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It takes a lot of components to make a great game. You need glamorous stuff like lax unpaid overtime regulations, dangerous quantities of Diet Coke, and dozens of cubicles filled with half-built LEGO Mindstorm Robots. Also, throwing in a skateboarding chipmunk named Jimmy Lightning doesn't hurt.

Robot franchise MechWarrior could be ready to make a return after seven years on the scrapheap.

Chinese online gamers have been without World of Warcraft for a month now, thanks to a problematic handover to a new operator in the region.

EA has announced two more SimAnimals games are on the way for Wii and DS.

Nintendo may offer the Wii autopilot mechanic Demo Play on DS, as well as titles other than New Super Mario Bros. Wii.

Wii Sports Resort is already a huge hit in Japan, racking up more than 350,000 sales in less than a week on sale.

Square Enix is to form a new entity, called Square Enix Europe, which will handle all publishing for Square Enix and Eidos titles in future, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Bungie has revealed the final three new multiplayer maps that will be included with Halo 3: ODST this September. They're called Heretic, Citadel and Longshore and you can see screenshots in our brand new gallery.

Media Molecule may have been "shellshocked and gutted" when LittleBigPlanet had to be recalled to remove a reference to the Qur'an, but developer Alex Evans has said in hindsight there were some positives.

Newly published financial documents have revealed ZeniMax raised USD 105 million to buy id Software last month.

PSN man Eric Lempel has said Sony hopes to avoid situations where digital copies of PSP games cost more than they do on UMD, but the company can't control what happens with third-party titles.

Funcom plans to reveal a brand new Age of Conan expansion this August at GamesCom.

Jack Tretton has said that PlayStation 3 is "on the right path for the long term" and questioned the widespread obsession with console pricing.

A very long time ago, when PlayStation 2 was still king of the world, before Wiimotes and Milo & Kate and prior, even, to the launch of Xbox 360 (celebrated with a prescient cover image by Time Magazine, I just discovered), Guitar Hero was an expensive import luxury: a novelty rhythm game made by legends of the niche and published by a company previously best known - and 'known' is pushing it - for third-party dance mats and joysticks. These days, it's big business - big enough to get Ringo and Macca out of bed anyway.

Atlus has announced a 6th October release for excellent and exclusive PS3 role-playing game Demon's Souls in the US. But its European whereabouts are uncertain.

Capcom has clarified to Eurogamer that Bionic Commando will be released on PC next Friday, 17th July.

TopWare has explained that elements of scrapped expansion Two Worlds: The Temptation will appear in recently-announced sequel Two Worlds II, but made it clear that the latter is "for sure a different title and not a simple rename".

It's hard to remember such a carefully controlled, ruthlessly organised, painstakingly cautious, generally locked-down and sewn-up MMO launch preparation as that currently being undertaken by NCsoft West for the US and European launch of Aion: The Tower of Eternity. That's because there's probably never been one.

While the PC version of Street Fighter IV is lagging months behind its console brethren, the core codebase for the computer version is actually much, much older. The arcade game from which the PS3 and Xbox 360 games are derived is based on PC architecture, so in essence this home game is an enhanced rendition of the "real thing". That being the case, it's equally as brilliant as the console games in terms of the raw gameplay, but the graphical assets can be scaled up to whatever your system can handle. For the Street Fighter IV purist (and we know how many of those there are), the difference could be remarkable - I mean, kit yourself out with the right equipment and you can play SFIV at 120FPS if you want. However, for the rest of us, the improvement will be marginal at best.

Provocative comic-illusionist duo Penn & Teller will air an episode of Bulls*** that examines the link between violence and videogames this week.

Black Inc. has unveiled Xbox Live Arcade game Ion Assault, an retro-style blaster that will be released later this summer for 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Eurogamer.es is reporting that PowerVR technology from Imagination Technologies will form the basis of the still-in-development PSP2. The site claims to have insider sources that reckon that a quad core iteration of the low-power SGX543MP chip, codenamed "Hydra", will be present in the next generation handheld, not to be confused with the forthcoming PSPgo.

Nintendo's star thinker Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that the island in Wii Sports Resort is a character, and we will see it time and time again across games spanning many different genres.

Codemasters has announced that the PC version of its off-road racer, Colin McRae: DiRT 2, is being delayed until December to incorporate the features of DirectX 11.

Nintendo is re-releasing musical DS title Electroplankton via DSiWare.

Visceral Games boss Glen Schofield has suggested that used-game sales doubled the amount of people who played Dead Space.

Valve will reward people who pre-order Left 4 Dead 2 with early access to a multiplayer demo.

MachineWorks Northwest is on the verge of bringing Duke Nukem 3D to iPhone.

LucasArts has announced that The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition will be released on Xbox Live Arcade and PC next Wednesday, 15th July.

I get this feeling quite a lot: enjoyment in spite of my better judgement. Ultimately, I know that Battlefield Heroes is an uncomfortable experimental mess of a game, but I can't help enjoy rambling about in its four brightly coloured maps, shooting the dudes, and trying to figure out how best to use the points I've earned to bolster my armoury. It's free via the website too, which skews any critique of value I might be inclined to make.