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Ubisoft has whipped the sheets off the next Armored Core game.

EA Sports has shuffled FaceBreaker and Madden NFL 09 demos onto Xbox Live.

For those of you who don't follow such things - and I thoroughly recommend you continue on that course - tonight is the annual GamesIndustry.biz Summer Party, where our sisters and brothers at Eurogamer Network's industry website rent out a club in sunny Brighton and dance the night away with whoever bothered to get the train down for the Develop Conference.

PixelJunk Eden headlines the PlayStation Store update today. You know, it's the game described by developer Q-Games as "kind of like an organic Mario".

The success of Geometry Wars has been something of a happy accident. Originally a fun little extra tucked away inside Project Gotham Racing 2, it was the perfect bite-sized burst of fun to showcase Xbox Live Arcade when 360 hit the shelves. After it was reworked as a standalone release, the mixture of dazzling visuals and moreish gameplay swiftly established it as the standard bearer for downloadable console gaming.

Sony Europe boss David Reeves has suggested you could always download PS3 films from Bittorrent while waiting for the PSN video service to launch here - assuming you're not bothered about quality.

The original Bionic Commando may be nearly old enough to rent a van and buy fireworks without ID, but don't let that put you off this modernised and expanded 2D remake: the 20-year-old game's bionic arm, which latches onto things with a grappling hook and allows you to swing from them like Spider-Man, was ahead of its time, and Swedish developer GRIN gives it a new lease of electromechanical life in Rearmed for XBLA and PSN.

It's 1992 all over again. Two of gaming's greatest pugilists have revived their long-standing rivalry, with Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon claiming his new game will "kick" Street Fighter IV's "ass", while Capcom has accused Midway of still "riding the coattails" of its brawler.

Naughty Dog - who most recently brought us the rather lovely Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - has been talking at the Develop conference in Brighton about its rather strange approach to managing game development.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, owner of the Ghostbusters licence, says the game will be released "one way or another".

As a franchise, there doesn't seem to be much about Devil May Cry that would appeal to the stereotypical PC gamer. A series founded on relentlessly aggressive repetition, button-mashing combat and an overwhelming sense of style over substance, it should fit the expected (and, to be honest, hopelessly outdated) console gaming model far better than the supposedly more sophisticated PC crowd.

Ludlum Entertainment has re-aquired the rights to make games based on the works of Robert Ludlum, including the Bourne and Covert One series.

Bungie AI boffin Damian Isla reckons Ensemble Studios has "really understood what things Halo is known for", claiming Halo Wars will be top drawer.

NCsoft is offering to take the digitised DNA of gamers into outer space, in a promotion it's calling Operation Immortality.

Mythic Entertainment has revealed the minimum system requirements for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, its hotly anticipated massively multiplayer RPG.

Microsoft has popped the Ninja Gaiden 2 Mission pack back on Xbox Live, but there are still freezing problems that need "a little more time to figure out".

The president of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has said he believes games journalist are lazy when it comes to reviewing games.

Gran Turismo TV launches worldwide tomorrow, and pay-per-view content such as Top Gear will be discounted for the first two weeks.

Rockstar North picked up four trophies at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards held in Brighton last night.

Naughty Dog has explained that Trophies in Uncharted will be awarded for exactly the same things as medals already are.

The next big step for artificial intelligence in games will be making a character walk up to a table and pick up a pencil.

Real-time strategy is getting too niche, reckons Relic. It's hard to think of a recent RTS game that didn't start out with this very same mission statement; a preview of one that didn't contain promises to scrap the genre's hang-ups, start afresh and bring it to a new audience (with the exception of the stubborn StarCraft II, Blizzard presumably being happy with its "niche" of hundreds of thousands of crazed fans).

Deep Silver has offered plenty more details on "RPB", the next game from Gothic developer Piranha Bytes.

Frontier boss David Braben believes WiiWare title LostWinds would have been canned were it not for online distribution.

Deep Silver will be publishing a new game from Gothic developer Piranha Bytes.

David Braben, co-creator of Elite and head of LostWinds brain Frontier Developments, believes there is more innovation in the games industry now than ever before.

Gas Powered Games boss Chris Taylor will be talking about Demigod ahead of the Leipzig Games Convention next month.

Relax, breathe easy. All is well within the Namco fighting game universe. Soulcalibur IV boots up predictably with the usual CG intro loveliness, staggeringly good HD graphics, the full-fat 60FPS gameplay experience and a satisfyingly vast selection of single-player modes in addition to versus and online action. It's everything a die-hard Namco fan would want from the franchise's transition to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 - and it's this which is the game's greatest strength and biggest weakness.

2K Boston creative boss Ken Levine has warned developers of the dangers of focus-testing games too early - saying that nobody would have wanted to play Bioshock if the idea had been focus-tested years before release.

Games for PlayStation 3 bring home the most money for EA, according to fresh financial papers released just last night.