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BioWare has announced plans to release the Firewalker pack for Mass Effect 2 in late March, introducing the Hammerhead heavy assault vehicle.

Is there any other game that has dominated its field so conclusively and with such tenacity? Super Mario Kart is seventeen years old yet it remains the touchstone and the benchmark for its peculiar subset of the racing genre. Crash Bandicoot came tantalisingly close to taking the plumber's crown in 1999 with Crash Team Racing, but its otherwise been a one horse (and kart) race.

There's a mountain of new content on the PlayStation Store today, and the biggest new arrival is a demo for God of War III.

Another week, another enormous pile of games, glittering with potential this Friday. Some of them really are out this Friday, too, which is an improvement on last week's is-it-isn't-it White Knight Chronicles debacle, for which the New PAL Releases Roundup entity apologises. We are certain it's out this week. Probably.

Nintendo's got two new WarioWare games to release on 30th April, one for DS and one for Wii. What's more, they'll work together.

So there, right at the top of this invisible pyramid I'm gesturing at, are the guys who play StarCraft competitively. Then there are the guys who are really, amazingly, incredibly good at it. Then there are those who are very, very good at it. Then the ones who are good at it. Then there are the ones who are competent at it.

One date that slipped under the radar earlier was a summer launch for Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies.

There's a free Supreme Commander 2 demo on Steam that you can play providing your PC meets the listed system requirements.

Cryptic Studios has revealed a healthy dose of brand new raid content for Star Trek Online.

Last week, Digital Foundry introduced the technology behind 4A Games' new Metro 2033. Featuring a brand new engine with an eye-opening level of bleeding edge rendering tech, the game instantly got our attention.

Nintendo Europe has announced European dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2 and other titles at its London press event.

Apple's considering offering an "explicit" category to developers using the App Store

New developer Punchers Impact has announced its first game, Crasher, for PC.

Capcom has confirmed that sci-fi shooter Lost Planet 2 will support split-screen co-op gameplay, in the tradition of the previous game from the same development team, Resident Evil 5. Lost Planet 2 also features four-player online co-op and 16-player multiplayer.

Ubisoft has revealed co-op support for the Wii version of Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands.

Developer Ska Studios has lifted the lid on The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, an Xbox Live Arcade follow-up to The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai.

Members of the Steam community, digging through the code of the recently-released new beta version of the client for the download service, have uncovered evidence of plans for Mac support.

Grand Theft Auto IV cost $100 million to produce, making it the most expensive videogame ever made.

BioWare has told PS3 owners that the Return to Ostagar DLC will finally be released for their platform on 11th March.

SEGA has explained that content was trimmed from the Western version of Yakuza 3 because the localisation team only had a limited amount of time to complete its work.

Nintendo's US marketing boss Cammie Dunaway has said that we won't see a successor to Wii for a while.

Peter Molyneux has hinted that he has much bigger plans for Project Natal, stating that virtual character Milo is only part of the picture.

SEGA and Obsidian have announced that Alpha Protocol will be released on 28th May in Europe.

Bizarre Creations has announced that forthcoming racer Blur will let you show off via Twitter from within the game.

Nintendo has announced US release dates for Super Mario Galaxy 2, Metroid: Other M and Monster Hunter Tri.

Many years ago, I used to drive the owner of my local record shop insane. His tiny Stalybridge music boutique was also the only place in town that sold computer games - or at least offered a selection of bargain-priced Mastertronic and Firebird budget classics.

PopCap's giving away free copies of Peggle Nights to anyone that signs up to receive the company's newsletter.

Disney's Split/Second will henceforth be known as Split/Second: Velocity, and will be released here on 21st May.

Warner's got Batman for adults and now Batman for children, as the publisher unveils Batman: The Brave and the Bold for Wii and DS.

In recent years the distinctions that once separated videogame genres have blurred and faded. Is Mass Effect 2 an RPG or a third-person shooter? Is Heavy Rain a point-and-click adventure or a QTE thriller? Puzzle Quest is as much a Tolkien-cliché RPG as it is a match-three puzzler, while Peggle is Pachinko meets NBA Jam meets LSD rainbow unicorns. Blockbuster series such as BioShock and Uncharted are slippery in the hands of genre, borrowing as they do elements and ideas from a broad lineage, while WarioWare and Retro Game Challenge boil down gaming's first principles into a hotchpotch stew that defies easy classification. Systems ooze into systems, enriching one another, and so the old videogame terminology becomes obsolete through promiscuous evolution.