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• Gearbox CEO: Steam a 'conflict of interest' for Valve

  Steam, it seems, is getting too big for its britches, or at least that's the sentiment conveyed by Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford in an interview with Maximum PC.

• Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony preview

  Rockstar has a knack for shape-shifting their flagship series. They conjured up the 80's drenched Vice City, the thug life-themed San Andreas, the "bikers gone wild" The Lost and Damned, and most recently The Ballad of Gay Tony. Though all these titl...

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  The 10 best 16-Bit games ever!

  Not content to let the past go peacefully, we look back at a generation of video games that started the first console war, brought arcade games back from the brink, and showed gamers what 3D graphics could do in a cartridge.

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  In pictures: V8 Supercars to feature in Forza 3

  At an event held in a Sydney Lamborghini showroom today, V8 Supercars Australia announced a partnership that will see eight V8 Supercars appearing in the upcoming Forza Motorsport 3 racing simulation on Xbox 360.

• Hands on: StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty

  Earlier this month, we were invited along to Blizzard's headquarters to have a crack at the single player campaign of StarCraft 2, and have a look at some new gameplay elements and inclusions. This is what we found...

• Microsoft's next big Xbox LIVE update

  Microsoft's next bonanza Xbox LIVE update (or NBXLU, pronounced 'nuh-bex-loo') won't wink onto your dashboards until August 11th, but since I'm so connected here at Game On, I've had an exclusive first gander. You know, "exclusive." Like in game-jour...

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  In pictures: Fallout 3 -- Mothership Zeta

  Mothership Zeta expands upon the extraterrestrial premise implied by the presence of UFO wreckage in previous Fallout titles. The storyline involves a strange alien signal being broadcast throughout the Capital Wasteland, originating from a crashed U...

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  In pictures: Doom Resurrection on the iPhone

  Doom Resurrection is the latest instalment in the famous Doom series. In this iPhone-only game, id Software has created a rail-shooter with graphics unlike any we've seen from a game on this device before. This is your chance to fight your way throug...

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  8 reasons Batman fans will go crazy for Arkham Asylum

  As huge Batman fanatics, we're more than just a little stoked about the immensely promising Batman: Arkham Asylum for PS3 and Xbox 360, and you should be too. Here are some of the bigger reasons why no fan of the dark knight will want to miss out on ...

• The Legend of Zelda: a retrospective

  Selling more than 52 million copies, The Legend of Zelda is one of the most popular and prolific video game series ever produced.

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  The iPhone as a gaming platform: we speak to the Aussie developer of FlightControl

  Collect3 is one of the Australian iPhone developers that has found success on the App Store, but it isn't the only one. Victoria-based Firemint is the developer behind the extremely popular FlightControl game for the iPhone. GoodGearGuide.com.au spok...

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  The 20 most innovative games ever made

  From BioShock to World of Warcraft, see what games lead our list of ground-breaking titles that rocked the gaming world to its core.

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  Should Nintendo take credit for motion control in gaming?

  What came first, the motion controller or the Nintendo Wii? That is the age-old question. According to Shigeru Miyamoto, it was the latter that laid gaming's golden egg, and not the other way around.

• Confirmed: PSP Go, Final Fantasy XIV, Motion-Control Wand

  Leave it to Sony to prove that sometimes the best really does come last. Striding onstage only to be dwarfed by a titanic 40-by-80-foot screen, Sony President Jack Tretton wasted no time kidding about preshow press leaks. "We consider ourselves to be...

• Metal Gear Solid revealed for Xbox 360

  Microsoft's E3 2009 press conference is all-systems-go, so what did Redmond, Washington have up its sleeve? Some pretty amazing stuff, actually. Metal Gear Solid for the Xbox 360? Full-body motion controls that look more responsive, accurate, and ope...