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EA chief financial officer Eric Brown has claimed that BioWare's Star Wars: The Old Republic is the publisher's most expensive game in the company's nearly 30 year history. Speaking to a Wedbush Morgan Securities audience in New York, as reported by sister site Eurogamer, Brown commented that the massively multiplayer online game was the "largest ever development project, period, in the history of the company". Although he did not put a specific figure on the development costs Brown indicated that a standard packaged title cost around $30 million but "any MMO costs significantly more than that". Read more...

Sony used its GDC press conference to officially name its PS3 motion controller, PlayStation Move. The company said that the technology, which works with the PlayStation Eye, had been in development for two years and will launch this autumn. Supporting the main Move controller is the Nunchuk-like 'Sub-Controller', a wireless unit sporting an analogue stick and d-pad, pictured below.

In Guardian of Light for PC, PSN, XBLA. Crystal Dynamics plans to release newly announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light this summer on PC, PSN and XBLA. This downloadable action adventure costs $15, which translates to 1200 Microsoft Points. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light represents a new take on the Tomb Raider licence and, for once, there are no high-kicking Lara Croft clones in sight. Read more...

In Guardian of Light for PC, PSN, XBLA. Crystal Dynamics plans to release newly announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light this summer on PC, PSN and XBLA. This downloadable action adventure costs $15, which translates to 1200 Microsoft Points. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light represents a new take on the Tomb Raider licence and, for once, there are no high-kicking Lara Croft clones in sight. Read more...

In Guardian of Light for PC, PSN, XBLA. Crystal Dynamics plans to release newly announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light this summer on PC, PSN and XBLA. This downloadable action adventure costs $15, which translates to 1200 Microsoft Points. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light represents a new take on the Tomb Raider licence and, for once, there are no high-kicking Lara Croft clones in sight. Read more...

FFXIII! Chaos Rising! Yakuza 3! Resi 5 Gold! Did you stay up until 1am to find out about Kaz's magic wand? It doesn't really matter if you did or not, because you can read everything there is to know about it on the homepage anyway, including hands-on with all the games so far shown. It sort of does matter for the purposes of this particular roundup of tomorrow's releases, however, because it means your trusty/hapless correspondent has only had four hours' sleep, which in turn means there's an even greater than usual chance that most of the games below aren't out this week/month/year/ever! Only joking - we don't need sleep where we're going, which is to the land of meticulously researched lists of games you can buy. For example, you can definitely buy Final Fantasy XIII, which scored 8/10, although if you have the choice then Digital Foundry recommends the superior PS3 version to the shonky Xbox 360 port. Read more...

FFXIII! Chaos Rising! Yakuza 3! Resi 5 Gold! Did you stay up until 1am to find out about Kaz's magic wand? It doesn't really matter if you did or not, because you can read everything there is to know about it on the homepage anyway, including hands-on with all the games so far shown. It sort of does matter for the purposes of this particular roundup of tomorrow's releases, however, because it means your trusty/hapless correspondent has only had four hours' sleep, which in turn means there's an even greater than usual chance that most of the games below aren't out this week/month/year/ever! Only joking - we don't need sleep where we're going, which is to the land of meticulously researched lists of games you can buy. For example, you can definitely buy Final Fantasy XIII, which scored 8/10, although if you have the choice then Digital Foundry recommends the superior PS3 version to the shonky Xbox 360 port. Read more...

FFXIII! Chaos Rising! Yakuza 3! Resi 5 Gold! Did you stay up until 1am to find out about Kaz's magic wand? It doesn't really matter if you did or not, because you can read everything there is to know about it on the homepage anyway, including hands-on with all the games so far shown. It sort of does matter for the purposes of this particular roundup of tomorrow's releases, however, because it means your trusty/hapless correspondent has only had four hours' sleep, which in turn means there's an even greater than usual chance that most of the games below aren't out this week/month/year/ever! Only joking - we don't need sleep where we're going, which is to the land of meticulously researched lists of games you can buy. For example, you can definitely buy Final Fantasy XIII, which scored 8/10, although if you have the choice then Digital Foundry recommends the superior PS3 version to the shonky Xbox 360 port. Read more...

The third entry in the Pokemon Ranger series on Nintendo DS has cruised to an easy victory in the weekly Japanese sales charts, with sales of 161,000 units. Its predecessor sold 193,337 units in its debut. The second highest new entry of the week, at number two, is Namco Bandai's .hack//Link with 60,000 unit sales. The new title is intended to be the last entry in the cross media franchise but is the first to be released on the PSP. New at number three is the budget-priced re-release of Square Enix's Dragon Quest IX on DS, which despite record-breaking sales on its original release still managed to sell another 41,000 units. Square Enix also re-released its other Dragon Quest DS titles this week on the same Ultimate Hits budget label, with Dragon Quest V re-entering at number 20 and Dragon Quest IV at number 30. Read more...