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Bizarre Creations has whipped the wrappers off Blur, its brand new racing IP for Activision.

Microsoft has acquired the company that Don Mattrick co-founded before assuming his role as Xbox 360 boss.

Zoo Publishing has bought the rights to license, publish and distribute games previously held by defunct UK publisher Empire Interactive, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

For all its claims about amazingly realistic physics, Red Faction: Guerrilla is not, it seems fair to observe, a beacon of verisimilitude. For a start, a decent running jump can send you wafting through the air like Carl Lewis on steroids (well, more steroids), and with so many tumbling buildings, you're also an impressively robust little revolutionary fighter, able to withstand crushing injuries that would rend most of us to dust, or at least break the odd finger and displace our stylish neck-scarf. Plus, of course, you have a magic sledgehammer that can knock down multi-storey buildings in the space of about two minutes.

If you're feeling a slight queasiness at the inclusion of Mike Tyson in the line-up for Fight Night Round 4 - and that would be entirely reasonable - perhaps you should just focus on the fact that at least now you can beat him up. Actually, it's better than that: now you can beat him up in what looks to be one of the most detailed and convincing boxing titles ever made.

Sony has told Eurogamer what will be in next Thursday's SingStore update, which arrives in time for the Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest 2009 final.

Where were you in April 1997? It's a little over 12 years ago. Perhaps you were still at university, or just starting your first job. Some of you won't remember at all.

I'm cheating - again! The first time we saw Split/Second it was for GDC at the end of March, and we saw it in Brighton. This time - the first hands-on - is the E3 demo. Never mind the fact E3 isn't for another month; I'm still perched on a sofa in a Black Rock demo room flanked by cabinets full of PS2 and Xbox racing games (Dakar 2! GTC Africa!), while design director Paul Glancey talks me through half a dozen attempts to conquer the airport lap playable demo. I conquer it twice, and manage a couple of other respectable placings.

The LA Convention Center Administration Department has told Eurogamer that E3 attendees will be urged to wash their hands and cover their mouths while coughing - but that's as stringent as swine flu protection will get. It also hopes the threat of disease will be "a thing of the past" by the time the show takes place next month.

Codemasters has narrowed the launch window for Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising to autumn.

As marvellous as Fallout 3 was, there can't be many players who were happy when it closed off the Wasteland once you finished the story. For a game with so many interesting side-quests, and such a vast map, there were plenty of incentives to keep coming back. The recent addition of the Operation: Anchorage and The Pitt DLC merely re-emphasised that.

Microsoft has announced a deal that will bring Pathé films to Xbox Live Marketplace in the UK.

Activision has said Guitar Hero 5, DJ Hero and Band Hero will be out this autumn, confirming our report from March.

This week's Xbox Live Arcade offering Arkanoid Live! may include a hidden charge that users must pay in order to finish the game.

Vibrant colours aren't usually the first things that spring to mind when you visualise a space combat game. Our science-fiction heritage has left us with an image of space that is grim and murky, and full of people screaming but not being heard. Jumpgate isn't like that. Visually, Jumpgate is almost the interstellar equivalent of World Of Warcraft's cartoon fantasy: colourful worlds with unlikely spaceships whizzing between warmly-lit asteroids to unleash unsubtle lasers upon their evil-hued enemies. It's similar in a technical sense too, since your cranky old laptop is going to be able to run this game quite merrily. Jumpgate will have one of the lowest system spec requirements of any mainstream MMO to launch in the past two years.

Microsoft and Epic have announced the Gears of War 2 "Dark Corners" expansion pack, which will be sold through Xbox Live and as part of a new DLC bundle-in-a-box called the All Fronts Collection.

Nintendo has reported record-breaking annual sales, but revealed a weak Japanese underbelly in the process.

Tabula Rasa creator Richard Garriott claims that he was forced out by former employer NCsoft, and the publisher subsequently "re-characterised" the move as voluntary.

3D Realms has closed because of insufficient funding, placing the future of Duke Nukem Forever once more in doubt.

SEGA forum admin RubyEclipse claims Virtua Tennis 2009 has been pushed back a month to June.

Ubisoft is releasing DLC for its aerial dogfighter HAWX on PS3 and 360 today. The US Eagles pack brings five new aircraft to the game and costs costs 400 Microsoft points (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.80 ), or GBP 3.99 / EUR 4.99 on PSN.

Tim Schafer's latest game takes place in a pick-and-mix fantasy world culled from a thousand different heavy metal album covers. A love letter to the enduring appeal of chrome, valkyries, ramshackle skeletons and the artistic potential of a well-handled air brush, it's a gnarly, frightening landscape, but also an oddly familiar one. As you might expect from Double Fine, the studio behind the leftfield charms of Psychonauts, it's a place in which all the little details are just so: each mountain of skulls has exactly the right number of dinosaur jawbones peeking through the clutter of teeth and eye sockets, and every mysterious druid you encounter has a hooded tunic of the most perfectly malevolent shade of scarlet.

Korean company HanbitSoft assures us that Mythos is now back on track after acquiring the licence from sunken developer Flagship Studios last July.

THQ has announced its year-end financial results, revealing a net loss of USD 431 million.

Disney's upcoming G-Force game will include 3D options.

The Eurogamer Expo is coming back! Following last year's great success in London, we're expanding the show to cover the north and south of England for Eurogamer Expo 2009 - partnered with hmv.

Blizzard has opened the opt-in process for the beta test for its RTS sequel, StarCraft II.

The second instalment in the Obscure survival horror series is on the way to PSP.

Capcom has highlighted the fact that there's a private match option lurking in the Xbox 360-exclusive Bionic Commando multiplayer demo released last week.

CCP has revealed that EVE Online has surpassed 300,000 active subscribers, a figure up 22 per cent since the beginning of the year (and that doesn't include trial accounts).