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Update: Pyro Studios has rubbished claims of a new Commandos game, calling them "totally false" and wishful thinking on the part of Gamer.nl.

Hidden Path Entertainment has announced a 2nd September XBLA launch for Defense Grid: The Awakening.

Ubisoft has declined to comment on reports that Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been put on hold.

Blitz Games has cut the price of arcade puzzler Droplitz for PC and iPhone.

2K Games is making an Xbox 360 game called Axel and Pixel, where an artist and dog must solve puzzles together.

SEGA president Mike Hayes has said that the launch of Gearbox Software's Aliens: Colonial Marines probably won't be scheduled until 6-12 months after Aliens vs. Predator launches in February 2010.

Square Enix has said action spin-off Final Fantasy Versus XIII is still part of the plan, and that the development time should be "comparatively faster" than that for FFXIII.

THQ has announced a release date for its next WWE game, declaring that SmackDown vs. Raw 2010 will launch on 20th October.

Stardock has announced that it will be updating its digital distribution service, Impulse, with a social networking service that allows players to create friends lists, communicate through instant messages and find people to play with through a profile.

Spanish film director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is in talks to direct BioShock, according to Variety.

A million copies of Wii Sports Resort have now been sold in Japan.

Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai has said that PlayStation 3's success cannot be judged after less than three years on the market.

EA has announced that a FIFA 10 demo will be released on 10th September for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. The US will be offered the demo seven days later on 17th September.

Sony has said that the PlayStation Network will be down for around five hours tonight for "maintenance".

A console version of Diablo III may be close to becoming reality, after Blizzard claimed it was "theoretically possible" last year.

458 exhibitors, 120,000 square metres, 17,000 trade visitors, 4000 hacks and 245,000 people later, the first annual gamescom show in Cologne is over, and while it was less showbiz than the E3 that preceded it by two months, it put more new games in front of more gamers than any other show worldwide.

"Was it a tough decision?" echoes Blizzard's chief operating officer Paul Sams. "I can tell you that me, the business guy, the operations guy... We were going through the whole process before we knew all the reasons why, and I was sitting there going, oh my God, really? Can we do that? Should we do that?"

EA Euro-boss Gerhard Florin has publicly demanded that Germany ditch its USK rating system and adopt PEGI instead.

Wii Sports Resort edges past newcomer Wolfenstein to top the UK All-Formats chart for the week ending 22nd August. There are only 2000 sales between them, though.

Last week BioWare demoed a short 15-minute sampler of Mass Effect 2 at gamescom, and the overall impact of the game is hugely positive, with a far more confident and impressive implementation of the Unreal Engine 3 technology in place.

Dragon Quest IX has mustered 126,682 sales to soar back to the top of the Japanese chart, according to Media Create data for the week ending 16th August.

BioWare has confirmed that Mass Effect 2 will launch simultaneously on PC and Xbox 360 early next year.

Big plans are in the works for the one-year anniversary of MMORPG Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning.

The Swiss Xbox website has revealed the contents of the Pinnacle Station DLC for Mass Effect.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for Wii features a co-operative mode where a second player can pick up a remote and start brapping at any time.

Gran Turismo 5 will feature a massive 1000 vehicles, according to information reportedly posted on the official Polyphony Digital website, and should be released this year according to a gamescom brochure.

Karaoke game Def Jam: Rapstar will help up-and-coming rappers get their music in front of real Def Jam Records talent scouts.

Downloadable content for Guitar Hero 5 will not be compatible with Guitar Hero: World Tour, according to an Activision spokesperson.

Nvidia is giving away free copies of Batman: Arkham Asylum for PC.

(Please beware that the following is a spoiler for the end of Fable II, so if you still plan to play it, do not read on!)