The 27th annual Golden Joysticks Awards were announced in London earlier today, giving props to the games that shaped the industry in the past year. Sitting on top of them is Fallout 3 (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) receiving top honors as the Ultimate Game of the Year. Read up and find out who else made it big in the awards.

It's only been a day since Tekken 6 hit retail (officially, at least), and already it's making its way into the record books - the Guinness Book of World Records, in particular. Taking a look at the action down at the London MCM Expo over the weekend, Guinness officials crowned the new record holder for the longest Tekken 6 winning streak.

In a BAFTA lecture in London, Peter Molyneux reportedly confirmed the integration of the Natal technology in Fable 3. This first spread to the Internet by a tweet from Nicholas Lovell, founder of Gamesbrief.

Koei Tecmo has just confirmed their stint at the coming London MCM Expo on October 24th to the 25th, and to make it easier for all of us to get updates on their booth, they've just launched the official site specifically made for the expo. The booth will be featuring the best of what the now combined publishers have to offer, and we now know what they'll be taking along for the trip.

Many thanks again to Peter Bauer!

This sounds grim. Speakers at the upcoming London Games Conference are forecasting that in three years' time, retail would have been outstripped by digital distribution. Not only that, but 40% of the companies in the games industry will be caught unprepared for this shift in consumer choice.

You'd definitely want to get a look at this! It's just been announced today that a real-life, full-sized M12 Warthog LRV will be parking its huge wheels in UK at the London MCM Expo later this month.

Just a little heads up for those who might be interested - the demo for the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Need For Speed Shift will be available tomorrow, October 1st, on their respective online fronts.

It's been reaping the accolades from among the industry critics, and the numbers aren't lying either. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PS3, Xbox 360, PC) has reportedly shipped out an astonishing number of over 2.5 million units to retail since it launched some three weeks ago.

Codemasters has confirmed that Colin McRae: DiRT 2 will feature eight-player online races. The number's a step down from their last racing game, but according to game design manager Ralph Fulton, it's not because of some technical limitation. Eight's just the right number. There's also a special Colin McRae memorial event that will be unlocked at the end of the game. Details after the jump.

Electronic Arts' UK boss Keith Ramsdale believes that instead of being damaging to the video game industry, motion-based controls will instead allow gamers and developers alike to "go into an area of entertainment that isn’t thought of." More from Ramsdale after the jump.