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On Wednesday, John Schappert stood in front of the Game Developers Conference and introduced a new initiative to put community-made games on Xbox Live, and of course helped unveil Gears of War 2. We caught up with John a day later to talk about 360 hardware sales, the Wii and PS3, how the XNA, Xbox Live and Zune relationships will work, and of course what happens now that HD-DVD has died on its arse.

Electronic Arts has revealed you'll be able to play Boom Blox using the power of your head.

Lego bigwig Mark Hansen has provided fresh details on forthcoming PC MMO Lego Universe at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil didn't really talk about games much in his GDC keynote speech, "The Next 20 Years of Gaming", but he did mention that he is "looking forward to Spore".

SEGA has revealed that Aliens: Colonial Marines will be on shop shelves in "late 2008".

Capcom is aiming at May for its remake of the NES shooter Bionic Commando.

NES classic Bionic Commando is being tidied up for a PSN and Live Arcade release.

Game creator Masahiro Sakurai has "no plans" to make a Smash Bros. game for DS.

CCP's Reynir Hadarson has told videogaming247 that he doesn't see why the Icelandic company's space-trading MMO, Eve Online, shouldn't run for half a century.

2K Games has told Eurogamer that Civilization Revolution will be released for Xbox 360, PS3 and DS on 6th June.

It's all aboard the shame train at Sony HQ as this week's PSN Store update is almost entirely devoid of interesting new goodies. Choo-choo.

Epic Games has officially unveiled Gears of War 2 and says it will be released exclusively on Xbox 360 in November 2008.

One of the Microsoft demonstration Xbox 360 units at the Game Developers Conference has rather publicly fallen foul of the infamous 'Red Rings of Death'. Whoops.

PlayFirst boss John Welch believes casual gaming has the potential to turn the tables and force hardcore games into a niche.

With Mario Kart Wii due out in Japan on 10th April, Nintendo has revealed more information - including support for additional control schemes and a few details on new power-ups.

Speaking at a GDC presentation yesterday, Funcom's Gaute Godager told videogaming247 that the 360 version of Age of Conan: Hyborian adventures will be available "around 12 months" after the PC release.

First-time developer Avatar Reality has announced Blue Mars, a massively multiplayer virtual world for PC that uses Crytek's impressive CryENGINE2, as featured in Crysis.

Nintendo has continued its dating frenzy by revealing that Wii Fit will be released here on 25th April.

Frontier Developments has unveiled its first title for Nintendo's WiiWare service - platform adventure game LostWinds. You can check out screenshots o'er yonder.

Don't listen to Cliff Bleszinski, or Peter Molyneux, because PC gaming is going to be fine, and it's all thanks to the likes of Alienware, Intel and Microsoft - members of the newly formed PC Gaming Alliance.

Grand Theft Auto IV's drunken antics are helping to drive the games industry forward, says NaturalMotion CEO Torsten Reil.

Ken Levine, creative director on BioShock, has said he believes the gameplay in the third act is some of the strongest in the entire game - but that the storyline peaked too soon.

Peter Molyneux has revealed that certain Xbox Live Arcade games will allow you to earn virtual money that you can then spend in Fable 2.

Tomonobu Itagaki has revealed that Ninja Gaiden 2 will be released worldwide in June, exclusively on Xbox 360.

As is traditional during big platform holder speeches, Microsoft rolled out lots of big stats during John Schappert's GDC keynote in San Francisco - among the most eye-catching being that over 1 billion Achievements have now been unlocked. This was celebrated with a "BINK!" noise, naturally.

Microsoft plans to "democratise" game development and distribution by allowing amateur game developers to release XNA games on Xbox Live Marketplace following peer-review.

Game designer Brenda Brathwaite has said she believes it's "inevitable" Hentai games will become more popular outside Japan and more Western developers will start creating them.

Firaxis supremo and king of the exclamation mark Sid Meier admitted at GDC on Wednesday that he doesn't play other strategy games.

Capcom has said that while Bionic Commando on Xbox 360 will obviously have unlockable Achievements, the PS3 version will have a similar system of Trophies.

Microsoft has added all of the XNA-created games it was boasting about last night to Xbox Live Marketplace.