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Harvey Elliot, vice president of Electronic Arts' Bright Lights Studio in the UK, told Kikizo that he would love to see remakes of classic Bullfrog IP.

"For me, I love the old Bullfrog IP, it got me really passionately into games, and I'm really proud that Bullfrog is part of the heritage of Bright Light," said Elliot. "I'm personally a huge fan of Populous and Theme Park, they were some of my favourite games - many years ago, obviously - and I'd love to see both of those remade."

Activison Blizzard today confirmed that Tony Hawk: RIDE will be available in Germany and UK on November 20th, with North America getting it slightly earlier on 17th November.

Tony Hawk: RIDE features a wireless skateboard controller designed in conjunction with the game to offer a dynamic gaming experience built from the ground up. Using a combination of accelerometers and motion sensors, the intuitive controller allows players to physically control the action by performing various movements and gestures on the board that directly translate into amazing tricks in the game. Without complex button combinations or analog sticks, gamers of all skill levels can literally step on the board and play!

Double Fine and Tim Schafer's Brutal Legend, starring the cool Jack Black, will be hitting October 15th as planned thanks to the BBFC giving their nod of approval.

The heavy metal action game is being released on Xbox 360 and PS3, that's after much delay and attempts by publisher Activision to stop it seeing the light of day, which failed in the end.

Atomic Games haven't had a great time of being a videogames developer, with Konami pulling their support to publish Six Days in Fallujah following the media furore.

According to a source, "less than a dozen" staffers now remain at the studio and that's "a skeleton cleanup crew" on the way out too. Atomic are trying to "downplay" all these events.

The Midway San Diego studio has been saved by publisher THQ, with forty of its one hundred staffers being offered a place to stay on when the locks change.

THQ agreed to acquire "substantially all" of the studio assets for $200,000, but hasn't picked up the TNA license. The move is still subject to court approval yet, but looks set to go.

Yoichi Wada of Square Enix, the president no less, has said they'll be spilling the release date beans "in a few weeks" time, most likely at the Tokyo Game Show.

Final Fantasy XIII will be at TGS in some shape. It releases on PS3 in Japan this holiday, with the rest of the world (the US at least) getting it on PS3 and Xbox 360 during spring.

Delays have been rampant this year and it looks like BioWare's Dragon Age is no exception, but fear not because this delay is one of the shortest by far.

No longer shall the age of Dragons grace us on October 20th, but we can experience the life of a Grey Warden on November 3rd in North America, and on the 6th in Europe. Phew.

1C Company and Tripwire Interactive today announced that it's working on a next-generation sequel to Red Orchestra, the multiplayer WWII shooter for the PC.

Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad will be built using the Unreal Engine 3. No confirmed platforms or release date yet, but expect more details at Gamescom 2009.

It's the new craze among publishers, launch a site with barely anything to go on and let the community rip itself apart with speculation and sporadic news coverage.

The site address, newrpg.sega.jp, obviously hints at a new RPG title in the works. The website itself has a spinning thing on the right hand side, which could be a clock mechanism?

A build of Wolfenstein multiplayer has spilled on the Internet, with developer id and Activision most unimpressed with both willing to crackdown on pirates.

Posting on their board, id warn that Activision's lawyers are "taking this matter very seriously." The build was not "final or consumer ready," nothing they can do except keep working.