Take-Two and Rockstar are expected to release two brand new downloadable episodes for Grand Theft Auto IV in fiscal 2010, and release GTA V the following financial year. That's according to analyst Todd Mitchell, who told GamesIndustry.biz that following the release of Xbox 360 exclusives The Lost and the Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, two all-new episodes are due – possibly across both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 platforms.

Badassgamerblog: "It's true, God of War III will be a title worthy enough to cause the sale of numerous PS3's, Sony is on to something big here, and I'll outline exactly why."

"The multiplayer experience is definitely a separate experience. What we are meaning to do with that is to make it team-based – very very team friendly. So you can form up with friends, create a team and customise your team in a way you really want to."

Mike Kebby from the Official EU PlayStation Blog confirmed that the Ghostbusters demo coming next week with the PlayStation Store Update: "Posted on July 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm by Mike Kebby Ghostbusters demo should be coming in next week's update."

Unlike the evil enemies you fought against in the previous story, in Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles, players will fight against the characters' own inner demons. Two of the most popular characters in the series and heroes of the beloved Resident Evil 2, Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, will be making their return.

Ubisoft has announced it will be publishing "Heroes Over Europe", a flight combat game designed for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows-based PC.

GOONL!NE: EA's sent out the boxart for Battlefield 1943.

Shadow Priests have been up in arms all over the official forums recently, and it seems to have reached a bit of a breaking point. Rather than waiting for the official Priest Q&A in the developers' Q&A series, Ghostcrawler chimed into an unofficial Q&A thread to give some insight.

Since the rollout of Second Life server 1.26 the already unreliable Second Life group-chat system showed an almost crippling drop in reliability, compared to the previous 1.25 release. Linden Lab have estimated an overall 60% drop in the number of group-chat messages successfully delivered, and the problem skews towards the larger groups, prompting many group owners to completely disable their group's chat functions to avoid online members from b
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Koku Gamer writes: "Can't get enough World of Warcraft in your off-line life? Check this out! The Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, California is currently displaying multi-media art works dedicated to Blizzard's ridiculously popular MMORPG."

Jaime Skelton writes: "A huge patch has been applied and gone live for Pirates of the Burning Sea today. Here are the patch notes. . ."

Sega has announced the release date for Obsidian's sneaky action RPG Alpha Protocol.

Online retro gaming mag RGCD has released a new game for the two-decade old Atari STE -- r0x (with a "ready-to-go PC version"). Inspired by the meteor storm bonus stage in Edgar Vidal's Deluxe Galaga for Amiga, r0x has players taking control of the TTA Military Frigate 'Irata' and dodging meteoroids for as long as possible for a high score. Players can also graze the meteoroids for "serious danger points" and collect treasure, floating cosmonau
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Mekensleep's critically acclaimed DS game Soul Bubbles is finally releasing in Japan courtesy of Interchannel over a year after title's U.S. debut, and the placid puzzler has seen some changes from its trip across the Pacific. The most obvious change is that the game's previously near bald hero now has a lush mane of purple hair. Not so obvious are the game's reworked level curves, interface tweaks, and a gameplay bug affecting left-handed playe
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