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Last year was all about the battle of the band games, as Rock Band went head-to-head with Guitar Hero. Things will be different in 2009 - unless Activision decides to release a Rolling Stones game, but that's another story. This year, it's time for a superhero showdown as Radical's Prototype takes on inFamous, a PS3 exclusive from Sucker Punch.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 producer Yosuke Hayachi has said Team Ninja is getting on just fine without its founder, Tomonobu Itagaki.

Tecmo has revealed that Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 will feature an online co-op mode plus new playable characters.

John Smedley, president of Sony Online Entertainment, revealed in a Game Developers Conference talk today that The Agency and DC Universe Online won't see release until 2010, according to Joystiq.

Valve claims to have rendered notorious DRM software obsolete with its brand new set of Steamworks features.

Bethesda is working on a fix for The Pitt downloadable content for the Xbox 360 version of Fallout 3, which went live today to widespread complaints about crashes and bugs.

Microsoft will add brand new anti-piracy measures to Games for Windows - Live, plus an in-game Marketplace and global game-saves that will be accessible from any computer.

I'm cheating. Technically this is a Game Developers Conference preview - the first opportunity to sit down and experience Black Rock's brand new racing game - but I'm not in San Francisco, I'm two minutes up the road from our office, sitting behind black-out curtains in the Disney studio's conference room, as Split/Second argues that Pure was anything but a fluke.

Capcom has pushed the launch of the Versus mode add-on for Resident Evil 5 back to April. Japanese gamers had been promised a 26th March release.

Nintendo has told Eurogamer that a DSi Virtual Console-style service offering downloadable Game Boy and GBA games is "purely rumour and speculation".

In the West, the perception of free-to-play games can be that they're poorer quality, or more rudimentary, or feature basic browser-based graphics, or are for younger audiences - or are simply off-putting for the two-tier culture that accompanies the sale of game items for real currency, real-money trading (RMT). Runes of Magic, however, could bridge the gap between such games and the fully-fledged MMOs in the West. It may be free to download, but it's also a deep, complex game with all the features you'd expect from a modern MMORPG.

Wii Fit has beaten off Street Fighter IV to top the US software chart for February.

Sony has released "the world's first console-based Alternate Reality Game" called Xi for PlayStation Home.

Id Software has released an open source version of Wolfenstein 3D for the iPhone, which technical director John Carmack expects to follow up with Doom "fairly soon".

The Game Developers Conference yesterday saw the announcement of Zeebo, a 3G wireless games console specifically tailored for the emerging markets, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

World of Goo co-creator Ron Carmel reckons protecting PC games with DRM software is a waste of time and money.

Microsoft has announced that UNO Rush will be released on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, 25th March, for 800 Microsoft Points (GBP 6.80 / EUR 9.60).

Castle Crashers has been crowned game of the year by Xbox Live Arcade users, Microsoft announced overnight, after 185,000 people cast their votes in a recent service poll.

Activision has launched a DJ Hero teaser site with logos for Xbox 360, Wii and PlayStation, helpfully identifying platforms for the turntable-based rhythm game due out later this year.

An Activision project director has confirmed that the publisher is working on a "DJ Hero" game.

Speculation is mounting that UK studio FreeStyleGames is working on Activision's next rhythm action project, DJ Hero.

Activision has offered no clarification on whether it is working on a new rhythm-action game called DJ Hero.

Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick has announced - apparently inadvertently - that DJ Hero is in development and due out in 2009.

While Telltale has undoubtedly overcome the complex development hurdles involved in bringing episodic point-and-click adventures to life, the results often live and die on the strength of the script. In both Sam & Max and Strong Bad's case, the games divided fans and critics alike, but the response was more positive than negative. In Wallace & Gromit's case, it's easier to imagine widespread apathy.

Ngmoco bossman Neil Young has said the iPhone is just as good for playing games on as dedicated handhelds - and even has better graphics.

Ngmoco founder Neil Young has confirmed that two sequels are on the way for iPhone game Rolando.

Deep Silver and Daedelic Entertainment have unveiled a pretty PC adventure game called The Whispered World.

When you get a toy, you want to play with it. If you make a toy - a really good toy - you've got to presume the urge is even stronger. Except, no sooner than you've made this joyous thing, you've got to put it in a box and send it out to all the little boys and girls (and less little boys and girls).

EA has told Eurogamer that a Fight Night Round 4 demo will appear here in late May or early June.

2K Boston creative chief Ken Levine is "champing at the bit" to talk about his next game, which features a type of gameplay "completely new" to him and his team.