And other celebs. Microsoft's launched a competition to find the best Halo: Reach gamers in Britain, one of which will lead five celebs as part of the Elite Spartan Squad. Halo: Reach matches will be played throughout August to find six Halo players who will form their own team. Another player will join ...

Thousand-strong battles are top priority. CCP has given a "specialised" EVE Online dev-squad "carte blanche" to tackle in-game lag issues that have the community up in arms. "CCP has invested significant time and resources throughout EVE's history on increasing the performance of fleet fights. We've always had a team of developers devoted ...

Monster Hunter Tri sales "sluggish". Capcom has revealed that Lost Planet 2 "underperformed its projection substantially", Monster Hunter Tri "grew at a sluggish pace" and Ghost Trick "struggled". The comments come from a miserable financial report for the three month period ended 30th June. In it, Capcom's net income plummeted by 90.4 ...

What, exactly, is illegal? More details have emerged from the High Court ruling that R4 cartridges have been banned in the UK. Eurogamer has obtained a copy of the High Court of Justice Chancery Division's judgement in favour of Nintendo against defendants Playables Limited and owner Mr Wai Dat Chan. The case concerned ...

Than Xbox 360 owners, says Zeno Clash dev. Zeno Clash developer ACE Team believes PC owners are "more open" to weird game concepts. Speaking to Eurogamer, co-founder Carlos Bordeu said that may have been the reason Zeno Clash struggled on Xbox Live Arcade. "I don't know whether it was because most people had ...

Besides RuneScape, besides Stellar Dawn. Mark Gerhard has told Eurogamer that Jagex has a third, fantasy MMO in addition to RuneScape and Stellar Dawn. "We do, we totally do. We're working on it as we speak," he said in an interview published today. "A lot of what we've done to push the boundary ...

Bit cheaper than we thought. Sony has pointed out that PlayStation Move controllers will be cheaper to buy in the UK than we had expected. One PlayStation Move controller costs £34.99, one PlayStation Eye camera costs £24.99 and one PlayStation sub-controller costs £24.99. Note that you do not need the sub-controller to play ...

Nintendo pinpoints 29th. Nintendo will reveal the date and price of the 3DS in Japan on 29th September 2010. The Mario maker poinpointed the date to Bloomberg Japan (via GamesIndustry.biz). Nintendo revealed the 3DS at E3 in June. We were told the dazzling new handheld would be here in 2011. Read more...

While Mario Galaxy 2 sells over 4m. Nintendo lost money during the three months ended 30th June 2010, with worldwide DS sales down 44.7 per cent year on year to 3.15 million, while DS software sales slumped 22.9 per cent to 22.42 million. The platform holder blamed "fewer new software titles", a ...

Changes to Charger, Tank and friendly fire. Valve has updated the PC version of Left 4 Dead 2 with a few small changes intended to stop players "rage quitting". They are the start of a response to a recent request for players' feedback on what was frustrating them about the game. ...