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Take-Two's faith in BioShock meant 2K Boston and 2K Australia had "the luxury of getting to bump into a lot of things", the game's makers have told an audience at the Develop conference.

Rockstar has cobbled together a placeholder website for DS exclusive Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

Nintendo and Rockstar have whipped the wrappers of an exclusive Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars game for DS.

Here's a sober warning about the perils of allowing your community too much say. Teen social and casual gaming site Gaia Online held a user competition to come up with a name for its in-development MMO and has just announced the winning title: zOMG!

In the latest edition of the "Ask Cryptic" developer blog, the studio has revealed long-term plans to allow users to create content for the game.

Nintendo has published financial results for the three months ending June 30th, confirming everyone else in the world is in the wrong business.

The PC version of Mass Effect mission pack Bring Down the Sky is now available to download.

Sony has released a new firmware update for PlayStation 3.

EA has pushed back the release of Battlefield Heroes and Command & Conquer FPS Tiberium.

The launch of Will Wright's Spore is still over a month away, but John Riccitiello is already considering whether consumers could be charged for extra content in the future.

Electronic Arts has revealed it's currently developing 40 titles for the Wii and DS.

Remember Crysis? Crytek's lavish hymn to frozen jungles, nano-machine upgrades and casual illiteracy was the game that gave you a whole archipelago to mess around in, rendered down to the last grain of sand. It was the game that was meant to push graphics technology so far into the future that most PCs would burst into flames the moment you put the disk in the drive. And it's also the game that, less than a year after its release, is already getting a follow-up.

Speaking to videogaming247 at the Develop Online conference today, Realtime Worlds' Colin Macdonald revealed that the Crackdown developer is making another game alongside crime MMO All Ponts Bulletin.

Ubisoft has pushed Tom Clancy's HAWX, all of them, back to 2009. Squawk.

Gas Powered Games has popped out a PC demo for Space Siege.

The PlayStation 3 has sold twice as many units worldwide this summer than during the same period last year, producing smiles and maybe lunch parties with wine at Sony.

More from Mythic Entertainment motor-mouth Paul Barnett at the Develop Online conference today: Warhammer Online; Age of Reckoning, is "finished", he told videogaming247.

Speaking at the Develop Online conference today, Paul Barnett, creative director of upcoming MMO Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, admitted: "When we launch these games, we can't schedule for sh**."

Capcom and DC Comics have partnered to make comic-book stories based on Resident Evil and Devil May Cry.

Developer Hothead Games has dismissed suggestions it's favouring Xbox 360 and PC, following the recent and long-awaited confirmation of Penny Arcade Adventures for PS3.

Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has said Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway will not appear until September.

Microsoft is letting silver members of Xbox Live play cross-platform games online for free.

Wii Fit has high-jumped back to the top of the UK all-formats chart, bumping LEGO Indiana Jones down to five.

Activision Blizzard has issued a new release schedule with several key titles conspicuously absent.

Capcom needs to sell lots more copies of Okami before it will contemplate a sequel, according to VP of strategic planning Christian Svensson.

Lionhead already has plans for three more Fable games, according to Peter Molyneux.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 (30th July) and Bionic Commando Rearmed (13th August) are part of Microsoft's "Summer of Xbox Live Arcade" month, apparently, and that means we also get release dates for Braid, Galaga Legions and Castle Crashers.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 is due out exclusively on Xbox Live Arcade tomorrow, but developer Bizarre Creations is also open to developing games for PlayStation Network.

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada has told GamesIndustry.biz that the RPG specialist is neutral when it comes to dealing with publishing and platform partners.

Games that attempt something new should always receive some small measure of praise, even if their innovation involves nothing more ambitious than squashing and stitching two genres together by the flappy bits. So it is with Go! Go! Break Steady, a game that's amusements are often overshadowed by the feeling that the developer is simply trying too hard to manufacture something new from old material.