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Ubisoft has announced party game Just Dance for release this autumn on Wii.

LucasArts president Darrell Rodriguez has declared Star Wars: The Old Republic is "the biggest MMO project ever developed".

Electronic Arts has announced Dante's Inferno will be released in the US on 9th February, with a European launch to follow on February 12th.

EA has announced that a Brutal Legend demo will be available on 17th September for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Electronic Arts has announced release dates for Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

The Difficult Second Album has become part of rock lore; that awkward moment when a group of musicians, having finally got to tell the world who they are for the first time, have to prove that they have anything more to say. MMO developers (most of them frustrated rock stars, going by the proliferation of dodgy house bands at their conventions) know their pain; they face the Difficult First Expansion. In fact, it's worse, for them, because their first work isn't just a potent memory. It's still there, attached to the expansion, warts and all, and the contrast - whether favourable or otherwise - can be uncomfortable.

Fresh-faced publisher Iceberg will bring Zeno Clash to shops throughout Europe by the end of the year - Q4 2009, to be specific.

Crytek has showcased its new CryEngine 3 cross-platform development tools at GDC Europe with a superb demonstration showing how content makers can sculpt gameplay and levels in a single creative environment, while the changes play out in real-time across all three major HD platforms.

SEGA is offering a free copy of OutRun 2006: Coast to Coast to anyone pre-ordering Football Manager 2010 on Steam. There's a 25 per cent discount there at the moment, too.

CCP has ended speculation and unveiled Dust 514, an MMO/FPS hybrid for consoles that will interact "directly" with flagship PC title EVE Online.

PopCap has unveiled Zuma's Revenge, a long-awaited sequel that will air on PC on 15th September and Mac shortly after.

Five years ago, it would have shocked no one. Turning up at a FIFA event in London and being introduced to a set-piece creator would have made perfect sense. It's another line for the back of the box. Five years later though, perhaps it should be shocking. Nowadays you almost get the sense that FIFA developers David Rutter and Gary Paterson delight in making the box designers squirm. "I'm militant," creative director Paterson tells me as we sit down in one of EA Canada's many conference rooms a month later. "I'm not doing anything just for the back of the box. It has to be somehow linked to a fundamental of the game." And by the game, he means football.

EA Canada has decided to let you use FIFA 10's set-piece creator in online matches after all, but may turn it off if people find a way to take the piss as they did with last year's Custom Tactics.

UK supermarket ASDA has begun selling the PS3 at "a new low price" of £250 - a move that adds further credence to reports of an official price-drop announcement at the Sony gamescom conference today.

Eidos is offering you the chance to buy the latest Championship Manager game for as little at 1p and a £2.50 transaction fee.

Ubisoft has unveiled Silent Hunter 5 for PC and said the latest in the submarine simulation series will be released in early 2010.

Finnish developer Remedy has revealed that the long-awaited Alan Wake is now finished.

Retailers including our old friends ShopTo and Play.com are both listing a Fable II Game of the Year edition for release on 18th September.

Gameloft has signed a deal with Interplay to convert Earthworm Jim to PSN, WiiWare and XBLA.

Bethesda Softworks has said that the Elder Scrolls series "definitely will continue" despite reports to the contrary during QuakeCon.

Sony has unveiled a Game of the Year edition of LittleBigPlanet, which will launch across North America on 8th September. There's no word on European plans yet.

Update: Gfk Chart-Track in the UK has contacted GamesIndustry.biz to admit that the press release it issued earlier today had been written using incorrect data.

Microsoft has announced a 23rd October release date for Lips: Number One Hits, the second instalment in the Xbox 360 karaoke series.

IO Interactive has made a Mini Ninjas demo for release on PC and Xbox 360 this Wednesday, and for PS3 on Thursday.

EA will release Wii game Spore Hero and DS game Spore Hero Arena here on 9th October.

Microsoft has revealed that around 200,000 Europeans are using Xbox Live quiz-game service 1 vs. 100 every day.

You have to feel for Konami. Even when it was the critics' favourite football game, Pro Evolution Soccer was still the plucky underdog - the Havant and Waterlooville of the games industry's FA Cup third round, scoring a couple of goals in front of the Kop and leaving with its head held high, even after getting pasted in the salesy second half. But things change, and they certainly have. PES 2009 was by no means a bad game, but its angular, sped-up one-dimensionality felt like a throwback next to the increased realism of EA's improving FIFA series, and the world gave it the hairdryer treatment. Back to the drawing board?

The latest instalments in the Pokemon series have been slated for a spring 2010 release in the US and Europe.

In part one of our exclusive look at how the biggest game in the world was made, key Blizzard developers took us through development from the earliest concepts to the game's launch. In the second and final part this week, we look at how Blizzard reacted to its unexpected success, and how it's changed in the years since.

Retailers have told Eurogamer that Microsoft will increase the price of the Arcade Xbox 360 bundle to £159.99 (from £129.99) starting 1st September. The five XBLA games will no longer be included in the bundle, either.