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Analysts have given us more reason to believe suspicions that yesterday's Call of Duty reshuffle announcement was heralding three new games in the blockbuster series and not just two.

Valve has sent Eurogamer a teaser image for something to do with Left 4 Dead.

Ubisoft has announced that a RUSE public beta will be available from Steam next week.

Ignition Entertainment is throwing a full-scale shooter at PC, PS3 and XBLA this summer.

Just two weeks on from the release of the excellent Lost In Nightmares DLC, Capcom has seen fit to serve up another delectable portion of episodic content for the five-million-selling Resident Evil 5. How kind.

Activision has made a worrying risk assessment of World of Warcraft, claiming the MMO giant could be toppled - rendered "obsolete" - by the emerging social gaming scene.

Warner Bros. and LEGO have struck a deal enabling TT Games to turn out LEGO game after LEGO game until 2016.

For the past few years, no series has been quite as good at deconstruction as WarioWare. Whether it's reducing plot, controls, and tutorials to a one-word prompt, slicing out art assets until you're manoeuvring a wobbly stick man across an empty void, or fitting the salvation of an entire galaxy into the space of five seconds, Nintendo's fizzing, babbling, chirping oddities manage to make games truly simple, somehow without losing any of the magic en route.

PlatinumGames' new game Vanquish will be released this winter in Japan. Director Shinji Mikami has also confirmed development for both PS3 and 360.

Hold on to your hats, because jetpacks are coming to Halo: Reach. And you'll be able to try them out in the multiplayer beta scheduled for 3rd May 2010.

Yes, it's time to find out what your licence payer's money is being wasted on once again with episode 8 of the Eurogamer.net Podcast.

Slightly bonkers game designer American McGee appears to be working on a gory reinvention of Little Red Riding Hood.

Sony apparently has a "surprise sequel" ready to unveil this week on GameTrailers TV.

Kalypso has announced an expansion pack for the PC version of its jolly banana republic city-builder, Tropico 3.

Capcom has announced that it will release a demo for bike racer MotoGP 09/10 on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network on Thursday 4th March. That's tomorrow!

Superfly beat-em-up Street Fighter IV has joined the Xbox Marketplace library of Games on Demand.

FIFA 09's Ultimate Team downloadable expansion was something of a surprise hit last year. According to EA, downloads numbered in six figures and there were reportedly around 35 million in-game card packs purchased, either with real money or in-game coins earned by playing the mode. This means that not only did those hundreds of thousands of players invest £7.99 in Ultimate Team, but a large portion of them either sunk a ton of playing time into it or opened their wallets and spent.

Atari (Namco Bandai Partners in Europe) has unveiled Test Drive Unlimited 2.

There are salt flats, twinkling with the bright bones of fish, left behind by a long-dissipated ocean. There are circling hit squads made up of foxy gymnasts, itching to slide a hot pink katana up your nose. And then, at the centre of it all, there is General Knoxx, a suicidal cold warrior, willing you ever onwards, urging you to close the gap and finish the job.

Being a platformer controlled with a guitar peripheral, Fret Nice presented me with a unique problem: which one to use? The trusty old Guitar Hero 3 Les Paul? The sunburst World Tour Strat? The limited-edition Band Hero one with metal pegs? Or the ridiculously lifelike Logitech deluxe one made out of actual wood and metal, which I got as a somewhat extravagant present last year? I've got so many of these damned things lying around now that I'm desperate for new uses for them.

Sony's list of strong first-party studios has grown this afternoon with the acquisition LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule.

"It almost becomes like Street Fighter in a way," muses Gareth Wilson, lead designer at Bizarre Creations. "There's counters to everything." He's describing the power-up system in Blur at its first public sighting since the game was officially delayed last September.

Bizarre Creations' all-new racing experience, Blur, has been confirmed for a 28th May UK release, three days after the game hits in the US.

The emerging spat between Activision and the heads of Infinity Ward may have been caused by unpaid royalties.

Rare's opening a new office in Birmingham to help bring Project Natal up to scratch for an autumn 2010 release.

Splinter Cell: Conviction will be the next game bundled with a 250GB Xbox 360.

Everyone loves a fat, juicy rivalry. Pepsi or Coke? Beatles or Stones? SEGA or Nintendo? These simple, binary pop-culture choices prompt endless arguments about which is best, but also help us define who we are and who we stand with. Now here comes EA's Swedish studio, DICE, making no secret of the fact that it wants to add another choice to that list: Bad Company 2 or Modern Warfare 2?

Valve has updated the PC version of its first-person puzzle classic Portal with an enigmatic patch which has set fans on a trail of code-cracking and puzzle-solving.

God of War III director Stig Asmussen has told UGO that he wanted to leave the now-traditional sex scene out of the action sequel.

Now this is happening! Again! It's time for the seventh instalment of the Eurogamer.net Podcast. We'll stop counting when you run out of fingers.