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EA has unveiled new social games service Nucleus, which will track gamer preferences, scores and relationships and allow you to set challenges for friends across EA games on multiple formats.

Microsoft plans to bring the original Banjo-Kazooie to Xbox Live Arcade.

Electronic Arts will publish id Software's upcoming multiformat driving/shooter hybrid Rage, the superpublisher announced at its E3 press conference in LA today.

November 7th is the worldwide release date for Gears of War 2, Epic's Cliff Bleszinski announced tonight.

Resident Evil 5 has been given an official European and US release date of Friday 13th March 2009, on both PS3 and Xbox 360, Capcom confirmed during Microsoft's E3 press conference.

Xbox Live executive John Schappert lifted the lid on Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2, Galaga Legions, UNO Rush and South Park for Xbox Live Arcade during Microsoft's E3 press conference.

Microsoft unveiled a total overhaul of the Xbox 360's dashboard at its E3 briefing today and said it would be rolled out for free in the autumn.

Microsoft unveiled madcap Xbox 360 camera game You're In The Movies at its E3 2008 briefing today, promising EyeToy-style mini-games and a way of repackaging captured player input into quirky little B-movies.

Microsoft unveiled a brand new effectively massively-multiplayer quiz game for Xbox Live during its E3 conference today.

Xbox 360 boss Don Mattrick has boldly claimed that his console will win the war. "I'm willing to declare here today that Xbox 360 will sell more consoles worldwide this generation than PS3," he said.

Peter Molyneux has said Fable 2 will be released in October.

Final Fantasy XIII is coming to Xbox 360, Square-Enix has confirmed.

Flavour-of-the-month Welsh warbler Duffy joined Microsoft Games Studios boss Shane Kim on stage tonight for the unveiling of Lips, 360's answer to Sony's towering SingStar series.

Nintendo has peeled the plastic off its MotionPlus accessory for the Wii remote.

Conflict: Denied Ops developer Pivotal Games is to close its doors, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Konami plans to expand Metal Gear Online this Thursday by adding its first Online Gene Expansion pack.

Sony and Sky have launched the Go!View video service for PSP in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The UK games industry has raked in more money than ever during the first six months of 2008.

Apogee Software is to return to publishing duties fuelled by revivals from its old catalogue of games.

Mythic has pushed Warhammer Online into its final stage of closed beta testing.

Sony has updated the PSP firmware to version 4.05.

BioWare has revealed new details of its upcoming role-playing game Dragon Age: Origins.

The name of this game is inappropriate. True, it is about skiing. Yes, you can play it with members of your family, and because it's a Wii game it's even suitable for those who think videogames are turning people into goggle-eyed knife-wielding paedophiles. However, the words "Family Ski" do not accurately reflect what you can expect from the gaming experience.

Sony super-boss Howard Stringer has dismissed the Nintendo Wii as an "expensive niche game device".

SEGA plans to deploy Empire: Total War here on 6th February 2009.

Deus Ex creator Warren Spector has said his Junction Point team is working with Disney Feature Animation and Pixar on a new project.

The lengths some people will go to for a laugh. Paul Hollywood, garrulous creative director of MotorStorm Pacific Rift - you might remember him from Tom's preview - knows all about it. He put Evolution, developer of the Sony-published PS3 racing sequel, through months of painstaking work and agonising waiting just so he could relive memories of a misspent youth.

Hellgate: London and Mythos developer Flagship Studios has closed its doors and made all staff redundant.

Microsoft is to launch an Xbox 360 with a 60GB hard drive in North America next month for USD 349, confirming rumours circulating last week.

Ben Mattes, producer of Prince of Persia, can talk. Boy can he talk. But as one of the senior figures at Ubisoft Montreal, the studio responsible for the likes of Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six and Assassin's Creed, what he has to say is worth hearing - and there is a lot to say about what Mattes calls the "second reinvention" of Jordan Mechner's classic fantasy series, following on from the last-generation trilogy that encompassed Sands of Time, Warrior Within and The Two Thrones.