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PlayStation Home's current legal guardian, Peter Edward, has said the online social service thing will be in beta until it hits "a kind of final quality".

Those who once held out hope for Nintendo’s WiiWare service as an outlet for charming, offbeat and innovative games might well be sobbing into their lacy handkerchiefs. While there’s no shortage of games available now, the prices remain prohibitively high and quality is an often secondary concern.

In December last year, following a series of delays, PlayStation Home launched - or the beta version did, anyway. At the Develop conference last week, platform director Peter Edward delivered a speech titled Home: First Term Report. In it he discussed how the last seven months have gone and the lessons Sony's learned.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has said that we're unlikely to see another Unreal Tournament game "for several years".

2K president Christoph Hartmann reckons this Christmas season could see fewer amazing games released than last year's.

Sony has signed a deal that will see Universal Music's songs appearing in the European SingStore.

Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi has said he doesn't expect to be in charge of the next game in the survival horror series, and nor does his fellow producer Masachika Kawata.

Microsoft shipped 11.2 million Xbox 360 units over the course of the last financial year.

Valve has shown off the promised Swamp Fever campaign at Comic-Con in San Diego, revealing new infected types along the way.

DICE and EA have announced that Battlefield 1943 is the fastest-selling day one and week one downloadable game worldwide in Xbox Live history, and has taken the same accolade on PlayStation Network in North America.

LucasArts has released an iPhone version of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition.

Good news, Halo buffs - Microsoft is launching a new "destination" on Xbox Live especially for you.

Apologies for not bringing this one to your attention sooner, because it really is excessively cool. While Capcom doesn't appear willing to release a playable demo of Resident Evil 5 on PC for now, it has unleashed a very nifty benchmarking tool that allows gamers to accurately gauge performance of the final game on their hardware. Choose your desired levels of graphical excellence, then engage the benchmarking tool to see the game play out with your chosen settings across a series of test scenarios.

Codemasters has signed a deal with ESPN to put X Games stages in Colin McRae: DiRT 2.

Activision has announced Band Hero will be coming to the DS, and will be playable with a new Drum Grip peripheral.

The co-creator of the SAW series, James Wan, has signed up to direct a film based on the Castlevania games.

Disney Interactive Studios is developing a batch of games based on Alice in Wonderland.

Ubisoft's Michael De Plater has revealed a sequel to voice-controlled RTS EndWar is on the way.

Rockstar has confirmed a UK price for the disc featuring both episodes of the Grand Theft Auto IV DLC.

Rockstar has announced the next batch of downloadable content for Grand Theft Auto IV will be available via Xbox Live on 29th October.

More than a million user-created LittleBigPlanet levels have now been uploaded.

Electronic Arts has announced Need for Speed Nitro will launch this November.

Analyst Michael Pachter reckons Activision's controversial decision to raise the price of Modern Warfare 2 has nothing to do with a weak Great British Pound.

It's no secret that Xbox Live Arcade games without the buoyancy of a licence or well-known series often sink without trace. The first Geometry Wars may have sold and sold, but it was a novelty that benefited from exquisite timing: for the first few months it had precious little competition on Xbox's new digital download service.

Cel-shaded shooter Borderlands has been confirmed for an October release date on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Microsoft is working on a series of seven short anime films titled Halo Legends.

Konami will slash the price of its iPhone games by more than half this week.

Codemasters Online has announced that Jumpgate Evolution has reached 250,000 beta sign-ups across Europe and North America.

Cliff Bleszinski may be the face of Epic Games but Mark Rein is the voice. No tight jeans, diamond earrings or chainsaw-waving japes for him - just a wardrobe full of polo shirts and a great big bundle of opinions.

Do you want to know what a really expensive Russian-made MMO might play like? If Allods Online is any indication, the answer is that it might play a lot like one of its more typical Western counterparts. Developer Astrum Nival has spent $12 million on its lavish free-to-play title so far, and with a financial model based entirely around micro-transactions, the design team can't afford to take too many risks setting out their stall. Allods' UI is reminiscent of many of its competitors, its population is divided into (largely) familiar factions, archetypes, and classes, and its lush vistas, filled with dark forests, sun-scored deserts and pretty cobbled villages, are covered in quest-givers who wouldn't look that out of place dropped into Azeroth, if you could ignore the sudden upgrade in visual fidelity.