Rocksteady's dark knight takes two Video Games Awards and Uncharted 2 takes four, while Shigeru Miyamoto is honoured with an Academy Fellowship.

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ELSPA, The Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association, has announced that it intends to change its name to the UK Interactive Entertainment Association.

The decision was made by its membership today at the trade body’s Extraordinary General Meeting.

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Switzerland’s government has pushed through legislation that may eventually see a ban put on the sale of violent videogames.

Late last year, the government passed legislation making the PEGI ratings mandatory, with a second amendment that threatened to ban the production and sale of mature games outright.

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Key Ubisoft titles are no longer available on Steam in what has been rumoured to be a move by Valve in protest of the publisher’s restrictive DRM.

The digital distributor is not offering Assassin’s Creed 2 or Silent Hunter V and the root cause could be an objection to the use of DRM.

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According to Games Investor Consulting analyst Nick Gibson, the absence of a video game adaptation of Summit Entertainment’s Twilight series has cost “millions” in lost opportunity for revenue.

"Given how hot a property it is, [a Twilight video game] could easily present a seven-figure exploitation opportunity, especially if publishers consider taking it beyond retail gaming and considers network gaming," he told MCV magazine.

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Alone in the Dark and Little Big Adventure creator, Frédérick Raynal, is apparently at work on a new title for Ubisoft that may be set for release later this year.

The as yet unannounced title is being teased on the developer's personal site, with the message scrawled in French on a chalk board: "The name of the

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A court has ruled in favour of Sony Computer Entertainment America and David Jaffe in a lawsuit brought by screenwriters who claimed that God of War was based on their original work.

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Almost anybody you ask will tell you that these are strange days for videogames. What happened to certainty? The revenue of five-year mega projects costing tens of millions of pounds are now regularly eclipsed by throwaway mobile apps retailing for 59p a shot. Meanwhile, get-rich-quick developers scurrying to capitalise on the success of a social networking phenomenon like FarmVille decide that the lesson to learn is that the audience is craving games about agriculture.

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Reggie Fils-Aimé, president of Nintendo of America, has said it is up to third-party developers to bring mature titles to the Wii and DS and called on consumers to support the releases.

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Game researcher and designer of IGF Nuovo award finalist A Slow Year, Ian Bogost presented to the audience of the GDC Microtalks session that players play games  can be crafted with meanings that players can interpret through play.

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BioWare founders Dr. Greg Zeschuk and Dr. Ray Muzyka have said they don't view their DLC system, the Cerberus Network, as a move against second-hand buyers of their games, but rather wanted to use it do build a "good relationship" with customers.

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An ex-Ensemble Studio staff member has stepped forward and taken issue with earlier comments made by his former manager, Paul Bettner, over claims that the developer’s closure was down to its work culture.

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Microsoft may be planning to issue a firmware update to Xbox 360s that would allow the console support the use of external hard drives. 

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 Valve’s director of Steam development, John Cook, has said the platform’s upcoming debut on Mac this April is the “biggest event” in its history.

Cook explained that the project to make not only Steam but all Source Engine games compatible with Macs is a priority for the company – with boss Gabe Newell personally pitching in on a “daily basis”. He said that the company hopes it can prove Mac has a “thriving” gaming community, just like it did with PCs back when Steam first launched.

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GameStop has released its results for the final quarter of 2009 fiscal year, reporting an increase in sales but dip in revenues. 

Sales for the fourth quarter of 2009 increased 0.9 per cent to $3.52 billion, while net earnings dropped 7.1 per cent to $215.9 million, compared to $232.3 million the previous year. The total year’s results reflected much the same, increased 3.1 per cent to $9.08 billion, while net earnings decreased 5.3 per cent to $377.3 million. Yearly earnings per share were $2.25, compared to $2.38 in 2008.

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DICE and Electronic Arts have announced that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has sold over 2.3 million units since its launch earlier this month.

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UK games industry trade body, Tiga, has welcomed comments made by Liberal Democrat MP Don Foster, that he and his colleagues were “sympathetic” to TIGA’s proposed Games Tax Relief.

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Games are being credited as allowing Facebook to become the most visited website in the US, outing Google as the region’s most popular destination.

According to data collected by Hitwise, the social networking site overtook the search engine last week for the longest sustained time. Facebook’s home page saw 7.07 per cent of all traffic while Google saw 7.03 per cent. Facebook has overtaken the search engine before, but this represents the longest sustained time at the top spot.

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Sega’s Mike Hayes has said the company is working on Natal games it’ll unveil at this year’s E3, adding that consumers can expect to see “brilliant innovations” with the technology in the coming years.

Speaking about the opportunities on both Sony and Microsoft’s new control schemes, Hayes told CVG that initially developers would be focusing on cheaper party games.

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Offering a frank and open discourse on what did and didn’t work in Bioware’s attempt to create a true “interactive narrative” in Mass Effect 2, Armando Troisi, lead cinematic designer on the title, gave a presentation at GDC that was both hotly anticipated and oversubscribed.

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