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The world and its dog may be jabbering about Fable III in all sorts of places, but what about you and your dog? Perhaps you fancy running around Fable II's Knothole Island, in which case you'll be pleased to hear it's the subject of a weeklong price-cut.

EA Games president Frank Gibeau reckons that losing the James Bond licence brought out the best in Visceral Games, formerly EA Redwood Shores.

Sony may be readying a PS3 Slim model for launch this autumn, while Microsoft may be cutting the price of the top-tier Xbox 360 Elite.

Microsoft may not be talking about it and Peter Molyneux may be trying ever so hard not to talk about it, but people just keep talking about Fable III. Now it's the New York Times, in a wedding announcement of all things.

Id Software has announced a last-minute change of venue for this year's QuakeCon event, which takes place between 13th and 16th August.

Halo 3: ODST may have nothing to do with Microsoft's Project Natal, but Bungie president Harold Ryan reckons there's scope for overlap in a certain future game.

It's always a little worrying when you see developers and marketers working at crossed purposes. On the back of the box, at the top of the series of captioned pictures describing Anno: Create A New World's prime features, it says, "Team up with a friend and explore together".

The European PlayStation website will introduce Trophy comparisons and leaderboard support in mid-July.

Rising Star Games plans to bring Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon to Europe early next year.

It's going to involve a huge amount of effort and several pieces of technology working in tandem, but I think it's possible to produce a comprehensive investigation into how much latency is built into today's console and PC releases. Players often complain about how unresponsive certain games are, but can this actually be quantifiably and accurately measured? And just how much does a drop in frame rate impact response? Even running in optimum conditions, just how much lag is built into the top-selling console titles?

Team17 boss Martyn Brown has announced that Worms 2: Armageddon will arrive this Wednesday on Xbox Live Arcade.

Mythic Entertainment producer Jeff Skalski has told Eurogamer that Tier 4 endgame and realm-versus-realm combat will be the focus of the next big patch or update for Warhammer Online, which is likely to coincide with the game's one-year anniversary on 18th September.

EA has finally launched Battlefield Heroes, the free-to-play, ad-supported, cartoon online shooter.

Frozenbyte has popped out a PC demo for promising platform game Trine.

Sony is thinking about merging game and phone in an attempt to compete with Apple's wildly popular iPhone.

Perhaps it's the signature moments that separate great games from good. The classics are brave enough to linger over that single, defining action, while merely decent games let their competent mechanics blur together in a friendly muddle. That's why the killer bounce-and-rebound in Mario is a thousand times more satisfying than bottom-stomping baddies in a dozen other platformers, and why slicing enemies into chunks in Ninja Gaiden, screaming down out of the sky, dragon sword glinting in the neon and cherry blossom, is just more effective and exhilarating than chopping up chumps in other fighting games. Signature moments separate the great from the good, and Team Ninja's signature moments separate limbs from torsos and heads from necks at the same time. It's kind of beautiful, really.

Kunimasa Suzuki has been promoted to deputy president of Sony Computer Entertainment, making him the second most important PlayStation person behind Kaz Hirai.

Lost Planet 2 producer Jun Takeuchi has confirmed to Famitsu - as spotted by Joystiq - that a demo of Lost Planet 2 will be released on Xbox Live "soon, I guess".

Trials developer RedLynx has released iPhone and iPod Touch game DrawRace, which costs only 59 pence on the App Store.

Fight Night Round 4 has become the first boxing game to top the UK All-Formats chart upon release. Perhaps it will now go to America and never be heard of again.

Contrary to what the slogans will tell you, these Transformers offer exactly what meets the eye. This is a game-of-the-film so beholden to formula that you can probably finish the review in your head right now, without even playing the thing. Did you imagine repetitive gameplay, uninspired missions and shiny characters stomping around a strangely inert and lifeless gameworld? If so, give yourself a biscuit.

Capcom has announced that PSN and XBLA remake Marvel vs Capcom 2 will be released in late July, and not late June as Marvel had lead us to believe.

Fansite Champions Online Daily News reports that Crytpic's superhero MMO will go into open beta testing in mid-August.

EA has denied that the Steven Spielberg action-adventure for PS3 and Xbox 360, codenamed LMNO, has been cancelled.

BioWare boss Ray Muzyka has spoken about last week's re-organisation of his own studios and Warhammer Online developer Mythic into a single EA group under his leadership. He stressed that, for now, there would be no formal change to the way each studio works or the projects it's working on.

BioWare has explained that Mass Effect 2 will not allow same-character campaign replays like the original.

Obsidian has confirmed that the Aliens role-playing game it was developing for SEGA has been canned.

Free Realms creative director Laralyn McWilliams expects the kids' MMO to reach the 4 million-user mark this week, as teens and tweens flock to the cartoon world that launched in April.

It's probably not deliberate, but Blizzard seems determined to drive home just how inadequate I am as a gamer. Within minutes of arriving at the company's imposing Southern California base - the giant statue of an orc riding a wolf in the courtyard is under renovation by a team of builders, it transpires - I'm seated in a private cinema to watch some StarCraft II matches in progress.

Blizzard's vice president of game design, Rob Pardo, has revealed to Eurogamer that early delays to StarCraft II's development were a result of staff being called off to work on World of Warcraft for a year.