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I thought it would be a good idea.

Here's the thing with the whole Discworld universe: I want to like it less than I do, which is less than I feel like the world is telling me to.

Consider the Boot. The Stalwart Companion of the Road. The Silent Sufferer of the Inevitable Sewer Level. Courageous Clinger of Ladder Rungs. Stoic, Sodden when Submerged. And yet, despite all these admirable feats, the Gracious Boot doesn't often get much of a look-in in games. Often, in fact, it won't even be rendered, its hard work all but ignored when you look downwards, only to find empty air between you and the floor.

If the months I spent playing RollerCoaster Tycoon taught me anything, it's that the general public are idiots.

Games can make dreams a reality, whether your own particular fantasy is saving the universe, rescuing the princess or sticking a chainsaw up an overgrown lizard's arse. Throughout my pre-teen twilight years in the early nineties, my own dream was simple enough: to become a grand prix driver, or at the very least to drive cars fast for a living.

There's a peculiar tension at the heart of Quake. Something's not quite right. For this reason it's a game that sits apart from id's other efforts while at the same time still being fundamental to the overall Brown Corridor heritage of the shooter genre.

They don't make them like they used to. Apart from, perhaps, when they do - and then they're quite possibly better than ever before.

So Batman: Arkham City is out to waves of rapturous reviews. Christian awarded it 9/10 last week and its Metacritic averages are currently in the mid-90s, singling it out as the best reviewed Batman game ever.

UPDATE: Nintendo has updated their original press release to say the Ice White bundle will be available on 2nd December. The Coral Pink date remains unchanged.

A demo for Kinect game Grease Dance has slipped onto Xbox Live Marketplace.

Japanese gamers will get an officially licensed 3DS steering wheel for use with Mario Kart 7. It's created by peripherals manufacturer Hori and has Nintendo's stamp of approval.

Batman: Arkham City has shipped more than 4.6 million units worldwide in one week, Warner Bros. has announced.

Rockstar has officially announced Grand Theft Auto 5 via a teaser image posted on Rockstar.com.

As some of you may know, the general embargo for publishing Battlefield 3 reviews online expired at 8.01am UK time this morning.

A PlayStation mini version of Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain arrives on 9th November in the UK, developer Laughing Jackal has announced.

PlayStation Vita will either save internally to the game card or to a separate memory card. But not both.

You can hardly say that World of Warcraft is fighting for survival. Blizzard's online world approaches its seventh birthday in the same position of total dominance over subscription gaming that it's held since the servers were turned on.

Whatever Battlefield 3's sales figures are when the dust settles (and we guess they'll be stonkingly huge), EA's FPS juggernaut has already clocked up some truly impressive numbers.

The history of gnomes in games is, like gnomes themselves, short and pathetic. Gordon Freeman's got fired into space, then reappeared as Gnome Chompski in Left 4 Dead. Bully's idle fisher gnomes got smashed to dust so Jimmy could wear a gnome suit. WoW's gnomes are basically wannabe hobbits. And Risen? Risen turned our beloved garden ornaments into grotesque fat pig-goblin-thieves which you slaughtered by the hundred.

FIFA Football on Vita properly bridges the gap between handheld and console sports sims for the first time, so says the game's associate producer.

The console version of Battlefield 3 is roughly equivalent to the PC game running at the lowest graphics setting, according to DICE.

An official Batman: Arkham City map app has hit the App Store.

New levels and a price cut are on their way to the Xbox Live Arcade version of indie platformer Super Meat Boy, developer Team Meat has announced.

Rickie Fowler and Rory McIlroy will join Tiger Woods on the cover of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 13, EA Sports has announced.

Culinary puzzler BurgerTime Deluxe and a coven of Halloween-themed games launch on the eShop and Wii Shop Channel this Thursday, Nintendo has announced.

And Action. Nathan Drake, a blur of khaki and stubble, leaps from what must be the fiftieth rooftop high above the bustling streets of Yemen in pursuit of the be-suited villain. It's his sixth take ('life', in olde game parlance) in the most impressive chase yet seen in a video game, one directed with the kind of technical flair that wins Oscars. As he spills through a market stall, agitating chickens into a cloud of feathered squawks, the camera quick-pans to exaggerate the sense of kinetic drama.

The PlayStation Network security breach might have compromised the personal details of millions of its customers but Sony is looking on the bright side, stating that it's been great for business.

The Xbox Live Arcade port of indie world-building sensation MineCraft is due out in Spring 2012, rather than this Winter as originally planned, Microsoft Game Studios has announced.

A new set of graphics card drivers from Nvidia are available today, promising to give PC users a hefty performance boost ahead of this week's Battlefield 3 launch.

Valve's multiplayer FPS Team Fortress 2 has seen its user base increase by a factor of five since it adopted the free-to-play model earlier this year.