All that levelling up through experience won't do for Final Fantasy XIII, so they've introduced the Crystalium System, with Crystal Points.

After each battle you get CP which can be spent on 'growing' roles with new skills and abilities, like unlocking more powerful Fire.

Developer Gearbox Software have updated the Xbox 360 version of Borderlands with bug fixes, with the PS3 and PC editions to follow suit soon enough the studio affirms to users.

I'm sure Xbox 360 gamers are glad to hear the "introductory quests" should always progress as intended now, as will fellow platforms. They're "continuing work on support updates".

Developer Relic Entertainment has said they're "always looking at feedback" from the community, and tease that a continued "strong desire" for PC could yield something.

An online petition is currently floating on the Internet, and it hopes to convince team Relic to bring their upcoming Warhammer 40K: Space Marine action/RPG to PC as well as console.

A search for a script reader by the Liz Paulson Casting ad agency in Los Angeles has shown Square Enix's plans to reveal the US release date for Final Fantasy XIII in an ad.

It will offer an "exclusive never before seen look" of Square's latest before 'panning back' to unveil the US retail date, currently just spring 2010. It releases in Japan on December 17th.

A rather nasty bug has been found in Borderlands, and not the colourful type you smoosh with guns or fists in-game. This bug is linked to all three platforms when going online.

It can cause, though it's frequency is "very low", all character skills to be wiped clean. Developer Gearbox hope to "repair as much" character data loss as possible, when fixed.

The impending early November arrival of Dragon Age: Origins will be simultaneous across Xbox 360,PS3 and PC announces BioWare. The PS3 version won't be held back after all.

That news may be true for North America but the RPG developer is yet to extend the joy to UK shores, saying they'll have something "on that shortly." It's out November 6th in Europe.

Developer Bethesda is keeping any activity on a new Elder Scrolls game very close to their chest, but a newly synopsised novel from Greg Keyes has given fans a whooping hint.

The Elder Scrolls: Infernal City, Keyes' book, "partly bridges the gap" between Oblivion and the "next game". The events in the novel itself are set 45 years after The Elder Scrolls IV.

The spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate is almost upon us, and developer BioWare has finally put PS3 gamer minds at ease by confirming a solid release date for their copies.

It will be arriving on Xbox 360 and PC early November. Bioware's Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuck will be having a livechat with the EU PlayStation.Blog later today, revealing something.

Fallout IP holder Bethesda brought legal proceedings against Interplay for contractual breaches, no less than ten apparently, but now Interplay is angry enough to countersue.

They allege Bethesda went around blabbing to business partners that Interplay had no licensing rights, in bad faith, causing them a lot more financial hardship. Wants IP back.

Borderlands has released on Xbox 360 and PS3 but the latter was found to be stricken with a serious bout of anti-social behaviour. The PS3 game wouldn't recognise PSN friends.

Players were also waiting long times for public games. Developer Gearbox has fixed the PSN friends list issue, with a solution "released invisibly" so gamers don't have to do anything.

Makoto Yoshizumi of Namco, the general manager, has said how he told staff not to "talk like a fan," when they asked about a Tales of Vesperia sequel during internal meetings.

There's "a desire to make part 2" at Namco confirmed Yoshizumi-san, and right now they're "thinking about it." Tales of Vesperia heads to PlayStation 3 soon, having enjoyed the Xbox 360.

Obsidian Entertainment's action-RPG Alpha Protocol was scheduled to be imminently with us, but then retailers went and started slapping a 2010 date on it. Sega finally speaks.

The publisher confirms the game no longer has a home in '09, and it'll instead be releasing in spring 2010. Obsidian "very happy" it has been delayed to give it the "best chance" next year.

Next week for Xbox 360 and PS3, Gearbox's colourful Borderlands will launch and then it arrives for PC gamers the week after that. The first DLC piece has just been tattled on.

It'll involve a whole region swarming with zombies, where the player will have to help out a Dr. Zed. Quests are about trying to "cure the inhabitants" of this unfortunate turn of events.

In an interview with Strategy Informer, Lead Designer of Dragon Age: Origins, Mike Laidlaw, said that Jade Empires is a favourite among the staff of Bioware and that the firm would love to revisit it.

"We will certainly announce it if it’s going to be coming out. At this point, Jade Empire is a staff favourite and a lot of us love it, so we’d love to revisit it at some point. But right now, we are very focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect 2." said Laidlaw.

High street retailer GAME has the exclusive for BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins, as they're the only ones to be peddling us the Collector's Edition next month, here in the UK.

Everyone else can go suck regular lemons. The CE contains a 'Making of' DVD with the game, which comes in a "Plastic Collectors Box". Also the soundtrack, wallpaper, tips and more.

Someone got a little ahead of themselves as EA's Russian website listed both Valve's impending Left 4 Dead 2 and BioWare's Mass Effect 2 for the PlayStation 3 - oops.

The infected sequel is certainly not going to be on PS3 anytime soon, with developer Valve bemoaning the platform. Commander Shepard however is thought to be a lot more open.

CD Projekt says Rise of the White Wolf "remains suspended" and not scrapped. They won't discuss how the internal video of the Witcher sequel leaked; a "bittersweet" outcome.

They enjoy how excited the fans are to get "their mitts on it," though knowing how expectant fans are becoming puts "a lot of pressure" on CD Projekt. Similarities equal differences.

Curt Schilling, a former Red Sox pitcher, owns the Massachusetts-based developer 38 Studios. They're busying working on their Project Copernicus MMO for the PC.

Job listings reveal they're expanding to the PlayStation 3 with a singleplayer RPG, but this is to be handled by their new subsidiary, Big Huge Games. Copernicus remains desktop only.

BioWare has revealed that it'll release three lots of downloadable content ready for the 6th November when Dragon Age: Origins launches.

Two of these will be free, but only available to those who purchase a brand new copy of the game on PC, PS3 or Xbox 360, which BioWare hopes will help beat piracy. The paid DLC is called Warden's Keep, but will be available for free to those that purchase the Deluxe Edition. Else it will cost you 560 MS Points, and $7 on PC. PS3 owners will also pay $7, but will have to wait until late November before they can play.

Bioware has announced that a Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator will be released on October 13th, giving PC users the chance to design their characters in anticipation of the game's release in November.

"What we have managed to do is get the awesome BioWare dev dudes/dudettes to break off the Dragon Age: Origins Character Creator from the main game so you can download it as a separate application to your PC," explained BioWare community coordinator Chris Priestly.