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The first hard details on the new player-versus-player combat systems being introduced to Funcom's fantasy MMO Age of Conan have emerged over on Massively.

Blizzard has published the official talent calculator for next World of Warcraft expansion Wrath of the Lich King on the game's website.

Xbox Live Arcade title Portal: Still Alive is the standalone original game with some levels from a third-party map pack, according to a report.

An expanded version of Eurogamer's Game of the 2007, Portal, is be released this autumn, subtitled 'Still Alive'.

Capcom is working on a patch for the Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix beta on Xbox Live.

Satoru Iwata has apologised to gamers who expected the next Super Mario or Legend of Zelda to be unveiled at Nintendo's E3 press conference last week.

XNA community games for Xbox Live Arcade will cost between 200 and 800 Microsoft Points, Microsoft has announced.

Microsoft has said it will no longer charge for use of Games for Windows Live.

John Schappert has defended Microsoft against accusations that its new Xbox 360 initiatives are unoriginal.

The E3 Media & Business Summit will return in 2009 despite criticism this year from senior industry figures including EA boss John Riccitiello.

A US judge has ruled that the Wii Classic Controller, WaveBird and CameCube pads cannot be sold in the US.

2008 may be "the year of PlayStation" in Jack Tretton's E3 phrase, but for some PS3 owners "the year of PlayStation" might as well be the time it takes multiformat games to arrive on Sony's flagship console. But before you lynch us for saying so, we're well aware that patient PS3 owners have found the gap can work in their favour - the spit and polish-filled hydraulics of time elevating competent games to a more accomplished level - and with the standard set by the likes of Overlord: Raising Hell, developers are keen to present their overdue PS3 conversions as special editions with all sorts of extras.

Paramount is thundering into the games market with adaptations of Mean Girls, Clueless and Pretty in Pink. All our dreams have come true.

D3Publisher is releasing a Puzzle Quest add-on called Revenge of the Plague Lord on Xbox Live tomorrow.

MTV has updated Rock Band with three Nine Inch Nails tracks and a pair of Shinedown songs.

Microsoft received a boost from GTA IV sales in Europe but has "fallen back since then" in the eyes of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves.

Activision will release the Virtuoso Pack for Guitar Hero 3 on Xbox Live and PlayStation Store this Thursday.

Sony is adding another meaty update to the PS3's SingStore this Friday.

Where does DICE get its inspiration? Looking at the Battlefield series, you might guess the answer is dark and gritty war films, the latest developments in military technology, documentary footage of actual battles and the like. But the answer, of course, is ballet.

BioWare role-playing adventure Jade Empire is the latest to be added to Xbox Originals. This, like all the others, costs 1200 Microsoft Points (GBP 10.20 / EUR 14.40) to download.

2K Marin has explained how you'll be able to collect a few of the Trophies in the PS3 version of BioShock.

Ninja Commando is an arcade game. Stating the obvious, you might think, but I mean this more as a description of the game's cultural identity than its technical origins. It's a game where a trio of videogame ninja stereotypes battle through different time periods to defeat a fiendish villain. They do this by scrolling up the screen, like Commando or Ikari Warriors or Insert Your Own Taito Game Here, and defeating hundreds of baddies by throwing stuff at them.

Tabula Rasa systems designer Mike Moore has laid out sweeping changes to the game's crafting system in a post on the official site.

Peter Molyneux ducked questions about a possible Lionhead MMO game during a chat with Eurogamer prior to E3 and gave the impression that he's bound to secrecy.

Capcom has said the Wii version of Dead Rising will be subtitled Chop Till You Drop and will be out this winter.

Resident Evil 5 producer Jun Takeuchi has defended the game against allegations of racism, saying he was "surprised" by the reaction it received.

It's fast. That's what really strikes you, almost more than the increased accuracy: with the Wii MotionPlus dongle attached to the base of the Wii remote, there is absolutely zero perceptible lag translating your movements to the screen. No woolliness, no wobble either. It is fluid, smooth, instantaneous, natural.

I'm rather disappointed that the top-tier 1000-Point price-tag seems to have become the default for WiiWare games. It's hardly a surprise - human nature being what it is - but even so, with each new batch that arrives, the fond memories of LostWinds and My Life as a King drift further and further away. I thought the 1000-Point screensaver that was My Pokémon Ranch was bad, but little did I know that SPOGS Racing was waiting in the wings.

Maybe it's because there are so few of them. Maybe it's because the ones that we do have tend to be pretty great. Whatever the reason, there's something about pirate games that tends to promise a little more than the usual gaming experience. Monkey Island. Sid Meier's Pirates. Overboard. All fondly remembered, all featured parrots and wooden legs and yarrrrrrr.

Microsoft is preparing a double dose of Live Arcade games for tomorrow.