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Nintendo plans to release Pokémon HeartGold/SoulSilver in Europe on 26th March.

Harmonix has confirmed today's opening of the Rock Band Network beta - the service that will allow anyone to create, share and even sell their own songs for the game.

Bubbly brunette Bobby Kotick likes to laugh, even when it's about wasting billions of dollars. The Activision chief has revealed that he thought $7 million was far too much to pay for Blizzard back in 1995. 12 years later, Activision would merge with Vivendi Games in a deal worth $18.9 billion, largely so Kotick could get his hands on the Warcraft developer.

Microsoft is in negotiations to bring ESPN's sports coverage to the Xbox 360, according to the New York Times.

"Life after Bush and Gorbachev, the wall is down but something is lost / A fine little girl is waiting for me, but I'm as bent as Dostoevsky." So sang Iggy Pop in 1993. Who could have imagined that 17 years later, actual little girls would be jumping up and down to those words in front of their tellies? But then who could have imagined that Iggy Pop would be selling car insurance by then? Or that the world's best-selling console would be the one with the least processing power? Or that a game for that console, one where all you have to do is wave your arms about like it's 1993 and you're a massive tit, would turn out to be quite good?

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez does not like PlayStation, because he thinks the console leads children down the capitalist "road to hell". Could Kaz Hirai be the Pied Piper of Hamlin?

An unlikely champion has been found in Ubisoft's Wii game Just Dance, which has ended Modern Warfare 2's nine-week honeymoon atop the UK all-formats chart.

Tecmo KOEI's told Eurogamer that Quantum Theory will be released here in late March.

It's unfortunate that this frosty sports simulation has arrived just as everyone in Britain is thoroughly sick of bloody snow, but unlucky timing should be the least of its worries. The button-mashing, stick-waggling sports genre was never likely to reveal many hidden depths, but even by the limited standards of this peculiar subset of gaming Vancouver 2010 is a slender experience.

The online RPG Hellgate is to return to the US and Europe next year, reports GamesIndustry.biz.

Activision boss Robert Kotick has said the company laughs in the face of poor DJ Hero sales and is planning to release a sequel this year.

Actor Nolan North, the voice of Nathan Drake, has hinted that production on Uncharted 3 will begin this year.

Age of Booty developer Certain Affinity has trademarked Legend of Booty, which suggests a sequel is on the way.

Electronic Arts communications boss Jeff Brown has hit back at suggestions the company has lost its way, using the kind of barbed language usually only seen on internet forums.

Japanese newspaper the Asahi Shimbun has claimed it did not misinterpret comments Satoru Iwata made recently regarding a new DS.

Aksys Games plans to release a PSP version of excellent fighting game BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger in March.

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced that it will induct Marble Madness creator Mark Cerny into its Hall of Fame at the DICE Summit next month.

PS3 RPG Last Rebellion has been blessed with Western release dates - a slightly vague February in North America, and a much more precise 12th March for Europe.

A new version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars is now on sale in the App Store.

The organisers of the Game Developers Conference have announced that Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is to receive the event's Pioneer Award this March.

Halo developer Bungie has announced plans to raise money for the relief effort in Haiti following last week's catastrophic earthquake.

Sony has said that the previously optional 3.15 firmware update for PS3 is now mandatory.

BioWare has said it will not charge for any Mass Effect 2 downloadable content released alongside the game next week.

Blending genres seems like the very best kind of unpredictable fun - and the developer in charge is often the magic ingredient. Take RPGs and gunplay: in the hands of a seasoned Western FPS team like Gearbox, you end up with the twitchy, procedurally-generated madness of Borderlands - a bubbling stew of headshots, loot drops and perks. With tri-Ace in the kitchen, however, you get Resonance of Fate: a JRPG with random battles and bizarrely satisfying turn-based shootouts.

One of the most important elements in overall image consistency within console games has to the implementation of anti-aliasing - the process of smoothing edges and mitigating or eliminating the dreaded "jaggies". Both PS3 and Xbox 360 have AA technologies built into their respective GPUs, but as the console generation progresses it's becoming clear that for many games there are simply not enough system resources available to anti-alias images using traditional techniques. Developers are beginning to look beyond the hardware solutions and come up with their own methods. Some work well, some look awful, but it's all evidence of game-makers looking to eke out as much performance as they can from the current fixed architectures.

Published as part of our sister-site GamesIndustry.biz' widely-read weekly newsletter, the GamesIndustry.biz Editorial is a weekly dissection of one of the issues weighing on the minds of the people at the top of the games business. It appears on Eurogamer after it goes out to GI.biz newsletter subscribers.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney heads today's WiiWare update, and brings Capcom's brilliant DS court-room adventure onto Wii for the first time.

IO Interactive has spent the last year or so thinking about what's real. That doesn't mean the developer's selling its car, renting out the flat and heading to Goa with an acoustic guitar, some awesome liquorice sticks and a dreadlocked chick named Mary-Beth it met on the Circle Line, however. Rather it means that the designers of Kane & Lynch have been studying the kind of things people associate with reality - prodding through the internet in search of whatever it is that has the power to jar and shock by virtue of its authenticity. They want something that will make you drop your ice lolly and think, "Ooh, that's a bit raw for a videogame". Sorry, Mary-Beth.

It's the last day of our 2010 preview, covering two genres that could easily have been one, or three, or more. All of gaming is here in one form or another, but for more specific thrills you should check out our four previous instalments: Shooters & Racing, Fighting, Puzzle & Arcade, MMOs & RPGs, and Strategy, Simulation & Sports.

Activision's confirmed "a future instalment" in the DJ Hero series, but stopped short of adding a number two to the name.