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Haruhiro Tsujimoto of Capcom has said how they'll be less inclined to let Western devs handle new Capcom entries, but they do need them.

Bionic Commando "demonstrated the difficulty" of such projects. They're thinking up ways to "separate the roles" for studios in Japan and aboard.

BioWare confirms that the latest DLC for Dragon Age: Origins will be going live tomorrow, for both Xbox 360 and PC, with PS3 later this month.

It transports you back to the battle of Ostagar, where the Grey Wardens got beat, with new armour and a second shot at the dog companion.

The UK is seeing videogames rake in a lot more cash than cinema, according to the 12 month period ending September '09. Hooray!

The number crunching came from GfK Chart-Track. Parliament has "very narrow view" of videogames, thinking it's still all immature.

Publisher EA is doing some super early spring cleaning and has named a swathe of game servers getting their plugs pulled for February 2010.

They revealed the closures in one of their service updates, along with those already gone from years previous. Enjoy some online Facebreaker?

Blizzards J. Allen Brack confirmed in an interview with Gamautra that the developer will definitely work on a console game in the future, but need the right game before they can.

"I have two consoles at home. Sam has consoles. We're a culture of gamers. We will definitely work on a console game at some point. I have no doubt about that. It's just a matter of what game. What makes the most sense?" said Brack.

Gearbox has much to celebrate with the fantastic performance of their new Borderlands IP, with a sequel labelled a "no brainer" already.

Take-Two's fiscal news is less than cherry this Holiday, with Q4 seeing a $137.9m net loss. Total year revenue is $968m; FY09 was $1.5bn.

Strauss Zelnick is CEO of publisher Take-Two and he's dished at their latest investor call that crime-riddled Mafia II will be here Q3, 2010.

That's anytime between May 1st and July 31st next year. Sadly Take-Two aren't that good for keeping their release window promises.

Developer Criterion has posted a number of DLC ideas the team had for Burnout Paradise, all the ones that didn't quite make the sanity cut.

Things like planes, helicopters, bikes versus cars, underground, time-travel, boats and even "the Moon!" It's the "first Volume of Secrets".

Square Enix has released a statement on Final Fantasy XIII's first official day of sale in Japan, revealing that it's cleared the 1 million mark.

Copies of the latest Final Fantasy were also bundled with PS3s, the 'Lightning Edition', but weren't included in the sales tally. Not bad, eh?

Square Enix announced today that classic RPG Vagrant Story will be available to download from the PlayStation Network across PAL territories from 22nd December 2009, priced at £5.99.

As the VKP's (Valendia Knights of the Peace) elite Riskbreaker, Ashley Riot, you must pursue a group of cultists into a deserted city of Lea Monde in an attempt to rescue the kidnapped son of a Valendian dignitary. But all is not as it seems, and everything you once believed will soon be called into question as you contend not only with the cultists, but rival political factions, the city's restless fallen, and your own dark memories.