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Stargate Worlds, the science fiction MMO based on the cult Egyptology-in-space film and TV series, has opened registration for its closed beta-testing phase.

Leslie Benzies, producer of Grand Theft Auto IV, has estimated the game cost Rockstar around USD 100 million to create.

Funcom has laid out the full subscription pricing structure for its imminent fantasy MMO, Age of Conan.

US group Mothers Against Drunk Driving has voiced its disappointment with Grand Theft Auto IV for including a section where you can drive around while drunk.

Shopwatchers Chart-Track have revealed Grand Theft Auto IV broke a raft of records on its first day of sale, to the surprise of no one at all.

Infogrames has agreed to acquire Atari for USD 11 million, even though everyone thought they were the same company anyway.

Nintendo has confirmed that fantasy RPG Etrian Odyssey is coming to the DS this summer.

Capcom has announced the new version of Lost Planet is coming to Xbox 360 and PC on June 6th.

Capcom has announced that Okami for Wii will be released on 13th June in Europe.

Joypad magazine - the French Edge - has published the first preview of the next Prince of Persia, just announced by Ubisoft.

Radical Entertainment's Chris Ansell has said online co-op could feature in future Prototype games - even though they abandoned plans to put it in the first one.

It must take some nuts, showing off your brand new openworld game the week before the biggest openworld game in history launches. You know, the one that's set in a fictional version of New York, and features hundreds of optional side quests alongside a linear narrative, and revolves around a mysterious anti-hero who follows his own moral code.

Our friends at GamesIndustry.biz have learnt that Valve approached Microsoft and Yahoo - among others - to build Steam before deciding to develop it themselves.

At 1.30am last night, I couldn't tell you whether I loved or hated TrackMania. What I can tell you is that I was playing it. Or more specifically, playing one track. Again and again. Determined to beat it. Increasingly tired, and as such increasingly unable to make the perfectly timed turns to get that Gold medal that sat between me and sleep.

In a blog post, EA has announced that it will be closing its virtual world EA-Land, formerly known as The Sims Online.

Michael Bay has dodged videogame film director Uwe Boll's boxing match challenge but has thrown yet more Internet punches in an ongoing slanging match that threatens to turn boring any second, if it hasn't already.

Crysis developer Crytek is unlikely to make another PC-exclusive game because of problems with piracy.

Activision has not only secured Aerosmith for its upcoming Guitar Hero game about the band, but has done a deal to stop Tyler, Perry and co. providing content to rival music game Rock Band.

EA has announced a new card-battling multiplayer real-time strategy game called BattleForge, from its EA Phenomic Studio in Germany. It's due out on PC this autumn.

Valve has released a new map for Team Fortress 2 on PC sporting a new game-type, along with a bunch of new achievements and unlockable weapons for the Medic.

Take-Two CEO Ben Feder has said that he believes analysts estimates for sales of Grand Theft Auto IV are too low, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Jason Kingsley, CEO of Rebellion, told the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee yesterday that GTA IV should be shown more respect and "celebrated" as a British success, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Paddy Power is taking bets on Grand Theft Auto IV's staying power, offering odds of 9/2 the game will sit at the top of the UK charts for ten weeks, GamesIndustry.biz reports.

Sony Computer Entertainment president Kaz Hirai and European boss David Reeves will both attend an upcoming "PlayStation Day" in London to show off the company's 2008 line-up.

Epic Games expects to make another "single-player, story-driven driven" Unreal game at some point in the future, according to vice president Mark Rein.

It may have been out on PC and PS3 for a while now, but the Xbox 360 release of Unreal Tournament 3 is still in development at Epic Games, and at publisher Midway's recent Gamers Day ubiquitous vice president Mark Rein was in attendance helping people get to grips. We sat down with him to talk about the 360 version and what Epic's up to in general.

KOEI has announced plans to release Fatal Inertia EX as a PlayStation Network download at the end of May.

After the Xbox 360 original took a bit of a kicking, KOEI could have been forgiven for slinking away and giving up on Fatal Inertia - its stab at a WipEout-style futuristic racer - altogether.

Members of the Fatal Inertia development team "really regret" releasing the Xbox 360 demo of the game that caught such flak in the run-up to the game's release last year, lead designer Mike Bond has told Eurogamer.

Last week, we interviewed Lord of the Rings Online executive producer Jeffrey Steefel about Book 13, the next major content update for Turbine's splendid Tolkien MMO. Today, in part two of our interview, we shoot the breeze on a broader range of topics: how they're handling the lore, how they can improve the game's lacklustre player-versus-player, what the plans are for other platforms, why EVE Online is great, and who wants to be an Ent, anyway?