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Update: For full details on Black Ops' multiplayer modes and new features, check out our huge Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer hands-on preview, which has just gone live.

The developers at Treyarch must be feeling immense pressure right now. They have to be, when one considers the environment Call of Duty: Black Ops is about to land in. To start with it's the latest instalment in what has now become a world-conquering franchise. Its predecessor broke international sales records and also placed itself firmly on the mainstream's radar with the "No Russian" level. Talk to 10 people who have no interest in videogames and it's likely that, along with GTA, Pac-Man, Mario and Sonic, they'll have heard of Call of Duty.

Bonkers scrolling shooter Bangai-O is being remade for Xbox Live Arcade under the name Bangai-O HD: Missile Fury.

The star attractions this week on the PlayStation Store are Vanquish and R.U.S.E. demos and Team17's Alien Breed: Impact. The latter is offered as a free trial or £12 for the full game.

Japanese retailers have reportedly leaked news that Nintendo will launch a Wii version of the Super Nintendo's Super Mario All-Stars compilation next month.

Infinite Interactive has announced that it plans to release Puzzle Quest 2 for PSP "towards the end of 2010 for download via the PlayStation Store".

Sony has released details of September and October's PlayStation Plus content.

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD will be released for iPad next Thursday, 9th September.

Sony has announced plans to launch a cloud-based digital music service for PlayStation 3.

Sony has announced a release date for the firmware update which will enable PS3 to play 3D Blu-rays.

Steve Jobs has claimed iPod Touch is "the number one portable games player in the world", outlining Apple's growing ambitions in the games space with new hardware, an iOS update, an Unreal Engine 3 demo and Game Center reveal during a press conference.

Platinum Games is on a mission with its upcoming shooter, Vanquish. In the wake of the disappointing reception offered to the third-party PS3 conversion of its last title, Bayonetta, the developer has switched to the Sony platform as its lead console.

RedLynx, the Finnish mastermind behind Trials HD, has announced MotoHeroz for an early 2011 release on WiiWare.

CD Projekt has boasted that The Witcher 2 will have a whopping 16 game endings, whereas the first game had only three.

After half an hour of knocking the undead around with a trashcan, I suddenly realised that "zombie" would be a pretty good word to play in Scrabble. It's not a game-changer necessarily, but lay that across a triple score tile, preferably landing the Z on some kind of letter multiplier, and you've got yourself a handy boost if you're getting behind. This is the sort of thing that tends to happen whenever you play Dead Rising. You get into the zone, you start busting heads, and pretty soon you find yourself thinking about stuff like Scrabble.

Update: Square Enix has said the Final Fantasy XIV Online beta will begin tomorrow morning at 2am GMT.

A hell of a lot has changed since the Final Fantasy series' last foray into massively multiplayer gaming. We've all got vastly more powerful computers and consoles in the intervening eight years, broadband has become faster and much more commonplace - oh, and a little thing called World of Warcraft has shown that the potential market for MMOs is about 20 times larger than anyone thought back then.

The Xbox 360 demo of PlatinumGames' exciting space shooter Vanquish has been held back until tomorrow.

Microsoft has told Eurogamer Spain that Kinect voice recognition will be disabled for mainland Europe until spring 2011.

Blizzard has announced that pristine PC and Mac game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty sold three million copies worldwide during its first month on sale.

Dark Energy Digital has announced a 29th September release date for Xbox Live Arcade exclusive, Hydrophobia.

BioShock creator Ken Levine has said a movie based on the world of Rapture is still afloat, despite talks of spiralling budgets and a struggling production.

Irrational Games' Ken Levine has said he's "experimenting" with multiplayer in BioShock Infinite at the moment. However, he's not sure it yet holds a candle to the single-player experience.

Update: Microsoft has refused to clarify the matter.

Zipper Interactive has updated multiplayer shooter MAG so that it's possible to subscribe to two additional character slots for $0.99 each.

Black Rock has released a mixture of premium and free downloadable content for Split/Second: Velocity introducing new cars and skins.

Major Nelson has listed a bundle of Xbox Live release dates over on his blog.

The next instalment in the White Knight Chronicles RPG series will be a PlayStation Portable-exclusive prequel, according to Famitsu.

Konami has unveiled its line-up for the 2010 Tokyo Game Show, confirming that Metal Gear Solid: Rising will be at the event.

Sony Europe is hosting a press conference at the IFA 2010 technology show in Berlin this evening where it may unveil a new music and video subscription service.