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Telltale has announced that Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures will launch this spring on both PC and Xbox Live Arcade.

Sony has signed a deal that will see PS3 games working with amBX technology in the future.

Rolando developer Simon Oliver has hinted that we will see more of the cute little rolling-blobs platform-puzzler in 2009.

The Independent Games Festival awards in 2008 made it seem like the sky was the limit for indie gaming, and so this year's IGF contenders face impossibly high expectations. They are competing with our rather recent recollections of Audiosurf, World of Goo, and Crayon Physics. All brilliant concepts that made fantastic games. How can they hope to match up to that?

Bionic Command developer Grin is working on turning Hollywood film Wanted into a game.

Warner Bros. and TT Games are teaming up to create a very classical LEGO experience for DS: LEGO Battles. And we're told to expect it this summer.

At one point it was unthinkable that Street Fighter II would disappear from every greasy spoon on the map - but it happened. On today's arcade cardiograph, there is a slow pulse, a protracted blip in the darkness that represents the last bastion of hope for an ailing UK industry. But enough of the woe stories. Having understood and agreed that the rise of the console has spelled slow death for the most social of videogaming activities, it's time to take a glass-half-full approach to ATEI 2009.

Codemasters is taking a new tack on MMO recruitment programmes by offering Amazon vouchers worth 5 euros or pounds for every friend Lord of the Rings Online players bring to the game.

Q Entertainment will finally release Lumines Supernova on the European PlayStation Store tomorrow.

Rockstar has announced Red Dead Redemption for PS3 and Xbox 360, which is due out in autumn 2009.

Koch has nudged the console release of Sacred 2 back again, this time into the early part of Q2 2009.

Deadline Games CEO Chris Mottes has confirmed to Eurogamer that development on Faith and a .45 has stalled, continuing only on a "negotiation level".

Although you might well be suspicious of so-called "free-to-play" gaming, there are some aspects of it you just can't argue with. Visit a website. Get a sense of what it's offering you. Download the client. Install it. Jump into the game. Enjoy, or if you don't - uninstall. No loss. Nothing spent.

When you first open Let's Tap's oversized box and pull out about seven nicely decorated pieces of cardboard, which the packaging implores you to assemble into further boxes and rest your Wiimote upon, it makes absolutely no sense. In the same way that Wii Sports Tennis has people waving tentatively the first time they play it, reluctant to believe that their actions will translate onto the screen in any meaningful way, there's a bit of a belief barrier between the average person and accepting that you can control a videogame by tapping a cardboard box.

Publisher EA has revealed - as part of its depressing financial report - that Mythic MMO Warhammer Online had 300,000 subscribers at the end of last year.

Activision has said body-morphing openworld game Prototype will be released this June.

Amazon has launched a casual games download service, with more than 600 titles available for GBP 9.99 or less.

SEGA has announced that it is working on a videogame version of Iron Man 2 for multiple platforms.

EA boss John Riccitiello announced delays for The Sims 3, Dragon Age and Godfather 2 during a financial conference call last night.

Ubisoft has acquired Vancouver-based games studio Action Pants.

Electronic Arts has announced plans to shut down 12 facilities and make 11 per cent of its workforce redundant - amounting to 1100 members of staff.

SEGA has announced that Let's Tap is due for release on Wii this summer in Europe and North America.

LucasArts has lifted the lid on Wii, DS, PS2 and PSP game Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings, which was partially revealed yesterday.

Fallout 3 is such an embarrassment of riches, it's hard to know where to begin. The news is definitely good though, because whichever way you stack it up it qualifies as a landmark game. Like BioShock and Oblivion, unpicking its merits is something of a Gordian knot. But that is, of course, precisely its charm.

Koch will squash World War II strategy onto PSP and DS this calendar quarter with Military History Commander - Europe at War.

Owners of the sleek iPhone accounted for 14 per cent of all mobile gaming downloads across the US during November 2008, according to a comScore report.

Rockstar will soon begin a year of Midnight Club: Los Angeles tournaments.

Capcom Japan has announced plans to support PlayStation Home with Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 content, including costumes and a themed game space.

Mario Kart Wii was the biggest selling game across the UK, US and Japan last year, shifting nearly 9 million copies.

SEGA has smacked a US date of 10th March on brutal Wii action game MadWorld.