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With winter drawing in and only one evening a week to spend watching The Apprentice, it's getting more tempting to spend loads of money on downloadable entertainment – but don't worry, if you spend 1600 Microsoft Points on certain items at the moment, Microsoft will give you 400 MSP back.

Once the pinnacle of console military simulations, the Ghost Recon series' slide into soft-edged mediocrity has been inexorable and somewhat tragic. Ubisoft, in redefining the solemn squad-based franchise as a mainstream rollercoaster ride of set-pieces, may have succeeded in moving Ghost Recon closer to the tone and character of the more successful Call of Duty, but it's done so at the cost of its distinctive identity.

Hands up if you remember Spelunker. No? Chances are you either weren't born when it came out back in the early '80s, or you've suppressed the memory thanks to its brutal, merciless difficulty.

Been waiting patiently to see what Castle Crashers developer The Behemoth has up its sleeve next? Well, you'll have to wait a little longer. Its follow-up, BattleBlock Theatre, has just been pushed back into 2011.

EA-owned mobile game publisher Chillingo has another smash on its hands. Cute physics-based puzzler Cut the Rope has been downloaded three million times.

If you want to see the unfettered joy on a loved-one's face that only a Kinect-shaped parcel under the Christmas tree can bring, you'd better get your act together. Microsoft reckons that unless you order one this week it'll be lumps of coal all round come 25th December.

EA has released a PC demo of its forthcoming puzzler Create.

On-rails iPhone shooter Rage: Mutant Bash TV will be available on the App Store tomorrow, developer id Software has revealed.

New multiplayer maps and modes are on the way for Ubisoft's recent real time strategy effort, R.U.S.E.

Things are looking up for staff at Bizarre Creations today, following yesterday's news that a trip to the job centre might be in the offing. Apparently a number of buyers are interested in picking up the Blur studio.

Everybody, stay calm. Lionhead Studios has confirmed that the M.I.A PC version of Fable III is still in development.

Shots of what appear to be a PSP2 dev kit have surfaced.

The full 27 song-long tracklist for the Wii version of Michael Jackson: The Experience has shimmied onto the dancefloor, cocked its hat and grabbed its crotch.

The game BioWare teased earlier this afternoon could be Shattered Steel or Mass Effect 3.

Today on the EU PlayStation Store you'll find the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in HD.

EA's released the first screenshot of BioWare's next unannounced game, which you can see below.

Sony's opened up the Killzone 3 beta to all European PlayStation Plus subscribers.

Xbox 360 owners will enjoy the first Fallout: New Vegas DLC exclusively when it launches next month.

Dead and buried MMO APB has a new owner and an extra life - it will rise again. But how long before we're playing the game we were once promised?

UPDATE: Sony's just got in touch to say the stores have not been opened yet and will not be available until after the regular Thursday weekly update maintenance that will commence at 8am GMT tomorrow.

The upgrade to the PlayStation 3's PlayTV feature costs £6.29 / €7.99, Sony's announced.

What is Recettear? There's a good chance you have no idea, so I've put together the following cheat sheet. Don't worry, I'll have you sounding like a pro before you know it.

Kaos Studios' first-person shooter Homefront will be released on 11th March 2011 in Europe, THQ has announced.

UPDATE: Nintendo UK has contacted Eurogamer to say it has not discontinued Wii Speak, and that the Amazon listing referenced in the article below was an error.

With its skill-trees and levelling system, the 16th-century-themed Venetica is unmistakably an RPG. But combat is the main focus, and while there's room for improvement in a lot of areas, it's the hack-and-slash department in which it really excels.

Flop watch: if Tony Hawk: Shred were a quiff, it would have flopped from Activision's head down past its eyes, nose and into its mouth.

Alien Breed 3: Descent launches on Xbox Live Arcade on 17th November, Microsoft has confirmed.

Kingdom Hearts 3D – the planned 3DS Square Enix/Disney cross-over role-playing game from Tetsuya Nomura – will connect to the yet-to-be revealed Kingdom Hearts III.

Half a million people play massively multiplayer online game World of Tanks.

Has it been a week already? Yes. So it's time for another instalment of the award-losing Eurogamer.net Podcast, and this week we're delighted to welcome a special special guest, Sports Interactive managing director Miles Jacobson!