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The final bit of business revealed by Ubisoft's financial report is that new instalments in two of its best-selling franchises are on the way.

Activision's record-breaking Modern Warfare 2 has crashed past the $1bn mark after only two months on sale.

Square Enix's Motomu Toriyama has said that work on the "overseas version" of Final Fantasy XIII is "finally completed" and apologised for "the long wait".

Ubisoft boss Yves Guillemot has said the company is planning to make Sony and Microsoft's consoles the priority in 2010.

Ubisoft ambitious survival game I Am Alive won't be released until sometime in or after April 2011.

Delayed Dragon Age DLC Return to Ostagar has appeared briefly on Xbox Live before being pulled by developer BioWare.

Nintendo has announced that the DSi XL will launch in Europe on 5th March and will be available in wine red and dark brown colour schemes.

Despite serving downloadable content since 1995 with the Satellaview, Nintendo still hasn't got a handle on how to best present and promote games that don't come in boxes. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the curious scrubland of DSiWare, the company's digital distribution platform for the latest iteration of its ubiquitous handheld.

Previously on Coming Attractions: yesterday we discussed some of 2010's highlights in fighting, puzzle and arcade games, and on Monday we toured the gallery of shooters and racing games due in this first year of a new decade. (Yes it is. Don't start.) Today: all things grind.

The public beta for Microsoft's easy-peasy game-making tool Kodu has been released on PC.

Capcom's "bitching" (and subsequent back-track) about poor sales of Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles was ill-aimed, WiiWare developer Bloober Team has told Eurogamer.

Modern Warfare 2 has unsurprisingly finished as the UK's best-selling game of 2009, according to Chart-Track data.

Yesterday we walked you through what will likely be some of 2010's biggest games - in several senses - in our roundup of shooters and racing games. Today we bring you a scattershot selection of games from genres that might not command the same public profile they used to, but could still quite easily suck up as much of your 2010 as anything else: fighting games, puzzle games and old-school (or, for that matter, new-school) arcade games.

Update: Nintendo's told Eurogamer that no release date has been confirmed for Other M in Europe and the uK.

Sony has confirmed what retailers suspected: that MAG will be released in the UK on 29th January.

The Lips karaoke series grows again on 26th February when Microsoft releases a new instalment called Lips: Party Classics.

A new report suggests enough content has been cut from Final Fantasy XIII to make an entirely new game.

Nintendo has denied that the next iteration of the DS will feature a motion sensor and more graphical power.

The European Star Trek Online beta has officially begun.

Microsoft's Robbie Bach has revealed that "something like 70 or 80 per cent of the publishers in the world" are making games for Natal.

Update: In related news, Sony Europe has said that the delay is "only applicable for the Japanese market".

Sony Europe has said that Gran Turismo 5's latest delay is "only applicable for the Japanese market", although the platform holder also declined to estimate when the game will be released.

Nintendo has filed an application to trademark the name Wii Relax in the US.

Namco Bandai is releasing a Tekken 6 patch on 18th January to enable online co-op during the Scenario Campaign.

While EA is publicly backing Tiger Woods, the publisher is reportedly polling people to see whether the golfer's infamous "mistakes off the course", to borrow Peter Moore's phrase, will affect sales of its games.

Capcom is promising not to treat Natal as a "gimmick", and has revealed that a "gamer's game" is in development for the motion-sensing Xbox 360 camera.

BioWare has confirmed that it is "targeting" spring 2011 for the launch of Star Wars: The Old Republic.

If an artform comes of age when it starts getting self-reflexive, then games like this, Half-Minute Hero and Retro Game Challenge suggest that we're definitely getting there.

In honour of Rowntree's Randoms, which I'm currently struggling to overcome a soul-crushing love for, we've ditched themes for this instalment of the iPhone Roundup, in favour of a selection of games that capture the almost frightening range of the App Store. Be warned: there are some obscure genres like flying, shooting and sports in the five titles that follow, but I've also thrown in some more traditional offerings, like finger-powered heretic-smiting and at least one good ol' needle-threading sim.

Brilliant zombie mash-up Dead Rising will lurch onto Xbox Live's Games on Demand service on 26th January.