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From Software's Armored Core V is the new Japanese all-formats number one after selling almost 188,000 copies in its first week on shelves. Resident Evil Revelations is another new entry, Capcom's 3DS game selling 146,000 and making its debut in second spot. Just behind is Namco Bandai's DS remake Tales Of Innocence R, which with 54,800 units sold becomes the first Vita game to trouble the upper echelons of the chart in some time. More >

Capcom's open-world action-adventure Dragon's Dogma has been delayed to May, the publisher has confirmed. In a brief statement, Capcom reveals that the game will now be released on May 22 in North America, and May 25 in Europe. It was previously due in North America on March 27, and Europe on May 1. More >

EA has confirmed that SSX, the upcoming reboot of its snowboarding series, will use the company's online pass. Rather than lock second-hand buyers out of the game's multiplayer component entirely, however, it prevents them from accruing the in-game currency used to unlock vanity items and additional events. More >

Finnish developer RedLynx has denied that it is behind the appearance on file-sharing websites of its upcoming Xbox Live Arcade game Trials Evolution. The studio once uploaded an incomplete PC build of Trials 2 SE to The Pirate Bay in a bid to stimulate demand for the game. Speaking to Develop, however, managing director Tero Virtala insisted his company had nothing to do with the leak of Evolution, which is due to be released on XBLA this year. More >

Microsoft has poured cold water on reports that it is to unveil the Xbox 360 successor at E3 in June. Speaking to Le Point, reported by Develop, Microsoft France marketing director Cedrick Delmax said: "I am not convinced things will happen this year. Xbox 360's cycle is not at all finished. More >

Upcoming fantasy RPG Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning uses publisher EA's Online Pass to lock out singleplayer content from second-hand buyers. Destructoid spotted that the EA-published title contains a single-use code to wall off an entire faction quest line, with those that buy pre-owned forced to pay a further fee to access the content. More >

Gearbox's long-in development Aliens game has again been delayed, with publisher Sega confirming the firstperson shooter will miss its most recently targeted spring launch window. More >

Big Huge Games, developer of Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, has admitted that the biggest threat to its fantasy RPG's chance of success is that people are still playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Like Skyrim, Reckoning is a high-fantasy RPG set in a huge open world. Speaking to Eurogamer, lead designer Ian Frazier described Bethesda's offering as "our big competitor" - which is putting it mildly given that Skyrim sales passed the ten million mark last month. More >

Over 600 staff worldwide are working on the recently announced Resident Evil 6, Capcom has confirmed. The figure was revealed by executive producer Hiroyuki Kobayashi, in a video introduction to the game's announcement trailer posted on Capcom-Unity. More >

Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor will use Blu-ray discs and feature "some sort of anti-used game system," according to reports. Sources have claimed that Microsoft will catch up with Sony by using Blu-ray, which can store up to 50GB of a data on a single disc. No detail was given on how Microsoft intends to combat the pre-owned market. More >

Dundee-based Denki has revealed that Quarrel was "rejected by almost every game publisher in the world" and called on gamers to prove them wrong on the day its multiplayer word game launches on Xbox Live Arcade. In a post on the company blog, managing director Colin Anderson admits that Quarrel was actually rejected twice, and even three times, by some publishers. The struggle to strike a publishing deal caused Denki to restructure and lay off a number of staff in April 2010. Quarrel was eventually released for iPhone last August. More >

Microsoft's Xbox 360 successor will be released in 2013 and boast six times the graphical capabilities of its predecessor, according to reports. Sources have told IGN that mass production of the system's GPU is to begin before the end of the year, with the console on shelves in late October or early November 2013. That GPU will, it is claimed, be derived from AMD's 6000 series processors and be broadly similar to the Radeon HD 6670. First released in February 2011, the 6670 supports DirectX 11, multiple displays, 3D and 1080p, and currently costs upwards of $79.99. More >