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Creator Rand Miller has blamed the repeated commercial failure of Myst Online on cheap, stereotypical MMOs, which he believes are "setting people in a hamster wheel and saying, 'Run run run run run.'"

Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux reckons the PlayStation 3 is still waiting for a console-defining game.

Free Radical wants help deciding what platforms to make TimeSplitters 4 for.

Following yesterday's false start, Life with PlayStation is properly available for download.

Following yesterday's false start, Life with PlayStation is properly available for download.

Legendary dead guitarist Jimi Hendrix is set to get his very own Guitar Hero game.

Not having read a film mag in years, I don't know if they still do this, but... I always despised the dual-mark DVD review section where they give separate marks for films and add-ons, with a similar sort of split shown in the actual reviews in terms of what they talk about. Because if a film is rubbish, who cares if it's got voiceover commentary by the entire cast's family? It's rubbish. You're reviewing. That's all that bloody matters.

Internet giant Google has said that reports it is to acquire Valve are just "rumour and speculation".

The sequel to acclaimed PC puzzler Peggle has arrived, and is available now from the official PopCap website.

Sony has confirmed that new PS3 service Life with PlayStation was briefly up, running and available to the public earlier today.

The average Nintendo employee will make more than USD 1.6 million (GBP 800,000) in profit for their company this year.

PS3 exclusive White Knight Chronicles will be released in Japan on December 25th, reports Kotaku.

A new firmware update is now available for PS3 - but you only need to bother downloading it if you live in Japan.

Despite the perfectly snug fit between golf and the Wii, last year's Tiger Woods offering felt like a lazy PS2 port with some token motion control tacked on. The good news is that for the '09 edition, EA has made an appreciable effort to give the Wii a distinct Tiger to call its own. The excellent news is that they've also included most of the new features from the 360 and PS3 versions. The slightly disappointing news is that the motion control, while vastly improved from last year, remains likely to frustrate as many as it pleases.

Ubisoft has decided to unleash Xbox 360 and PS3 game Tom Clancy's EndWar on 7th November.

Peter Molyneux has claimed that the Fable 2 Pub Games glitch, which allowed bets to be increased ten-fold by some timely button pressing, was absolutely intentional.

Capcom has assured fans that Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix will be released this year.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning launches this week, and its outspoken creative director and frontman Paul Barnett is reaching the end of an exhausting, interminable PR tour. We followed up our review (Barnett: "You're very naughty!") with a chat at the Games Workshop Games Day, held last Sunday at Birmingham's NEC Arena.

Activision boss Robert Kotick reckons the company is now enough of a big deal to start influencing the design of the next generation of consoles.

Activision Blizzard plans to triple the number of Guitar Hero games on sale by 2010.

Atari has tidied up several dates for upcoming games, including handsome PS3 fighter Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, which will be with us on 7th November.

Writer Marianne Krawczyk has revealed the script she's working on for God of War III will probably run to 120 pages.

Do we have a name for this genre? I can't remember. "Escort game" probably sends the wrong signal. Oh well, beggars can't be choosers - and The Last Guy, in which you dodge monsters and escort frightened civilians across satellite images of famous cities, can't be easily pigeonholed.

Sony has confirmed WipEout HD will be released next week.

EA has said there will Xbox 360 and PS3 demos for Mercenaries 2 arriving any day now.

Criterion plans to introduce motorbikes, wonderful motorbikes, to Burnout Paradise this Thursday.

If there's one thing wrong with the Xbox 360 (apart from being about as robust as a pillar of flour in a hurricane), it's that the directional pad on the otherwise-excellent controller is useless. It's hard enough to navigate the dashboard menus: scrolling through lists, the cursor flies off to adjacent boxes as the d-pad decides it's been angled left or right; and inputting text with the on-screen keyboard is like driving one of those carnival bicycles where the handlebars and front wheel turn in different directions. For games like Pro Evolution Soccer, Street Fighter II and Pac-Man Championship Edition, it's necessary to fall back on the analogue stick - a weaker option for precise, reflexive directional combinations, but in the 360's case still a dramatic improvement.

Activision has finally concreted the list of 86 songs to be available on the Guitar Hero: World Tour disc that launches in October. So hopefully they'll stop sending us 15 press releases a week. We hate Sting.

EA is running another World Cup tournament in FIFA 09 on PlayStation 3, which is all set to launch in Europe on 3rd October.

World of Warcraft patch 3.0.2 - the update that will prepare the game for the arrival of Wrath of the Lich King (which could be as early as November) - has gone live on Blizzard's public test servers.