlayStation, what with the launch of Uncharted 2, but it's not the best week for fans of the PlayStation Store, with relatively little of note appearing for either PS3 or PSP.

Machinarium is a point-and-click adventure. No, really. It's a point and click adventure. The old-fashioned sort, where one screen can keep you stumped all weekend, where having a notepad to hand is a good idea and where every door and hatchway is guarded by some fiendish puzzle. As amusing as Telltale's Sam & Max games have been, a few hours in Machinarium's arcane steampunk world makes you realise just how far the genre has wandered from its traditionally ruthless roots.

Valve has laid out pre-order and general release timings for the Left 4 Dead 2 demo.

SEGA and Obsidian have pushed the release of Alpha Protocol back to spring 2010, surprising nobody.

Germany's movement against violent videogames has lunged forward again, as families affected by the Winnenden school shooting urge people living near Stuttgart to dump their "games that simulate the killing of humans" - "Killerspiele".

Japan's not short of games that have seen far greater success on portable systems than they ever did on under-telly gameboxes, but Valkyria Chronicles seems a strange choice for downsizing. It's remembered for its beautiful sketchbook-style graphics and hour-long strategic battles - two things that have had to be scaled down to fit the PSP. Thankfully everything else that made it interesting is present and correct. This is still a game where your gay engineer will enjoy a stats boost if you make sure she's deployed near female squad-mates, or your racist scout won't fight with Darcsen soldiers. It's still a complex, politically engaging storyline framed in an innovative semi-real-time battle system, with likeable, developed characters. Superb!

FIFA 10 has scored a second week at the top of the UK all-formats chart, shrugging off a strong tackle from Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising at two.

Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb has announced the arrival of a Band Hero demo on Xbox Live.

Rare has admitted to having "no idea" why Nintendo hasn't converted Donkey Kong 64 for the Virtual Console.