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Gearbox Software president Randy Pitchford has confirmed that shooter Aliens: Colonial Marines will not arrive this year.

US President Barack Obama has argued that not letting our children play videogames all day might be healthier than letting our children play videogames all day.

3D Realms (and parent company Apogee) founder Scott Miller has rubbished claims of an offshore bank account with "substantial funds" made in a Take-Two lawsuit.

Developer EnjoyUp Games has announced that it's making a WiiWare version of its DS platform game Chronos Twins.

Ubisoft has slapped a 25th September release date on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash-Up.

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has predicted game budgets will rise to an average of USD 60 million (GBP 37 million / EUR 43 million) in the future.

Kotaku reports that every track in DJ Hero will be an original, never-released mix created specifically for the game.

Sources close to Microsoft have downplayed 1UP's report that a new Xbox console will launch in autumn 2010.

So, what of the intriguing notion that Microsoft is set to release a version 1.5 of the Xbox 360 hardware with the launch of the Project Natal 3D camera in late 2010? When an organisation like 1UP starts talking this up, spider-senses across the globe start tingling. Well, checking in with my sources over the weekend – people very likely to know what’s going on at the higher echelons of Microsoft's gaming division, the story appears to be a lot of hot air. Or perhaps, more likely, the end result of Chinese whispers.

Shigeru Miyamoto had already claimed in one E3 interview that Nintendo's years of experience with Wii give it the edge on motion control, but it turns out he also told Wired that he believes a physical controller is still vital.

A couple of weeks back, we took a quick look at Fight Night Round 4 on Xbox 360 and established the game's 60FPS gameplay credentials, along with a pledge to take a look at the PS3 version in due course.

When LucasArts, BioWare and EA revealed their new MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic last year, it was with a flourish, a loud fanfare, a lot of grand rhetoric, and almost no information. The game remained fogged with mystery: it would have lightsabers, lots of story, AI companions, and maybe be a bit like World of Warcraft in space - if there was going to be any space in it. They weren't talking about space that day. They weren't releasing video either. Or saying what the classes were, or whether there would be player-versus-player combat, or explaining just how this mammoth, high-stakes project might work.

Comments systems can be tough places to hang around. The noise, the arguments, the sheer number of people - it can get a bit much. That’s why we’re rolling out a new feature for the comments system: Karma.

The Sims 3 holds on to the UK All-Formats top spot for a second week, fending off shape-shifting newcomer Prototype at two.

There's always a faint ripple of excitement when LucasArts comes out with a new Indiana Jones game, but like a faded band trying to relive former glories, we know deep down that our faith is misguided, and another numbing disappointment awaits. We still live in hope.

Trends in gaming come and go just as they do with everything else. This year it's all about pretty action-adventure games and magic controllers. Last year it was shooting monsters in the face in post-apocalyptic American cities. And for a hundred years before that, it was third-person shooters set in gritty urban environments populated by crime lords, drug dealers and maverick cops-on-the-edge called Jack.

Square Enix has revealed that work on the Xbox 360 version of Final Fantasy XIII began two months ago.

Konami has released a bikini patch for Metal Gear Online, which strips female characters of their cumbersome tops.

Tetris father Alexey Pajitnov thinks his creation can adapt to fit a world where mental fitness will soon replace physical fitness.

You could never criticise the guys at Introversion for not sharing their views of the world. From swearing at the mainstream industry during their Independent Games Festival acceptance speech, to Chris Delay's detailed and heartrending posts about exactly how bad their 2008 turned out to be, they have always been impressively open about what they've been thinking while making their chain of splendid independent games.

EA is being attacked by Christian bloggers for staging a fake religious protest against Dante's Inferno during E3 week.

Microsoft may be planning to launch a new Xbox console next autumn that bundles Project Natal as standard and features minor technological improvements.

Tim Curry, star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show amongst several thousand other things, is doing a voiceover for Brutal Legend.

Nintendo appears to be working on a new DS game based on The Legend of Zelda's very own Jar Jar Binks, Tingle.

Peter Molyneux has said he wants to help Microsoft's development studios regain a sense of identity - particularly Banjo Kazooie and Viva Pinata creators Rare.

Sony has said that the PSPgo battery will allow you to play games and watch films for roughly the same amount of time as the models currently on the market.

Blizzard has revealed that the next new battleground for World of Warcraft, the Isle of Conquest, will support up to 80 players.

Metal Gear Solid creator Hideo Kojima will have more involvement in MGS Rising than he has previously let on.

Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed plans to make the new Zelda game playable only with a MotionPlus accessory.

More details have spilt out of the Game Informer first-look feature on Max Payne 3, revealing that Rockstar Vancouver is ditching James McCaffrey, who voiced our hero in the first two games.