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Nintendo's announced a midnight London launch for Super Mario Galaxy 2 next Thursday, 10th June [game's out Friday, 11th June -Ed].

The slide puzzle: crutch of every tired, lazy or creatively bankrupt game designer. Used to bulk out countless adventure games, these pictorial conundrums - in which you slide tiles one by one around a bordered play area while attempting to arrange them to create a picture - predate videogames by some margin. And yet there's gold in these simple clichés for the talented contemporary designer to uncover, as their occasional appearances in the Professor Layton series have demonstrated, with some cute twists on the antiquated formula.

THQ has announced that Company of Heroes Online is heading to the US. Evidently the publisher found success in South Korean and Chinese markets.

Pure Football has a theory. The theory goes that somewhere out there in the wild, gated communities of Esher there exists a sub-culture of professional football players who, rather than accepting defeat after matches, send each other text messages that say things like, "We wuz robbed. Rematch on Sunday. No referee."

Ubisoft's given RTS game R.U.S.E. a 17th September release date. That's on PC, PS3 and Xbox 360, according to the publisher's latest schedule.

SEGA has confirmed the rumours and unveiled Shogun 2: Total War. The game will be released exclusively on PC in 2011.

Turbine has revealed details of Update 5 to its resurgent MMO, Dungeons & Dragons Online.

The BBC has released the first episode of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games. City of the Daleks was due for release on Saturday but is already available for download for PC if you live in the UK.

Bungie has revealed that Microsoft's marketing department originally didn't like the name Halo, and insisted on tagging the Combat Evolved subtitle - which Bungie "hated" - to the first release in the legendary sci-fi series.

Sony has told Eurogamer that it does not plan to start bundling an HDMI cable with PlayStation 3 hardware packages.

SEGA is working on a Project Natal racing game based on Sonic the Hedgehog.

There's a little bit of my heart invested in DarkStar One. First time around, when it was released on PC in 2006, I'd just acquired a new computer, and DarkStar was one of the games I bought to test its mettle.

Remedy's Matias Myllyrinne has said that not one, not two but three batches of downloadable content are on the way for Alan Wake.

Electronic Arts' UK general manager Keith Ramsdale has claimed that 'Project Ten Dollar' is about enhancing the value of EA games, and not an attempt to upset second-hand sales and illegal downloads.

Nintendo is lowering the UK trade price of the DSi by an unspecified amount on 18th June. How much the handheld sells for will be determined by individual retailers.

There's a demo of Green Day: Rock Band on the PlayStation Store today. You might like it: it's like Rock Band but with Green Day.

Activision has announced what is apparently the first third-party Independent Games Competition for small-time developers in North America.

Peter Moore believes NBA Elite 11 will "profoundly evolve" the basketball genre in a way that hasn't been seen for "a decade". The game, incidentally, arrives on PS3 and Xbox 360 this October.

With just a couple of weeks to go until the new 3DS is unveiled at E3, Nintendo has dropped the price of previous iterations in Japan.

Today Eurogamer TV airs the second part of our special documentary series on the UK videogames industry.

Ye olde British developer Rare has had a makeover ahead of its 25th anniversary this summer.

US technology magazine Wired has released a brand new digital edition for iPad owners and we have video of the first edition.

Richard Branson's mega-corporation Virgin is returning to videogames. The company will allow PS3 and 360 gamers to compete against each other online for real-life prizes.

If you're unaccustomed to the turbulent world of PC upgrades, the idea of your system not being man enough to run a game is probably entirely foreign to you. Outside of the N64's fateful Expansion Pak, consoles are generally designed to run every game released.

Sony Online Entertainment has revealed that its superhero MMO, DC Universe Online, will release this November.

Microsoft has readied Snoopy Flying Ace as tomorrow's Xbox Live Arcade offering.

Ubisoft's toying with the idea of re-opening the R.U.S.E. multiplayer PC beta test.

Eufloria, the pretty indie offering which has already been a hit on PC, is heading to PlayStation Network.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced that it's working on Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures, a kids-focused, free-to-play, cartoon virtual world based on the Clone Wars TV shows and movie.

Haemimont Games, the studio best known for producing the Tropico series, has unveiled its next offering.