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Every one of my Sundays between mid-August and early February consists of waking up at or around 11am, catching the pre-pre-game and the pre-game show, and lazing out by watching almost 11 hours of grown men pummel each other to bits all while attempting to carry, throw and kick a ball into and towards the opponent's goal area.

Update: Square Enix has been in touch to tell Eurogamer that PC and PS3 demos are still very much part of the plan.

The latest Namco Bandai Partners calendar has revealed a 24th September release date for Test Drive Unlimited 2. And that's for all three formats: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

Michel Ancel has revealed that Beyond Good & Evil 2 is still in development with a very small team at Ubisoft's Montpellier studio.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions is heading to iPhone and iPod Touch on 15th September.

Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light will be released here on 8th October.

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, what better than to crack open a can of beer, forget about the football, and kick back in a lazy chair in the garden with this week's line-up of downloadable games. It's not a vintage collection this week, though, with a few dead-certs turning out to be rather limp, and interesting curiosities turning out to be little more than that.

The Steam "Perils of Summer" sale has begun and boasts savings in "every genre". It runs until 4th July.

Hi-Rez Studios is dropping the optional subscription fee for its massively multiplayer sci-fi shooter, Global Agenda.

Zynga has released an iPad and iPhone version of blockbuster Facebook game FarmVille.

Bungie has said that Halo: Reach will feature scalable difficulty in co-op.

Puzzle Quest 2 and Ancients of Ooga are due out on Xbox Live Arcade next Wednesday.

Sony has revealed the line-up of PlayStation Plus content due to be made available to subscribers in its first two months of operation.

Despite Transformers' three-decade history dovetailing almost exactly with the rise of home gaming, it's been a constant source of frustration that Hasbro has only ever managed to commission one decent videogame - and Transformers: Armada was far more successful as a tech demo than an exercise in pushing your nostalgia buttons.

Final Fantasy XIV Online creator and director Hiromichi Tanaka has told Eurogamer that a "closed" Xbox Live blocked the game from appearing on Xbox 360.

Hiromichi Tanaka has told Eurogamer that the Final Fantasy XIV Online beta test "will be starting soon".

"Tom, are you free tomorrow night to saddle up with me?"

With Call of Duty so conclusively dominating the first person shooter genre in recent years, it's going to take something very special indeed to overwhelm the all-powerful Activision franchise. Electronic Arts' response has been to launch a new attack on two fronts: firstly via the simply sensational Battlefield: Bad Company 2, and now, with a reboot of the classic Medal of Honor for PC and HD consoles.

Always the bridesmaid... Poor old Obsidian Entertainment seems to be fated to ride the coat-tails of others in the North American RPG scene. Born from the ashes of the famous Black Isle Studios, it made its name as a capable understudy for BioWare on Knights of the Old Republic II and Neverwinter Nights 2 - and perhaps unfortunately, that name stuck.

What comes to mind when you hear the word Vegas? Elvis? Showgirls? Marg Helgenberger swabbing semen off the underside of roulette tables? Or post-apocalyptic landscapes, warring mercenaries, plasma rifles and robot policemen?

Namco Bandai has confirmed Enslaved's release date as Friday, 8th October.

Just Cause 2 owners can download a free vehicle today or spend money to access a few goodies that used to be pre-order incentives.

There's plenty on the PlayStation Store this week, notably the arrival of Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. This revamp wowed on XBLA last summer and should do no less on PS3.

NIS America has announced that the first Atelier game created for PlayStation 3 - Atelier Rorona - will be released here in September.

A new instalment on the Guitar Hero series based on the music of Queen is currently in development.

Sony's new online subscription service PlayStation Plus won't support cross-game chat - for the time being.

Square Enix president Yoichi Wada wants platform holders to provide more freedom for publishers to build businesses within their consoles' online services.

They said it was impossible. They said it would never happen. Those two things mean basically the same thing. But whoever they are and whatever point I was trying to make, Demon's Souls is finally released in Europe this week.

China's Ministry of Culture has issued new regulations banning children from using virtual currency to buy items in games.