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Mike Capps, President of Epic Games, has again added his voice to those prophesying doom for traditional games in the face of app-style gaming. In an interview with IndustryGamers, Capps puts aside financial issues to concentrate on the impact of new-media phenomena from a perspective less of market share and more of mindshare. He says releases like Gears of War 3 and the well-reviewed but unprofitable Bulletstorm could be threatened by the ability of cheap apps and on-demand movies to command players' attention...

Strauss Zelnick took a few jabs at Activision's Call of Duty series, saying annualization can lead to consumers "falling out of love" with a franchise...

Mike Capps, President of Epic Games, has again added his voice to those prophesying doom for traditional games in the face of app-style gaming. In an interview with IndustryGamers, Capps puts aside financial issues to concentrate on the impact of new-media phenomena from a perspective less of market share and more of mindshare. He says releases like Gears of War 3 and the well-reviewed but unprofitable Bulletstorm could be threatened by the ability of cheap apps and on-demand movies to command players' attention...

What do you want from the next generation of consoles? Pixar-quality graphics? Ultra-capacity Blu-ray as standard? Immense game worlds with procedurally-generated everything, to create a sense of lifelike interaction like never before? Or how about a beefed-up tablet computer that'll make you look like a twat in the pub for the few brief moments it survives before being smashed, covered in booze, or converted it into heroin by local scallies via the transformative medium of theft?

Epic's Mark Rein is swinging towards the latter. Click on for his arguments, then tell me what you think.

It's time for your semi-regular Monday catch-up video, giving you all the news stories you need to know about from the weekend's happenings - and all in handy 60-second chunks. However, today our regular filming room was in use, so we had to settle for a comfy leather sofa instead. Sounds great in theory, but we probably won't be using that again in any particular hurry. Anyway, today's topics include: Gears of War 3's Chicken Gun, the same game's triumph over multi-format F1 2011 in the UK charts, new details on the Mass Effect movie and very bad news for casual game company Zynga.

Epic Games has come out in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act, reaffirming its membership within the Entertainment Software Association while distancing itself from the Association's support for the controversial legislation...

Like the Hydra of legend, the decapitation of Bizarre Creations at the hands of Activision has resulted in the birth of two new studios in its place: Lucid Games, led by Bizarre's former senior manager Pete Wallace; and now Hogrocket, a brand new micro-studio founded by another handful of ex-Bizarre elite.

The new studio is based out of North-West England and headed by Stephen Cakebread, father of Geometry Wars; Ben Ward, Bizarre's former community manager; and Peter Collier, the senior level designer responsible for The Club and James Bond 007: Blood Stone...

Capcom has resurrected its DS adventure game Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for iOS gadgets, giving iPhone, iPod, and iPad gamers a chance to rediscover Shu Takumi's so-called spiritual successor to the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney franchise...

10 years on and the usually tight-lipped Rockstar finally opens up and dispels some of the mysteries about Grand Theft Auto III...